Tinker Bell is a computer animated film series produced by DisneyToon Studios as part of
the Disney Fairies franchise.
Voices of Mae Whitman, Raven-Symoné, Lucy Liu, America Ferrera, Kristin Chenoweth and
Pamela Adlon are featured in the film.
Each of the four films is set around one of the four seasons: Tinker Bell around Spring,
Lost Treasure around Autumn, Great Fairy Rescue around Summer, and Secret of the Wings around
Winter.
A fifth title, Pixie Hollow Games, was supposed to be based on all four seasons, but it was
released before Secret of the Wings and scaled down.
A sixth film, titled The Pirate Fairy, was released April 1, 2014, scheduled to be followed
by Legend of the NeverBeast in Spring 2015.
The series is a spin-off of and prequel to Peter Pan and its sequel, Return to Never
Land.
Films Tinker Bell
Tinker Bell is born from the first laugh of a baby, and is brought by the winds to Pixie
Hollow.
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, teach her their craft, and tell her about
the fairies who visit the mainland to bring each season.
Tink is thrilled and can't wait to go to the mainland for spring.
While out working, she meets Silvermist, a water fairy; Rosetta, a garden fairy; Iridessa,
a light fairy; and Fawn, an animal fairy.
After meeting them, she notices Vidia, a fast-flying fairy who immediately dislikes her because
of her unusually strong talent.
Vidia challenges her to prove she'll be able to go to the mainland, and Tink creates several
inventions, which she shows to the Minister of Spring.
But Tinker Bell soon learns from Queen Clarion that only nature-talent fairies visit the
mainland.
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 Tink when questioned by Fairy Mary, the tinker
fairy overseer.
When Tinker Bell returns, she tries to explain, but Mary simply responds that she knows, and
expresses her disappointment with Tink'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 was
tinkering and that she should be proud of her talent—if this is what she's good at,
the mainland shouldn't matter.
But Tinker Bell still wants to go to the mainland.
She asks Rosetta if she'll still teach her to be a garden fairy, but Rosetta says that
tinkering is Tinker Bell's talent.
As a last resort, Tinker Bell asks Vidia for help in becoming a garden fairy.
Vidia craftily tells her that capturing the sprinting thistles would prove her worth.
However, once she sees Tink making progress, she lets the captured thistles loose, and
in attempting to recapture them, Tink destroys all the preparations for spring.
Tink decides to leave, but after talking with the dust-keeper Terence 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 Tink to
join the nature-talent fairies when they bring spring to the mainland.
Tinker Bell is given the task of delivering the music box to its original owner.
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."
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
The fairies are getting ready for the season of leaves, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and pumpkins:
autumn.
Every eight years they create a new fall scepter to hold a precious moonstone.
This moonstone will create blue pixie dust that will restore the Pixie Dust Tree.
It is the Tinker Fairies' turn to create the new scepter and they choose Tinker Bell as
the maker.
Tinker Bell gets her friend to help with the scepter project, but she has trouble coping
with Terence because he tries too hard to be helpful.
Tinker Bell finds him annoying and noisy.
An accident occurs, causing the precious moonstone to break.
She goes on a quest to find the magic mirror that grants three wishes.
However, pirates had already used up two of the wishes before they sank their ship.
This means that Tinker Bell only has one chance to make a wish with it.
She finds the ship and the lost mirror, but Tinker Bell ends up messing up her wish on
her new friend Blaze and cannot use it to restore the moonstone.
Terence finds Tinker Bell and they work together on the broken moonstone to make a new scepter.
After returning to Pixie Hollow, Tinker Bell is ready to present the scepter to Queen Clarion.
As the scepter is revealed, all the fairies see the moonstone in pieces and are alarmed
but, as the moon rays fall, the moonstone shards create increased surface area through
which the blue moon rays can pass, thus creating the biggest amount of blue fairy dust in history.
Then Tinker Bell leads the fairies to the Pixie Dust Tree where they strengthen it with
the fallen blue pixie dust.
The movie ends with the song "Take to the Sky".
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Years before meeting Wendy and the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell met Lizzy, a little girl with
a steadfast belief in the power of pixie dust and the magic land of fairies.
During the fairies' summer visit to the flowering meadows of England, two very different worlds
unite for the first time and Tink develops a special bond with a curious child in need
of a friend.
As her fellow fairies launch a daring rescue, Tinker Bell takes a huge risk, putting her
own safety and the future of all fairykind in jeopardy.
Pixie Hollow Games
Originally planned to feature the entire ensemble cast of the earlier films in Olympic-style
games spanning the four seasons, presumably due to the original plot vetoed by the producers,
the story was scaled back into a shorter scenario focusing primarily on Rosetta and a new fairy
character, Chloe.
They are teamed up against Rosetta's will representing the "garden fairies" in a competition
in which they hope to unseat the undefeated "storm fairies".
They overcome their differences and Rosetta's fear of getting dirty, to emerge victorious
at the end of the games.
Secret of the Wings
Tinker Bell crosses over to the forbidden area in Winter Woods, where it is always winter.
While there her wings begin to sparkle so she sets off on a quest to discover why.
She is overjoyed to learn that her wings sparkled because she was close to her sister, Periwinkle.
They were born when a baby's laugh split in two.
They visit for a few hours before Tinker Bell is told she has to leave.
Determined to help her sister visit Pixie Hollow, she crafts a contraption that grates
snow to keep Peri cold during her visit.
The device malfunctions badly, causing a freeze to slowly envelope Pixie Hollow.
Tinker Bell flies to Winter Woods to get Periwinkle and her friends to help save Pixie Hollow.
They realize that frost protects the trees in Winter Woods from the cold, so the winter
fairies all work together to frost the trees of Pixie Hollow to save from the accelerating
freeze.
They learn, however, that when Tink crashed in Winter Woods she tore her wing, and broken
wings can't be repaired.
But when Tink and Peri come together their wings again sparkle, and they learn that identical
wings can heal each other, so they restore Tink's broken wing.
They also discover that winter fairies can frost the wings of warm-weather fairies, keeping
them from breaking in the cold, thus allowing them to visit their friends in Winter Woods.
The Pirate Fairy
Another feature-length film, titled The Pirate Fairy, was released on April 1, 2014.
The film was originally scheduled for Fall 2013, but another DisneyToon Studios film,
Planes, took its place.
A trailer for the film was released on the Secret of the Wings Blu-ray and DVD on October
23, 2012.
It was directed by the Secret of the Wings director, Peggy Holmes.
The film introduced new characters, Zarina, voiced by Christina Hendricks, and James aka
Captain Hook, voiced by Tom Hiddleston.
Carlos Ponce also voiced one of the characters in the film.
The official Disney synopsis reads: "When a misunderstood dust-keeper fairy named Zarina
steals Pixie Hollow'’s all-important Blue Pixie Dust and flies away to join forces with
the pirates of Skull Rock, Tinker Bell and her fairy friends must embark on the adventure
of a lifetime to return it to its rightful place.
However, in the midst of their pursuit of Zarina, Tink'’s world is turned upside down.
She and her friends find that their respective talents have been switched and they have to
race against time to retrieve the Blue Pixie Dust and return home to save Pixie Hollow."
Legend of the NeverBeast Legend of the NeverBeast will be released
in Spring 2015.
It will be directed by Steve Loter.
Composer Joel McNeely will return for the film.
The official synopsis reads: "Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can'’t judge
a book by its cover—, or an animal by its fangs, —so she befriends a huge and mysterious
creature known as the NeverBeast.
While Tink and her friends aren'’t so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow,
the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the monster before he destroys their home.
Fawn must trust her heart and take a leap of faith if she hopes to rally the girls to
save the NeverBeast."
Short films Pixie Hollow Bake Off
A six-minute short film, titled Pixie Hollow Bake Off, aired in the United Kingdom on October
20, 2013, on Disney Channel.
Lisa Faulkner provided a voice for a baking fairy named Gelata.
The short was released in the United States as a bonus DVD in a Walmart-exclusive edition
of The Pirate Fairy on Blu-ray Disc, but with Giada De Laurentiis as the voice of Gelata.
In July 2014 the short was made available on the digital movie service Disney Movies
Anywhere.
Theme songs Tinker Bell: "Fly to Your Heart" – Selena
Gomez Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure: "Gift of
a Friend" – Demi Lovato Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue: "How
to Believe" – Bridgit Mendler Pixie Hollow Games: "Dig Down Deeper" – Zendaya
Secret of the Wings: "The Great Divide" – McClain Sisters,
The Pirate Fairy: "Who I Am" - Natasha Bedingfield Legend of the NeverBeast: TBA
Reception Critical reception
Box office performance Recurring characters
Crew References
External links Official website