Lily Shute, 4, estimates that she has seen Disney’s Frozen “maybe a thousand, a million and thirteen times.”

The figure sounds high, but it’s not totally out of the question.

No animated movie has ever been more successful than the tale of Princess Anna’s quest to save the kingdom of Arendelle from a deep freeze accidentally imposed by her sister Elsa.

Released in 2013, the film grossed nearly $1.3 billion (U.S.) in global ticket sales, and has spawned an empire of merchandise and spinoffs, including Disney on Ice: Frozen, the figure-skating spectacle now on at the Rogers Centre until Sunday.

The landing outside the stadium, so often home to red-faced dudes in Jays hats, has been transformed into a scene out of Walt Disney World, as girls like Lily swarmed the gates wearing grins a mile wide.

They had come from all over Ontario — everywhere, it seemed, but Toronto: a couple of cousins from Owen Sound; sisters from Binbrook; a little princess from Guelph; another from Lindsay; and one from as far as Ottawa.

Many wore the telltale blue gowns of the movie’s most popular character, Princess Elsa.

Merchandise from the movie is everywhere these days. Propelled by the Frozen boom, Disney’s consumer products division saw revenue leap 22 per cent in the last quarter, up to $1.38 billion. At one point, Walmart reportedly carried 700 items related to the film.

On Friday, the Frozen fanatics let their garb do the talking. Most were mute with excitement, or simply shy.

But they made up for that in consistency.

Alice Brown, turning 4 next week, said she liked Elsa for her magic powers. (There were many birthday girls in attendance.)

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Said Aivney Rossi, 5, “I love the movie ’cause Elsa.”

Asked about her favourite character, Addison Storey, 6, mused, “It’s hard to say, but my really one is Elsa.”

Asked why, Addison was more decisive: “Because she has powers to freeze people.”