sotiris2006 wrote:@
Tangled: Do you realize that you just quoted a series of other people's posts without replying yourself? 

 If you want to edit you post there is an "edit" button next to the "quote" button. 
 
I think s/he did reply, but accidentally put it in their quote of Patrick.
I know a lot of people have said Rapunzel is like Ariel, and I agree that the design is similar in style (big eyes), but I still have never found her that similar to Ariel. It's probably some barrier between mediums, but she also comes across shorter than Ariel (though Ariel did seem to switch back and forth throughout 
Mermaid... 

 ). And I know we haven't seen enough to describe her actual 
character, but she seems "younger" in spirit than Ariel. Ariel = teenager. Rapunzel = 11 year old (in spirit)? Which makes sense because, though Ariel was repressed, she roamed relatively freely--maybe against the rules, but she still did. Rapunzel's been trapped in a tower for, what, 15 years? I like Rapunzel, the character (from what we've seen of her), as she is, and that's not Ariel to me. If it were, I would probably just be more annoyed.  
 
 
I dunno, I really hope she doesn't turn out to be an attempt at an Ariel replica, because the original will always win in these cases. (Aurora fans'll probably be more angry after this film than I would be though, because it looks like she's going to become the alpha long-haired blonde of the Disney Princess franchise now).