Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-31665403-20170608145549/@comment-1672596-20180318001943

Maybe, but considering how The Little Mermaid's fifteenth anniversary had a massive sale at Toys R. Us, and independently of the DP franchise I should add, I'd say that The Little Mermaid definitely was self-sufficient as a franchise, so Ariel and her movie STILL would have been disqualified as a result. As a matter of fact, if I had been the executives at Disney and I were to use that excuse for Elsa, Anna, heck, possibly even Moana, I'd specifically remove Ariel from the Disney Princess lineup and make her an exception as well precisely BECAUSE her franchise was popular enough to be self-sufficient, based on the merchandising sales of the 15th anniversary, not to mention various merchandising for the franchise both before and after it.