Disney Pulls Sexy Merida Makeover After Public Backlash

In preparation for her "coronation ceremony" last Saturday, Disney gave the Brave heroine Merida a makeover, redesigning the character as thinner with a bigger bust, more revealing dress, a face full of makeup, less wild hair, and replacing her signature bow and arrows with a sassy sash. People were pissed and turned to …

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Cuddle up with these sloths dressed as Disney Princesses

Because every day could use a little more sloth in it, artist Phillip Light drew a series of silly sketches of Disney Princesses reimagined as one of our favorite tree-dwelling mammals. But finding your one true love is so much harder when...Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Is a Disney-Free Daughter Really a More Empowered One?

Don't tell my daughter, but before the month is out, she's getting a princess-themed surprise party for her 4th birthday. We've hired a much-recommended princess party service to provide an actress who'll play Aurora (Sleeping Beauty, Heloise's favorite) and show up in full regalia to entertain 10 children for 90…

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Disney World Has Just Built Some Fancy New Castles for Its Favorite…

Disney World may be great and all, but if there's one complaint the rodent-infested toon autocracy fields too often, it's that there just aren't enough castles. I mean, there's that one at the center of the Magic Kingdom, but that's really more of a chateau, and one could hardly expect to fortify such a gaudy manse…

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Disney's First Latina Princess Isn't Actually Latina

So, Disney's first maybe Latina princess is, in fact, not. She's not Hispanic, either. Well, she might be from a Spanish-speaking country, but even that is not known for sure. Enchancia, the fictional country from which her mother hails, is loosely based on Spain, and therefore she's sort-of half-Spanish but who can…

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Disney's First Latina Princess Exemplifies the Problem with All Disney…

Disney is introducing a new princess, and she's Latina! Specifically, half-Enchancian, half-Galdizianm and quarter-Genovian. Psych on the Genovian part, dreams that good just do not come true. There's some controversy over the fact that the little Sofia is light-skinned and blue-eyed, and that's okay, fine, there…

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