7. The Little Mermaid's Penis
The Little Mermaid's King Triton clearly has eccentric tastes he sports long flowing white hair to match his beard and trident, and he lives in a giant castle of gold, with his daughters. As part of the castle's design, he also apparently commissioned his personal architect to erect a giant golden penis as part of the castle's exterior. Or so it seemed, given the promotional materials and DVD covers that showed the unmistakable sight of a big shiny Johnson, which were released as part of The Little Mermaid campaign. The phallus came up, as it were, when an Arizona resident complained to Disney and her local supermarket chain, who pulled it off sale for 24 hours, and word got out to the worldwide media, who probably giggled at the sight. This isn't the only time something that looked suspiciously like a penis caused a fuss for Disney, as there was also the infamous case of Mickey Mouse supposedly cuddling into a big blue one, which for some reason had replaced Minnie's body, and was supposedly designed to transmit pro-homosexual messages to youngsters...
Sometimes people just look too hard.
The Explanation According to Disney, it was all just an accident, and the giant golden penis was just never intentionally added to the castle. Both they and the offending cover designer 0 who was never disgruntled, and never actually worked for Disney directly - have always insisted that the accident resulted from a late night rush job to finish the cover artwork. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the second DVD cover had no signs of penis, intentional or otherwise. I guess the lesson we can all learn from this one is never to work late at night, in case you accidentally draw incredibly detailed giant penises all over the place.