Mother Gothel that she came back to bring her back to her tower, where she would be "safe and secure." It was then that the mystical rock spikes that resulted in the regrowth of Rapunzel's 70-feet golden hair appear all around her. In addition to the popular Mother Gothel Classic Doll and appearing alongside Rapunzel, Flynn, Pascal and Maximus in the Rapunzel Tangled Figure Play Set, the character's likeness has since been adapted and modified by Disney into a much more glamorous doll for sale alongside several re-imagined Disney villainesses as part of the company's Disney Villains Designer Collection, released in 2012.
Mother Gothel dismissing her as a weaker, less intimidating Disney villainess than Maleficent from "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) and Cruella de Vil from "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1961). Walt Disney himself first attempted to adapt the fairy tale "Rapunzel" into a feature-length animated film during the 1940s. However, the filmmaker's efforts were never fully realized because the fairy tale was considered too "small". In 2008, co-directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard decided to enlarge the film's scale in order to transform it into a "big event" in order for it to be successful. Meanwhile, the character Mother Gothel was developed into a