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Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Elsafan89 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Elsafan89 wrote: well they did show us cinderella... and ariel... but almost nobody else...! Actually, out of the official Disney line-up, we're only missing Tiana, Merida and Pocahontas (not likely). So they've actually done quite a few princesses. And there's the ones not from Disney like Abigail (mythology), Cora (she was actually a Queen in her fairytale, but she's a princess on Once), and I can't think of any others lol they did not use giselle from enchanted, wendy from peter pan, melody from the little mermaid 2 retern to the sea, nor meg from hercules... Meg isn't an official Disney princess because her film flopped, same as Eilonwy (The Black Cauldron) and Kida (Atlantis: The Lost Empire). Wendy is a Disney Heroine, like Alice and Tinkerbell. Wendy HAS been featured in seasons 2 and 3, honestly, just like Alice in the spin-off and Tinkerbell in season 3. Giselle and Melody are from movies not in the official Disney canon (there's 53-54 movies in the official Disney canon, where all the Princess are taken from, I suggest looking up the list on the Disney wikia.)

The only official Disney princesses are Snow, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Elsa, Anna and Moana (she'll be introduced in 2016 when her movie premieres, but she's officially a Disney princess already). The only princesses in the canon not counted among the line-up are as stated above; Meg, Kida and Eilonwy.

Jane Porter from Tarzan, Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tinkerbell, Alice and Wendy were all counted among the roster at one point or another, but all were inevitably dropped (Esmeralda, Wendy, Alice) got their own franchise (Tinkerbell and the Disney fairies) or were never included in the line-up after promotion suggesting they would (Jane) I'll give you that The Black Cauldron flopped, but Hercules got a tv show and Atlantis got a sequel movie, not exactly things you would do with a flop. While they were not as moneytarily successful as say The Lion King or Frozen, they still did okay for themselves. How Disney chooses which characters become Disney Princesses and which don't will probably be something we will never understand.