Sleeping Beauty (franchise) Disney Princess franchise. Sleeping Beauty Castle is a fairy tale castle at the center of Disneyland and formerly at Hong Kong Disneyland. It is based on the late-19th century Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany. Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant (English: The Castle of the Sleeping Beauty) is the fairy tale castle at the centre of Disneyland Paris and is a continuation of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Maleficent is one of the main antagonists in the "Kingdom Hearts" video game series, appearing in most videogames. Aurora appears for first time in "Kingdom Hearts" as one of the Seven Princesses
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet harmless to readers. The trilogy is included in the American Library Association's list of "100 most frequently challenged books" of the 1990s, with the term "challenge" defined in American literature as "an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group". Professor Linda Badley of Middle Tennessee State University wrote in her 1996 book "Writing Horror and the Body" on the trilogy, that rewriting the myth of "Sleeping Beauty" as sadomasochistic fantasies enabled Anne Rice to explore "liminal areas of experience that could not be articulated in conventional literature, extant pornography, or politically correct