Tinker Bell movie - official date: October 2007!

[Sky Syndrome]

^^^ Awww! The animals are adorable in these Tinker Bell movies.

[Sotiris]

Tinkerbell and the Mysterious Winter Woods has been renamed to simply Secret of the Wings.

[Old Fish Tale]

Why? No 'Tinker Bell and...'?

Well, here says 'Pixie Hollow Games' but we know the title is 'Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games'! I think we can assume that the title will be 'Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings'!

[Sotiris]

Why? No 'Tinker Bell and...'?

Well, here says 'Pixie Hollow Games' but we know the title is 'Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games'! I think we can assume that the title will be 'Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings'!

Although the trailer says "Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games", all the promotional material, including posters and images, refer to it as just "Pixie Hollow Games". So, perhaps they've shortened the title from the time the trailer came out. Certainly, the poster for "Secret of the Wings" adds to this theory. I guess, we won't really know until the movie comes out.

Personally, I hope they haven't 'cause I'd like them to retain uniformity with the rest "Tinker Bell" movies.

[Old Fish Tale]

Personally, I hope they haven't 'cause I'd like them to retain uniformity with the rest "Tinker Bell" movies.

Me too!

[DisneyDude2010]

I hope that's just a new movie

I really liked the Winter Woods Title...

[Old Fish Tale]

Peggy Holmes is the director of 'Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings'! Click here!

[Sotiris]

The logo for the Disney Fairies franchise has changed.


The first logo:




The second logo:




The third (and newest) logo:





Which one do you prefer?

[DisneyDude2010]

I like the second one personally. The first one is nice too, but i think the flower adds a nice touch to the second logo. The third one .... i'm not that keen

[Old Fish Tale]

I liked the second one and the small changes they did to it in 'Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure' and in 'Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Recue'!

[UmbrellaFish]

I didn't even know there was a second one, much less a third one!

The new one is okay, but I prefer the first the best. I find it a bit silly in the second one that the word "fairies" is so miniscule in comparison to "Disney."

[DisneyDude2010]

Interview with Tiffany Thornton at the D23
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Her voice kinda annoys me
But hopefully she'll be good!

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OMG WHAT IS SHE ON ABOUT A 22 MINUTE SPECIAL I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FEATURE FILM!


SERIOUSLY WHAT THE ACTUALLY .....

PLEASE TELL ME IT'S A FILM NOT A SPECIAL
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Brenda Song on Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games
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[Sotiris]

OMG WHAT IS SHE ON ABOUT A 22 MINUTE SPECIAL I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FEATURE FILM!

I, too, had thought that this was going to be a feature-length film that was going to air on the Disney Channel instead of going directly to home video. A 22-minute short just seems underwhelming.

[Old Fish Tale]

I'm actually fine with the runtime...

The only thing I want is some sort of connection between 'Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings' and 'Peter Pan'! And also 'Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games' on Blu-Ray!

[Old Fish Tale]

There goes my theory... Click here!

I'm still calling it 'Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings'!

[Sotiris]

There goes my theory... Click here!

Why would they mess up uniformity like that? The trailer is almost exactly the same with the "Mysterious Winter Woods" one. This probably means that the "Pixie Hollow Games" will lose the "Tinker Bell and" part of the title as well.

[DisneyDude2010]

To take Tinker Bell out of the title has no sense and just looks ridiculous. I hope Disney aren't using the under performance of TPatF for the reason of the title change. Come on they already changed
Rapunzel to Tangled
Cinderella's Carousel to Prince Charmin's Carousel
and the Plans of the Fantasyland Expansion.
and not to mention Tinker Bell: Race through the Seasons to Pixie Hollow Games

Come on Disney!!! Please Stop Now!


(It makes no sense as it's being marketed as a Disney Fairies in the trailer!!)

[Sotiris]

The Chronicles of the Tinker Bell Film Series.
This article documents the various changes that occurred during the production of the Tinker Bell film series.


• Tinker Bell and the Ring of Belief was renamed to Tinker Bell.




The first film underwent the most radical changes from anyone in the series. Sharon Morrill had a completely different storyline planned but after John Lasseter came on board the film and the fairies mythology was rewritten from scratch.

Tinker Bell was supposed to be initially a hand-drawn animated movie and animators had worked up several developmental reels. However in 2005, then-WFDA head David Stainton and Morrill decided that cel animation was dead and that Tinker Bell would become a CGI flick. This was over the objections of senior animators, who didn't think the film and character would look as good in CGI.

Sharon Morrill's concept: Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and the other Lost Boys had to return the gift of joy and imagination, to save the fairies from extinction and to keep children everywhere from becoming dull automatons. In a widely disseminated announcement, Morrill hired actress Brittany Murphy to be the voice of Tinker Bell in this, and subsequent, movies.

“Neverland disappeared, Peter and the Lost Boys were enslaved in the boiler room of a real-world barge, and children all over London lost joy and imagination," claimed one insider. Of course everyone and everything is restored in the end—this is Disney, after all.”

“If anything, it’s way too complex for younger kids,” said someone else who saw the film. “They had books of rules for everything: rules for Neverland, rules for the Fairies, rules for the kids, rules for London. The whole thing was so complex, they [the animators] couldn't keep track of it. I don't know how they expected kids to. I won't even begin to get into the fairy fart jokes or the strong lesbian tones of the original story.”

Lasseter had told Sharon Morrill that he didn't want Peter Pan, the other Lost Boys or London in Tinker Bell, saying that it would invite unfortunate comparisons to the 1953 classic Peter Pan. He also disliked the story, saying, "Fairies don't bring imagination."

Lasseter even hated the trilogy's concept: Tinker Bell's best friend discovers that boy fairies live in another part of Neverland. That sets the stage for a Romeo and Juliet story, where two lovers are caught in a war between the boy and girl fairies. The first movie ends with the Romeo fairy sacrificing himself to save his love, and the Juliet fairy going with Tinker Bell to see a performance by an all-girl fairy group informally called "The Pixie Chicks." In the second and third movies, Tinker Bell discovers that the Romeo fairy isn't actually dead, and the trilogy ends happily ever after.

Sources: Part 1 / Part2

A teaser trailer and a sneak peek is all that remained from Morrill's scrapped version.


John Lasseter's concept for the film series was based around the four seasons, thus building a mythology around fairies and nature.

Q: What was the origin of the idea of making four Tinker Bell movies at once?

Klay Hall: It started when John Lasseter took over as the chief creative officer for [Walt Disney Feature Animation]. He sat down with myself and the rest of the directors and producers, and we talked about what this whole [Disney Fairies] world could bring to film. We landed on the idea to go with four stories based on the seasons. We liked the idea that fairies brought seasons to the world, so we decided to go out and start coming up with four different ideas for four different movies that would support the idea of seasonal change. They weren't supposed to be sequels, they were supposed to be stand-alone movies that could just be able to be played by themselves and you could get the content and the characters and everything.

Source: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2009/10/ ... e-hope-so/


• Tinker Bell: North of Never Land was renamed to Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Q: How did you come up with ideas for this enchanting new one?

Sean Lurie: The story is loosely inspired by a Disney chapter book called Tinker Bell North of Neverland. There was an idea about friendship in that story that inspired us to make that the heart of the story. We also wanted to make an adventure where Tink has to go on a journey. These were the initial ideas that developed from there.

Source: http://animatedviews.com/2009/tinker-be ... xperience/


• Tinker Bell: A Midsummer Storm was renamed to Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue.

A lot of changes occurred during its production, especially story-wise. Just compare the first trailer with the second one.


• Tinker Bell: A Winter Story was renamed to Tinker Bell and the Forgotten World, then to Tinker Bell and the Mysterious Winter Woods and finally to Secret of the Wings.

The release date also changed. From Fall 2011, it got pushed back to Fall 2012.

Despite the title change, the story seems to have remained the same, indicated by the two trailers released which are almost identical. (Trailer #1 / Trailer #2)


• Tinker Bell: Race Through the Seasons was retitled to Tinker Bell and the Race Through the Seasons and then renamed again to Pixie Hollow Games.

The release date for this one also changed. From a 2012 release, to coincide with the Olympics, it moved up to 2011.

The fifth film, which Lasseter admitted will be released around the same time as the Olympics will have a topical narrative to tie into that atmosphere, but as of right now they're in early story development.

Source: http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2009/ ... -dust.html

It also changed format; from a direct-to-home video full-length feature, it became a 22-minute TV special. The story also underwent various changes.

Then

They also talked about the 5th film, "Tinker Bell: Race Through the Seasons", which is about what the fairies do every four years on leap day when they have the day off. He said they hold an Olympic-style race. At the D23 presentation Lasseter gave, when he announced the 5th film, he also said something like "And we hope to keep making these films for you." So he did sort of hint at the fact that there might be more.

Source: http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 28#p460928

The fifth film in Disney's enormously popular fairy film franchise is Tinker Bell and the Race through the Seasons. Veteran Disney writer/producer/director Bobs Gannaway ("Stitch! The Movie," "House of Mouse") is set to direct. In this latest adventure, all the fairy talents compete in a challenging and traditional leap year race through the four seasons of Pixie Hollow. With Tinker Bell's help, Clank and Bobble enter the race and all the hopes of the Tinkers rest on their shoulders. But the pressures of competition and Bobble's desire to impress a beautiful lightning fairy threaten Clank and Bobble's longtime friendship. In the end, will Bobble place winning a race above losing a best friend?

Source: http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporat ... _pres.html

Now

In “Pixie Hollow Games,” all of the fairies and sparrow men in Pixie Hollow gather for the legendary three-day Olympic-style competition event, which culminates with one fairy guild being named champion of the Games. Determined not to let the garden fairies’ unfortunate history of not performing well at the Games get to her, newcomer Chloe (voiced by Brenda Song) works to convince all of the other garden fairies, which includes her teammate Rosetta (voiced by Megan Hilty) and the pragmatic Fern (voiced by Zendaya), that they must work together and dig down deep to break their well-known losing streak. Along the way, the reigning champion storm fairies, including Rumble (voiced by Jason Dolley) and Glimmer (voiced by Tiffany Thornton), continue to intimidate and outperform their competitors, but with Chloe’s spirited determination, they are forced to work harder than ever before.

Source: http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-d23 ... xpo-17426/


The future of the Tinker Bell fim series? As of now, there are no plans for more installments. However, everything can change if Pixie Hollow Games gets high ratings and Secret of the Wings sells well on DVD/Blu-ray.

Then

There is Tink III, fully scripted and now being boarded. And there is word of Tink IV, with (possibly) a Tink V and VI after it.

Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... y-tva.html

A week or so back, John Lasseter announced the fifth Tinker Bell will go into work, but Toons staff tells me there are going to be more features starring the winged sprite than that.

Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... ember.html

As for a sixth and seventh or even an eighth outing of fairies? Story plots are being pitched and thrown around at a leisurely pace. But it's been made known that such ideas are welcomed. Good ones will move further down the creative assembly line.

Source: http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2009/ ... -dust.html

Now

"We were going to do eight or ten Tinkerbell features, but studio chief Richard Ross [who replaced Dick Cook] has cut the number of features back. The second Tink feature didn't do as well as the studio thought it would. I mean, it did well, but not up to the company's expectations. Maybe it was because it came out the same time as a couple of big theatrical animated features, maybe it was because Dick Cook didn't have different units in the company working hard enough to build synergy.

Whatever it was, Ross reduced the number of shows. Now we do features with the four different seasons (we've done two) and then one more after that. A total of five. After that, it's on to the new series of features. Hopefully most of us will be here to work on them".

Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... ience.html

[Sky Syndrome]

With that type of hat, he looks like Waluigi!

I didn't know "Tinker Bell" wasn't the original name of the first movie. The display picture from when it was Tinker Bell and the Ring of Belief is lovely.

[supertalies]

I believe that picture of Hook is from when he was supposed to appear in the first movie.