Mermaid Signage Gruesome?

danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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Pixiedustmaker said:
Interestingly, Eric's boat on Storybook Land Canal boats has a mermaid figurehead, can't tell if it is "Ariel", per se. The front of the boat looks very similar, only the ship in MK is obviously a ship wreck.

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It's also interesting to note that the ship in the movie doesn't have a figurehead at all.
 
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Pixiedustmaker

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luis71091 said:
Is this for real? I'm having a really hard time understanding how you could possibly use those words to describe it. She's smiling, and it looks like she's even waving! I like it, I mean, I understand why you wouldn't be a fan of it, but to say it's gruesome??? Really?
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That's a good point. I was mostly thinking about the fact that she is nailed/glued, whatever, to the ship, in the position of a figurehead. Plus, she's not a typical figurehead in that she is almost waving at people, yet obviously will never leaving that spot. Do we look at her as a pure figurehead that just so happens to be Ariel?, or is it Ariel welcoming us to the ride?

In terms of using a shipwreck for this pre-show scene, in my mind it would be like staging Mr. Toad in an auto-collision, while he waves at guests! Some people might describe that as gruesome, staging Toad in a car accident . . .
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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Pixiedustmaker said:
That's a good point. I was mostly thinking about the fact that she is nailed/glued, whatever, to the ship, in the position of a figurehead. Plus, she's not a typical figurehead in that she is almost waving at people, yet obviously will never leaving that spot. Do we look at her as a pure figurehead that just so happens to be Ariel?, or is it Ariel welcoming us to the ride?

In terms of using a shipwreck for this pre-show scene, in my mind it would be like staging Mr. Toad in an auto-collision, while he waves at guests!
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Actually a shipwreck in completely appropriate since the Ariel's first song in the movie takes place amongst shipwrecks.
 
luis71091

luis71091

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Pixiedustmaker said:
That's a good point. I was mostly thinking about the fact that she is nailed/glued, whatever, to the ship, in the position of a figurehead. Plus, she's not a typical figurehead in that she is almost waving at people, yet obviously will never leaving that spot. Do we look at her as a pure figurehead that just so happens to be Ariel?, or is it Ariel welcoming us to the ride?

In terms of using a shipwreck for this pre-show scene, in my mind it would be like staging Mr. Toad in an auto-collision, while he waves at guests! Some people might describe that as gruesome, staging Toad in a car accident . . .
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And I can agree with you on that point. I just asked my 8 year old sister if she liked it, and she said "yeah, but I like the other mermaid that was Eric's ship in the movie" lol. Look, I'm just happy that Disney is finally giving something to look forward to, so no complaints from me.
 
sshindel

sshindel

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Pixiedustmaker said:
Only those shipwrecks are underwater and they don't have an Ariel figurehead!
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I still don't see it as some major leap in imagination to assume that in a movie featuring many shipwrecks, including a shipwreck fairly close to land that serves as the main macguffin in the movie, that one could be close enough that the ship might wash ashore. Maybe even one ship commissioned by Prince Eric, bearing a seafaring image of his wife.
 
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Ignohippo

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Pixiedustmaker said:
That's a good point. I was mostly thinking about the fact that she is nailed/glued, whatever, to the ship, in the position of a figurehead. Plus, she's not a typical figurehead in that she is almost waving at people, yet obviously will never leaving that spot. Do we look at her as a pure figurehead that just so happens to be Ariel?, or is it Ariel welcoming us to the ride?

In terms of using a shipwreck for this pre-show scene, in my mind it would be like staging Mr. Toad in an auto-collision, while he waves at guests! Some people might describe that as gruesome, staging Toad in a car accident . . .
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Who says she's nailed or glued?

I think she was created by Gepetto as a tribute to Ariel and has come to life like Pinocchio! She can swim away as she pleases, but as a figurehead, her home is the front of the ship and she's happiest there.

Or, maybe it's an old ship of Eric's and he put the figurehead of Ariel on his boat so that he'd always have her with him when he was sailing.

Point is, everything like this is subjective and you can look at these things in a million ways.
 

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