Maid Marian

**Maid Marian** is a character in the 1973 animated Disney film *Robin Hood* based on the legendary tales.

She was voiced by Monica Evans.

## **About Marian:**

Marian is King Richard's niece.

She is a fox who lives in the castle with her lady-in-waiting, Lady Kluck.

She and Robin Hood were childhood sweethearts.

Several years ago, she moved to London and they lost touch.

She loves children and is happy to meet Skippy when he sneaks into the castle to retrieve his arrow.

She eagerly plays the damsel-in-distress as Skippy plays Robin Hood and fights with Lady Kluck playing Prince John to save her, and then takes her into a grove of bushes and trees that represents Sherwood Forest.

She is soon reunited with Robin at the archery tournament.

She immediately recognizes the disguised Robin and cheers him on throughout the tournament.

When Robin's identity is revealed and he is sentenced to death, she pleads with Prince John to show mercy and admits she loves him.

The prince sic's his posse on her and she runs until Robin rescues her.

He proposes to her on the run, and she accepts.

She likes his ideas of going to London, Normandy, and "Sunny" Spain for a honeymoon, but politely objects to his idea of having six children, as she wants at least a dozen.

She foils Trigger's attempt to sneak attack Robin from behind by throwing a pie in his face.

They escape to his hideout in Sherwood Forest, then take a midnight stroll.

They finally marry and leave for their honeymoon.

## **Disney Park Info:**

Maid Marian debuted at both American Disney parks in 1978 along with the rest of the robin hood group; she was available as both a meetable character and a parade character from debut until 2000, when Robin hood had a costume redesign.

Marian was noticeably absent

As for international appearances, Marian was only reported to appear in Disneyland Paris.

Her costume design consists of a puffy-sleeved pink undershirt with a V-neck lavender dress on top, and she wears black mary-janes with white socks and white gloves

Her mascot head, however has multiple variants which evolved overtime and is listed below:

1. The first design is a recycled robin hood head which wore a pink princess-cone hat, The design was used from initial debut to 1983.
2. The second design is another recycled robin hood head, however, this one differs from the first since this variant included 3d eyelashes, a more accurate hat fabric form fitted to the ears with a translucent pink silk veil attached, a lighter shade of fur fabric, this design debuted in 1983 and was phased out in early 1985.
3. The third design is the same as the second, however, this one has the same fur fabric as Robin with purple eyeshadow, however, there is a variant of this version that has smaller pupils and more vibrant clothing colours, this design and its variant was used from 1985 towards 1990.
4. The final design is not a recycled robin hood; however it uses the same pattern, this design has slanted pink eyelids with 3d eyelashes and a smaller hat that sits in the middle of her ears with a veil, this design has variants as well, which include having flat eyelashes instead of 3d ones, one with no eyelashes and one with no eyelids, this design and its variants were used from 1990 to Marian`s final days in the parks.

## **Gallery:**

Maid Marian`s first appearance in the parks.Maid Marian's second design.Third edition Maid Marian with Robin Hood.Variant of the third version.Lady Marian`s final design with Robin Hood.First Variant of the final designSecond variant of the final design.Maid Marian soft toy.Maid Marian with Robin Hood figurine oranment.Maid Marian kissing Robin Hood during their wedding.Maid Marian with Robin Hood.Maid Marian with Robin Hood.Maid Marian winking.
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