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Once upon a time, Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Mulan, Pocahontas, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White each starred in their own ruled her own animated fairytale Disney movie. These days, they have joined together to become a royal super-sorority known as Disney Princess.
How did eight modest solo animated girls become the most popular characters in the world?
Most of the princesses were first introduced centuries ago in folklore and fairytales, but they were reintroduced by Walt Disney to star in their own animated movies, ”Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), “Cinderella” (1950), “Sleeping Beauty” (1959), “The Little Mermaid” (1989), “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), “Aladdin” (1992), “Pocahontas” (1995), and “Mulan” (1998).
Moms embrace the Disney Princesses Toys in a time when little girls are maturing at a much faster pace, Disney Princess Toys lets little girls remain children for a little longer time. Disney aims to motivate girls with the wholesome stories about virtues of integrity, honor, discovery, friendship, and love. It is a world Disney has created — full of fantasy and romance — where a girl can feel as special as a princess.
The Disney Princesses — Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Mulan, Pocahontas, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White — represent a variety of personalities, traits, talents, ethnicities, and national and cultural backgrounds. But each shares the distinction of staring in her own Walt Disney Pictures animated film featuring the same plot attributes: fairytales, fantasy, romance, royalty, and transformation. This gives them a common background and audience. Their shared character traits — grace, kindness, loyalty, modesty, inner (and outer) beauty, honesty, fairness — make them universally appealing and define them as beloved role models. Each young girl has her favorite princess. In the next section, we’ll talk about each one of them
Snow White
Snow White’s story is one of the most well known. Once upon a time, there lives a lovely little Princess named Snow White, whose wicked stepmother, the Queen, fears that one day Snow White’s beauty will surpass her own. The Queen dresses Snow White in rags and forces her to work as a maid. A prince falls in love with her, infuriating the jealous Queen. So that she can be the “fairest in the land,” the Queen instructs her huntsman to kill Snow White. He cannot force himself to do it, and he lets Snow White flee.
She takes refuge in the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, until the wicked Queen discovers she still lives and transforms herself into an ugly hag to murder Snow White with a cursed, poisoned apple. Her plan succeeds, and Snow White “dies,” though she can be rescued from death by “true love’s first kiss.” Surrounded by grieving dwarves and animal friends at her funeral, Snow White is rescued by the prince on his white stallion.
Cinderella
Like all classic fairytales, Walt Disney’s “Cinderella” begins once upon a time. A wealthy widower decides to marry Lady Tremaine so his young daughter can enjoy a mother’s love. His new wife, however, refuses to share her scant affections with anyone but her own two comical but mean daughters, Anastasia and Drizella. When the widower dies, the cruel stepmother enslaves Cinderella to work as the trio’s kitchen maid. Cinderella’s routine is disrupted when she hears of a royal ball. The King wishes for his son to marry, so orders the grand Duke to gather every eligible female in the land. The competitive “ugly” stepsisters lock away Cinderella to better their chances to win Prince Charming’s hand in marriage. Still hopeful, Cinderella and her animal friends assemble a sweet gown from scraps and one of her mother’s old gowns, only to have it shredded to bits by the jealous stepsisters. Dejected, Cinderella is visited by her fairy Godmother who magically makes the dress into a masterpiece, a pumpkin into a beautiful carriage, white mice into horses, and the dog into a footman. But Cinderella is warned: the magical spell ends at midnight. At the ball, Prince Charming falls in love with Cinderella at first sight, though her identity is concealed. As he is about to propose marriage, the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella flees, losing a glass slipper. The prince finds it and, heartbroken, vows to try it on every foot in the kingdom until he finds the girl who it fits. When Prince Charming and the royal Grand Duke reach Cinderella’s house, the cruel stepsisters try to hide her away, but they cannot pull off the charade. Cinderella appears, reveals the matching slipper, and wins his heart.
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty’s “real” name is Aurora, named by her overjoyed royal parents for her hair, the color of sunrise. Her father, King Hubert, promises that she will one day wed Prince Phillip, the son of a neighboring king, to unite the two kingdoms. Three good fairies are invited to Aurora’s birth celebration, but not the evil Maleficent, who gets even by cursing the baby princess to die before her 16th birthday by pricking her finger on a spinning-wheel spindle. To save her life, the good fairies hide her away and raise her secretly in a wooded cottage. Not knowing her royal heritage, Briar grows up safe and sound but lonely for company. When a handsome prince, who happens to be Prince Phillip, rides through Briar’s woods one day, they fall in love and plan to meet again that evening. Unfortunately for Sleeping Beauty, it is the night of her 16th birthday when the fairies are instructed to return her to her royal life at the castle where she will be crowned princess. She is hidden away, but the still-vengeful Maleficent lures her up a winding staircase to a room housing the kingdom’s only spinning wheel. She pricks her finger and falls into a deep sleep, thanks to a good fairy’s protective spell. Only the prince’s kiss of true love will awaken her and assure they live happily ever after.
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Ariel
Ariel — the red-haired, fun-loving mermaid and youngest teen daughter of King Triton — is enchanted by all things human. Disregarding her father’s order to stay away from the human world, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Eric, the prince of her dreams. Determined to become human and live happily ever after with her prince, she strikes a bargain with her father’s enemy, Ursula, the sea witch, and trades her beautiful voice for legs. To regain her voice, Ariel must win the prince’s love and save her father’s kingdom in only three days.
Belle
Belle, whose name means beauty in French, comes to the palace of the Beast to save her father Maurice, a poor inventor who accidentally stumbled upon the Beast’s lair. The angry Beast instantly swears to kill him, until Belle arrives and begs for his safety. The Beast agrees not to harm Maurice on one condition: Belle must stay with him. And so begins Belle’s lesson in the true meaning of beauty — a lesson that will bring her love and happiness ever after. Unlike most other Disney princesses, Belle is not born of royal blood — she marries into royalty. But like all Disney princesses, Belle is beautiful, graceful, loyal, and kind. Like Ariel, Belle breaks Disney’s passive-princess mold. She is smart (always has her nose in a book), opinionated (she’s downright sharp-tongued), and makes her own judgments (she has no patience for Gaston’s shallow vanity and looks beyond the Beast’s frightening appearance). Her brown hair and eyes make her one of the most physically identifiable princesses, and her willful stubbornness makes her one of the most real.
Jasmine
Jasmine is a glorious, fiercely independent, sharp-tongued princess, but she’s also just a supporting player in the 1992 Walt Disney Pictures film “Aladdin.” The star is, naturally enough, Aladdin, a wily street-urchin who lives in the large and busy Arabian town of Agrabah long ago with his faithful monkey pal Abu.
When Princess Jasmine gets bored remaining in seclusion in the luxurious palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan’s advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar’s plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a “diamond in the rough” can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. When Jafar realizes that Aladdin fits that description, he tries to blackmail him in a plot to marry Jasmine in order to steal the sultan’s power.
With double identities and magical wishes confusing everything, Aladdin rises above his moniker as an untrustworthy street rat and finds a way to win Jasmine’s hand in marriage to show everyone that he is a prince at heart.
Pocahontas
Unlike any of the Disney princesses before her, Pocahontas is a historical figure not associated with European royalty and so is considered an “honorary” Disney Princess due to her reputation as a heroine and role model. Her fabled life as a noble and brave Native American girl, has largely been fictionalized in various legends, and again her story was altered for the making of the 1995 Walt Disney film “Pocahontas.”
In it, Capt. John Smith leads a ship of English soldiers to the New World to plunder gold for English Governor Ratcliffe. Meanwhile, the “New World” native Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village’s greatest warrior, much to the disapproval of smart, independent Pocahontas.
A vision of a spinning arrow foretells Pocahontas that change is coming, and it does as soon as the English ship lands near her village. Between Ratcliffe (who believes the “savages” are hiding the gold he lusts for) and Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.
Mulan
Like Pocahontas, Mulan is an official member of the Disney Princess club — but she is, in fact, a multi-cultural heroine, not a true princess. She is a brave Chinese woman based on an ancient Chinese myth that’s nearly 2,000 years old. Real or not, the 1998 Disney Pictures film “Mulan” retells the story about a young Chinese maiden who wants to honor her family but seems destined to fail. She puts herself in harm’s way when she learns that her weak father is to be drafted into the army to fight the invading Huns. Knowing that he would never survive the rigors of war in his state, she decides to disguise herself as a man and join in his place. Unknown to her, her ancestors are aware of this, and to prevent it, they order a tiny disgraced dragon, Mushu, to join her and force her to abandon her plan. He agrees, but when he meets Mulan, he learns that she cannot be dissuaded and so decides to help her in the perilous times ahead. In the process, Mulan becomes Disney’s most feminist protagonist to date.
Disney Princess has become bigger than Walt Disney ever dreamed when his struggling studio took a huge gamble to make its first princess movie, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Some 60 years later — Disney Princess has grown to become Disney’s most popular brand, overtaking Winnie-the-Pooh and the company’s iconic mascot, Mickey Mouse. Six years ago, the princesses generated $100 million in sales. Now Disney Princess merchandise is sold in 90 countries, and it has earned $3.4 billion since its launch
Not surprisingly, the future of Disney Princess Toys are bright. In the next few years, Disney will focus on boy toys with the Disney Prince and Disney Pirate lines being developed using the Disney Princess model. For now, though, your children have a world of Disney Princess Toys merchandise to keep them happy.