Tinker Bell (Disney)

"A fairy's work is so much more than at first it might appear. Suppose your broken clock ticks, though it hasn't in a year. Perchance you find a toy you lost, or jingling bells you may hear. It all means that one very special fairy might be near."

- Narrator

Tinker Bell is the iconic tritagonist of Disney's Peter Pan franchise and the main protagonist of her own Disney Fairies series. She is a fairy who was created by Sir James M. Barrie for the play, Peter Pan. She is Peter Pan's assistant or sidekick who helps him fly.

She is voiced by Mae Whitman who also voiced Shanti, Katara  Batgirl Little Suzy, Rose Darma and April O'Neil.

History
In her most widely known appearance in the 1953 animated Peter Pan film, the character was animated and had no dialogue. 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. She is also featured in the opening of all Disney films flying over the Magic Castle (in a counter-clockwise direction, right to left).

There is an urban legend that the original animated version of Tinker Bell was modelled after Marilyn Monroe. However, Disney animator Marc Davis's reference was actress Margaret Kerry. He illustrated Tinker Bell as a young, attractive, 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 in happy thoughts. Some critics have complained that Disney's version of Tinker Bell is too sexually suggestive.

Since 1954, Tinker Bell has featured as a hostess for much of Disney's live-action television programming and in every Disney movie advertisements flying over Disneyland with her magic wand and her fairy dust, beginning with Disneyland (which first introduced the theme park to the public while it was still under construction), to Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney. 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.

At Disneyland, Tinker Bell is prominently featured in Peter Pan's 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 California Adventure Park 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.

Tinker Bell was part of the Disney Princess franchise, from which she was later extracted and converted into the central character of the new Disney Fairies franchise in 2005. In addition to an extensive line of merchandise, 2008's Tinker Bell film is the first of five direct-to-DVD features set in Pixie Hollow. Tinker Bell is voiced by Mae Whitman in these digitally animated DVD features. In addition, Disney announced in 2010 that Tinker Bell will have her own live-action comedy movie and actress Elizabeth Banks is cast as Tinker Bell. The movie will explore Tinker Bell's nature, and Elizabeth Wright Shapiro and McG are the screenwriters in this movie.

At Disneyland, a Pixie Hollow meet-and-greet area opened on October 28, 2008, near the Matterhorn, where guests are able to interact with Tinker Bell and her companions. A similar area called "Tinker Bell's Magical Nook" is in Adventureland 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 only five and a half inches.

On September 21, 2010, Tinker Bell was presented with the 2,418th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, becoming the thirteenth fictional character and the sixth Disney character to receive this honor. Tinker Bell's star celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame's 50th anniversary.

In the film Secret of the Wings, Tinker Bell was revealed to not be an only child and had a little sister, a twin, by the name of Periwinkle.

Quotes

 * "Hello?" - first word in her own movie.
 * "I... think/guess so." - response to Queen Clarion that Tink found her way.
 * "(giggles)" - testing her first flight.
 * "(chuckles) Aww, cute!" - about a mouse named, Cheese
 * "Hi there! (...) Sorry. Vidia... right?" - when she first met Vidia
 * "There's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles!" - longing to be more than a Tinker Fairy.
 * "Great. I failed for the third time in a row. At this rate, I should get to the mainland right about... Oh... Never!" - while throwing rocks before throwing another when it hit something metal.
 * "I think I can fix that." - before fixing something.
 * "Beautiful." - when she saw a toy ballerina.
 * "What're you guys doing here?" - meeting her friends again after fixing the music box.
 * "I’m a tinker. It’s who I am. And tinkers fix things." - battling Vidia
 * "The mainland sounds flitterific!" - thinking visiting the mainland is a good idea
 * "AAHH-CHOO!!" - sneezing in a pepper shaker.
 * "Rainbow? uh... (shrugs)" - While Iridessa's staring at the rest of her friends.
 * "This is gonna be flitterific!" - at the end of the short "Just one of the girls"
 * "I win! (...) So, what's for dinner?" - tricking her friends during hide and seek.
 * "(blows) Hmhm..." - after The other fairies laughed at Tink making the red on her face.
 * "Relax, Iridessa. We've got a smooth road at your moonbeam to light the way. (...) This pixie dust carrier is the pinnacle of my tinkering It'll keep the dust locked up good and tight. This dust isn't going anywhere except where we are." - to Iridessa in "Dust Up".
 * "Fawn. There you are! You missed the cake. Good thing I grabbed one for ya." - in the short "Just Desserts"
 * "ehahahaha..." - thinking that problems are smaller than they look.
 * "I think it's gonna be perfect." - to Terence after she got tangled with a rubber band.
 * "Sorry!" - after running into a ladybug.
 * "Oh no!" - before she crashes.
 * "Oops!" - after accidentally sparks a crashing catastrophe of scepters in an outtake.
 * "Me?" - when she was chosen to build the new autumn scepter in The Lost Treasure.
 * "Uh-oh." - after her balloon was flown too high in the air, and the anchor was missing, in an outtake.
 * "So long, Pixie Hollow. I'll be back soon." - leaving pixie hollow on a journey beyond it.
 * "Hey, look. Look, little guy. Fetch!" - playing fetch with a firefly.
 * "What?" - carious times.
 * "Whoa!" - in an outtake
 * "Eeek!" - frighted by Captain Hook's hook in an outtake.
 * "Oh no." - in an outtake
 * "Ugh." - in an outtake
 * "Eww! - in another outtake.
 * "Oh, well, right, you can stay... (...) for now. Just do me a favor, if you could stay... right... here. (...) If my berries are accurate, we should see land soon. Uh, I'm Tinker Bell. What's your name? (...) Okay, uh... Blinky? Flicker? Flash? Beam? Uh... Flare? (...) Well how in the blazing bellows am I supposed to guess your name if you keep-- (...) Your name's bellows? (...) Ohh, Blaze! Kind of a tough guy name. Are you a tough guy? (laughs) Okay, okay, don't hurt yourself." - meeting Blaze
 * "HANG ON, BLAZE!" - stuggling thru a Vortex
 * "I don't know, Blaze, I think we're lost. Maybe we should pull over and ask for directions. (...) Fine, scaredy cat, I'll do it." - Finding herself in the middle of nowhere.
 * "Uh, good evening, ma'am. We're lost, and we're wondering if you could tell us how to get out of this forest? (...) Oh, great! I-I see, we go straight thru these trees, make left at the rock, and THEN an immediate right at the stream. Okay, yes, that makes sense. Come on, Blaze, let's go. (...) Thanks again, Miss. Spider! (...) Yes, yes, Blaze you're right. We should've just checked the web in the first place." - in the end of "We're Lost"
 * "Grrr...Grrrr... Huh? Haha!" - playing with the mirror in an outtake
 * "Come here, you vicious monster." - hugging Blaze
 * "(Laughs) Just kidding!" - when Terence says that he's one of her best friends.
 * "Hey, guys! Play nice now!" - waving at the Trolls as she and Terence pace by.
 * "Absolutely! It's so beautiful out there. I can't believe we get to stay for the whole season!" - to Terence when summer has begun in The Great Fairy Rescue.
 * "Atta boy, Cheese. Almost there. (...) Hi, Vidia. Look what I found, isn't he cute?" - carrying the Gnome with Cheese to Lizzie's cottage when fer former enemy appeared, Vidia appears.
 * "Oh, Vidia. Humans may be, but how dangerous could this... cute little... man thingy be?" - when Vidia tells Tink what she hasn't heard.
 * "hahaha..." - after Cheese flung in the air and on Vidia.
 * "VIDIA!? Okay, not funny anymore! (...) aaaAAAahh" - before she was sighted by Lizzie, to be kidnapped.
 * "Faith, trust, and pixie dust!" - ready for action
 * "Uh-oh!" - various times
 * "And I'll never forget you, Lizzie." - Tink's sad farewell to Lizzie.
 * "(Wolf Call)" - when she whistles.[[File:Wolf_Call_2.oga]][[File:Wolf_Call_6.oga]]
 * "My turn!" - before catching the volleyball with a spring.
 * "Vidia, do you really need to practice for the Pixie Hollow Games right here?" - catching Vidia for blowing down the Banner of the Pixie Hollow Games for Banner Day.
 * "Uh, guys? The games aren't today, but they ARE coming soon!" - in the Short "History of the Games"
 * "Let the Pixie Hollow Games begin!" - in the teaser trailer of Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games.
 * "Wow..." - noticing her wings sparkle for the first time.
 * "I know. They were.. sparkling." - when Fawn saw what happened to her wings in Secret of the Wings
 * "I'll be okay."
 * "Can't fly." - after falling as she was about to fly, because her wings were hidden in her winter coat
 * "Like yours." - meeting Periwinkle for the first time.
 * "The Mainland." - when she saw a picture of London, England in a flashback.
 * "Two fairies born of the same laugh. So that means... (Periwinkle: You're my...) So We're... SISTERS!!" - finding out that she has a family, due to not being an only child.
 * "So, you must've been at the boarder. (Peri: Yeah. I was hoping to see the animals cross.) I guess I didn't see you there. (Peri: (laughs) Me neither!)" - to Peri about the first time their wings sparkled.
 * "...Terence and I barely escaped the pirate ship! (Peri: Is he your boy friend?) Um..." - to Peri about the events of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
 * "(Peri: So Lizzie loves fairies?) Yeah. She even built a fairy house. That's how I met her. You see, when me and Vidi-AAHH!!" - to Peri about the events of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
 * "You collect lost things, too? (Peri: I call them found things.)" - to Peri before putting on paper clips to ice skate.
 * "Winter fairies make it look so easy." - after she and her friends fell before they attempt to ice skate.
 * "Jingles!" - watching Fairy Mary ice skate
 * "I know her, I know her!" - after Fairy Mary made the biggest spiral combination.
 * "(Bobble: Aw, cheer up, Clakie. Just watch the winter fairies.) Yeah. Try again, and this time, throw yourself into it! (Clank: You're right. I think I'll give it another go.)" - cheering Clank up to build a better snowman.
 * "HALFWAY?!" - Tink and her friends when Sled said the last word.
 * "Aw, the winter fairies wanna play." - after being invited to a snowball fight.
 * "I've got a plan. Cover me!" - ordering one of her friends to protect her for making a plan to win the snowball fight.
 * "INCOMING...!!!" - before launching a giant snowball at their opponents.
 * "Hi, I'm Tinker Bell. It's very nice to meet you!" - in the Disney Infinity series
 * "My name is Tinker Bell, and I'm not even sure how this happened. I may have casually suggested that Gelata shakes things up a bit this year. Apparently, and baking fairy speak? That translates into "Bake Off". But, I'm not too worried. I mean, isn't baking just Tinkering with Flower?" - Interview before the bake off contest in Pixie Hollow Bake Off
 * "So... we lost on taste... OH, but the good news is, the Queen is feeling much better. And I least I've made my points of Gelata." - Interview in the end of the Short.
 * "Oh. Hey, Zarina. What brings you... (Zarina: Tinker Bell.) here? (Zarina: Remember how you were the first one to use lost things and everyone thought you were kinda crazy?) I believe Fairy Mary called them "Junk." (Zarina: Exactly! But now even SHE uses them and tinkering is better than ever.) Well, that's nice. (Zarina: And remember how you crossed the winter boarder when you knew it wasn't allowed, but you just HAD to, anyway?) I'd like to think it was more of a gray area. (Zarina: Good. Now keep that in mind.) - meeting Zarina at her house.
 * "But how?" - various times.
 * "Guys, I can't see. (...) Oh, It's Periwinkle! (Rosetta: Beautiful.) Hi Peri! (...) That's my sister." - as her wings sparkle and waving at Periwinkle during the Four seasons festival.
 * "This dust belongs to Pixie Hollow!" - to Zarina in The Pirate Fairy
 * "(groans) What happened?" - after being woken up by Silvermist from unconsciousness.
 * "Listen, we have to get outta here and go after Zarina. Silvermist, can you part the... (Rosetta: Shut it off, shut if off...!!) I didn't do anything I just... Eek! (Fairies: Tink!)" - before noticing she accidentally triggers water fairy talents.
 * "Wait a minute! Do you realize what this means?! (Silvermist: Oh, my gosh! Zarina switched our heads!!) No. No, no, no. She switched our talents! (Rosetta: Excuse me?!) I must be a water fairy now. (Silvermist: Oh, so that's why your dress is blue?) And I guess you're a fast-flying fairy." - after her talent has been switched with Silvermist's and Vidia's, and Rosetta's talent has been switched with Fawn's and Iridessa's.
 * "Watch this!" - before performing a tsunami to steal back the Blue pixie dust from James Hook.
 * "Thanks." - after her talent has been restored.
 * "(giggles) Trust me, Vidia, you will not regret looking for lost things with me. (Vidia: Oh, yeas. That's exactly why I wanted to come to the beach. totally.) (gasps) Pirate Treasure! No way!! I wonder if there's more?!" - meeting Vidia at the beach, before she has her first sight of Pirate Treasure.
 * "Vidia, I can't believe you're still just lying there. Come on, A little pirate treasures' not gonna hurt ya!" - watching Vidia fall out of the treasure chest.
 * "Hey, guys. Look what I found on the beach!" - after finding some seashells.
 * "Aaarrgh!" - acting like a pirate
 * "You're up to something... (Fawn: Who, ME? Never.) Yep, you definitely are. I know that look, I Invented that look. What's the wagon for?" - to fawn in The Legend of the Never Beast
 * "(muffled) No deal, no deal, NO DEAL!!" - right when Fawn covered her mouth from gasping
 * "Y-you have a... (Fawn: Deep breath in.) Hawk! (Fawn: Uh, yep.) Fawn, Hawks eat fairies!" - noticing Fawn has a baby hawk.
 * "You can't have a hawk in pixie Hollow. What if the Scouts find out?" - thinking the scouts are behind going after dangerous animals.
 * "Fawn?" - before Fawn introduces Gruff the Neverbeast.
 * "Anyone who sleeps for a thousand years deserves a descent bed." - last words.
 * "Really? Like, what else?" - asking Fawn to share more.
 * "Wow, she really rehearsed this." - watching Fawn perform.
 * "Uh, What were hippos again?" - after Fawn's performance of Thinking about animals.

Trivia

 * In Peter Pan and its sequel, Return to Never Land, Tinker Bell did not speak. However, she speaks in her own Disney Fairies franchise, as well as in the movie Tinker Bell and its sequels.