"Tinker Bell." Topic

"In an early draft of the play, her name was Tippytoe (or Tippy for short). Although the name has come to be written Tinkerbell in common usage, Barrie's original spelling was Tinker Bell. The word tinker is an archaic work for a metalsmith who mends kettles, pots, pans, etc, and this was her occupation, suggesting that she was a lower-class fairy. The expression "a tinker's damn" means something pretty much worthless, reflecting tinkers' reputation for casual profanity, and this was also part of Tinker Bell's original characterization. Bell was presumably chosen as her surname because her voice sounds like a tinkling bell, which is understandable only to those familiar with the language of the fairies. Disney (who changed one of the Lost Boys from Curly to Cubby, and moved Hook's hook to the other arm) stuck with this spelling, and in the Tinker Bell films, they've referred to her as "Miss Bell", recognizing that it's a separate word. Though sometimes ill-tempered and vindictive (getting the Lost Boys to shoot arrows at Wendy), at other times she is helpful and kind to Peter. The extremes in her personality are explained in-story by the fact that a fairy's size prevents her from holding more than one feeling at a time, so when she is angry she has no counterbalancing compassion. Fairies can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust (sometimes called "pixie dust" by Disney, and presented as "starstuff" in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel series). At the end of the novel the suggestion is that Tinker Bell has died in the year after Wendy and the Darlings leave Neverland, and Peter has no memory of her at all."
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She was one of my favourites when I read Peter Pan, but never imagine her like that!

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Hope to take it with humor! (smile).

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Armand

That model makes her look like a cast member of Jersey Shore!

Given that Tinkerbell introduced the minidress in the movie world (3 years before 'Forbidden Planet') I'm not surprised by this… generous vision!
And her fairy size may have prevented her from holding many other things in addition to a single feeling, explaining her mood swings

Tinkerbell is the hottest character from a prudish studio which toned down (spoiled in y opinion: think of what it did to Hiawatha, Arthur, Merlin…) every character it touched. Besides, if fairies are (at least for a part) the last incarnation of pagan spirits of nature, these were associated with fertility rites. Thus a 'pulpy' Tinkerbell is probably closer to a 'real' one than the (relatively) skinny image of the animated picture…

In the Disney cartoon Tink's image was based on Marilyn Monroe.

She was one of my favourites when I read Peter Pan, but never imagine her like that!

Liar!
You are a grown man now, be are between enlightened adult, you can confess the truth !

Then it's true you mentioned reading the story, not discovering it in the Walt Disney cartoon.
Btw Disney betrayed the character of Peter, and thus evacuated the entire meaning of the tale: Peter was a young boy who, by sheer willpower, managed to remain a child. NOT a kind of Elf -and Elves don't have pointed ears, anyway TMP link

Oh, Tink!!! This can't be the right place to post this, she doesn't need more boobies!

Julia Roberts made a fine version of her in "Hook".

You gotta wonder where does the wires for the light that lit up her wings goes into her…

Yeow! I… I… don't know what to say other than

…glad mom never saw this. :)

Mom should not have free access to your room.! Close and lock.! (smile).

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Armand

FAP FAP FAP…
Hey… That was the sound of her wings,
What did you think it was?

Ha!Ha!Ha!.
You made me laught A LOT Richard!!.

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Armand

This can't be the right place to post this, she doesn't need more boobies!

These are NOT boobies, but the pectoral muscles powering her wings
Let's be bold and post the pic, to enlighten the debate:

I always complain about representations of vertebrates with an additional pair of wings on heir shoulders (angels, demons, succubi, some vampires in 'intermediate' form, most of dragons…): not only they have, like centaurs, to come from a world (Barsoom?) were vertebrates have more than two pairs of limbs, but the 'normal' front limbs / arms are set right across the powerful fly muscles (which are missing, as is missing the huge breastbone to attach them).
Insect-type wings, being purely skin expansions, are anatomically less problematic, but the muscles powering them have still to be put somewhere….
'No Mr. Censor, these are not boobies, she's merely sticking out her chest.'

Good point mon ami Jean Louis!

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Armand