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					Originally Posted by Charlatan  Those who voted for SImba should know that Disney ripped off Kimba the White Lion .
 
But as others have pointed out... anyone knows it's Ariel. |  So everyone should be okay with Disney's "ripoff" of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" ?    
Would iconic  require the character to be more original? Or is it merely a popularity thing?
 
I withhold my vote until further clarification.
 
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					Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
					
				 She's older than Aladdin, by the way. |  Actually, if you go to each respective source, Aladdin is as old as 1,100 or 1,200, whereas Ariel is only 172.
Belle  is 269.
				__________________Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
 —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
 
 Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
 —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
 
				 Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 01-11-2009 at 06:48 AM..
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