User blog comment:NibiruMul/Rejected Disney Fairy Tale Movies/@comment-32240138-20170717151754/@comment-4598697-20170717163129

I agree.

I thought it would be cool if we had a Little Red Riding Hood movie from Disney. That story doesn't have many straight animated adaptations (by straight adaptations, I mean ones that keep the spirit of the original story rather than being satirical, deconstructive, etc.

I think an animated Sinbad from Disney would have been cool. I really didn't like the animated Sinbad from Dreamworks because they changed it into a Greek mythological setting. (What's even more unfortunate is that that was the first time I heard the name Sinbad. It wasn't until a few years later that I realized that Sinbad was from the Arabian Nights.)

Back in the 30s, animation wasn't specifically associated for kids, so I think a Little Mermaid movie with the original sad ending could have worked back then. There's an anime movie of The Little Mermaid made by Toei in the 70s that had the original ending. In the English dub, the mermaid was voiced by Kirsten Bishopric, who would later voice many of the villains in the original English dub of Sailor Moon. I read somewhere that it was an influence on Disney's version. Notably, it was the first adaptation to give the mermaid a sidekick - in this case a dolphin named Fritz, who was voiced by Kirsten Bishopric's twin brother Thor in the English dub. My mom remembers seeing it when she was a kid. The movie is available on YouTube.