Where does it take place?
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otness_e — 11 years ago(October 30, 2014 09:32 PM)
Because Grimsby had decided to use it as a birthday present instead.
Except he made clear he intended for it to be used at the wedding.
Wrong, a cameo can certainly impact the plot, especially when it comes to tv shows.
No, it cannot impact the plot. What you are referring to are guest appearances, which do require some impact on the plot of a TV show. Cameos don't impact the plot, certainly not in a very major way.
Why do you assume he went by ship? Why do you assume he didn't meet the princess at an event in another country?
Considering they were talking about it while ON the ship, and it was implied to be fairly recent, that's exactly why they'd go there. Besides, Disney Comics apparently showed the event in question, and although I can't say with absolute certainty whether this was the case as I've never read it, I think he did take a ship there.
Erik is actually the more common spelling used in Scandinavia, Eric is used in Germany and England. But as I said, it's a fictional country! And perhaps Eric's mother was foreign and that's how he got that name, who knows. Ariel is a male name, by the way, but that doesn't make Ariel a guy.
Technically, Ariel's a unisex name, so it's not really exclusive of any gender.
And either way, it's intended to be Denmark. Pretty much everything points to it. HCA being present there with the sub he built, not to mention delivered there by Ariel, Atlantica being near Greenland, Glowerhaven, the evidence is all there. So it has some Italian architecture. Big whoop, Adam's castle looked like the Luxembourg castle, yet his movie was explicitly stated to be in France (and based on the geography and other aspects, the Alsace-Lorraine region). -
Stratego — 11 years ago(October 31, 2014 06:34 AM)
Except he made clear he intended for it to be used at the wedding.
You're totally not making sense. Grimsby commissioned the statue for the wedding. When that didn't happen, he decided to bring it along on the boat trip in honour of Eric's birthday and give it to him as a birthday present. Very logical.
Cameos don't impact the plot, certainly not in a very major way.
That's not the definition of a cameo. It's simply a short role of a famous person which may or may not have lines. But I would say that the size of it is relative, there's a difference between a cameo in a movie and on a tv show. But I'm not going to discuss this any further, as it is of no importance to the discussion.
Considering they were talking about it while ON the ship, and it was implied to be fairly recent, that's exactly why they'd go there.
That they were talking about it on the ship implies absolutely nothing, and it wasn't implied to be fairly recent either. It could've been months ago, it was only brought up because Grimsby was still bothered by Eric's rejection of the princess.
Technically, Ariel's a unisex name, so it's not really exclusive of any gender.
Not so, Arielle/a is the female version, that's why her name is Arielle in the German dub. Ariel as a female name is a recent development.
And either way, it's intended to be Denmark. Pretty much everything points to it.
Except that everything doesn't point to Denmark, no matter how much you want it to be so. And again, it's intended to be a fictional country! All you've got is an ridiculous appearance of Andersen in an inconsistent and very bad cartoon series. Big whoop! I already explained how that doesn't imply anything. -
atomicseasoning — 10 years ago(April 20, 2015 01:42 PM)
I really don't knowalthough I've often speculated that it was a European settlement in the Caribbean, hence Sebastian, the palm trees, Spanish moss, weeping willows, & flamingos in Eric's kingdomand the wrecked paddle wheeler that appears in one of the TV show episodes. Although the part about Ariel & co. meeting Hans Christian Andersen in one of the last episodes, plus how quickly Melody reached the Arctic in TLM II, makes me think Europe too, so who knows? lol
Eric & Ariel's hair coloring, makes me think of Celtic people too (Blue-eyed, dark haired Irish boy & his ginger girlfriendbut that's just my idea.
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Andthatismytwocents — 10 years ago(May 19, 2015 10:19 AM)
If not already Mentioned
Submersible veichle was invented in 1775 the Turtle
A product WAY ahead of it's time as it was to be used to destroy Blockades
did not quite work Made by "American" David Bushnell
It would be seventy years or so before Adequate technology would come Mid 1800's and another 50 years or so after that 20th century
Peter David wrote a Little Mermaid comic before the Tv series about someone trying to get Prince Eric to fund the building of a large craft and to prove it works the scientist would bring back something ONLY found in the Ocean
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Tinny-Tinette — 10 years ago(July 18, 2015 11:44 AM)
Not really. Most of the Disney Princess-films takes place in a non-descriptional, European kingdom. Though it's of course open for debate, it's stated several times. In reality it's a pity, since "Mermaid" could've been set in Denmark, actually.
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watcher101 — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 05:58 PM)
It was revealed that this movie DOES take place in Denmark. Norway is to the North, where Frozen takes place, and Tangled takes place in Germany, which is to the south. It's because of this that we got the Easter Egg that the ship Ariel and Flounder explore is the one that Elsa and Anna's parents were on when sailing to attend Rapunzel's coronation or wedding.
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watcher101 — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 12:34 PM)
It was never outright stated, but Disney is very famous for Easter Eggs that connect various movies. It's called the Grand Disney Unification Theory. While this one if unconfirmed, it does make sense, and all the pieces are in the right place, i.e. the location of Frozen, Tangled, and TLM, where Elsa and Anna's ship would have gone down, the design of the ship, etc. The locations each movie takes place in have been confirmed though. And just take a look at this:
http://silverbuller.deviantart.com/art/TLM-Frozen-Tangled-Easter-Egg-468027890
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Some fans think that Elsa and Anna's parents survived and are actually Tarzan's parents, but THAT one is bogus, and doesn't even make sense for many reasons. -
MyMovieTVRomance — 9 years ago(April 03, 2016 02:57 PM)
This connect-the-dots thing must be where the writers of ONCE UPON A TIME got their idea to link all the fairy-tale characters together.
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louiseculmer — 9 years ago(April 18, 2016 12:04 AM)
Every Disney movie doesn't take place in a pArticular place. most of the fairy tale movies are not set in real kingdoms. nor are the original fairy tales on which they are based. most fairy tales are not set in specific countries.
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otness_e — 9 years ago(April 18, 2016 10:17 AM)
I know that at the very least Beauty and the Beast WAS set in a real-world country/kingdom. France. They even explicitly mentioned it by name twice (as if the peppering of various French phrases wasn't enough to hint at it's location). Oh, and probably Mulan, Pocahontas, and The Princess and the Frog as well, those explicitly took place in China, pre-Colonial America (and in the case of the sequel, Great Britain), and New Orleans, Louisiana. If that map in Frozen Fever is to be believed, we probably can safely say that Arendelle is indeed in Norway.
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BelleStar82 — 9 years ago(May 25, 2016 10:49 AM)
The Disney animated films are not supposed to be historical replicas, but there are definite time period and country/cultural influences. Even Pocahontas takes some liberties.
The human world is Danish, but the sea world is Caribbean or tropical waters. Maybe a way of emphasizing two worlds / Ariel fitting into a foreign world.
A Danish colony in the islands that someone said above would make sense though.