The animated hit by Johnon Muker and Roger Clements in 1989"The premiere of VHS on 18.05.1990, just six months after the film was released. At the time, this was considered a quick turnaround, as some films could take a whole year between their theater races and their domestic media.

Hence, when the "little mermaid" was available at VHS openly, many breathed sigh. Also, young children could now watch it constantly, remembering the film in eternity.

There was also, as many remember, something like a scandal with the release of the VHS movie. The cover of sports was original painting (the one used in some of the film posters), which showed a large golden castle surrounded by film characters. It was an interpretation of King Triton Castle (Kenneth Mars), where his daughter and titular mermaid, Ariel (Benson) stayed. It doesn't have to look very close to seeing that one of the spiders in the castle is going to look like a large upright phallus - like, so.

Since the picture was on the cover of one of the hottest vhse of the nation, all suddenly noticed. Phoenix Newou Times led a story in 1990 Bashas briefly pulled the video out of the shelves, thinking that someone was mixing with works of art briefly. After confirming this, yes, it was the official work of "Little Mermaid", returned VHS to its stock. The rumor said that Fallus was hidden deliberately in the "Little Mermaid" castle by a disgruntled Disney employee.

That rumor is not true.

As can be seen in the picture above, the central pillar is really ... suggestive. (It looks like an expensive dildo that can be found in their local adult toy store.) It is so suggestive that many have taken their similarity to the phallus is a deliberate work. Those connoisseur of such things back in 1990, probably also remembers rumors that a worthy employee of Disney (and she was a woman, at least in the version of the rumors I heard) was paid for her work. Hence, in an act of defiance designed to paint a children's film with sexual images, she chose to paint a penis in the middle of the castle "Little Mermaid". If her bosses did not notice, she could essentially flash the world. Lo, her bosses did not notice, and the poster "The Little Mermaid" went out into the world.

Again, none of that is true.

BundlesThe rumor debugging website once looked at the matter and found the artist (whom the exit left unidentified), who was hired to paint a lot of tie materials for the "little mermaid", including posters, fast food meals, CD lids and the like. The artist admitted that he was under the gun and should have completed the aforementioned works of art in just a few hours. They claimed to be about four in the morning when they turned to Disney. The fact that one of the castle spiders resembled a human penis was an ordinary coincidence. It seems that they did not even notice the penis resembles until they told them a child from the youth group of their church. (Obviously, young people heard the story in the talk show and contacted the artist to inform them.)

Of course, after everyone agreed that the "little mermaid" on the VHS cover had Wiener on it, Disney changed it. What spoils.

Of course, the fact that the penis castle was later changed, made some fans refer to the original as a "forbidden" edition. The 1990 VHS announcements at the Little Mermaid have begun to reach the high cost of the second -ranking market as a result. Teenagers would buy and treat them as a counterpart to porn, blinking the offended "small mermaid" of friends in knowledge. You can go to the fuck to this day and find "small mermaid" cartridges, in large old-fashioned shell cases, selling for $ 100 to $ 200.

Passed up to Disney's re -release in 1997 on "Little Mermaid" (event with its own scandal) For the company to finally change the artwork. The re -release of 1997 guaranteed a new edition of VHS, so the box was drastically different and showed all new works of art. It was announced on March 31, 1998, and the generation of children with sneakers became very disappointed. They no longer had a "disobedient" Disney product. That release also coincided with the 1999 DVD, the first of the film. The latest VHS edition of "The Little Sirena" was released in 2007, and it also boasted new works of art.

All this does not apply to the additional scandal associated with the penis with the "little mermaid". Has a scene late in the movie when The wicked sea witch Ursula (Carroll Road) Masked as a human and hypnotized boy of Ariel, Eric (Christopher Daniel Burns). She organizes them to be married, so Ariel must stop them before the ceremony is over. The priest of the ceremony, a small old geyser, says the phrase "Drago loved" to take place ... And he seems to get an erection. This, however, is an ordinary miracle of animation, and the priest actually only bends his knees. You can see from another angle later on the stage where your feet are.

So, seekers of secret makeup, I apologize. There is no hidden penises in the "little mermaid" or his poster. At least, not that we still found it.