I'm sad I'll most likely never meet Jodi Benson or Pat Carroll. "Meeting" Ariel at Disney World was one of my favorite parts of the visit. It's too bad they can't make Ursula a meet-and-greet character like most of the other villains.DisneyJedi wrote: Another fond TLM-related memory I have is meeting the voice of Ariel herself, Jodi Benson. I was there in Disney World for the New Fantasyland unveiling and I spent what I think was an hour looking for her, giving up and then finding her. She let me get a picture with her and I let her know that she was such an inspiration to me and she told me I was such a blessing.
@DDuster: Oh, no, my bad, I mistyped. My aunt and my grandmother went to see it.
(thinking about the doll that sounded suspiciously NOT like her at a recent toy event).
My parents did take me to see the film around Thanksgiving, and my dad was quick to say that it "wasn't as good as the ones Walt made." I was getting weekly allergy shots at the time, and I remember one of the magazines at my doctor's office, maybe Family Circle, had a page of the characters to cut out as Christmas ornaments, and I ripped it out and took it home so I could try drawing Ariel. 
The morning after Thanksgiving, I pulled out the ornament page I had stashed away and was working on my very first drawing of her. In the middle of coloring it, I saw my uncle walking into our driveway with a strange man. I told my mom we had company, and when she glanced out the window she started crying.
