Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24718835-20141112013800/@comment-25125349-20141126041442

I agree, Once's takes on Snow Queen/Frozen and Little Mermaid to me were very well handled.

And on the above, while it's not possible to get a full picture on anything's popularity, but from what I know, 101 Dalmatians when it came out was my Mom's favorite book, but I don't think it was really that popular before the Disney movie helped it. (when i say not that popular know that I subscribe that most things are reasonably popular, but the internet really tries to make a lot of things out of proportion)

The fact it also had a sequel puts it in the category of a bunch of book series that get eclipsed by the movies that stopped before they finished telling the original story.

Some good examples for context:

The books that inspired The Black Cauldron are five books to one movie

There's like 20 Tarzan books, but most people only seem familar with the first

Old Yeller splits the difference, with three books, only two into movies

Disney's Jungle Book was a mix and not very faithful mash up of two short story collections

I can list some non-Disney related ones if anyone else is interested in this train of the conversation.

But on a more regular subject, I look forward to Cruella a lot on this show.