The creation and regulation of the franchise are interesting in terms of which characters have been promoted to Princess and which have been given probation, then fired. Alice seems to be a borderline guest star, the Princesses' gal-pal, despite havi ...
as an afterthought, the Princess franchise is also an interesting example of transworld, cross-universe fiction-- if you include the marginal princess characters, it assumes a world where (Baum's) Tinkerbell and (Carroll's) Alice co-exist alongs ...
Isn't the franchise just incorporating and branding something that was already there? Mooney explains the origins of the Disney Princess line in terms of making money out of an existing trend: he saw loads of little girls dressed as generic little pr ...
The sight of a Mint-on-Card figure, trapped, as Raiford says, as if in amber within its plastic bubble, always has a particularly poignant connotation for me. It recalls, fittingly, an image from the franchise that launched this kind of toy: Han Solo enca ...
I was reminded today when talking to a journalist about Star Wars that the whole beaten-up, used-universe aesthetic of the original trilogy totally contradicts the Mint-on-Card appearance of pristine toys. (Again, echoing the contrast between the painfull ...
As commenter
The creation and regulation
as an afterthought, the
Isn't the franchise just
The sight of a Mint-on-Card
I was reminded today when
Pages