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I wish I had photshop. Just so I could switch their hair and dresses. They all have the same face. Yes different skin tonew and hair to prove some difference but they all have the same face and same figure. Sure Mulan's eyes are slanted a bit and Jaz and Poca have fuller lips. Sill they all the same. In fact I think Princess T's boobs are smaller than the rest which for some folks that's culturally incorrect. (I'm indifferent as I'm not a ***** or anything like that) It's copypasta at it's worst.



There's a balance. You know how Marvel pretty much model Nick Fury after Sam. Jackson? Well why couldn't Disney pick a famous Black actress let's say Ms. Union or Ms. Basset and model a Princess after them? A nice rounder figure, nice full lips, wavy hair, and almond shaped or cat like eyes would have been acceptable.



Can't find the concept art pictures. Disney has safely made sure they never see the light again. I'm sure they will press charges if they were leaked out as it would cause a big fuss I mean they would have to have sit down with NAACP and all that jazz. I mean it made sense granted at the time she was Princess Manny so yeah her hair was pretty much nappy ( it was kind of like how those babies look on the Proud family had there. You know she had the Mickey Mouse look two big puffs? Her lips were puffy and thick as well. Look she has been pretty much white-wash to appeal to the masses)

As those original prints would have made everyone sick.

I said, Tiana's "features look nothing like Belle's, well, not anymore than any of the other Disney girls." They all look pretty generic but it's it's not like she's singled out as a Belle clone. I'm not saying the others look distinguished, I'm saying Tiana isn't the only one who's generic, they ALL are cookie cutters so it's not "copypasta at it's worst" so much as Disney pumping out yet another Princess-Stormtrooper. And I find it insulting that a black woman drawn right is to have a "rounder" figure. Not all black women are required to have a cup size C and and gigantic butt. I guess I'm not really black now, that explains my lack of sensitivity.



So now it's okay to make a black person as long as it's from the mold of an existing black person society has already deemed acceptable? Ms. Union and Basset are not the only black women. Black people are diverse, too diverse to keep regurgitating the same mold. In fact the ENTIRE human species is so diverse that it's a shame that people keep pumping out the same stale images. Creating characters from thin air is such an exiting process that why should people be forced to pump out an animated Gabriel Union? Sorry, I kind of went on an artist's tangent. Also, the people who mentioned are kind of "older"in comparison to Tiana, so to do that would have created another infuriating young-woman-that-looks-way-older-than-she's-supposed-to-be. Let's try to keep character facts consistent. Also her lips are full, and she has regular black people features. Anyone who confuses her as anything but of sub-Saharan African descent is stupid.
Also now would be a good time to bring up my pet peeve of animated characters who look like real people. I welcome Tiana's generic look compared to if she looked like Angela Basset. I think that if she looked like them, it would take away from her as her own character. Atleast as a Princess-Stormtrooper, with proper characterization, she stands as someone with her own identity, but if whe looked like those real black women, it would be hard to separate her from her real-life duplicate. That's why I had such a hard time watching Kung-Fu Panda, aside from some plot issues (which is another story). With actors you obviously have to look at the actor's real face but in a story with drawn made-up characters there's a break from the same actors being present, if only in appearance. Although I get sick of hearing the same voices so getting someone besides Beyonce to the her voice is also a sigh of relief.







Okay, okay, so you say she's not black enough or whatever, but when they do have her looking black, she looks to pickninny, slavish or whatnot. Afro-textured hair is offensive? You have most exquisitely ran your entire argument into the ground. Why would her having nappy hair make the character design offensive? Most black people have afro-textured hair. Excuse me while I make a correction to your post:


The bottom line is that if you are anyone else has a problem with her hair being "too nappy" then you need to ask yourself why that is. And what's wrong with Mickey Mouse-like puffs. And you thought I'd get offended. Why in the world do black people think that stuff like that is pick-ninny like? is it because you think it infantilzes her (thus giving her automatic pic-ninny status), or is it just too slave-like? That's all the unenlightened, plaits-wearing little pic-ninny has say in this post or it will just tail-spin out of control and get on all kinds of tangents.

Hmm I just watch some in-depth Previews and it seems like they are breakin' the pattern a bit: seems like Princess T doesn't wait for her Prince to come to her, she goes to him, as she busy trying to start her own business, and she gets turned into a frog to boot. If all that's true kudos to Disney for using this opportunity to change some things around.

Like I said we will have better opinions once this movie is officially releases.

I finally saw it today. I liked it.

Original Princess "Maddy"

Still called "Maddy"

A revised concept for "Maddy"
And finally princess Tiana

These are actually pretty awesome! Like I feel like it adds more character and soul, and is really the median people were looking for. Granted if people really were that into it, they could change the name, just because it is 1950s -ish, unless it took place in that time period (idk I did not see it) but I never saw the problem. Its a movie you either watch it, or you do something else.

If the rest of the princes actually come from somewhere (Europe, China, etc) why couldn't we have an African prince? *disappointed*