2014 Designer Dolls - Fairytale Collection Part II
My speculations:
2014 will continue the Designer Fairytale Couples. I think they will complete it with the remaining five princesses from the original 10 with their man cakes:
-Cinderella and Charming
-Aurora and Phillip
-Pocahontas and Johnny Boy
-Mulan and Shang
-Tiana and Naveen
I don't think Anna and Kristoff will be included because they are "too new," and excluding only one or two of the old princesses would be very odd and annoying to me. I don't know when Anna and Elsa are being crowned as official princesses but it probably won't be until Summer (that seems to be the time to do it), and it would be too short of notice for them to be in the doll line. Just my personal opinion.
2015 I think will be heroines as well. I hypothesize the line up to be a smaller one, and consist of:
-Merida
-Anna
-Elsa
-Megara
-Esmeralda
and either Kida or Jane (but these are stretches IMO).
I think they will certainly capitalize on their three newest princesses, but leave out the couples aspect for Anna, simply because I don't think he is going to be well enough known yet. And, I think it would be cooler if they ran with the sister theme and let them just be together (Anna and Elsa), with no dudes. Merida is an obvious must. And I pick Megara and Esmeralda because their films are more widely known/well-recepted I think than Atlantis (for certain), and Tarzan is a weird one (like, everyone knows it, but they don't remember everything about it).
If they are ever to make Designer Alice, Vanellope, Wendy, etc, I think it would have to be in a "Storybook Children" line or something like that (instead of Fairytale Couples...just keep changing the name around). I don't see them using the words Fairytale or Designer with children really, but I assume it will be something of that nature. They would have to be in a line of their own, although I just simply don't see it happening.
Just my thoughts! I've though about the upcoming lines a lot, and studying Disney's merchandizing history, this seems to be the conclusion I've reached.
If they did designer couples again I doubt they would do Krsitoff and Anna. The whole point of the movie was about family love, not couple love, and I agree she will be too new to the line-up. I think they will stick to the original designer 10 princess and finish up the couples if they go that route but perhaps include Anna and Kristoff as a "bonus" while not excluding any others. It could make sense since technically there are six sets that were released this year with the variant Snow White. We could possibly see Anna and Elsa in a heroine line which I think would be good for the D23 year and it would most likely be Elsa with the variant. Other heroines I see being included are Meg, Merida, Alice, and possibly Kida. The reason I feel they won't save the couples round two for D23 is that it might be weird to have two couple variants and poor silver Cinderella by herself.
My speculations:
2014 will continue the Designer Fairytale Couples. I think they will complete it with the remaining five princesses from the original 10 with their man cakes:
-Cinderella and Charming
-Aurora and Phillip
-Pocahontas and Johnny Boy
-Mulan and Shang
-Tiana and Naveen
I don't think Anna and Kristoff will be included because they are "too new," and excluding only one or two of the old princesses would be very odd and annoying to me. I don't know when Anna and Elsa are being crowned as official princesses but it probably won't be until Summer (that seems to be the time to do it), and it would be too short of notice for them to be in the doll line. Just my personal opinion.
2015 I think will be heroines as well. I hypothesize the line up to be a smaller one, and consist of:
-Merida
-Anna
-Elsa
-Megara
-Esmeralda
and either Kida or Jane (but these are stretches IMO).
I think they will certainly capitalize on their three newest princesses, but leave out the couples aspect for Anna, simply because I don't think he is going to be well enough known yet. And, I think it would be cooler if they ran with the sister theme and let them just be together (Anna and Elsa), with no dudes. Merida is an obvious must. And I pick Megara and Esmeralda because their films are more widely known/well-recepted I think than Atlantis (for certain), and Tarzan is a weird one (like, everyone knows it, but they don't remember everything about it).
If they are ever to make Designer Alice, Vanellope, Wendy, etc, I think it would have to be in a "Storybook Children" line or something like that (instead of Fairytale Couples...just keep changing the name around). I don't see them using the words Fairytale or Designer with children really, but I assume it will be something of that nature. They would have to be in a line of their own, although I just simply don't see it happening.
Just my thoughts! I've though about the upcoming lines a lot, and studying Disney's merchandizing history, this seems to be the conclusion I've reached.
I'd like the couple set to include Anna and Elsa together.
I agree that the movie was about family love but then that doesnt mean that Anna and Kristoff are not a legitimate couple like the other princesses. By that theory Mulan and Shang would not be a couple because the movie was more about Mulan saving China, her romance with Shang was only a sideline story that really wasnt featured much at all during the movie. Also I don't know why people think it too early for Anna or Elsa to be included in the next designer line, they already know that both girls will become princesses and well I don't know if you guys are forgetting this but Rapunzel was included in the original designer line that was announced around Jul 2011 and the movie Tangled came out in November of 2010 so going by that account that is the same timeframe that Frozen is released and the next Designer line is to be released so I definitely don't think it too early.
I do agree though that it is possible that they may do 6 sets instead of 5 as both Elsa and Merida dont have partners anyway so they would be omitted from the line regardless.
I have been told that the next line has already been confirmed and that it will feature the original 5 princesses that were omitted from the first line which I think will be interesting because as mentioned by ladyroselie they have already released the hard hitting princesses so if they were to release the next 5 princesses I would not be sure who would be the Ariel (most popular) or Belle (considered favourite by most due to design) of this line and it would solely depend on the look of the dolls. If they were to include Anna in this line I think she will be the Ariel of the line in that she would be the most popular and would sell out fast. All the other princesses whilst popular in their own right unless they look exception (like Belle did in this line) then it is unlikely that they will sell as fast as Ariel did this year.
I definitely think that everyone has raised some good points so far and do agree Disney does need to try feature some of their other characters in their designer line, especially if they want to continue the designer series in the future.
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