# Disney pulls Merida (or, People With Too Much Time On Their Hands)

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**Created:** [May 18, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-pulls-merida-or-people-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands/658650 "2013-05-18T02:02:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-pulls-merida-or-people-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands/658650/61 "2013-05-20T04:36:13Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> There’s probably a reason she’s in the far back on the right hand side.

It looks like Pocahontas is the only one who _hasn’t_ been at least slightly redesigned for the princess line. It seems kind of sad, like she got pranked by the other princesses who told her “Oh, it’s going to be really casual, just come as you are!” before running off to get their hair done and put on their sparkliest ballgowns.

Really though, I don’t get why Disney wants to make their own characters look different than they did in the actual movies. Some of them do look basically the same but with more sparkles, but I saw those early '90s movies many times and I’m pretty sure that Ariel never wore that dress, Belle never had Snooki hair, and Jasmine didn’t have lace or chiffon or whatever draped all over her outfit.

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-pulls-merida-or-people-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands/658650/62 "2013-05-20T06:18:31Z")

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> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> This is a picture of the lineup with the “new not improved” Merida in it:
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> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DisneyPrincessLineup2013.jpg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DisneyPrincessLineup2013.jpg)
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> Pocahontas there at the end, she sure looks like Belle  
> Rapunzel looks a lot more like her Pixar character than Merida does.  
> Several of them have been tarted up - Ariel is far more of a Bratz doll in this incarnation than she was previously. But it isn’t a universal tarting of the princesses.

The real issue is the unrealistic waist size. Did they all get ribs removed?

Also, they really need to find a princess with less hair than head.

Also, where’s Storm? She’s an African princess, you know!

[Storm.](http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/zombie_guy/City%20of%20Heroes/Demo%20and%20Help/StormPrincess.jpg)

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-pulls-merida-or-people-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands/658650/63 "2013-05-20T08:50:49Z")

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Now that Star Wars is a Disney property, what about Leia?

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