My, Tinker Bell! How You Have Changed.

[CourtFool]

Three years ago when we visited Pixie Hollow, we met one Tinker Bell. Last year, we met a completely different Tinker Bell. Now I realize it is naïve to think they would have one person playing the part all the time. My overly analytical mind is curious how many Tinker Bells there are at any given time and how frequently those pixies find other, more mundane, employment elsewhere.

It crops up for me because I liked the previous Tinker Bell more. She looked more the part. Do not get me wrong, both ladies were quite attractive and did their best to put their own magic on the part. The second Tinker Bell was also far outshined by Vidia who was absent at the previous visit. This may color my bias as well as I love a good villain.

Am I breaking an unwritten rule by even suggesting the existence of the Fourth Wall? My mind seems to enjoy hoping back and forth between the suspension of disbelief and gainfully employing the critical eye.

I also remember musing with my wife that there was some employee area in a back lot where all of the princesses sat around drinking alcohol and complaining about unruly children with a cigarette dangling from the corner of their lips. I am sure Neverland is far more real than such a place. Still, it brought a perverse sense of mirth to us both.

I do not normally post like this. I am just bored and miss Disneyland and my favorite fairy.

 

[sonnyjane]

Well, I can't answer your question as to how many Tinker Bell's there are at DL, I can offer you some insight into my friend's work at WDW. She is a CM there and has been a few different characters, including Cruella, Cinderella's stepmother, and Maleficent. She has been at WDW for almost 7 years now and each season, i.e. for summer, Halloween, Christmas, etc.), they get new assignments. Sometimes she is dressed as X in the parade daily, other times she is Y in a meet and greet setting. It changes frequently. In other words, she's not always the same character doing the same thing every day. The character CM's put in bids and get assignments based on seniority, etc.

 

[CourtFool]

Thank you for the reply. That is very interesting. I would have thought CM got hired to play specific parts. It never occurred to me they would play multiple parts. I think I would get confused about who I was on a given day.

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

OP, your comment about the princesses sitting around backstage drinking and smoking totally reminded me of the Saturday Night Live skit "The Real Housewives of Disney". They have the whole skit on the NBC website. Goggle it...it is very worth watching. Really funny!

 

[sonnyjane]

Thank you for the reply. That is very interesting. I would have thought CM got hired to play specific parts. It never occurred to me they would play multiple parts. I think I would get confused about who I was on a given day.

Oh yeah, she really gets shuffled around. For example, while she plays a Disney character most of the time, during Star Wars Weekend they needed extra characters dressed as aliens, so she was picked to do that. Sometimes they need extra random dancers in parades, so she'll get assigned there (she hates that part lol). It is really just based on their needs at the time.

 

[karic19]

My daughters first trip to DW we kept running into the same Belle. At every park, even parks she wasnt supposed to be at.. there she was. It was so funny because everytime we saw her even she started to laugh.

 

[ocmommy]

I have pictures of 5 different TinkerBell's with my kid. I keep wondering if she will notice, in the photos its pretty obvious.

 

[perlster]

She'll notice, eventually. Look for "The Adventures of Katie" on youtube, where Dad numbers all the fairies, and Katie has shown an ability to distinguish one from another.

As for Tinker Bell specifically, a couple of friends of Alice are also close to her (as seen in an earlier thread), but there are more pals of Tink's who aren't that tight with Alice. Being a friend of Alice does not always mean you will be seen with Tinker Bell.

One particular friend of Snow White (some call her Giggles) has been known to hang around with Fawn in Pixie Hollow.

 

[Rhonna]

The only one that really surprised us was several years ago at WDW. Sleeping Beauty was definitely showing her age, not a sweet 16, that's for sure! LOL

 

[seabeauty]

I love that my almost 6 year old hasn't figured out the princesses are different in our pictures. Once we rode the rails over to PFF and got there first thing in the morning after a grad night. There wasn't a line at all! We went through, spent a pretty good chunk of time with the princesses, exited and saw there still wasn't a line. So we went right back through! The funny thing was that Ariel and Tianna had switched and my DD never comments on it- although they were really different.

 

[MrsSpfaff]

I can't find Adventures of Katie

 

[Disney Dreams]

Three years ago when we visited Pixie Hollow, we met one Tinker Bell. Last year, we met a completely different Tinker Bell. Now I realize it is naïve to think they would have one person playing the part all the time. My overly analytical mind is curious how many Tinker Bells there are at any given time and how frequently those pixies find other, more mundane, employment elsewhere....

A different Tinkerbell? Hmmm, I only know of one Tnkerbell. She's pretty amazing. She helps Peter Pan, she has pixie dust, and wow can she fly! You know of another?

And what do you mean by "person playing the part"? OH! Wait! I get it! You mean on occasions like Halloween! Okay, I"m with you now. I was confused because only Tinkerbell is truly Tinkerbell.

Oh, and as for how many Tinker Bells there are... you MUST have an imaginative mind because there is only one Tinkerbell. After all, she's pretty good at getting places in a hurry when needed so you really wouldn't need another.

Hope that helps!

Oh, you might be interested in knowing about some friends of Tinkerbell. Many are also friends with other Disney characters that you may be familiar with, as mentioned in above posts.

And I doubt any princesses, or friends of princesses are drinking in a backlot area. After all --- it IS work being magical.

- Dreams

 

[perlster]

OK, it's "Katy", and here are the videos

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

A different Tinkerbell? Hmmm, I only know of one Tnkerbell. She's pretty amazing. She helps Peter Pan, she has pixie dust, and wow can she fly! You know of another?

And what do you mean by "person playing the part"? OH! Wait! I get it! You mean on occasions like Halloween! Okay, I"m with you now. I was confused because only Tinkerbell is truly Tinkerbell.

Oh, and as for how many Tinker Bells there are... you MUST have an imaginative mind because there is only one Tinkerbell. After all, she's pretty good at getting places in a hurry when needed so you really wouldn't need another.

Hope that helps!

Oh, you might be interested in knowing about some friends of Tinkerbell. Many are also friends with other Disney characters that you may be familiar with, as mentioned in above posts.

And I doubt any princesses, or friends of princesses are drinking in a backlot area. After all --- it IS work being magical.

- Dreams

 

[CourtFool]

I totally met Tinker Bell VIII and Vidia I!

 

[dismom73]

My oldest DD has her heart set on being Tinkerbell at DL. She will be going to college in So Cal in 2 years and she wants to do the college work program and she has already discovered she meets the requirements for Tinkerbell. You can't be over a certain height/weight to be the one that goes on the zipline. I'm not sure about the meet and greet one. But she is 4 foot 11 and 92 pounds, fair skinned...perfect for tinkerbell. I just don't have the heart to tell her it's probably extremely difficult to get the part that does the ziplining.

 

[CourtFool]

I wish your DD luck. How cool would that be!

 

[Poohs100AcreWood]

I know of at least 5 friends of Tink in circulation right now, possibly more, but 5 that I know of for sure. I definitely have my favorite, and once that is just "okay" for me. With the exception of one, I have seen all of them play the friends of other characters, like Fawn and Alice.