Yeah I was on Tumblr recently when I saw quite a few posts with mainly negative feedback about the redesigning of the Disney Princesses. Being the Disney fanatic I am, I thought why not give my own opinion on the new designs?
First off, I know that it's Disney marketing and they grow over the years to appeal to the people who buy the toys for their kids and they're not going Disney sequel screwing up the characters, blahblahblahblah. I'm just basing this off design and what I think. I'm not really in particular for the whole sparkles and crap. It makes me forget about the characters and sees them as marketing tools, which yeah they kinda are with the franchise for little girls and crap.
And this is all strictly based on personal opinion though I will try to keep an open mind too. None of the princesses are listed in any order of liking, just the years they were brought onto the big screen. I'll try to give the best I can but I'm positive you can look elsewhere on the internet for more thorough explanations. Enjoy my little spit ball of ranting!
With Snow White they really didn't do much of anything. Just added sparkles. She's still plain but beautiful on her own without needing much compared to some designs where she's just blinged out with a crown and jewels galore. I still like Snow White sparkles or no sparkles.
Before anyone argues "original design", let's remember that Cinderella in the original movie was strawberry blonde and her dress was white/silver. How they got blonde and blue dress out of that I have no idea. Maybe the person coloring got high and just didn't care. So let's just go with what we got.
Ugh, God this is just all wrong. I'll say what's already been said; they made her a Barbie doll. It just looks absolutely wrong just in the face and hair alone and it's really distracting. While the dress is really beautiful and sparkly and stuff, just... that's not Cinderella. That's a Barbie doll dressed up as Cinderella. All wrong.
All that's really changed here is the hair and the sparkles on the dress and a slight alteration to Aurora's dress. The hairstyle just looks a bit awkward to me cause I'm used to the bangs and curly hair she originally had. But to be fair, this is a more natural look and it does look really beautiful.
Little complaints about Ariel. Her dress is an alteration to the pink one she wears in the movie and I think it looks beautiful. Other than that and wavier hair, I got nothing. I like this design.
Holy hell where did that hair come from? That's another change with I don't have a problem with but it looks awkward compare to the original and I don't think it totally suits Belle's personality of not really flaunting her beauty all that often. Her dress is actually gold which I will admit does look more elegant than yellow. Overall, I like this design okay.
Oh hey look! A victim of white-washing! Yeah that's been a main complaint with the next few princesses was the white wash. I won't lie, it doesn't look good and they should have just left with normal skin tones for whatever they originally had with Jasmine, Pocahontas and Mulan.
Anyway, I don't really have a lot to say about Jasmine but the one strand of hair is a bit of an eye sore and they have her in a ponytail and not a big braid. That's all for her.
I think I just vomited in my mouth.. Is Pocachacha wearing make-up?? Ah, no! Just no! Take that off!
Ugh, earrings, lose them. Eye sore. And 'scuse me? What did you do to her necklace?! I thought there was no gold in Virginia! Are you trying to screw over our history entirely?! Why would you alter one of the key items of her whole appearance?! Gah!!
What was the point of doing this? This absolutely represents nothing of the Native American princess when you've dolled her up in make-up and unnecessary jewelry and ugh.. this is one of the worst ones. I'm not gonna lie.
Buuuuuut to give the designers credit, at list they didn't slap on sparkle all over her outfit and tried to keep it natural. The stones actually look really pretty and matches with the dress. Other than that, yeah this is pretty bad.
NO.
First off, I have to point out that now that I'm older, I kinda hate how Mulan is always marketed all pretty and dressed up when it clearly does not suit her at all. Did anyone really watch the movie? She is clearly awkward and clumsy and not comfortable doing any of that at all. So it makes no sense to always doll her up when her character is not like that at all. And that's my main problem with the design is that it doesn't fit her character at all. Hello? Continuity anyone? I remember her chopping off her hair with a sword! Are we seriously gonna forget that and assume she just spontaneously grew it out?! Ugh!
While the outfit does look really beautiful, it's the worse design because it's a pure insult to the character who is displayed as a strong yet clumsy young woman who doesn't do the fancy dresses.
I got nothing here. Just sparkles and for some reason they forgot to draw in the dimples. Next one.
Overall, I hate Rapunzel's 2D design. It's just awkward and has no reason to be made into 2D. I guess they didn't want to have an awkward 3D princess among 2D princesses, but yeah, I don't like it. And why is there never a design with her hair cut? I think that'd look really pretty! Other than that, just sparkles. I got nothing else.
So yeah, the designs are very hit and miss. Maybe from here and from other observations you can make your own conclusions about how the princesses look and I hoped you enjoyed hearing my opinion/ranting.
On an end note, thank God that Merida isn't an official "Disney Princess" cause if they tried putting a crap ton of sparkle on her, I'd want to see her just rip the dress to shreds.
