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Tinker Bell is a fabricated quality from J. M. Barrie ‘s 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy. She has appeared in a diverseness of film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan. She besides appears in the official 2006 sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as the “ Peter and the Starcatchers ” book serial by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. At beginning only a supporting character described by her godhead as “ a common fairy “, her animated embodiment was a strike and has since become a wide recognized unofficial mascot of The Walt Disney Company, adjacent to the Walt Disney company ‘s official mascot Mickey Mouse, and the centerpiece of its Disney Fairies media franchise including the direct-to-DVD film series Tinker Bell and Walt Disney ‘s Wonderful World of Color.

Reading: Tinker Bell

In original play and novel [edit ]

Barrie described Tinker Bell as a fairy who mended pots and kettles, an actual putter of the fairy tribe. [ 1 ] Her speech consists of the sounds of a tinkling bell, which is apprehensible only to those familiar with the language of the fairies. Though sometimes crabbed, spoiled, jealous, despiteful and inquisitive, she is besides helpful and kind to Peter. [ 2 ] The extremes in her personality are explained in the story by the fact that a fagot ‘s size prevents her from holding more than one feel at a time, indeed when she is angry she has no counterbalancing compassion. At the end of the fresh, when Peter flies second to find an older Wendy, it is mentioned that Tinker Bell died in the year after Wendy and her brothers left Neverland, and Peter no longer remembers her. In the first translation of the play, she is called Tippy-toe, but became Tinker Bell in the subsequently drafts and final translation. [ 3 ]

On stagecoach [edit ]

In the master stage productions, Tinker Bell was represented on stage by a dart idle “ created by a belittled mirror held in the hand off-stage and reflecting a little lap of ignite from a mighty lamp ” [ 4 ] and her spokesperson was “ a collar of bells and two special ones that Barrie brought from Switzerland ”. [ 5 ] however, a ‘Jane ( or Jenny ) Wren ‘ was listed among the hurl on the programmes as playing Tinker Bell ; this was a joke which besides helped with the mystique of the fagot fictional character, and fooled H.M. Inspector of Taxes, who sent Jane Wren a tax requirement. [ 5 ] primitively, no fairy scatter was mentioned in the play but Barrie added to the handwriting the necessity to sprinkle it to enable the children to fly because “ so many children tried [ to fly ] from their beds and needed surgical attention. ” [ 6 ] In the musical interpretation of the bid, she was besides represented by a dart light, accompanied by a celesta. Her favorite abuse ( as in Barrie ‘s play ) is “ You airheaded ass ! “, which the audience learns to recognise because it is always represented by the like theme : four notes ( presumably one for each syllable of the phrase ), followed by a grumble on the bassoon .

In film [edit ]

Film adaptations provided the beginning vocal effects for the character, whether through sound, such as musical expressions or the sound of a tinkling doorbell, or homo speech .

Peter Pan ( 1924 ) [edit ]

In the 1924 film, Tinker Bell was played by Virginia Browne Faire .

Peter Pan ( 1953 ) and other Disney media [edit ]

In Walt Disney ‘s 1953 film adaptation of Peter Pan, the character is blond, wears a green dress and white slippers. She has no dialogue. As in the original act, Peter verbally interprets her communications for the sake of the audience, and bell noises are used when she makes gestures. Tinker Bell has become one of Disney ‘s most significant stigmatization icons for over half a hundred, and is generally known as “ a symbol of ‘the charming of Disney ‘ ”. [ 7 ] She has been featured in television receiver commercials and programme opening credits sprinkling elf debris with a scepter in order to shower a charming feel over versatile 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 pyxie. There is a myth that the original inspire interpretation of Tinker Bell was modelled after Marilyn Monroe. however, Disney animator Marc Davis ‘s character was actress Margaret Kerry. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He illustrated Tinker Bell as a young, attractive, blond blue-eyed white female, with an exaggerated hourglass figure. She is clad in a short undimmed green dress with a rigid reduce, and k slippers with white puffs. She is trailed by belittled amounts of pyxie dust when she moves, and the dust can help humans fly if they think happy thoughts. Since 1954, Tinker Bell has featured as a host for a lot of Disney ‘s live-action television program and in every Disney film advertisements flying over Disneyland with her magic wand and her fairy dust, beginning with Disneyland ( which foremost introduced the subject park to the public while it was silent under construction ), to Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney. In 1988, she appeared in the final inject of the ending scene of Disney ‘s film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, along with Porky Pig ; sprinkling fagot dust on the riddle after Porky ‘s hallmark farewell as it goes black anterior to the close credits. She besides starred alongside early Disney characters, such as Chip ‘n Dale, in many Disney comics, where she was besides able to speak. Tinker Bell besides appears as a curative mobilize in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games and the card appearance in the video recording bet on Mickey’s Memory Challenge on 1993 .
A Disney Cast Member poses as Tinker Bell in Pixie Hollow, at Disneyland Tinker Bell is a meetable character at all of the Disney Parks and Resorts, and is based in Fantasyland. She is besides featured in Peter Pan’s Flight, a suspended dark ride based on the artwork from the animated film. Beginning in 1961, she was featured as a live performer who flew through the flip suspended from a electrify from the lead of the Matterhorn Bobsled Ride at the begin of the nightly fireworks displays. She was primitively played by 71-year-old early circus performer Tiny Kline, improving 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 California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort, the first new ice-cream soda to be added in decades .

Disney Fairies [edit ]

Tinker Bell was the central character of the modern Disney Fairies franchise, launched in 2005. In addition to an across-the-board course of trade, 2008 ‘s Tinker Bell film is the beginning of six direct-to-DVD features set in Pixie Hollow. [ 11 ] In the film, Tinker Bell is a Tinker. Tinker Bell, who speaks in the Fairies universe, unlike her original appearances, is voiced by Mae Whitman in these digitally animated DVD features .
At Disneyland, a Pixie Hollow meet-and-greet sphere opened on October 28, 2008, near the Matterhorn, where guests are able to interact with Tinker Bell and her companions. A similar sphere called “ Tinker Bell ‘s charming corner ” is in Fantasyland at Walt Disney World ‘s Magic Kingdom in Florida. In November 2009, Tinker Bell became the smallest waxwork ever to be made at Madame Tussauds, measuring entirely five and a half inches.

On September 21, 2010, Tinker Bell was presented with the 2,418th headliner on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, becoming the thirteenth fabricated character and the fifth Disney character to receive this award. Tinker Bell ‘s leading celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame ‘s fiftieth anniversary. Since 2012 ‘s Secret of the Wings, Tinker Bell is the first gear Disney fairy to have a sibling, a fraternal twin sister named Periwinkle, a frost fagot of the Winter Woods. In 2015, it was announced that Disney had begun work on Tink, a live-action film, with Reese Witherspoon playing Tinker Bell and Victoria Strouse writing the script. [ 12 ] In 2020, however, the plan ‘s condition was in motion following the casting of Yara Shahidi as Tinker Bell in Peter Pan & Wendy. [ 13 ] In 2021, the undertaking re-enter development as a contribution of Gary Marsh ‘s overall softwood with Disney. [ 14 ] Witherspoon is distillery attached to the film as a producer and Maria Melnik ( Escape Room ) was hired to rewrite the handwriting. [ 15 ]

Hook [edit ]

In the 1991 film Hook, Tinker Bell is portrayed by Julia Roberts. After taking the now-adult Peter to Neverland to rescue his children, Tinker Bell persuades Captain Hook to give her three days to restore Peter ‘s lost memories ( including his abilities to fly, fight, and crow ) in regulate to ensure a honest crusade between Peter and Hook. After Peter ‘s memory is restored, Tinker Bell “ wishes ” herself into a human-size charwoman to partake a kiss with Peter. After Peter returns to London, Tinker Bell appears to him one end fourth dimension on the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens to tell him that she will always love him. In this version, Tinker Bell is portrayed as a fly, six-inch-tall hoydenish fairy with a crimson “ pyxie cut ” hairdo. She wears a tease leather tunic with match shorts and carries a dagger strapped to her leg. only while flying does she appear as the traditional ball of light. Tinker Bell displays strength beyond all proportion to her size and is able of picking up and carrying a grow man, a well as wielding a human sword while flying ( giving the depression that the sword is hovering in mid-air ). This is besides the first base rendition in which Tinker Bell has the ability to transform into a human-size translation of herself. Hook subverts Tinker Bell ‘s canyon by having her exist well into the modern era, whereas the original novel states that fairies are naturally ephemeral and that Tinker Bell died a class after the Darling children ‘s adventures .

Peter Pan ( 2003 ) [edit ]

In the 2003 movie Peter Pan, P.J. Hogan originally planned to use a computer-generated version of the character, but rather used Ludivine Sagnier in combinations with digital models and effects to take advantage of the actress ‘s expressions .

Peter Pan & Wendy [edit ]

Yara Shahidi will be portraying Tinker Bell in the approaching movie Peter Pan & Wendy. [ 16 ]

other literary works [edit ]

Peter Pan in Scarlet [edit ]

Tinker Bell returns in the official sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet. When Wendy and the perch of the group reach Neverland and ask Peter where she is, he replies that he does not know anyone by the name Tinker Bell, which is explained as him not remembering her after she died. She is mentioned by Wendy and the pillow of the Lost Boys to Fireflyer, a pathetic blue fagot, who when he reaches the top of Neverpeak, makes the wish to meet her. When they open Captain Hook ‘s care for chest, among other things, Tinker Bell is seen inside it to Fireflyer ‘s joy. initially, Tinker Bell does not like him, but finally she comes to see that Fireflyer is not a bad as he seems to be. In the end, they get marry and start sell dreams to the Roamers, former Lost Boys that have been outcast by Peter, while having many adventures .

Peter and the Starcatchers [edit ]

In the Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Peter and the Starcatchers book serial, Tinker Bell makes her first appearance at the end of the first novel. in the first place, she was a green and yellow coloured bird who was put in a bag of starstuff, turning her into a fairy. Molly ‘s don, the celebrated starcatcher Lord Leonard Aster, made her Peter ‘s defender and she follows him on all of his adventures. She does n’t like being called a fairy and would much rather be called “ birdwoman ” because of her origins. She is very protective of Peter, and hates his paying attention to any other female. She can be identical impolite to others ( lone Peter is able to understand her perfectly, and most of the time he does not reveal what she says about others, because they are largely insults ). She is besides able to emit a very bright unaccented, which she uses as an attack against other creatures, specially Lord Ombra, one of the independent villains of the series .

Cheshire Crossing [edit ]

In the Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen Cheshire Crossing series, Tinker “ Tink ” Bell first appears aboard Peter as they attempt to rescue capture fairies from Captain Hook and the Wicked Witch of the West, with Peter being captured and Tink fleeing to get Wendy ‘s avail, alongside that of Dorothy Gale and Alice Liddell, providing the latter two with fairy dust to fly. Later, after Dorothy is captured, Tink frees her and goes to Castle West to warn Jack the Knave of Hearts of the incoming flying commandeer ship, preventing the Cheshire Cat from eating her when they attempt to do so. Later, after the Witch defeats Mary Poppins in struggle, Tink lends Poppins her power against the Witch as Poppins utters “ Say hello to my fiddling supporter ! “, leaving them evenly matched. Later, after the Witch has been defeated, Alice places Peter ( immediately shrunken to Tink ‘s size and having matured due to consuming size-altering berries in Wonderland ) next to Tink, having recognised her as being in sexual love with him, and after being complimented by Peter as to her appearance, the pair kiss .

On television receiver [edit ]

Tinker Bell was voiced or portrayed by :
In World of Winx, Tinker Bell is a brawny fairy from the world of dreams ( besides called Neverland ) and a acquaintance of Peter Pan. When Peter Pan finally left her for Wendy Darling, she became dark and cold, turning into the malefic Queen .

In art [edit ]

In accession to the illustrations in the original editions of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell has besides been depicted by fantasy artists such as Brian Froud and Myrea Pettit. She besides appears in the version of Peter Pan in Scarlet illustrated by David Wyatt. A bronze sculpture of Tinker Bell by London artist Diarmuid Byron O’Connor was commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, to whom Barrie bequeathed the copyright to the quality, to be added to his master four-foot statue of Peter Pan, wresting a thimble from Peter ‘s finger. The visualize has a nine-and-a-half-inch wingspan and is seven inches grandiloquent, and was unveiled on 29 September 2005 by Sophie, Countess of Wessex .

Tinker Bell in other languages [edit ]

When translated into other languages, Tinker Bell ‘s name is sometimes rendered more or less phonetically, but is often replaced by a appoint that evokes her character or one that refers to a bell or represents its strait .

  • Arabic — تنة ورنة (Tanna we Ranna)
  • Albanian — Tringëllima
  • Armenian — Թինկերբել (T’inkerbel)
  • Bengali — টিংকার বেল
  • Bulgarian — Камбанка (Kambanka)
  • Cantonese — 小叮噹 (Xiǎo dīngdāng, “Little Jingle”), 奇妙仙子 (Qímiào xiānzǐ, “Wonderful Fairy”)
  • Catalan — Campaneta
  • Chinese — 奇妙仙子 (Qímiào xiānzǐ)
  • Croatian — Zvončica
  • Czech — Zvonilka or Zvoněnka
  • Danish — Klokkeblomst (“Bellflower”)
  • Dutch — Rinkelbel and Tinkerbel (in early translations), Tinkelbel (current)
  • Finnish — Helinä-keiju (“Ring-a-ling Fairy”)
  • French — Tinn Tamm (in early translations), Clochette (current)
  • Georgian — ტინკერბელი (T’ink’erbeli)
  • German — Glöckchen, Glitzerklang, Naseweis, Klingklang
  • Greek — Τίνκερ Μπελ (Tínker Bel)
  • Gujarati — ટીંકરબેલ (Ṭīṅkarabēla)
  • Hebrew — טינקרבל (Tinkerbell)
  • Hindi — टिंकर बेल (Tinkar bel)
  • Hungarian — Giling Galang (in early translations), Csingiling (current)
  • Icelandic — Skellibjalla
  • Indonesian — Ling Kelinting (Kelinting means “little bell”)
  • Italian — Campanellino (in early translations), Trilli (Disney versions)
  • Japanese — ティンカー ベル (Tinkā Beru)
  • Korean — 팅커벨 (Tingkeobel)
  • Latvian — Zvārgulīte (Little Sleigh Bell)
  • Lithuanian — Auksarankė (Golden Hands)
  • Macedonian — Ѕвончица (Dzvončica)
  • Marathi — टिंकरबेल (Ṭiṅkarabēla)
  • Mongolian — Тэнүүлч хонх (“Urchin Bell”)
  • Nepali — टिंकरबेल (Ṭiṅkarabēla)
  • Norwegian — Tingeling
  • Persian — بند انگشتی
  • Polish — Blaszany Dzwoneczek, usually shortened to Dzwoneczek (“Tin Tinker”)
  • Portuguese — Sininho or Tilim-Tim (Portugal and Brazil in older dubs), Tinker Bell (Brazil)
  • Russian — Динь-Динь (Din’-Din’)
  • Romanian — Clopoţica
  • Serbian — Звончица/Zvončica (Bells)
  • Slovak — Cililing
  • Slovenian — Zvončica
  • Swedish — Tingeling
  • Spanish — Campanilla (Spain), Campanita (Hispanic America), Tinker Bell (Latin America)
  • Taiwanese — 奇妙仙子-叮叮
  • Tamil — டிங்கர் பெல் (Ṭiṅkar pel)
  • Thai — ทิงเกอร์เบลล์ (Thingkoebeo)
  • Turkish — Çan Çiçeği (Bellflower)
  • Ukrainian — Дінь-Дінь (Din’-Din’)

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