disneys recalled little mermaid vhs

[Morbo]

The only different cover is on later released Laserdisc versions - all other VHS copies retain it, as do all promotional posters and artwork prior to it - the VHS version was not the first version to have the alleged “phallus.”

Disney never “banned” anything - it was one store that removed the videos after a customer complaint, then returned them all 24 hours later:

@Snopes

The alleged “phallic symbol” in The Little Mermaid’s artwork went undetected by the general public for about a year while the film was in the theatrical release. Shortly after Entertainment Weekly ran a story about the offending artwork in mid-1990, the rumor became widespread when Michelle Couch of Mesa, Arizona, complained to Disney and a Phoenix supermarket chain (Bashas’) about the phallus on the cover of The Little Mermaid. Bashas’ pulled the videos from their shelves (but returned them less than 24 hours later), and the story of the “penis” cover was soon widely disseminated by the media.

Read all about it and see the pictures here. If someone is selling the “phallus video cover” on eBay it’s worthless, as they all have it. The only thing that might be valuable would be the altered Laserdisc version.