Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-787716-20170508232629/@comment-1672596-20170903231314

Ariel managed to literally revitalize Disney from what was very likely to be a Chapter 11 bankruptcy with her film, spawned a Disney Comics series, a Marvel Comics series, a TV show, a sequel, a prequel, a spinoff comic for the character Sebastian, and quite a few chapter books, young reader books, and even activity books, heck, even getting an entire convention dedicated to her, and this was all BEFORE she joined the lineup, and even afterwards, she got a massive Toys 'R Us sale around the time Ariel's Beginning came out independently from the Disney Princess franchise. That would, if anything, exempt her from the Disney Princess franchise. I know if I were the guys at Disney, I would most certainly have exempted The Little Mermaid precisely for that reason (besides, quite frankly, Ariel didn't really fit into the franchise anyways, being geared to boys and girls of all ages quite explicitly. Same with Aladdin).