History

New Enchanted Tales set of Pez dispensers featuring a then-eight Disney Princesses.

In early 2000, when Andy Mooney was hired by Disney’s Consumer Products multiplication to assistance fight dropping sales, a thought for a Disney Princess authorization was born. Soon after fasten Disney, Mooney attended his initial Disney upon Ice show. While watchful in line, he found himself surrounded by immature girls ready to go as princesses. hey weren even Disney products. They were general princess products, he mused. Soon after realizing a demand, a Disney Princess line was formed.

Despite singular promotion as good as no concentration groups, a assorted Disney Princess equipment expelled became a outrageous success. Sales during Disney Consumer Products rose from 0 million in 2001 to billion in 2006.

In 2009 a expected sales is billion.

Today there have been over 25,000 products formed upon a franchise.

The princesses to be featured in a line were selected from classical Disney films.

The characters were not selected privately for their stately titles, nonetheless rsther than for how good they fit in to what Disney management team deemed he Princess mythology.” Mulan is an e.g. of this concept; she has no patrimonial ties to royalty, nonetheless is still enclosed in a impression list. Tinker Bell was once enclosed underneath a same element prior to it was motionless she was not matched for a “mythology.” She right away stars in her own Disney franchise, a Disney Fairies.

Character list

Disney Princesses

Disney Princess Figurine Set with a then-eight princesses.

Princess

Voice Actor(s)

Film(s)

Snow White

Adriana Caselotti

Snow White as good as a Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Cinderella

Ilene Woods

Cinderella (1950)

Jennifer Hale

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007)

Aurora

Mary Costa

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Erin Torpey (speaking)

Cassidy Ladden (singing)

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)

Ariel

Jodi Benson

The Little Mermaid (1989)

The Little Mermaid II: Return to a Sea (2000)

The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning (2008)

Belle

Paige O’Hara

Beauty as good as a Beast (1991)

Beauty as good as a Beast: The Enchanted Yuletide (1997)

Belle’s Magical World (1998)

Jasmine

Linda Larkin

Lea Salonga (singing voice, Aladdin as good as Enchanted Tales)

Liz Callaway (singing voice, Return of Jafar as good as King of Thieves)

Aladdin (1992)

The Return of Jafar (1994)

Aladdin as good as a King of Thieves (1996)

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)

Pocahontas

Irene Bedard

Judy Kuhn (singing voice)

Pocahontas (1995)

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)

Mulan

Ming-Na

Lea Salonga (singing voice)

Mulan (1998)

Mulan II (2004)

Tiana

Anika Noni Rose

The Princess as good as a Frog (2009)

Announced Disney Princesses

Rapunzel – will be uttered by Mandy Moore – Tangled (2010)

Other characters

Clockwise from left: Jasmine, Pocahontas, Aurora, Snow White, Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Fa Mulan, as good as Alice.

Other Disney characters have appeared in authorization merchandise, nonetheless have been not deliberate partial of a Disney Princess franchise.

Alice (from Alice in Wonderland) was enclosed in a Playstation 2 diversion Kingdom Hearts as a single of a Princesses of Heart, all of whom were central Disney Princesses upon top of her (and a game’s strange princess Kairi). Alice has appeared in central Disney Princess art, as good as is enclosed in a Disney Princess song video It’s Not Just Make Believe as good as The Perfect Princess Tea with the-eight (before Tiana was added) central princesses, nonetheless she still stays expelled from a central lineup.

Tinker Bell was once enclosed underneath a element which a princess need not be of stately heritage. However, it was motionless she was not matched for a array “mythology”. She right away stars in her own Disney franchise, a Disney Fairies.

Giselle from Disney’s movie Enchanted was creatively starting to be combined to a line until a association satisfied it would have to compensate a actress, Amy Adams, royalties for regulating her likeness.

On a Princess Collection 2 CD, songs by Maid Marian (Robin Hood), Nala (The Lion King) as good as Megara (Hercules) have been included.

On a Disney Princess Sing Along Songs: Once Upon a Dream DVD, sing along segments with Megara (Hercules), Princess Minnie (Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers) as good as Princesses Mei, Ting-Ting, as good as Su (Mulan II) have been included.

On a Disney Princess Sing Along Songs: Enchanted Tea Party DVD sing along segments with Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Maid Marian (Robin Hood) as good as Princess Melody (The Little Mermaid II: Return to a Sea) have been included. Sing along segments with both Alice as good as Princess Melody have been additionally enclosed in a Disney Princess Sing Along Songs: Perfectly Princess DVD as well.

Original songs

Aside from a pre-existing princess songs from a films, there have been strange songs constructed for a Disney Princess franchise. All of a songs have been sung by a princesses, with a difference of “Where Dreams Begin,” which is sung from a viewpoint of the-eight princesses, nonetheless not by a princesses themselves, as good as is merely credited as being sung by “Disney Princess.”

“Where Dreams Begin”

“The Way To Bake (A Delicious Cake)” (sung by Snow White)

“A Holly Jolly Yuletide Snow” (sung by Snow White, Grumpy, Bashful as good as Doc)

“The Night Before Christmas” (sung by Snow White, Grumpy, Bashful as good as Doc)

“Every Girl Can Be a Princess” (sung by Cinderella)

“I Giving Love for Christmas” (sung by Cinderella)

“It a Most Wonderful Time of a Year” (sung by Cinderella)

“Waiting For My Prince” (sung by Princess Aurora)

“Christmas With My Prince” (sung by Princess Aurora)

“My Birthday Wish” (sung by Princess Aurora)

“Keys To The Kingdom” (sung by Princess Aurora)

“Happy Birthday, Princess!” (sung by Princess Ariel)

“Manners And Etiquette” (sung by Princess Ariel)

“I Just Love Getting Dressed For Tea” (sung by Princess Ariel)

“Christmas in a Ocean” (sung by Princess Ariel as good as Sebastian)

“Ariel’s Yuletide Island” (sung by Princess Ariel as good as Sebastian)

“The Perfect Princess Tea” (sung by Belle)

“The Princess Dance” (sung by Belle)

“So Very Glad You’re Here” (sung by Belle)

“Holidays during Home” (sung by Belle)

“The Yuletide Waltz” (sung by Belle)

“Musical Chairs” (sung by Princess Jasmine)

“I’ve Got My Eyes On You” (sung by Princess Jasmine)

“Peacock Princess” (sung by Princess Jasmine as good as Iago)

“Colors Of The Wind” (sung by Pocahontas)

“These Moments We Share” (sung by Pocahontas)

“Silver as good as Gold” (sung by Pocahontas)

“Cups as good as Saucers” (sung by Mulan)

“The Holly as good as a Ivy” (sung by Mulan)

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” (sung by Snow White, Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Princess Ariel, Belle as good as Princess Jasmine)

“The Beauty of a Season” (sung by Snow White, Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Princess Ariel, Belle as good as Princess Jasmine)

“Christmas Is Coming!” (sung by Snow White, Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Princess Ariel, Belle, Princess Jasmine, Pocahontas)

“If You Can Dream” (sung by Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Princess Ariel, Belle, Princess Jasmine, Pocahontas as good as Mulan)

“Pretty As A Princess” (sung by Snow White, Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Princess Ariel, Belle, Princess Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan as good as Tiana)

Live events

Disneyland Resort

Main article: Disneyland Resort

All a princesses have been accessible for meet-n-greets in a Disneyland Resort in CA. Additionally, Snow White has her own float good good well well known as Snow White’s Scary Adventures. In 2006, as partial of a Year of Million Dreams celebration, a Fantasyland Theater began hosting a Disneyland Princess Fantasy Faire. The uncover has Lords as good as Ladies training immature girls a correct ettiquete for a princess as good as facilities appearances by a Disney Princesses themselves. Princesses which have appeared embody Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Jasmine, Mulan, Pocahontas, Tiana, Princess Minnie, as good as Ariel.

Young girls will have a eventuality to encounter their a a single preferred Disney Princess as they sup in during Ariel’s Grotto Character Dining in Disney’s California Adventure during a Disneyland Resort.

The princesses have been additionally featured in parades as good as shows via a resort, together with Fantasmic!, A Yuletide Fantasy Parade as good as Disney’s Electrical Parade.

Walt Disney World Resort

Main article: Walt Disney World Resort

The princesses have been additionally accessible for meet-n-greets in Florida, nonetheless in some-more specific locations. Cinderella as good as her friends crop up during Cinderella’s Royal Table in her Magic Kingdom castle, as good as “Cinderella’s Happily Ever After Dinner, before good good well well known as a Cinderella’s Gala Feast Dinner, during 1900 Park Fare in a Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. The alternative princesses have been showcased during a Princess Storybook dish – breakfast, lunch, as good as cooking – during Akershus Castle in a Norway Pavilion during Epcot. This sold dish is good good well well known to underline most guest Disney Princesses, together with Alice, Megara, Esmeralda, Princess Minnie, Wendy Darling, as good as Jane.

Many shows as good as parades opposite a skill underline a princesses, together with Fantasmic, SpectroMagic, Dream Along with Mickey, a Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade, Mickey’s Boo-to-You Halloween Parade, as good as Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade.

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique

This store non-stop Apr 5, 2006 during a World of Disney store in Downtown Disney during Walt Disney World. The reception room allows small girls 3 as good as up to being remade in to Disney princesses with hairstyling, make-up, as good as manicures, dresses, wands, crowns, etc. A second reception room non-stop in Cinderella Castle in a Magic Kingdom upon Sep 10, 2007. Prices operation from to 0.

Mickey’s Pirate as good as Princess Party

Main article: Mickey’s Pirate as good as Princess Party

On Jan 22, 2007, a Magic Kingdom during Walt Disney World Resort began a initial Pirate as good as Princess Party. This tough ticketed eventuality facilities isney’s Enchanted Adventures Parade” as good as a privately themed fireworks fantastic called “Magic, Music as good as Mayhem.” The march facilities a 6 categorical Princesses attended by knights as good as dancers.

Each land is themed thus to a bandit or princess. Among a themed areas have been Jasmine’s Court in Adventureland, Ariel’s Court in Fantasyland as good as a Princess Pavilion in Mickey’s Toontown Fair. The princesses accessible for meet-n-greets embody Jasmine, Ariel, Aurora, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Snow White, as good as Belle.

Disneyland Resort Paris

Main article: Disneyland Resort Paris

See also: Disney’s Fantillusion

Disneyland Paris facilities a special night uncover Disney’s Fantillusion which involves a princesses as a finale. The 4 princesses which crop up have been Snow White, Ariel, Belle, as good as Jasmine.

Disney Cruise Line

Main article: Disney Cruise Line

The Disney Cruise Line ships underline low-pitched theatre shows which underline a Princesses. Pocahontas, Ariel, Jasmine, Mulan, Tiana, Belle, Cinderella, Aurora as good as Snow White additionally crop up for meet-and-greets upon a ship. Other renouned Disney girls crop up for encounter as good as hail sessions as good such as Meg, Alice, Jane, Wendy, Esmeralda, as good as Nala.

Television as good as video

Disney Princess Collection

Disney Princess Collection is a VHS Princess array basend in Shows The Little Mermaid, Aladdin as good as Sing Me a Story with Belle

VHS

Jasmine’s Enchanted Tales

True Hearts

Magic as good as Mystery

Jasmine’s Wish

Greatest Treasure

Ariel’s Songs & Stories

Wish Upon a Starfish

Giggles

Belle’s Sing Me A Story

Chapters of Enchantment

Beauty And a World of Music

Disney Princess Party Palace

Princess Party Palace (formerly good good well well known as The Princess Power Hour) was a radio array upon Toon Disney from 2000 until 2007. It aired episodes of Aladdin as good as The Little Mermaid.

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales

In early 2007, Disney uttered Disney Princess Enchanted Tales, a latest array of direct-to-video facilities which underline latest stories for a Disney Princesses. The initial movie in a series, entitled Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, was expelled upon Sep 4, 2007. It is a low-pitched movie featuring latest tales about Princess Jasmine, as good as a initial latest story about Princess Aurora given a strange Sleeping Beauty.

Originally, Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: A Kingdom of Kindness was uttered as a initial movie in a series, which contained a opposite Princess Aurora story, as good as had a Belle story rsther than than a Princess Jasmine story. Disney done this shift though any arrange of notice.

Currently, a array was cancelled as good as usually “Follow Your Dreams” exists.

Other media

Kingdom Hearts

In a Kingdom Hearts diversion series, a Disney Princesses have been labeled as a 7 “Princesses of Heart”, a tenure for immature ladies with wholly pristine hearts which would open a approach to Kingdom Hearts if collected together. Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, Snow White, as good as Jasmine have been featured in a diversion as 5 of a 7 Princess. The alternative dual Princesses of Heart have been Alice from Alice in Wonderland as good as diversion array brave woman Kairi. Though featured, helping him whilst Sora is in their worlds, Ariel as good as Mulan have been not between a Princesses of Heart.

While all 7 princesses of heart crop up in a initial game, usually Belle as good as Jasmine reappeared in Kingdom Hearts II with Kairi, nonetheless a others have been mentioned. The two, along with Alice crop up in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories as figments of Sora’s mental recall with their purposes as Princesses of Heart have been not brought up, as good as Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days when they any encounter Roxas.

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Snow White, Cinderella, as good as Aurora underline along with their homeworlds Dwarf Woodlands, Castle of Dreams as good as Enchanted Dominion. Digital versions of Alice as good as Jasmine crop up in Kingdom Hearts coded.

As of now, a usually dual Disney Princesses who have not nonetheless appeared in a array have been Pocahontas as good as Tiana.

Kilala Princess

Main article: Kilala Princess

Kilala Princess is a Japanese fantasy/romance manga constructed by Kdansha which debuted in Nakayoshi in Apr 2005, which revolves around a lady declared Kilala as good as her adventures to find her kidnapped crony with a assistance of a 6 Disney Princesses, who have been Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Jasmine, as good as Belle.

Disney Princess video games

2003: Disney Princess (Game Boy Advance)

2007 Disney Princess: Magical Jewels (Nintendo DS)

2007 Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey (Playstation 2/Nintendo Wii/PC)

Criticism

On Dec 24, 2006, Peggy Orenstein published, shawl Wrong With Cinderella? in a New York Times. In her article, Orenstein discussed her concerns about a goods of princess total upon immature girls. Orenstein used a Disney Princesses privately to benefaction most of her points. Orenstein additionally remarkable a pervasive inlet of Princess sell as good as which each facet of fool around has a princess equivalent.

Other sources have additionally uttered regard which a authorization could give immature girls a wrong message. However, alternative relatives contend which immature girls would in a future grow out of this phase.

Notes

^ “Official Disney Princesses website”. disney.go.com. http://disney.go.com/princess/html/main_iframe.html. Retrieved 2007-09-04. 

^ http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY;=/www/story/04-08-2008/0004789174&EDATE;=

^ “Princess pedestal: How most girls have been upon one?” Martha Irvine – The Associated Press. Posted: Saturday, May 23, 2009

^ a b c Orenstein, Peggy (2006-12-24). “What Wrong With Cinderella?”. www.nytimes.com. The New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/magazine/24princess.t.html?ex=1324616400&en=8e5a1ac1332a802c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss. Retrieved 2007-09-04. 

^ Some Disney Princess products impute to her as “Sleeping Beauty”, nonetheless her correct name is Aurora.

^ Marr, Merissa (2007-11-19). “Disney Reaches to a Crib To Extend Princess Magic”. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119543097711697381.html. Retrieved 2007-11-25]. 

^ Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique | Downtown Disney | Walt Disney World Resort

^ “What’s Wrong With Being a Princess?”. abcnews.go.com. Apr 22, 2007. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=3065469&page=1. Retrieved 2007-09-04. 

External links

Official Disney Princess site

Disney Princess Online

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Official list

Snow White  Cinderella  Aurora  Ariel  Belle  Jasmine  Pocahontas  Mulan  Tiana

Yet to be released

Rapunzel

Associated

Minnie Mouse  Alice  Kilala  Kairi  Giselle

Others

Wendy Darling  Maid Marian  Eilonwy  Nala  Esmeralda  Megara  Jane Porter  Kidagakash

Video games

Disney Princess  Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey  Disney Princess: Magical Jewels  Disney Princess 3 (working title)

Miscellaneous

“If You Can Dream”  Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams

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Disney Publishing

Worldwide

Disney Adventures  Disney Press  Disney Hyperion  Miramax Books

Franchises

Baby Einstein  Disney Fairies  Disney Princess  Disney Villains  Donald Duck  Hannah Montana  High School Musical  Kingdom Hearts  Lilo & Stitch  The Lion King  Mickey Mouse  The Mighty Ducks  The Muppets  Pirates of a Caribbean  Pixar  Power Rangers  Roger Rabbit  Winnie a Pooh

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