Finally!!! Tinkerbell gets a new home!!!!

[TooExcitedCantSleep]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/trav...nker-bell-magical-nook-060314,0,3062053.story

Poor Tinker Bell. She keeps having to up and move, and now all her friends have left her behind.

But the good news is you can now use the FastPass+ system to see her.

Disney has opened its latest version of Tinker Bell's Magical Nook, now located through the Town Square Theater off Main Street, U.S.A. This is the same place where you can meet the talking Mickey Mouse and the former home to the Disney Princesses before they got their new digs in Fantasyland.

The updated meet-and-greet is now in what Disney is calling the Garden Theater, and will allow guests to meet the most famous of fairies, but alas, all of Tinker Bell's friends and frenemies have flown the coop.

"Tinker Bell’s fairy friends have returned to Pixie Hollow to prepare for the coming seasons and will no longer be making regular appearances at Magic Kingdom Park," said Shawn Slater, communications manager for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Creative Entertainment on the Disney Parks Blog.

It's the fourth home for Tink since Disney introduced the Fairies-themed meet-and-greet Pixie Hollow in 2008. The first home was located in what was Mickey's Toontown Fair, which of course transformed into Storybook Circus as part of the New Fantasyland overhaul.

During construction, Tinker Bell and friends like Vidia, Rosetta and Terence, who are featured in the Fairies straight-to-DVD movies, migrated to a garden space at Epcot. More recently, you could find them at Tinker Bell’s Magical Nook in Adventureland back in the Magic Kingdom, and now Tinker Bell holds court near the front entrance of the park.

The backstory on the original nook is that the pixies brought a cutting from the Home Tree (from whence all fairy dust flows) and planted it in the Magic Kingdom.

It's the newest attraction Disney has added to the growing FastPass+ stable of options, so visitors can schedule their time with Tink as part of their three Fast Pass choices during their visit to the park.

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[marypoppins81]

Kenny the Pirate reported this a few months back. We were lucky to be there before the move to see silvermist too.

Counting down to 14th May!

 

[katt789]

I have to say, the new "shrinking down" process is super cute and I do love the effects in the "loading" room before you meet Tink, but I honestly think it kinda slows the line down!

They bring a few families into room 1, and ask about "how to get to neverland" "faith, trust & pixie dust" and the "pixie dust" on the walls all light up and you're escorted into a new room where Tink is waiting for you!

The room's larger, and it does seem to be a bit darker, but there's many lost things around the room so it doesn't feel super empty. The process as a whole takes a bit, but the line does move faster than the old location!

 

[Sparkly]

That sounds so cute! I can't wait to finally get to meet Tink next trip! I've wanted to meet her for ages

 

[gtpoohbear]

It does look cool - though I'm bummed you can't meet the other fairies We met Iridessa and Rosetta several years ago and it was so much fun.

Does the M&G open when the park does? What about EMH mornings? I don't think we'll bother coming all the way back to the entrance in the middle of the day but it would be nice to stop there first as we are going in.

 

[elyse43230]

This move was such a major let-down. We wanted to meet another fairy at least!

 

[I Love Pluto]

Tink is OK with it. Beats being homeless!

 

[tndisney5]

So it's Tink only?!

 

[mesaboy2]

So it's Tink only?!

Tink only.

 

[sydprincess]

Has it been determined what will now occupy the space she was in in Adventureland?

 

[Cais]

Has it been determined what will now occupy the space she was in in Adventureland?

I've heard food and beverage took it back.

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[nogreenworld]

Tink only.

that's quite disappointing, actually. we met tink a few times in the past, getting to meet tink, rosetta, peri, and vidia.

terence was there one time, but we couldn't wait in the line, so we missed out on him.

i know silvermist used to rarely show up, and that's the one my daughter really wanted to meet.

guess that's not happening.

 

[nogreenworld]

This move was such a major let-down. We wanted to meet another fairy at least!

true. i figured for sure there'd be a zerena this year.

 

[nogreenworld]

true. i figured for sure there'd be a zerena this year.

oops, accidentally sent too soon. we were so impressed when we went one year just a few weeks after secret of the wings came out, and periwinkle was there. my daughter was so excited! there's a whole culture of kids out there into fairies, and the tink dvd's have done a decent job of keeping that franchise interested and fun. surprised they're downsizing her already. i really did think pirate fairy would have an impact and keep it growing for a bit at least.

maybe the most recent movie didn't do as well?

 

[ajwolfe]

Has it been determined what will now occupy the space she was in in Adventureland?

When we were there in May, I do believe that space was empty at the moment.