We all adore Rapunzel because she is fun, resourceful and talented, plus cute. Today I am sharing some fun facts about her Rapunzel and her movie, " Tangled".
FACTS
1- The movie "Tangled" was Disney's 50'th animated feature film. Rapunzel is also the first digital animated feature princess.
2- The idea to create Rapunzel starting the late 1930s Rapunzel was originally one of the stories to be considered after the release of Snow White.
3- Rapunzel is the first Disney Princess to have magical powers.
4- Rapunzel's hair is 70 feet long, with over 100,000 strands. The height of Rapunzel's tower was based on Rapunzel's hair.
5- Nor any Disney character have hair longer then Rapunzel.
6- Originally, Flynn's name was going to be Bastion. And, he was gonna be shaped like the Stabbington Brothers.
7- The original designs for Pascal were gonna be purple and blue, but the animators decided to go with green because it matched the best with Rapunzel's hair and clothes.
8- "Tangled" 's Animation Director Glenn Keane originally wanted a squirrel. But head of story, Mark Kennedy thought that Rapunzel needed something different for a sidekick.
9- Rapunzel is the only official princess to have green eyes. All the others have brown or blue eyes. Pascal matches her eyes good.
10- Rapunzel's outfit was inspired by a number of European Countries from the medieval period to the early 19th century. Her dress is the milkmaid style with a hint of whimsy. Embroidery on her dress isn't perfect, that shows that Rapunzel did it by herself. Rapunzel's wearing purple, which is the color of royalty. Purple is a royal color because it was extremely rare in back Roman empire days. A marine snail would secrete toxic mucus and that is how they got the Tyrian purple.
11- Mother Gothel's dress is prior to Rapunzel's time. İf you notice, she is the only woman wearing a bell sleeve, loose fitted dress throughout the entire movie.
12- Animation Director Glenn Keane's daughter artist Claire Keane designed and painted the arts that's on Rapunzel's walls. Glen drew inspiration for Rapunzel when Claire was just a little girl. İf you look closely at Rapunzel's walls, you can see the art starts off childlike to portray when Rapunzel first started drawing and then it progressed to some more detailed art. İt shows Rapunzel's growth.
13- Rapunzel paints on the last avaliable wall in the tower in her picture that she watches the lanterns. That symbolize that there is nothing left for her there. İt was time for Rapunzel to go outside and paint the whole town.
14- Rapunzel plays the electric guitar that isn't exist in that period.
15- Rapunzel is the Disney Character that has soo many hobbies, she is the most talented Disney Princess. She plays the guitar, knits, reads, plays darts and chess, solves puzzles, makes candles and pottery she is a ventriloquist and she loves to paint.
16- " Tangled" has the largest crowd Walt Disney Studios created to a CG future. The Disney Effects team created a crowd of nearly 3000 people. The Tangled animated cast includes a number of five main characters, 21 people from the bar scene and 38 townspeople.
17- Rapunzel made a short appearance in the movie "Frozen" during the scene that Anna opened gates and sang her song. She had short hair and Pascal on her shoulder, and she also had Flynn near her.
18- Rapunzel was barefoot throughout the entire movie.
19- İf you look closer at Rapunzel's cradle, you can see a horse representing Maximus, a chameleon for Rapunzel's sidekick Pascal, a duck for the snuggly duckling tavern, an angel for the man who is dressed as cupid at tavern and a blue bird for the blue birds that fly around Rapunzel when she leaves the tower for the first time, spoiler alert!
( Which fact did you like the most?)
FACTS
1- The movie "Tangled" was Disney's 50'th animated feature film. Rapunzel is also the first digital animated feature princess.
2- The idea to create Rapunzel starting the late 1930s Rapunzel was originally one of the stories to be considered after the release of Snow White.
3- Rapunzel is the first Disney Princess to have magical powers.
4- Rapunzel's hair is 70 feet long, with over 100,000 strands. The height of Rapunzel's tower was based on Rapunzel's hair.
5- Nor any Disney character have hair longer then Rapunzel.
6- Originally, Flynn's name was going to be Bastion. And, he was gonna be shaped like the Stabbington Brothers.
7- The original designs for Pascal were gonna be purple and blue, but the animators decided to go with green because it matched the best with Rapunzel's hair and clothes.
8- "Tangled" 's Animation Director Glenn Keane originally wanted a squirrel. But head of story, Mark Kennedy thought that Rapunzel needed something different for a sidekick.
9- Rapunzel is the only official princess to have green eyes. All the others have brown or blue eyes. Pascal matches her eyes good.
10- Rapunzel's outfit was inspired by a number of European Countries from the medieval period to the early 19th century. Her dress is the milkmaid style with a hint of whimsy. Embroidery on her dress isn't perfect, that shows that Rapunzel did it by herself. Rapunzel's wearing purple, which is the color of royalty. Purple is a royal color because it was extremely rare in back Roman empire days. A marine snail would secrete toxic mucus and that is how they got the Tyrian purple.
11- Mother Gothel's dress is prior to Rapunzel's time. İf you notice, she is the only woman wearing a bell sleeve, loose fitted dress throughout the entire movie.
12- Animation Director Glenn Keane's daughter artist Claire Keane designed and painted the arts that's on Rapunzel's walls. Glen drew inspiration for Rapunzel when Claire was just a little girl. İf you look closely at Rapunzel's walls, you can see the art starts off childlike to portray when Rapunzel first started drawing and then it progressed to some more detailed art. İt shows Rapunzel's growth.
13- Rapunzel paints on the last avaliable wall in the tower in her picture that she watches the lanterns. That symbolize that there is nothing left for her there. İt was time for Rapunzel to go outside and paint the whole town.
14- Rapunzel plays the electric guitar that isn't exist in that period.
15- Rapunzel is the Disney Character that has soo many hobbies, she is the most talented Disney Princess. She plays the guitar, knits, reads, plays darts and chess, solves puzzles, makes candles and pottery she is a ventriloquist and she loves to paint.
16- " Tangled" has the largest crowd Walt Disney Studios created to a CG future. The Disney Effects team created a crowd of nearly 3000 people. The Tangled animated cast includes a number of five main characters, 21 people from the bar scene and 38 townspeople.
17- Rapunzel made a short appearance in the movie "Frozen" during the scene that Anna opened gates and sang her song. She had short hair and Pascal on her shoulder, and she also had Flynn near her.
18- Rapunzel was barefoot throughout the entire movie.
19- İf you look closer at Rapunzel's cradle, you can see a horse representing Maximus, a chameleon for Rapunzel's sidekick Pascal, a duck for the snuggly duckling tavern, an angel for the man who is dressed as cupid at tavern and a blue bird for the blue birds that fly around Rapunzel when she leaves the tower for the first time, spoiler alert!
( Which fact did you like the most?)
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My ranking of the Disney Princesses has changed a lot over the years, but this is my current ranking for 2019.