OUAT Execs Confirm Anna and Elsa Are (Almost Certainly) Heading for Storybrooke (& Possibly Merida Too)

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It was inevitable, really, and will make so very many OUAT fans ecstatic. What I'm wondering is whether they're going to try and squeeze the princess sisters in before the end of the season or not.

It's already very much Oz and Zelena focused and is benefiting overall as a result, plus we have other B and C (and D) plots doing a decent job of fleshing it out. To add a major set of characters, who fans will clamor to see more than one appearance of, would feel rushed and ridiculously busy. My guess is we might get a teaser at the end of this season of Frozen/Snow Queen things to come, with the next season being largely focused on some sort of plot twist revolving around the sisters.

Because all the characters on OUAT have a darker or more tragic side to them, I'm curious to see if they get into Elsa's conflict more and make her more... "Snow Queen-y".

Here's the report:

The hint came from "Once Upon a Time" producers Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz who told E! News that talks were underway to bring the "Frozen" characters to the show. Kristen Bell, who voiced Princess Anna in the movie, was invited to guest star. 
Kitsis said the series' crew were obsessed with "Frozen", which has smashed box office records and topped billboard charts with its soundtracks. He said they "would be completely honored if Kristen Bell or Idina Menzel wanted to do our show." 
E! News reached out to Bell to hear her response. "That would be unbelievable," she said. "I love that character of Anna so much. She is so exactly who I wanted to see when I was five years old, so she's really close to my heart." (Aceshowbiz)

And what about Merida? There hasn't been any further talk of her since the initial chat at D23 which went something like this (from E1!):

Creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis recently told D23 that they would "love" to feature some of the most recent Disney princesses on the series... 

"Obviously we'd be dying to do Frozen," Kitsis gushed. "We would love to [incorporate] Merida." In a world that is filled with some of the most iconic fairy-tale characters of all time, we think that there's plenty of room in Stroybrooke for some fresh faces." Horowitz agreed, saying, "Whether we get to them or not, characters like Anna, Elsa and Merida feel like they could be slotted in."

From this brief set of statements it looks like an episodic, one-off appearance by Merida is likely at some point (though, depending on fan response and the twist they give her, what with Robin Hood and the Merry Men all currently in a row, there's a chance she might be irregularly recurring), while Anna and Elsa appear to be in for an multi-episode arc. It really depends on how far Disney will let them push the characters and the sorts of twists/dark sides they come up with so really anything is possible. It does sound that they have kernels of plot ideas at the very least though.

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(Look for a brief post after this of a fairy tale parallel I think would work well with Merida in the OUAT universe...)