Mattel will have the global licensing rights to develop lines of toys for Disney Consumer Products, Games and Publishing, including fashion dolls, small dolls, and figures. The collection is expected to launch at retailers around the globe at the beginning of 2023.

Snow White 1937: Snow White Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, debuting the very first Disney princess with Snow White herself.

Toy company Mattel has won back the licensing rights for Disney's princess and “Frozen” franchises. The reunion comes after Hasbro bested the rights for the “Frozen” and princess products away from Mattel in 2014. Disney released “Frozen” in movie theaters in November 2013, and it became an instant success.

Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella take place in France. Sleeping Beauty is not set in England, they just gave Aurora a British accent.

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Mattel originally lost the Disney Princess license by making too many cheap, low quality dolls. But their 2023 lineup has the same problems as Hasbro; molded tops, little articulation, not movie-accurate. How did Mattel get away with it? They literally JUST got the license back.

Raya In August 2022, Raya from the film “Raya and the Last Dragon” was announced as the 13th official Disney Princess.

Tiana Tiana is recognized for being Disney's first African American princess. As the film's writers and directors, Clements and Musker claim that their decision to depict Tiana as an African American young woman came naturally simply as a result of the location in which the story takes place.

In 2014, Mattel lost the Disney princess contract shortly after launching a toy line called Ever After High, which included public-domain versions of princess dolls that overlapped with Disney's characters, including Cinderella and Snow White. Hasbro started selling Disney's princess dolls in 2016.

2016 After years of making the Disney dolls that brought in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, Mattel lost the license in 2016 to its chief rival, Hasbro.

Neuschwanstein castle is a fairy tale-like castle in the German Alps that inspired Walt Disney to create Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland. The castle's interior - which includes a salon, music hall, and study - is adorned with the original owner's favorite music and poetry.

"Sleeping Beauty" (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome ...

In 2022, Mattel's doll segment had gross sales amounting to about two billion U.S. dollars. The company had net sales of approximately 5.4 billion U.S. dollars globally that year. Barbie and Hot Wheels are two of Mattel's biggest brands.

The Barbie doll The Barbie doll debuted on March 9, 1959, going on to become the company's best-selling toy in history.

“The problems are most likely much deeper than we had imagined.” Mattel's difficulties stem from two sources: lead paint and small magnets. On August 2, the company announced a recall of approximately 1.5 million Fisher-Price toys that contain lead paint - including Ernie, Elmo, Dora the Explorer and Big Bird.

The reasons for removing Tinker Bell and Esmeralda from the Disney Princesses franchise might seem obvious as they weren't born nor married royal and they weren't the leads of their movies, but they actually go beyond that.