Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-13112974-20150312234543/@comment-1672596-20150314155203

Actually, The Little Mermaid was arguably an even bigger franchise than DP. In fact, The Little Mermaid franchise is so big it even has it's own convention comparable to Star Wars Celebration (I'm not kidding: Just look up "ArielCon.").

For the record, those books DID allude to Return to the Sea as well (Ariel's Dolphin Adventure even has Ariel building a wall around the castle similar to the wall in Return to the Sea), and it even had a video game adaptation, and a Little Golden Books adaptation as well. And let me also point out that if they wanted to ensure they weren't canon, they'd bury them completely after Lasseter took over. Have you forgotten about how Disney treated Song of the South (and that was due to fears of racism by certain race hustlers) by actually not even rereleasing the film at ALL and keeping tangential references at best, to such an extent the only chance you'll ever see the film is via bootleg, or even how they treated Path to 9/11 (not only did they never release the DVD, they even went as far as to specifically avoid selling the rights to produce it to other companies, something that even some of Disney's shareholders gawked at)? And don't even get me started on the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film, which was such a disaster thanks to the poor release date that despite it actually being released by WDAS and not DisneyToons, WDAS refuses to even acknowledge its existence. In other words, they'd make sure they not rerelease ANY of the DTV extension media at all, never mind avoiding giving them special editions and boxed sets, which occurred just two years ago with Return to the Sea. Think along the lines of how the Metal Gear series handles the entries that weren't canon (especially Ghost Babel, which was despite it being extremely popular and even having a high demand for a rerelease via the Virtual Console, or even Snake's Revenge, which Kojima actually liked far better than the NES port for Metal Gear, a game he made very clear he disliked immensely.) for a good idea of what I'm getting at.