Well, here it is; my third installment to the Forgotten Mermaids series of articles! It's been so very very long since the last one, but I had forgotten my password and was having trouble changing it the last time I tried; but now I'm back! :D So yeah, here I am to do another mermaid article, this one about Ariel. Now I know that she's not a forgotten mermaid in any way shape or form, but I'm not here to talk about her well-known movies and the TV series; I'm here to talk about the dolls that were released throughout the '90s by a company called Tyco!

Now I'm just throwing this out there right now, there's no way I'm gonna cover all of them. I mean...LOOK AT 'EM!!!



Somethings I would like to point out now to keep from repeating myself is that all the Ariel dolls are, according to the commercials, safe to fully submerge in water. Each Ariel doll seems to use the same mold as Barbie's little sister Skipper. All of them also, with the exception of maybe 2, have removable fins and can be dressed in seperately purchased "fashion fins" such as this:

Another thing I loved about these dolls aside from how unique each one was, was the commericals themselves. With the exception of the first few, each commercial featured Jodi Benson, the voice actress behind the undersea beauty. Each one started with her singing like so, "Ah ah a~h Arie~l!" Loved it so much!