Mulan's new look

Bocabear

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Wait a minute...the person in the pictures of Mulan is different. How can Mulan be two different people....oh the horror!!!

Anyway - I think the changes are nice. When my 2 year old daughter (or any other child) wants to see Mulan or Pocohontas, she's not going to be pointing out the things that have been mentioned on the previous pages. She's just going to be happy to meet, hug and get a picture with them.
The problem I guess will come when these get so off model that your child is hugging a slightly asian Cinderella or a red curley haired Belle... Once the actual identities start changing it will become more difficult to identify who is who... or maybe it doesn't matter as long as they are in a pretty dress...
 

FerretAfros

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This is a picture of a royal wedding in Brunei, a country in Asia. What has it got to do with Jasmines costume?
Not sure. But in all fairness, what does Jasmine have to do with Morocco, where she is most frequently found in WDW?

The fictional kingdom of Agrabah is presumably located in the Middle East. At roughly 4,200 miles, Brunei is only slightly farther away from the Middle East than Morocco, which is about ~3,700 miles away. Jasmine would be closer to home in the Italy (~2,500mi), Germany (~3,000mi), Norway (~3,000mi), France (~3,200mi) or UK (~3,500mi) pavilions than where her permanent M&G is setup

Not to get too off track, but that's possibly my biggest pet peeve in WDW
 

FigmentForver96

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The problem I guess will come when these get so off model that your child is hugging a slightly asian Cinderella or a red curley haired Belle... Once the actual identities start changing it will become more difficult to identify who is who... or maybe it doesn't matter as long as they are in a pretty dress...
That's being a tad extreme...yea the dress is different but the skin color of enthicity of the princess won't change simply to make more money. The outcry would be horrific.
 

Phineas

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Okay, seriously-what is so difficult about dressing her in her casual attire? You can even have her hold the cricket cage and incorporate sound/movement into it.
Mulan_disney.png

The new costume is very nice, but she looks like a well-to-do, posh Chinese woman, not Mulan.
Especially if she's relegated to the China Pavilion, she'll blend right in with her similarly-dressed cast members.
 
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Bocabear

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That's being a tad extreme...yea the dress is different but the skin color of enthicity of the princess won't change simply to make more money. The outcry would be horrific.
really? clearly there are people that don't care as long as their child gets a hug from someone vaguely resembling a character they know...Seriously why can they not just keep it on model with the character they are emulating? A full ballroom skirt was not part of the original character's dress... It is just drifting off point...and you know that is how it happens... by degrees... Skirts a different color and shape, then hair style changes, then makeup, then the entire character no longer really resembles who they are supposed to be... If you put Belle in a Green Ball gown with a different hair style, would anyone know who she was? Wouldnt they think she was one of Cinderella's sisters?
This Mulan dress looks like nothing seen or used before...the only thing that identifies her as Mulan is the fact she is asian...
 

brb1006

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Okay, seriously-what is so difficult about dressing her in her casual attire? You can even have her hold the cricket cage and incorporate sound/movement into it.
Mulan_disney.png

The new costume is very nice, but she looks like a well-to-do, posh Chinese woman, not Mulan.
Especially if she's relegated to the China Pavilion, she'll blend right in with her similarly-dressed cast members.
I'm surprised that never been thought of before. I'm imagining the cricket cage to work similar to how the cage Tinkerbell was in for the "Share A Dream Come True" Parade.
 

MississippiBelle

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I'm not sure, but based on the descriptions and the fact that Hong Kong Disneyland has a similar Jasmine outfit in one of their shows, I believe these are their redesigns.

The amount of Jasmine's skin that was showing was distracting to the men who had to work around her. I'm so glad they covered her up. Now we just need to re-do the movie! :rolleyes:

I agree that I wish we had casual Mulan or Ping in the parks. The first part of the movie was entirely dedicated to her not feeling like herself all made up and in formal attire. Also, just nit picking, was she actually a princess in the movie? I know she's always been marketed with the other actual princesses, but she really fits in with the other (awesome) female "non-princess" characters.
 

Matt_Black

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The amount of Jasmine's skin that was showing was distracting to the men who had to work around her. I'm so glad they covered her up. Now we just need to re-do the movie! :rolleyes:

I agree that I wish we had casual Mulan or Ping in the parks. The first part of the movie was entirely dedicated to her not feeling like herself all made up and in formal attire. Also, just nit picking, was she actually a princess in the movie? I know she's always been marketed with the other actual princesses, but she really fits in with the other (awesome) female "non-princess" characters.

She blew up Shan-Yu. YOU tell her she's not a princess.
 

Pleakley

Active Member
I'm surprised that never been thought of before. I'm imagining the cricket cage to work similar to how the cage Tinkerbell was in for the "Share A Dream Come True" Parade.

I agree I think it's a great idea. If they're going to bill these meet n greets as "attractions", they really ought to be adding some extra touches.

I'm not a fan of the new dress, I agree that it looks too much like a ball gown. It's just too off story for me. The notion that small children won't notice just contributes to the whole dumbing down of the parks. I know I'm personally more likely to get in the character line if they look really fabulous/authentic.
 

FigmentForver96

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really? clearly there are people that don't care as long as their child gets a hug from someone vaguely resembling a character they know...Seriously why can they not just keep it on model with the character they are emulating? A full ballroom skirt was not part of the original character's dress... It is just drifting off point...and you know that is how it happens... by degrees... Skirts a different color and shape, then hair style changes, then makeup, then the entire character no longer really resembles who they are supposed to be... If you put Belle in a Green Ball gown with a different hair style, would anyone know who she was? Wouldnt they think she was one of Cinderella's sisters?
This Mulan dress looks like nothing seen or used before...the only thing that identifies her as Mulan is the fact she is asian...
Dress is one thing...which I do not foresee them changing most of the major princesses to much. I honestly believe they changed Mulan's outfit to be more of a gown like the other princesses. Right? Wrong? You decide but that is clearly what they are doing. But as far as hair color, skin color those things....they are not going to change them not even by degrees. Saying that is just being dramatic.
 

matt9112

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Mulan's outfit looks good. Not unlike what she wore at the very end of the movie. Pocahontas looks good, too; her old outfit, while true to the movie, had a bit of a Wilma Flintstone vibe in real life.

It seems like most of the new costumes for the Princesses are trying to go for a bit of verisimilitude- if these were actual flesh & blood people, is this something that would look plausible? To go back to the Aurora dress, as there was a bit of a kerfuffle about that here, the original dress looked exactly like what it was- a costume. The new dress looks like something someone could conceivably wear to a fancy dress ball.



So your saying its wrong to want a fake animated character to look like the fake animated character and you prefer they make them more life like even though they are from animated film? Thats like me wanting to get hurt at the bottom of spalsh mountain because you probably would if you rod a log down a real waterfall....
 

Matt_Black

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So your saying its wrong to want a fake animated character to look like the fake animated character and you prefer they make them more life like even though they are from animated film? Thats like me wanting to get hurt at the bottom of spalsh mountain because you probably would if you rod a log down a real waterfall....

To kids, these aren't fake characters. They're real.
 

MagicHappens1971

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So your saying its wrong to want a fake animated character to look like the fake animated character and you prefer they make them more life like even though they are from animated film? Thats like me wanting to get hurt at the bottom of spalsh mountain because you probably would if you rod a log down a real waterfall....
:banghead::banghead:
 

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