{"id":33012,"date":"2014-04-02T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33012"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:24:54","slug":"fan-theory-frozen-tangled-and-little-mermaid-all-share-same-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/02\/fan-theory-frozen-tangled-and-little-mermaid-all-share-same-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Theory: FROZEN, TANGLED And LITTLE MERMAID All Share Same Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FrozenTangledMermaid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33103\" alt=\"FrozenTangledMermaid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FrozenTangledMermaid.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FrozenTangledMermaid.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FrozenTangledMermaid-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may remember, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/21\/want-to-see-john-mcclane-fight-a-predator-on-a-speeding-bus-its-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we do love to find links<\/a> in movies that suggest that they are part of a larger, shared universe, so this theory that has popped up over the weekend linking three Disney films &#8211; <strong>The Little Mermaid<\/strong>, <strong>Tangled<\/strong> and <strong>Frozen<\/strong> &#8211; caught our fancy.<\/p>\n<p>It starts off with a little easter egg that Frozen&#8217;s animators dropped in that references Disney&#8217;s last film Tangled. Notice that the two royal guests arriving at the palace in <strong>Frozen<\/strong> for Elas&#8217;s assumption of the throne? That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s <strong>Tangled<\/strong>&#8216;s Rapunzel and Eugene. Now why would they be showing up at the palace for Elsa&#8217;s ceremony?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33097\" alt=\"TangledFrozen1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen1-550x285.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So why would these two characters be showing up? That&#8217;s the question taken up by some folks over at first Pintrest and then <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220617102939\/https:\/\/ercmreh.tumblr.com\/post\/79379027620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumbler<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33098\" alt=\"TangledFrozen2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen2-550x618.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33099\" alt=\"TangledFrozen3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen3-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33101\" alt=\"TangledFrozen4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen4.jpg\" width=\"502\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen4.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TangledFrozen4-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So in essence, while <strong>The Little Mermaid<\/strong> was produced some 20 years earlier, the sunken boat that Ariel explores in her film has been ret-conned to be the same one that Elsa and Anna&#8217;s parents were lost on when it sank in a storm.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ryanhatesthis\/an-insane-fan-theory-that-would-put-frozen-tangled-and-the-l?bffb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BuzzFeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">How three princesses&#8217; lives intersect.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/02\/fan-theory-frozen-tangled-and-little-mermaid-all-share-same-universe\/\" title=\"Fan Theory: FROZEN, TANGLED And LITTLE MERMAID All Share Same Universe\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1695],"tags":[5293,3277,750],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"tag-frozen","9":"tag-tangled","10":"tag-the-little-mermaid"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33012"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}