Oooh, the witch's green face was scary in Oz and that's probably why I was petrified as a child of Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. And now she's the new darling at Disney and she's featured in all these rides, parades, and pins as well as the Kingdom Keepers fiction series about Disney World. And I'm like, "WTH! She died!" because the only way my parents could get me to sleep in my own room was to keep reminding me that Prince Philip killed Maleficent.
I emailed the author of Kingdom Keepers when the last book came out and asked, "Why is she the centerpiece of your books? She's supposed to be gone!" and he emailed back, "I have this thing for Maleficent.

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