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Okay, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question or not, but here goes. Where does Ariel's green dress that she wears in the parks come from? Did I miss something in the movie? All the other princesses wear their respective "movie uniform" but Ariel does not. Can anyone answer this for me?
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ok movie over.(and hit the gym)........The dress she has on when her dad truns her human is green but to "sexy" for meet and greets, also The trim on her wedding gown looks sea-foam green too.
This is an interesting question...because now you've got Princess Tiana in green too. (although a very different shade) To me, Cinderella's dress in the cartoon looks more white than blue...I always kind of wondered why they had her in such a bright blue. So they could have used a white, or VERY pale blue for Cindy and then had Ariel wear her blue skirt with the black lace-up top with puffy white sleeves (her human dress). Then no one would overlap colors.
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My daughter has the Ariel wedding barbie doll, and her dress is white with seafoam green trim. So that is definitely not it. Still, the dress seems familiar to me, not sure why. You know, this is very intriguing because I don't think there's another princess that does appearances in a dress she didn't/doesn't wear in one of the movies. Although I can't remember LM 2 and 3 well enough to recall if maybe she wore it in one of those
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Someone previously mentioned the branding and the colors...When I was researching the seafoam green dress, I did find a website that showed the dresses for Cinderella and Ariel side by side. (as well as some of the design process that went into it. I will spare you the details, but basically, there was some concern at the time the movie was being drawn about being afraid that Ariel wouldn't be 'accepted' as a princess. So they basically copied the dress, and made it the same color as Sleeping Beauty.
When it came time for them to design the dress for her park visits, there was a color issue with the dress being too close in both design and color. Since both Aurora and Cinderella had already been 'established' in their colors, the only change was to give Ariel a seafoam green dress.
Then, when Tiana came around, there was a lot of discussion about the color her dress should be...evreyone thought blue, since that is the color dress she wore most in the movie...but again, we already had a blue princess, so she became a green princess.
Now, with Rapunzel, there is the whole issue that she is not wearing the same color as the movie for her parks meet and greet...she is wearing pink in the movie, and more of a purply raspberry in the parks.
Evidently, since the princesses don't have an acutal 'country' to rule, they have their own 'color' to rule!
If you had asked me what color Ariel's dress is in the parks I couldn't have answered you. I will have to pay more attention to the princesses when I go to WDW in August.
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