User blog comment:XTinkerBellx/Barbie Movie Ideas/@comment-3348788-20131211024509

There used to be Barbie as The Sleeping Beauty...It was already planned to be in production until Disney Company buy the rights of the Sleeping Beauty for their own purposes (probably because Sleeping beauty is a Disney Princess, I really don't know). Mattel Company only wanted to adapt Sleeping beauty since the Barbie in the Nutcracker and Swan Lake are successful - and maybe they wanted to complete the Tchaikovsky ballet (which is Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Sleeping beauty).

In my opinion, Disney shouldn't have done that since they are not the original creator of the story (which is very true). The story is owned by Charles Perrault, and was revised in a lighter version by The Brothers Grimm.

anyway, here's the statement...found it on Wikipedia: "After the success of Barbie in the Nutcracker in 2001 and Barbie of Swan Lake in 2003, Mattel Entertainment was supposed to adapt the third installment of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty ballet into a Barbie film, titled Barbie as The Sleeping Beauty. However, the Walt Disney Company currently has a trademark application pending with the US Patent and Trademark Office, filed March 13, 2007, for the name "Princess Aurora" that would cover all live and recorded movie, television, radio, stage, computer, Internet, news, and photographic entertainment uses, except literature works of fiction and nonfiction.[34] This has caused controversy because "Princess Aurora" is also the name of the lead character in Tchaikovsky's ballet version of the story, from which Disney acquired some of the music for its animated 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. The move also could sink any movie about the ballet or that uses a scene of the ballet in another movie. This has caused Mattel to abandon Barbie as The Sleeping Beauty film production. Therefore, a campaign has emerged to complain to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office if people feel this trademarking of a pre-existing character name should not be allowed.[35]"