Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-13112974-20150312234543/@comment-1672596-20150314002241

"1. The Little Mermaid was movie franchise. It was never such a big line-up like Princesses, Frozen or Fairies. It was limited to the movies and this franchise ended with the last Little Mermaid movie and the end of Broadway show. Of course you can still see some merchandise without DP logo, especially in merchandise with Ursula or Flounder etc. Without it, everyone would forget such a movie exist. That's the reason why in this year we are getting a lot of Sword in the Stone merchandise, but of course there is no Sword in the Stone franchise."

Except for the fact that, aside from the actual films (including the sequels), we've also got the Marvel Comics serial, the Disney Comics serial (both, BTW, are prequels to the film), the TV series, some video games, and various books both of the young reader chapter book variety and the standard kiddie fare, even magazines (and that's not even counting the stuff licensed by the Disney Princess franchise). And if Frozen is going to be counted as a franchise despite not having much differences beyond that, we definitely can count The Little Mermaid as one as well.

"2. Wreck-It-Ralph 2 was never truly confirmed by Disney and no one trusted those rumors, because before there were rumors about sequels for every successful Disney movies as well. And Walt Disney was against sequels. Snow White Returns was supposed to be a "bonus", just like Tangled Ever After."

It took place after the film, so it's a sequel, regardless of whether it's full-length or a short. If you are not going to have a sequel at all, you don't MAKE a sequel or any extension media, period, meaning the original film is the only one in existence, no book sequels, no game sequels, no TV series sequels, nothing.

And for the record, I think Wreck It Ralph 2 was actually given an article on here (and I even remember seeing a poster of that princess character on a beach), so it's all but confirmed we're getting one, not even rumored.

"3. Sequels made by Disney Toon Studio are not canon, only these by WDAS are. Why do you think Pocahontas love interest is John Smith in every merchandise?"

Pocahontas II is the only one of those cheapquels that was explicitly confirmed non-canon. In case you've forgotten, Iago's reformation was actually treated as canon, as was Anastasia's reformation, for that matter, and even Return to the Sea was given a brief nod in Ariel's Dolphin Adventure with their creating a wall at one point, and Simba's Pride was even given a brief allusion in Kingdom Hearts II (and that's not even taking into account The Lion Guard which all but confirmed that Kiara is going to be in it). All of those, BTW, actually came from the DisneyToon sequels (In fact, Return of Jafar, the movie Iago reformed in, was even given a level adaptation in Kingdom Hearts, currently being the only Disney Sequel to actually get a level adaptation [I'm saying "currently" because it was strongly implied that we'd return to Atlantica in a future game in Kingdom Hearts, meaning a world based on Return to the Sea is at this point 50% at minimum]). Besides, need I really remind you that there were plenty of Star Wars-related materials that are canon despite not coming from LucasFilm Ltd., even after the Disney Merger and the creation of a new canon timeline replacing the "Legends" EU? I don't really like many of the sequels any more than you do (some are good, but many weren't), but guess what, when they still continue to rerelease those sequels, they are still canon whether we like it or not, as continuing to rerelease them, heck, even giving them special editions and boxed sets like the originals, means they are canon. Metal Gear doesn't even rerelease Ghost Babel precisely because it's non-canon.

"4. John Lasseter destroyed Disney and he does not love Disney. He does love CGI, he loves money, and he love his own ideas. What he hate is history and traditions of Disney studios, 2D animation and ideas for animation movies created by other people than him."

I... don't remember mentioning anything about Lasseter loving Disney. In fact, I have to agree with you, especially when it was thanks to his stupid idea of releasing Winnie the Pooh at the absolute worst time imaginable that we're currently stuck with CGI. He really needs to be kicked back to Pixar where he belongs.