
The design first appeared on the Scottish Registry of Tartans on the movie’s release date in 2012. DISNEY/PIXAR CREATED AND REGISTERED A REAL TARTAN.ĭesigners created a tartan for Merida’s Clan DunBroch-and it’s really official. THE WORKING TITLE WAS A BIT MORE LITERAL.īefore the team landed on Brave, the working title for the movie was The Bear and the Bow. Here are 13 more fascinating facts about the groundbreaking film. And, appropriately, Brave broke a few molds in the real world, too: It was the first Pixar movie to feature a female protagonist, and it made co-director Brenda Chapman the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. While her predecessors may have been concerned about going to balls and finding their Prince Charmings, Merida of DunBroch fought against a betrothal to someone she had just met, becoming the first Disney princess to have no love interest.

In 2012, a Disney Princess unlike any other arrived on the scene.
