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

Disney Dude 2010 wrote:OMG WHAT IS SHE ON ABOUT A 22 MINUTE SPECIAL I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FEATURE FILM!

Old Fish Tale wrote:There goes my theory... Click here!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Steve Hulett wrote: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.

Steve Hulett wrote: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.

Honor Hunter wrote: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.

"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".

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