Tinker-Bell

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Tinker-Bell (also known as Tink for short), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy.

She has also appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the story, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan.

Peter-Pan.

She also appears in the official sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean and commissioned by Great Ormond St Hospital as well as the "Peter and the Starcatchers" book series by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry.

At first only a supporting character described by her creator as "a common fairy", her animated incarnation was a hit and has since become a widely recognized unofficial mascot of The Walt Disney Company, and the centerpiece of its Disney Fairies media franchise including the direct-to-DVD film Tinker Bell.

In her animated form she leaves a trail of twinkling pixie dust.

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'Jane Wren' & Disney

Her dialogue consists of the sounds of a tinkling bell, which is understandable only to those familiar with the language of the fairies.

In the original stage productions, she was represented on stage by a darting light "created by a small mirror held in the hand off-stage and reflecting a little circle of light from a powerful lamp" and her voice was a "a collar of bells and two special ones that Barrie brought from Switzerland".

However, a Miss 'Jane Wren' was listed among the cast on the programmes as playing Tinker Bell:

this was a joke which also helped with the mystique of the fairy character, as well as fooled HM Inspector of Taxes who sent Jane Wren a tax demand.

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The extremes in her personality are explained in-story by the fact that a fairy's size prevents her from holding more than one feeling at a time, so when she is angry she has no counterbalancing compassion.

Fairies can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust (sometimes called "pixie dust" by Disney, and presented as "starstuff" in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel series).

At the end of the novel the suggestion is that Tinker Bell has died in the year after Wendy and the Darlings leave Neverland, and Peter has no memory of her at all.

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She was played by Virginia Browne Faire in Herbert Brenon's 1924 version of Peter Pan, Julia Roberts in 1991's Hook, and by Ludivine Sagnier in P.J. Hogan's 2003 adaptation, which originally planned to use a computer-generated version of the character, but instead used Sagnier in combinations with digital models and effects to take advantage of the actress's expressions.

Tinker Bell was voiced by Debi Derryberry in the 1990 Fox animated program Peter Pan and the Pirates, and by Sumi Shimamoto in the 1989 anime series Peter Pan no Boken.

Peter Pan. & Magic Kingdom

Tinker-Bell has been one of Disney's most important branding icons for over half a century, and is generally known as "a symbol of 'the magic of Disney'."

She has been featured in television commercials and program opening credits sprinkling pixie dust with a wand in order to shower a magical feeling over various other Disney personalities, though the 1953 animated version of Tinker Bell never actually used a wand.

In the picture and the official Disney Character Archives, she is referred to as a pixie, There is an urban legend that the original animated version of Tinker Bell was modeled after Marilyn Monroe.

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He illustrated Tinker-Bell as a young, blonde haired, big blue eyed, white female, with an exaggerated hour-glass figure.

She is clad in a short lime-green dress with a rigid trim, and green slippers with white puffs.

She is trailed by small amounts of pixie dust when she moves, and this dust can help humans fly if they believe it will.

Some critics have complained that Disney's version of Tinker Bell is a little too sexy!

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In 1988, the same year The Wonderful World of Disney moved from ABC to NBC as The Magical World of Disney.

That year, she also appeared in the final shot of the ending scene of Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, along with Porky Pig; sprinkling fairy dust on the screen after Porky's trademark farewell as it goes black prior to the closing credits.

She also starred alongside other Disney characters, such as Chip 'n Dale, in many Disney comics, where she was also able to speak. Tinker Bell also appears as a summon in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games.

Walt Disney & Tiny Kline

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Flight, a suspended dark ride based on the artwork from the animated film.

Beginning in 1961, she was also featured as a live performer who flew through the sky at the climax of some of the nightly fireworks displays.

She was originally played by 71-year-old former circus performer Tiny Kline, up until her retirement three years later.

On the 2008 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special on ABC, Disney announced that a Tinker Bell float would be added to the classic Disney's Electrical Parade at Disney's California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort, the first new float to be added since even long before the parade ended its original run at Disneyland in 1996.

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