If you need something nice to think about today, the Disney Princesses call themselves the "Princess Power Posse" and OF COURSE they have a Disney Princess group message https://t.co/6MJzS5YJHN
— Rachel Paige (@rachmeetsworld) February 15, 2019
-The Little Mermaid is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and the voice that won over the hearts of a billions is reflecting on being part of the iconic film.
-She never expected to be as well known as she is for the film. She expected to just go back to New York and resume her every day life.
-Believes that each generation will have a different interpretation of Ariel, 2019 is very different from 1989 which is part of what makes it so special.
-Enjoyed doing TLM animated series for Disney.
-Would love for a Princess team up animated film now that they have all been brought together for Ralph Breaks The Internet.
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At last, the truth for you, on this beautiful Valentine's Day!
Thanks to Stephen Worth:
"When I was working for the Bagdasarians, Ron [Dias] was doing freelance for us. When the VHS cover was released everyone was talking about it. Ron came by to drop off some work, and I knew he was mad at Disney for not getting to work on Little Mermaid, so I asked if he had seen it. He said not only had he seen it, he painted it...
Disney asked him to paint the cover at the last minute. He only had a weekend to do it and had to work until the wee hours of the morning to finish it on time. He was kind of punchy from lack of sleep towards the end and decided he'd put a little joke in it for himself, if you know what I mean.
He woke up Monday morning and looked at it with fresh eyes and said to himself, "Ohmigosh! That isn't as subtle as I intended it to be... it isn't subtle at all!" But his appointment with the production person at Disney was at 10am, so he didn't have time to revise it. He dashed to the meeting and delivered the painting and pointed it out to the woman and offered to revise it for free. She said that there was a meeting of execs that afternoon to review the cover and she would let him know if he needed to revise it.
Ron didn't hear back for a week and he was sweating that he might have offended them and would never work for Disney again, so he called the production lady and asked if they wanted him to revise it. She said no, the executives approved the cover as is. She said she pointed it out to them and relayed his offer to revise it, but they liked it just as it was.
Ron shrugged his shoulders and said, "If they don't care, I guess I don't either." Disney gave him the lead stylist job on the Little Mermaid TV show around that time, so I guess they were happy with it. Maybe it sold more copies that way."
(Special thanks to Ron Dias!)
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