Disney Descendants Obsession!

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Since the Dis­ney Chan­nel began pro­mot­ing the release of their newest orig­i­nal movie, Descen­dants, my daugh­ter, Anabelle and I had been count­ing down the days to the big debut on July 31st! The Dis­ney vil­lains have increas­ing­ly grown in pop­u­lar­i­ty in the recent years and we were excit­ed to see this par­tic­u­lar take on their off­spring. With the focus on the chil­dren of the clas­sic char­ac­ters of the Evil Queen from Snow White, Malef­i­cent from Sleep­ing Beau­ty, Cruel­la de Vil from 101 Dal­ma­tions and Jafar from Aladdin, it got us think­ing: which is our favorite villain?!

From that par­tic­u­lar group, I would say that it would come down to either the Evil Queen or Malef­i­cent. On a recent trip to Dis­ney­land, we ran into the Evil Queen, who, as you can see, did­n’t seem to be excep­tion­al­ly thrilled to take a pic­ture with Anabelle! Lol! But it was actu­al­ly rather fun­ny watch­ing her react with the dif­fer­ent guests, roll her eyes and dish out snarky remarks! I actu­al­ly com­ment­ed to the fam­i­ly that it would be an super fun char­ac­ter to play… espe­cial­ly if you’re hav­ing a bad day! 😉

That being said, our favorite vil­lain of the bunch is actu­al­ly Malef­i­cent! Her horns alone make her pret­ty frickin’ cool! But we also real­ly, real­ly liked the Malef­i­cent movie released last year and its dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive on the sto­ry. I per­son­al­ly love the dif­fer­ent points of view and the reminder that there are always two sides to a sto­ry and the need to take it all in pri­or to mak­ing judg­ments. It’s not always all black and white, right?! When we first watched the film in the the­aters, they were hand­ing out paper horns to cel­e­brate the release. We then upgrad­ed to some fanci­er horns we pur­chased at the Dis­ney­land park!

It was fit­ting that Malef­i­cent turned out to be our favorite since her daugh­ter, Mal, in the Descen­dants movie end­ed up being my daugh­ter’s favorite char­ac­ter! As do many of her friends, Anabelle just adores role play­ing and singing and danc­ing these days and this film pro­vid­ed plen­ty of inspi­ra­tion for all three! After the release, she print­ed out the lyrics to one of the main songs, Rot­ten to the Core, and has been singing it non-stop. We also record­ed the movie on our DVR, but we want­ed a portable option, so we decid­ed to get it on DVD.

We head­ed to Wal­mart to pick up the Descen­dants DVD… then found the CD close by… then nat­u­ral­ly, some­how end­ed up in the toy aisle! I fig­ured instead of fast for­ward­ing the DVD to the songs when she want­ed to sing and dance, pick­ing up the sound­track would prob­a­bly be eas­i­er. And the doll… well, the doll was just extra because she is sim­ply OBSESSED! I actu­al­ly was impressed with the fig­ure because her clothes were super cute {there is a focus on fash­ion in the film} and I par­tic­u­lar­ly like the poseable limbs and hands. All of the prod­ucts are obvi­ous­ly super pop­u­lar, as the assort­ment seemed to be dwin­dling quick­ly! As soon as we returned home, the doll was out of the box, movie was in and the trans­for­ma­tion took place with the help of some pur­ple hair chalk!

We also picked up an adorable pur­ple and pink plaid dress at Wal­mart that match­es per­fect­ly! As you might have seen in the Sweet Threads: Sum­mer Dis­ney Trip post, I love putting themed out­fits togeth­er for my daugh­ter for both our Dis­ney trips and at home. I love mix­ing a vari­ety of cloth­ing and acces­sories along with the actu­al licensed char­ac­ters to give them a more orig­i­nal and unique look. Get cre­ative when putting a Mal-inspired out­fit togeth­er for your kid­dos, from pur­ple, pink and green acces­sories, winged and drag­on-inspired jew­el­ry and pur­ple hair chalk!

It’s only been a cou­ple of days, but the movie has already been watched sev­er­al times! She just had a sleep­over with a friend and the girls watched it twice in one evening, then had a Descen­dants-themed dance par­ty! At least I know the mon­ey did not go to waste. Lol! And word on the street is there’s already a sequel in the works!!! In the mean­time, I’m sure Anabelle will be work­ing on mem­o­riz­ing every word and lyric to this one!

Do you have a favorite vil­lain from your child­hood or recent years?!

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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