Sofia At The End of Time

When you're the father of a young child, you find yourself watching Disney Junior from time to time. When you have a daughter, you tend to watch Sofia the First.

The premise of the show follows a girl, Sofia, whose mother, the village cobbler, makes a pair of shoes for the king, Roland II. The king then marries the woman, and he incorporates the two into his royal family, including his two children. As a welcome-to-the-family gift, Roland gives Sofia a special amulet which secretly grants her the ability to talk with animals and to summon Disney Princesses during dire situations.

The show, true to Disney's more recent endeavors, features a world populated by a homogeneous mixture of races. While each kingdom represented in the show has a real world parallel (if not in the UN, then definitely in EPCOT), the Kingdom of Enchantsia, Sofia's home kingdom seems mostly based on America, granted, with a king.

In a discussion with my wife one day after a Sofia marathon, the subject came up of where this show took place. After much debate, we determined that it's not meant to be a past version of our world, as every Disney princess is supposed to appear at one point, including Pocahontas, who lived around the 1600s.

[Edit: I forgot to include Tiana. That pushes the date forward to the 1920s.]

That left two really solid hypotheses: 1. That Sofia et al. live on a different planet that somehow has access to Disney media, or my personal favorite: 2. That Sofia the First takes place in a distant, post-apocalyptic future earth, where the only culture to survive is Disney. Sofia's amulet, the Amulet of Avalor, is a remaining piece of Imagineer technology, allowing her to summon projections of all the Disney Princesses.

The kingdoms themselves are close enough together where they could conceivably be on the remains of the Disney parks and resorts.

Nevertheless, Sofia the First helps support my Grand Unified Theory of Disney. I'll probably talk about it at length several times, but the gist is: every Disney movie (etc.) takes place in a shared universe.

If you have any addition theories regarding Sofia, I'd be glad to hear them.