Disney Animation is closing the book on fairy tales

[harlowandthemermaid]

This is really depressing to me if it is true. No fairy tales or musicals? I find the whole part of the article about little girls being too old for princesses by age 5 or 6 and wanting something "hot" to be really sad. Just another example of girls growing up too fast. If I have anything to do with it, I know Vivien will still enjoy her disney princesses and not be trying desperately to be a "tween" when she is 5 or 6.

[brivers222]

I'm sorry, WHAT?! Is that true? By the time a little girl is 5, she's no longer interested in princesses? I know I'm still in love with fairy tales at age 22.

The second part just scares me to death. If they are going to start making stuff that is "hot" for 5-6 year olds, my children will not ever know Disney (Or current Disney, anyways...they'll be raised on "old-fashioned" Disney.)

I am 33ish and i am still in love with snow white

[Goofster]

My daughter is 7 1/2 and just "kind of" outgrew the princesses this year. She still loves the princess movies (she loved Tangled), but asked to have her Disney princess bedding and room decor changed to pink pottery barn flowers, etc as she was a little embarrassed when her friends would come over to play in her "princess" room. In the end, all that really changed was the removal of some princess artwork on her wall to be replaced by American Girl artwork. She still loves a good princess move though, but she also likes Wizards of Waverly Place and iCarly too.

[Goofster]

I think I am going to disagree here. I think Tangled having some success in Week 1, and for sure going to see a nice drop off in Week 2, will only confirm Disney's move away from fairy tale/princess-centric movies. Tangled was marketed as a movie for BOYS and GIRLS. Princess movies are geared for girls. Disney will not look at the mild success and say "Hey, boys love fairy tales." Nope. They will look at it and say "See, if we make movies that are not princess-driven, we will get the boys in the audience."

I, for one, want to see Disney move away from fairy tales and do more movies like How to Train Your Dragon. A movie for BOTH boys and girls, adult and child. I'm an adult male and I would never go see any Disney princess movie in the theater.

It's pushing the $200 million mark in domestic receipts alone...it's doing quite well. I think this formula worked quite well, it was a princess-adventure movie that appealed to both audiences. Something they can easily do with other Fairy Tales if they want to.

[CaptSmee]

I just watched "Waking Sleeping Beauty" and am eagerly awaiting the next great run of Disney animated films. It's inevitable.