Disney Fairies
| Disney Fairies | |
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The official Disney Fairies logo.
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| Creator | Andy Mooney |
| Original work | Licensing spin off of Disney's Peter Pan |
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| Theme park attractions | |
| Official website | Disney Fairies.com |
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
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| Illustrator | David Christiana |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, Fantasy, Children's book |
| Publisher | Disney Publishing Worldwide |
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Publication date
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2005, 2007, 2010 |
| Pages | 208 |
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| OCLC | 61457088 |
| Pixie Hollow (Fairies Online) | |
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| Developer(s) | Disney Interactive Media Group |
| Publisher(s) | The Walt Disney Company |
| Writer(s) | Gail Carson Levine |
| Engine | Flash |
| Platform(s) | PC/Mac |
| Genre(s) | MMOG |
| Mode(s) | Online |
Disney Fairies is a Disney franchise created in 2005. The franchise is built around the character of Tinker Bell from Walt Disney's 1953 animated film Peter Pan, subsequently adopted as a mascot for the company. In addition to the fictional fairy character created by J. M. Barrie, the franchise introduces many new characters, and expands substantially upon the limited information the author gave about the fairies and their home of Neverland. The characters are referred to within stories as "Neverland fairies". The franchise includes children's books and other merchandise, a web site, and the computer-animated Tinker Bell film series, featuring the character and several of the Disney fairies as supporting and recurring characters.
In Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which he introduced the mythos of Peter Pan and the fairies, he wrote, "When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies." The Disney Fairies are based on a similar idea: every time a newborn baby laughs for the first time, that laugh travels out into the world, and those that make their way to Neverland turn into a Never fairy.
The fairies generally reside in the Home Tree, a towering, massive tree located in the very heart of Pixie Hollow in Neverland. Various groups of fairies work and live nearby as well. Most of the fairy characters are young and female, but older, taller, and male fairy characters are also included. The males are sometimes referred to as "sparrow men", though the term "fairies" is used to refer to both female and male fairy characters.
There are several key characters that are not Never Fairies.
Some of Tink's book-only best friends who also may appear in a crossover special with the Fairies in the movies and with other shows:
Fawn, Iridessa, Queen Clarion, Rosetta, Silvermist, Sweetpea, Terence, and Vidia were from the books, as well. They are the only fairies from the books to appear in the movies. Sweetpea only appears in The Pirate Fairy (the sixth movie).
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