Mermaid Signage Gruesome?

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Ignohippo

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DisneyExpert said:
Oh, dear God. Gruesome? Really? Could your pathetic desperation to complain about everything involving this ride possibly sink any lower?

Like, seriously... Did the Mermaid ride steal your lunch money or something? I highly recommend that you just avoid this entire area altogether. I'm afraid the stress levels might take a deadly toll on you.

You really thought this warranted its own thread? Really?

I'm sorry, but anybody whose child is dense enough to look at that and somehow think that it's actually Ariel and that she's been bludgeoned by a ship and placed out front for display just really has no business procreating.

You were afraid to show her the pictures? Was that a legitimate statement? I really think that speaks volumes more about you than it does Disney.
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So when you have gas, does it come out pixie dust?
 
sshindel

sshindel

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Having not a) ridden the ride, or b) watched the ride video (saving it for my next trip to see it myself), I have a question. Is the "Ariel on the rock" scene in the ride itself?
 
Atomicmickey

Atomicmickey

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I can't even look at it.

Think of it, there must be a huge meathook on the front of that
boat to hang her there. Of course, when hung on there, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
style, she'd be dead right away. So, the mortuary craft must have been used to
preserve her, to wire her eyeballs open and pump them full of preservative
fluid. Her arm must have a metal support shoved in there to hold it up.
They'll have to keep this up every day, or she'll start to reek, and in the
Florida weather, there'll be worms, and seagulls will pick at the rotten corpse.

Yes, you make a really valid point, it's completely gruesome when you think of it.
Revolting, repulsive.

Or, perhaps, it's just a themed sign for a happy attraction depicting the
star of the attraction in a fanciful way.

Nah, you're right. People are going to flee in terror and heave in the shrubbery
when they see this, and children are going to be traumatized for life.

Only sick people will walk by and enjoy their day.
 
Tinkerbell 8

Tinkerbell 8

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I don't see anything wrong with this at all, I actually think it looks pretty cool. It's also going to make for a really great picture for thousands of people visiting the ride because they can stand by the rocks and it will look like Ariel is swimming above them. I also agree with MickeyMario saying how these are statues and not the actual people, I'm pretty sure 99.9% of kids will not think that the actual Ariel is dead and bolted to a ship. And as others have said, I didn't know about Ariels mom since it wasn't said in the original movie, which the ride is based off of, so I don't think many people will associate Ariel being on the front of a ship with the way her mother was killed.
 
elchippo

elchippo

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Pixiedustmaker said:
Actually, the ship is cement work painted to look like decaying wood, IMHO. And the Ariel figure was added later and is made of some sort of plastic composite. Doesn't look like wood at all to me, though I guess I'll have to wait to see it up close.

*edit. You have a point, if you look at the photo below, there is some weathering, but I don't think they pull it off so that it looks like the rest of the wood, in fact, looks like plastic that was weathered as there is no wood grain. IMHO, they don't want shipwreck Ariel to look that bad, so they sort of compromise and we got something that is very close to the show scene versions of Ariel in apperance.

I guess after Eric married Ariel, (and after she got her legs), he told the ship builder to make him an Ariel figurehead for his ship to mess with Triton's mind, p.o. Ursula's relatives if she has any, or something like that.

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First "Disco Yeti", and now we can let the "Dirty Ariel" references commence!
 
Minthorne

Minthorne

Well-Known Member
Maybe she is long dead and years in the future people remember her story and create a theme park ride to tell the story and have a representation of an old ship with her image as the figurehead showing that her story has impacted the seafaring folk for many years....

..or they could add some audio-animatronics to her so her head spins and she spits pea soup. Now that's gruesome!
 
twinnstar

twinnstar

Active Member
er, i dont understand. i dont think any children will think ariel has been crucified or is stuck...they will think she is the figurehead of the ship...like she is...

when they see other characters around the world, do they think they are nailed to a wall or frozen in stone or something? :/
 

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