| Tinker Bell | |
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| Directed by | Bradley Raymond |
| Written by | Jeffrey M. Howard |
| Based on | Tinker Bell byJ. M. Barrie |
| Produced by | Jeannine Roussel |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Loreena McKennitt |
| Edited by | Mark W. Rosenbaum |
| Music by | Joel McNeely |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment[1][a] |
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Running time | 78 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States[1] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million[2] |
| Box office | $9.2 million[3] |
Tinker Bell is a 2008 American animatedfantasy film and the first installment in theDisney Fairies franchise produced byDisneytoon Studios. It is aboutTinker Bell, afairycharacter created byJ. M. Barrie in his 1904 playPeter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and featured in the 1953Disneyanimated filmPeter Pan and its 2002 sequelReturn to Never Land. Unlike Disney's two Peter Pan films featuring the character, which were produced primarily usingtraditional animation,Tinker Bell was produced usingdigital 3D modeling. The film was released onDVD andBlu-ray byWalt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on October 28, 2008.
Tinker Bell is the first Disney film to feature Tinker Bell in a speaking role. ActressBrittany Murphy was originally selected for the part before the role went toMae Whitman.[4] The film follows Tinker Bell’s origin story, before she met Peter Pan, as she works out her place inPixie Hollow and struggles with what her “talent” is.
Tinker Bell is born from the first laugh of a baby and is brought by the winds toPixie Hollow (which is part of the island of Neverland), and Queen Clarion welcomes her. She learns that her talent is to be one of the tinkers, the fairies who make and fix things. Two other tinker fairies, Bobble and Clank show her around Pixie Hollow, teach her their craft and show her her house.
While out working, the trio are hit by sprinting thistles, a type of menacing weed. Tinker Bell meets Silvermist, a water fairy; Rosetta, a garden fairy; Iridessa, a light fairy; and Fawn, an animal fairy. They tell her about the fairies who visit the mainland to bring each season. Tinker Bell is thrilled and cannot wait to go to the mainland for spring. After meeting them, she notices Vidia, an ill-tempered fast-flying fairy who immediately dislikes her because of her unusually strong talent. Vidia challenges her to prove she will be able to go to the mainland, and Tinker Bell creates several inventions but messes up with them while showing them to the Minister of Spring. Tinker Bell then learns from Queen Clarion that only nature-talent fairies visit the mainland. She talks with Fairy Mary, the tinker fairy overseer, who tries to please her with who she is, but instead inspires her to "switch her talent".
She tries her hand at nature skills; making dewdrops with Silvermist, lighting fireflies with Iridessa, and trying with Fawn to teach baby birds to fly, but she fails miserably at all of these. Meanwhile, Bobble and Clank cover for Tinker Bell when questioned by Fairy Mary. When Tinker Bell returns, she tries to explain, but Mary simply responds that she knows, and expresses her disappointment with Tinker Bell's actions.
On the beach, Tinker Bell finds parts of a music box and figures out how to put them together. Iridessa, Fawn, Silvermist, and Rosetta witness her doing this, then tell her that she should be proud of her talent — if this is what she's good at, the mainland should not matter. But Tinker Bell still wants to go to the mainland. She asks Rosetta if she will still teach her to be a garden fairy, to which she doesn't respond any differently.
As a last resort, Tinker Bell asks Vidia to teach her how to be a fast-flying fairy, then explains that her friends gave up on her. Vidia craftily tells her that capturing the sprinting thistles would prove her worth as a garden fairy. However, once she sees Tinker Bell making progress, she lets the captured thistles loose, and in attempting to recapture them, they destroy all the preparations for spring. Tinker Bell decides to leave, but after talking with Terence, a dust-keeper fairy, about how important his job is, she realizes the importance of a tinker.
Tinker Bell redeems herself by inventing machines that quicken the process of decorating flowers, ladybugs, etc. This allows the other fairies to get back on schedule, thus saving the arrival of spring. Vidia is punished for prompting her to cause the chaos, and Queen Clarion allows Tinker Bell to join the nature-talent fairies when they bring spring to the mainland, which she declines, having realized her talent. However, Fairy Mary arrives with the music box Tinker Bell fixed and gives her the task of delivering it to its original owner, who is shown to beWendy Darling. The narrator ends by saying that when lost toys are found or a broken clock starts to work, "it all means that one very special fairy might be near."
The film went through two dozen script versions and multiple directors.[2] The movie was produced with animation firmPrana Studios from their India location in CGI.[5]
Planned for release in fall 2007, the movie experienced delays in connection with personnel changes in Disney management.[6] According to a June 2007 article inVariety, Sharon Morrill, the head of DisneyToons direct-to-DVD division since 1994, was removed from this position due to problems with the film, including a budget that had expanded to almost $50 million.Pixar Animation Studios executivesJohn Lasseter andEd Catmull were given leadership ofWalt Disney Feature Animation after Disney purchased Pixar in early 2006, and although DisneyToons was not under their management, "they are said to have gotten increasingly involved in the unit's operations."[2] Lasseter reportedly said that the film was at that time "virtually unwatchable"[7] and that it would hurt both Walt Disney Feature Animation and theDisney Consumer Products line it was meant to support.[8] Morill was moved to "special projects" and the status of the movie was seriously in doubt.[9] Disney observer Jim Hill reported at the time that the complications surrounding this film had resulted in a decision that Disney would no longer producestraight-to-DVD sequels to its feature films, resulting in later sequels toTinker Bell seeing theatrical releases.[7]
The score to the film was composed and conducted byJoel McNeely, who recorded the music with an 88-piece ensemble of theHollywood Studio Symphony and Celtic violin soloistMáiréad Nesbitt at the Sony Scoring Stage.[10]
The movie's soundtrack was released on October 14, 2008, a week before the DVD release and contains songs from and inspired by the film.[11] Other than the score suite, the only tracks in the film are both parts of "To the Fairies They Draw Near," "Fly to Your Heart" and "Fly With Me."
An album of Joel McNeely's score from the film was released on July 22, 2013, throughIntrada Records as part of a co-branding arrangement withWalt Disney Records.
The CGI-animated characters of Tinker Bell and new fairies appearing in the film were featured in Disney Channel bumpers in which they would draw the channel's logo with their wands. Rosetta represents her webisode. Marketing efforts for the film included a tie-in withSouthwest Airlines, decorating and naming aBoeing 737 "Tinker Bell One". Flight attendants wore fairy wings and awarded prizes to passengers who correctly answered trivia questions about the Tinker Bell character.[12]
Frank Nissen, the director ofCinderella III: A Twist in Time directed a series ofwebisodes under the title of "Pixie Preview" to promote the film on the "Fairies" channel of theDisney XD web site.[13] Except for a few vocal effects, only one contains dialogue.
| Title | Description |
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| Tink and the Bell | Tinker Bell finds asilverjingle bell, makes funny faces at her reflection in it, and then gets stuck in it. |
| Tink and the Pepper Shaker | Tinker Bell finds apepper shaker and plays with it. |
| Fawn and the Log | Fawn attempts to wake some sleepysquirrels in a log. |
| Fawn and the Butterfly | Fawn attempts to help abutterfly which is having trouble getting out of itscocoon. |
| Silvermist and the Fish | Silvermist helps a babyfish get over awaterfall so that it can be with its family. |
| Iridessa and the Light Bugs | With the help of Pixie Dust, Iridessa helps makelightning bugs glow. |
| Rosetta and the Flower | Rosetta has some trouble in attempting to get a stubbornflower bud to open up. (This is the only webisode with two versions: one with dialogue and one without.) |
A preview of a scene from the movie proper,[14] likely the one where Tink tries to help a small bird flap its wings, was aired as part of aThe Wonderful World of Disney airing ofPeter Pan onABC on July 26, 2008.[15] The preview has been referred to asTink and the Bird; no sources have been found that can confirm if it was named as such during the broadcast or if it was a nickname.Tink and the Bird has also been given as the name for an alleged broadcast onDisney Jr. at 6 AM ET on January 8, 2010,[16] but the channel did not exist at the time, nor did thePlayhouse Disney programming slot launch before 8 AM ET that morning.
| Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell | |
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| Developer | Genius Sonority |
| Publisher | Disney Interactive |
| Platform | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre | Adventure |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell is anadventuregame for theNintendo DS. The game begins with Tinker Bell's arrival in Pixie Hollow, preparing for each season. As the seasons progress, more areas of the game become accessible. After all four seasons are completed, every area may be visited and season preparations become optional and vary each time. Various different tasks must be accomplished, which are bestowed upon the player by other characters. Such tasks include deliveries, item repairs, requests for items and searching for insects.
The player plays asTinker Bell in a free-roaming Pixie Hollow, using the touch screen to maneuver the character, move to other maps and play various minigames. The player must, for example, touch an arrow on the screen to move to another map or characters to speak to them. The touch screen is used in the item repair minigames as well. For example, the player must trace the pattern of a groove to clear it or rub the item to clean stains. The DS microphone is used to create wind to loosen leaves and petals or blow dust from an item being repaired. The highest rank on 'Tinker Bell' is Champion of the Craft.
Different gameplay mechanics can also be acquired in-game, which require specific use of the touch screen. These include:
Also present in the game is a "Friendship Meter", which serves as an indicator to measure the player's relationship with other characters. It can be filled by presenting the respective character with their favorite item, accomplishing tasks or even simply speaking to them. The meter can also be depleted, however, by not speaking to the character for extended periods of time, giving an unwanted gift or missing a repair deadline.
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The film saw a brief theatrical release at theEl Capitan Theatre between September 19 and October 2.[17][18]
On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, 90% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10.[19] The film was released onDVD andBlu-ray Disc on October 28, 2008.[20] InNorth America, 668,000 copies were sold on its first day of release, about 22 percent above previous estimations.[21]
DVD sales brought in $52,201,882 in revenue for 3,347,686 units sold.[22]
Five sequels have been released:Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009),Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010),Pixie Hollow Games (2011),Secret of the Wings (2012), andThe Pirate Fairy (2014).[23] One additional filmTinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast, was released in Spring 2015.[24]
The Fairies will be CGI-animated by Prana Studios in India.
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