Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) the movie, Enchanted Dominion, and characters who appear are Princess Aurora/Briar Rose, Maleficent, Maleficent's goons, the three faires and Prince Phillip, the latter serving as temporary party member for Aqua during her battle against Maleficent and her henchmen. Maleficent will return in "Kingdom Hearts III". Aurora is also a playable character in the game "Disney Princess". "Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Game" (1958) is a Parker Brothers children's board game for two to four players based upon "Sleeping Beauty". The object of the game is to be the first player holding three different picture cards to reach the castle and the
Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) preceding three Disney animated features: "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan", and "Lady and the Tramp". The high production costs of "Sleeping Beauty", coupled with the underperformance of much of the rest of Disney's 1959–1960 release slate, resulted in the company posting its first annual loss in a decade for fiscal year 1960, and there were massive lay-offs throughout the animation department. Like "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), which was not initially successful either, "Sleeping Beauty" was never re-released theatrically in Walt Disney's lifetime. However, it had many re-releases in theaters over the decades. The film was re-released theatrically in 1970, where