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Your Beauty comment confuses me. I assumed you were referencing Beauty and the Beast... Which, in the real version, she does have sisters. Brothers, too. All the others were references to how the actual version went, did you just reverse your tactic and name what was missing out of the Disney version? Sorry, I'm just a die hard Beauty and the Beast fan.

Disney will always hold a special place in my heart with all the other stuff I loved as a kid, but I defenintely prefer reading the real versions (as well as various adaptaions of fairy tales) now. I mean, when I was 10 I didn't care if Pocahantos was accurate, I just liked singing "Just around the riverbend."

Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid were my favorites.

I still watch my Disney movies once in a while. My question is, what's with the "Disney Vault"? Apparently they put movies away for twenty years and then release them again. What the hell is that? I've also heard it's 10 years... I don't know what's accurate. Either way it's a huge pain in the butt.

My favorite Disney story of all time is Robin Hood. In fact it's not just the Disney version that captures my attention; I'm very much a fan of all things Robin Hood. The story is so incredible in it's own way that I just crave reading anything that has to do with it.
Robin Hood is a wonderful story. There are versions upon versions of it and although not all of them are well done or well written, there are several different ones that are incredible. The original (I'll be honest when I say I don't think I've ever come across it... does anybody think they can direct me to the original Robin Hood?) I'm sure is good and wonderful and definately worth the read, but the tellings of it are also worth the read, in a lot of cases. Mostly the story is based on your interpretation of it. Stories change oftentimes with time because of the interpretations of the ones telling the story and the point they want to get across. They may change facts because they want to prove a different point. Isn't that what a lot of folktales have done? Older tales have not been written down until recently but can you imagine just how many times they have been changed throughout the years? Some of them have been changed several times and yet they are still breathtaking stories with a point. We need to remember that.
This comes to the point again, where you can't judge a book by it's cover. Disney created these movies and changed a lot of the actual plotline so that chldren could come to love and understand these movies like their parents do. Sure they do not hold the same amount of respect or truth to them as the older versions, but they are just children, you must remember. I think the changes can be good, for the children so that they can start to understand the classic stories and grow to love them. What I mean to say is that I think it can be a good thing to get children to appreciate the stories and grow to love them as we have.
I don't know.
That's just my opinion.

I find most Disney stuff sexist and irritating.

But I do love Winnie The Pooh, although the original books were much better.