Welcome to Daring to Dream, my fansite dedicated to Disney's classic animated flick, The Little Mermaid and its spin-offs. I am Annie D, your resident tourguide.
UPDATES
15 November 2020 : I've added a bunch of scans to the gallery:
Flounder to the Rescue, excerpts ("Villains:
The Wicked Collection", "The World is Yours", "The Disney Villain", "Essential Guide" and "Essential Villain"),
one comic ("Happy to be a Mermaid") and an
activity page. I updated the Expanded
Universe Novels page to include some info about "Part of Your Nightmare", which I've managed to read, plus
another upcoming YA book. For the section on other mermaids, I made a page for
Lu Over the Wall.
19 July 2020 : I've updated the page for ABC's The Little Mermaid
Live! concert with some images and info, and related to that added the lyrics and embeds for the songs of the
production, i.e.: Fathoms Below,
Daughters of Triton,
Part of Your World, Part
of Your World (reprise), Under the Sea,
Poor Unfortunate Souls, Her
Voice, Les Poissons, Kiss
the Girl, If Only and Poor
Unfortunate Souls (reprise). Over in the gallery, I've added scans from another
movie adaptation ("Sebastian's Story"), two
books ("Flounder's Gift" and "Ariel's Wish"), some
excerpts ("Royally Fierce"), one Disney Princess
story, a bunch of activity pages, assorted
Disney Princess colouring pages and other
colouring pages ("Friendship Colouring" and "Classics Colouring"). In the section about Other Mermaids, I've
made pages for Xena: Warrior Princess and
Blue My Mind. On the Expanded Universe
Novels page, I added a mention of "Part of Your Nightmare", but that section is mostly empty since I haven't read
the book yet.
30 November 2019 : Some changes! In order to reduce space and bandwidth usage, I've removed most of the
audio samples over in the music section, replacing them with youtube embeds wherever I can.
14 October 2019 : I've added a whole bunch of scans into the gallery, for two
movie adaptation books ("Animated Classics" and "My First Bedtime Storybook"),
three Lego Princess books ("Lost and Found", "The Friendship Bridge" and "The
Secret Room"), the junior graphic novel "Ariel and the Sea Wolf", and a bunch of
colouring pages from various Princess books and the
Villains Colouring Book. Descendants 3 came out recently, so I've
updated the Descendants page to include that, with some screencaps. Related,
I've included the Descendants 3 soundtrack on the music page, and added lyrics pages for the songs that Uma
performs on, namely: Night Falls, Break This
Down, Dig a Little Deeper and Rotten
to the Core - D3 Remix. I've also preemptively added mentions on the misc page for the
upcoming The Little Mermaid Live! show which will airĀ on ABC in November, plus the upcoming live-action film,
though there are no pages for these media yet.
24 February 2019 : The film has a new release in conjunction with its 30th Anniversary, so I've
updated the movie page to include info about the DVD/Blu-Ray/digital release and its
extras. The group DCappella recovered a cover for this release, so I've added lyrics and audio samples for this
Part of Your World and embedded the accompanying music video on the
videos page. DCappella has also earlier recorded a
Part of Your World/A Whole New World mash-up, so I added the lyrics
and audio sample for that, too. I've made a page for the film Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph
Breaks the Internet, because CGI Ariel makes an appearance in that one. Over in the gallery, I've added scans from
three Lego Princess books, one Princess comic,
and excerpts of The Castle Collection. For the section on other versions of TLM,
I've made a page for the 2018 indie The Little Mermaid, and in the
Other Mermaids section I've made a page for the series Tidelands.
30 September 2018 : A "Twisted Tales" book for The Little Mermaid just came out, so I've made a page
for that and the "Villains" book in Expanded Universe Novels section (wasn't sure
what else to call it, so here we are). I've made a long-overdue update to the characters
page, which now includes as many TV series and prequel characters and their voice actors as I could manage. The
Descendants franchise got a new short with Uma, so I've made a small update to the
Descendants page to include that. Over in the gallery I've added scans from
the books I am Ariel, Dinglehoppers and
Thingamabobs, The Evilest of Them All and some new
colouring pages. In the music section I've added lyrics and audio samples for
Olivia Newton-John's Part of Your World and the
Karaoke Series album. In the Other Mermaids sections there's new pages for
Tangled: The Series, One Piece,
The Legend of the Blue Sea,
H2O: Mermaid Adventures, and
My Fairy Tail Love Story.
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