Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest

Lego's Disney Princess range of toys and books have been around for a while, and for Disney Princess Week 2023 the subfranchise gets an animated Disney+ streaming special: Lego Disney Princess: The Castle Quest. In this special, Gaston has stolen a whole bunch of magical artifacts and has kidnapped King Triton in order to get his trident. Triton offers a deal of his own, in the form of a contest between Gaston and five champions who are summoned to the castle, i.e. Ariel, Moana, Rapunzel, Tiana and Snow White.

Ariel is horrified to learn about her father's predicament, and at first tries to insist that she'll handle Gaston's challenges on her own. But her new friends are just as determined to help her, so the five princesses work together to solve the puzzles of the castle and stop Gaston.

It's a breezy little streaming special with just a touch of modern humour (though quite restrained -- this isn't Wreck-It Ralph), and it features quite a few returning voice actors, including Jodi Benson as Ariel and Jim Cummings as Triton. Ariel is kind of the "main" princess of the special, so gets quite a few moments to shine, including mentioning some new "human things" she gets charmingly wrong, plus she gets to hang out with Moana, another princess with water affinity. The ending of the special also leaves the world wide open for the princesses to return for more adventures and to add new friends to their little gang.