- Hey guys, we're at Disneyland Resort,
and I am so excited 'cause we're gonna go meet Ariel!
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- And we're gonna hang out with her
and ask her some really special questions.
- I have been preparing for this moment for quite a while.
I'm so excited!
- Let's go. - Come on!
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(grunting)
- Hello, come on over!
Hello.
- How are you?
- I'm fantastic, how are you?
What are your names?
- I'm Elena. - I'm Isabella.
- Hi Elena and Isabella? - Yes
- It sure is nice to meet you. - It's nice to meet you!
- Beautiful human names.
- Thank you! - Thank you!
- Thank you and are you having a wonderful day?
- Yes!
Okay, we have some questions for you,
can we ask you some?
- Of course!
- Which is your favorite, land or sea?
- Well, they both are so very exciting.
I love being under the sea
and having my mermaid tail.
Flounder and I went on so many adventures,
but I also love the surface!
You know, I get to learn a lot
when I got my new human legs,
like how to dance with my Prince Eric!
He's gonna teach me how to go sailing soon.
- That's so cool!
- What's you're favorite thing to do with Eric?
- We love to go dancing,
but we also like to take long strolls on the beach,
even sometimes Scuttle flies with us,
and tells us about all the human
thingamabobs that he found that day!
- This is wonderful!
A banded bulbous snarfblatt.
- Whoa. - Whoa.
- I have a question.
- Of course!
- Which mermaid sister are you closest to?
- [Ariel] I'd have to say Andrina.
She taught me how to swim very fast.
- That's so cool.
- I know! Do you girls like to race as well?
- Yeah. - Yeah, I like to swim.
- You do too?
- And also- - Swimming's so much fun!
- Yeah, and also I have this like mermaid tail
that I go in in the pool.
It's so pretty.
- Is it sparkly?
- It is. - Oh my goodness, I bet-
- It looks like my shoes.
- Well, you'll have to come see me
under the sea sometime, okay?
- [Elena] Yes! - And do you like music?
- Yes! - Yes, I love music.
- You have to come to Sebastian's next concert,
but try not to be late, all right?
It tends to make him a bit crabby. (laughing)
- Ariel, please!
Will you get your head out of the clouds
and back in the water where it belongs!
- Was there ever a time you had to be really brave?
- Of course!
I was always going to look at abandoned shipwrecks
when I was a mermaid.
It was a little scary sometimes,
we even ran into some sharks.
And of course, when I came and got my human legs,
it was a whole new world!
I was very overwhelmed,
but luckily I had all my friends with me.
Do you girls have friends that support you, whatever you do?
- Yes - Yeah, we're best friends.
- Isn't it so nice, you're best friends?
- Yeah. - How exciting!
What adventures do you like to go on together?
- We really like to go to new places.
- Yeah.
- Like today,
and we also like to go on walks with each other,
and do amazing, fun things.
- What's one of your favorite things in the Grotto?
- Well I'd have to say my dinglehopper.
It's a long metal tool with four prongs at the end,
and everyday I brushed it through my hair,
and it looked just like this.
Isn't it neat?
- Yes, that's so cool!
- We also came up with some really cool names.
- [Ariel] What are your thingamabobs called?
- Okay.
- Well we call our shoes sea gliders.
- Sea gliders?
Do you walk on the water?
- Yes, we can make them walk on the water!
And then we called lights, lightsers.
- Lightsers?
- Yes!
- Oh my goodness, that sounds so very silly.
I'll have to tell Scuttle about those, okay?
- Mhm - I'm sure he'd love that.
Do you girls like the sea too? - Yes.
- Have you ever been there? - I love the sea.
- Uh huh.
- And I think it's so important to protect it too,
and to save all the animals.
- Of course!
Well thank you, we appreciate that down in Atlantica.
And what about you?
- I really like how blue the ocean is,
and how the waves move.
Just like, you're like dancing.
It's so pretty.
- Dancing waves!
- I think that is so beautiful.
They do look like they're dancing sometimes, huh?
Now do you have a favorite sea creature?
- Sea turtles!
- [Ariel] Sea turtles. (laughs)
- One day, I want to ride one.
- Oh my goodness, well that would be so exciting.
Maybe you can ask Moana about that?
- Yes!
- She has lots of sea turtle friends.
- I really like dolphins.
- [Ariel] You know, they are so smart.
But when I was a mermaid, narwhals were my favorite.
They're like the unicorns of the sea.
(laughs) - Yes!
- Ariel, thank you so much for your time.
We had so much fun talking to you.
- Well thank you so much for visiting.
It was so lovely to meet you girls.
Would you like a hug goodbye?
- Yes!
Thank you!
- That was so much fun meeting Ariel!
- I totally agree.
My favorite part of meeting her was getting to hug her.
I mean that was awesome!
And her dress was so pretty.
- It was.
Thanks for watching everybody.
See you next time!
- Bye!
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