The Little Mermaid (franchise) a meet and greet characters. Ariel appears in "Sofia the First: The Floating Palace", a television special that was aired as part of the series "Sofia the First" and released on Region 1 DVD on November 24, 2013. Disney Comics released a four-issue "The Little Mermaid Limited Series" comic series and two issues of "Sebastian from The Little Mermaid" comics in 1992. Marvel Comics released its own title, "Disney's The Little Mermaid" in 1994, which ran for twelve issues. All the comics are prequels to the film, and feature Ariel still a mermaid living under the sea. A series of
The Little Mermaid a human being. I'm sure that's wrong! It would depend rather much on chance, wouldn't it? I won't accept that sort of thing in this world. I have permitted my mermaid to follow a more natural, more divine path." LGBT historian and writer Rictor Norton and others have described "The Little Mermaid" as an allegory for Andersen's life, based on his love letters to another man. Andersen also sent the original story to his love. A statue of "The Little Mermaid" sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbor in Langelinie. This small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon