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I wasn't born yet, but I watch this movie all the time! I had a VHS tape back in 1997. I still can't watch when Ariel loses her voice, but it's a great film!

7. Didn't see it in theaters, but I loved the McDonald's Happy Meal toys.
   I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?

I was born in 1990

Too young. I was 2 1/2.
However, I did see Beauty in the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, etc in the following few years in the theater. 4 1/2 sounds about right. I have vivid memories of the Be My Guest scene in the theater. It might have been my first.
Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty have long been my favorites, though I have to tip the best musical score to Pinocchio. Ariel is overall my favorite of the Princesses. I had an Ariel lunchbox in kindergarten. I dressed up as Tinker Bell, Belle and Jasmine for Halloween.
I still have all of my old Disney VHS tapes. Collecting them all when the movies came out of the vault was such a big deal.
My dad had Robin Williams on his USAir flight (he was a pilot captain for PSA/USAir/US Airways) back in the early '90s, intended to welcome him aboard his magic carpet, but Robin seemed tired/introverted, so he didn't. My parents had a lot of celebrities on their flights working in the airlines, but Robin was the ultimate for him. R.I.P. I saw 5 of his films in the theater in the '90s.
I was the perfect age for the best era of Disney animation + VHS, where, for the first time, kids could watch the films over and over and over again. I find the CGI period (the current pop!Broadway sound swamping them also sucks next to Tin Pan Alley and Menken/Ashman) that focuses too much on cutesy kiddie comedy without the dramatic, serious heart of the classics to be another Disney Dark Age. It's just not classic.

Six.it was my favorite movie

I was 10 years old. I saw it once in the theater and of course watched it on VHS. Still one of my favorites!

Wasnt born yet lol but i saw it first when i was 4 11 years after it came out.

Let's see. November of '89. I was 9.

3 - One of the first VHS tapes I ever owned. I even had a Prince Eric doll when I was about 5 or 6.

It came out 6 months before I was born

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I wasn't alive yet.

I wasn't even born yet.

I was born in 1990 so I born yet.
"I hate my life."-Ed Bighead

I was 4. I'm glad I wasn't born 5 - 10 years before 1985 otherwise I'd get annoyed of the film not being released on video for 5 - 10 years after the film's release like most Disney Movies have.
Little fact - I've been reading about Verna Felton who's starred in most Disney Movies and she'd have been 100 when the film came out had she still lived. But I reckon she wouldn't pay attention to what Disney Movies are being released each year had she lived to 100. If you reach 100, would you pay attention to what Disney film is released in your 100th year?

WELL Taking a guess from ages listed here I could be in some cases your father
Mid 20's in 1990 (check my review) and tried to get into entertainment business with a passion
lets just say I have a list of "names".
still one of Disney's better films since Uncle Walt died not the best but deserves more praise then critique it still gets now

I was barely even 1, 2 at the most. We had just moved to Dunwoody after UPS moved its corporate headquarters, Mom was forced to take care of her ailing mom, my aunt and uncle were too busy trying to take care of my cousin to really babysit me, so my grandma suggested to my mom that I watch TLM, with my mom reluctantly doing so since she didn't want the TV as a babysitter especially at my age.
And for the record, it definitely holds up, far better than Beauty and the Beast does. In fact, if anything, unlike Beauty and the Beast, as the years pass, I grow even MORE impressed with Ariel than before, not to mention the plot of the film.

I would have been 5 years old. As far as I can remember, I didn't see it in theaters, Beauty and the Beast being my first theatrical Disney film. But in the end, it doesn't matter when a film came out, The Little Mermaid will forever remain a wonderful and perfect Disney film for me.
"If life is getting you down and needs uplifting, then please come dance with me!"

I was 2. I didn't see it in theaters either but I watched it on VHS all the time as a kid.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

I was 3. I don't really remember watching it in theaters when it first came out either, but I remember watching it on VHS and I saw it in theaters when it rereleased in 1997.