50 Fun Facts About Tinkerbell

Barrie's Tinker Bell debuted in a 1904 play. In which year was the novel Peter and Wendy published?

Barrie later gave the copyright to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which still benefits from it.

According to Barrie, what job did Tinker Bell do among the fairies?

She is an actual tinker, which is where her name comes from. Her speech sounds like a tinkling bell.

What was Tinker Bell called in the first draft of Barrie's play?

Jane Wren was the joke name printed on the programmes as the actress playing her, which fooled the tax inspector into sending her a demand.

How was Tinker Bell represented in the original stage productions?

Her voice was a collar of bells, two of which Barrie brought back from Switzerland.

Why did Barrie add fairy dust to the play as a requirement for flying?

Originally no fairy dust was mentioned at all; too many young audience members 'needed surgical attention'.

Why, in the story, can a fairy like Tinker Bell hold only one feeling at a time?

So when she is angry there is no compassion to balance it, which explains her jealousy of Wendy.

What is Tinker Bell's favourite insult in Barrie's play, always played by the same four musical notes?

In the musical the four notes are followed by a growl on the bassoon. 'Codfish' is what Peter calls Hook.

How does Tinker Bell save the hero in Barrie's play, before the audience saves her?

Peter then asks everyone who believes in fairies to clap, and the applause revives her.

At the end of the novel Peter and Wendy, what happens when Wendy asks Peter about Tinker Bell?

Barrie's narrator says fairies do not live long, and Peter guesses 'she is no more'.

In Disney's 1953 Peter Pan, what does a jealous Tinker Bell convince the Lost Boys to do?

She tells them Peter ordered it. Later, Hook exploits the same jealousy to learn where Peter's hideout is.

How does Tinker Bell save Peter from Hook's trap in the 1953 Disney film?

Disney replaced the play's poison with a bomb disguised as a present from Wendy.

Which dancer, not Marilyn Monroe, was the live-action model for Disney's Tinker Bell?

Animator Marc Davis had her pantomime the movements. She also voiced one of the mermaids.

Tinker Bell is described as the unofficial mascot of the Walt Disney Company, second only to whom?

She sprinkles the pixie dust in the opening logo of Disney TV shows and flies over the castle at the parks.

Who plays Tinker Bell in Steven Spielberg's 1991 film Hook?

Her Tink wishes herself human-sized to kiss the grown-up Peter, played by Robin Williams.

In Hook, how long does Tinker Bell persuade Captain Hook to give her to restore Peter's memories?

She needs him to remember how to fly, fight and crow so it is a fair fight.

Which actress played Tinker Bell in the 2003 live-action Peter Pan?

Knightley voiced her in the 2011 Neverland miniseries and McIver played her in Once Upon a Time.

Who played Tinker Bell in Disney's 2023 film Peter Pan & Wendy?

She was the first person of colour to play the role.

Which London children's institution owns the Peter Pan copyright?

Barrie bequeathed the rights to the children's hospital. The 7-inch fairy was unveiled in 2005, wresting a thimble from Peter's finger.

Which of these women flew as Tinker Bell over Disneyland every night from 1961 to 1964?

She was a circus aerialist in her seventies. Gina Rock did the job from 1983 to 2005.

How tall was the 2009 Tinker Bell waxwork, Madame Tussauds London's smallest figure ever?

About the size of a hand. The bronze at Great Ormond Street is 7 inches tall.

According to the Disney Fairies franchise, how is a Never fairy born?

The idea comes straight from Barrie. The laugh travels to Never Land and becomes a fairy.

What is the name of the fairies' home in the Disney Fairies films?

The fairies live in the Home Tree at its heart. It sits on the island of Neverland.

Who voices Tinker Bell in the Disney Fairies films, from 2008 to 2015?

Brittany Murphy was originally chosen. Whitman also voiced Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

What is significant about the 2008 movie Tinker Bell in the character's history?

For 55 years she had communicated only through bells and mime. The film went straight to DVD and Blu-ray on 28 October 2008.

What is Tink's 'talent' in the Disney Fairies films?

Tinkers make and fix things. She spends the first film wishing she had a nature talent so she could go to the mainland for spring.

Which of Tinker Bell's fairy friends is the water fairy?

Rosetta is a garden fairy, Iridessa a light fairy and Fawn an animal fairy.

Which ill-tempered fast-flying fairy dislikes Tinker Bell from the start?

She resents Tink's unusually strong talent. By the third film she is helping rescue her.

What is the job of Terence, Tinker Bell's best friend?

He is a sparrow man who hands out pixie dust. Jesse McCartney voices him.

In Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, the blue harvest moon's light passes through what to make blue pixie dust?

Tink is trusted to build a sceptre to hold it, and promptly breaks the stone. Blue dust restores the Pixie Dust Tree.

In Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, what is the name of the human girl who befriends Tink?

Elizabeth Griffiths catches her in a hand-made fairy house and fills a field journal with fairy facts.

In Secret of the Wings, Tinker Bell discovers she has a twin sister. What is her name?

She is a frost fairy from the Winter Woods, and they were born from the same laugh.

Which Pretty Little Liars star voices Tink's frost-fairy sister?

Timothy Dalton voices Lord Milori and Anjelica Huston narrates the film.

In The Pirate Fairy, what is Zarina's talent, voiced by Christina Hendricks?

Her experiments with blue pixie dust go wrong and she leaves Pixie Hollow to captain a pirate ship.

Which Marvel star voices James, the future Captain Hook, in The Pirate Fairy?

Zarina's multi-coloured dust also switches the fairies' talents around mid-film.

What is the name of the creature Fawn befriends in Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast?

He absorbs the lightning from a storm to save Pixie Hollow, then goes back to sleep for another thousand years.

Which Once Upon a Time actress took over as the voice of Fawn in Legend of the NeverBeast?

Rosario Dawson joined as the scout fairy Nyx. It was Disney's last direct-to-video follow-up after a 21-year run.

Which fairy, not Tinker Bell, is the focus of the TV special about the fairies' sporting games?

The garden fairy teams up with newcomer Chloe to try to win the games for the first time.

In the official 2006 sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet, whom does Tinker Bell end up marrying?

They sell dreams to the Roamers, former Lost Boys cast out by Peter. Geraldine McCaughrean wrote it for Great Ormond Street.

In the Peter and the Starcatchers books, what was Tinker Bell before she became a fairy?

She was a green and yellow bird dropped in a bag of starstuff, and prefers to be called 'birdwoman'.

Which fast-food chain featured Tinker Bell in its kids' meals in 1993-94?

That was the year Hook came to video. Her Disney Fairies merchandise empire followed a decade later.

Which actress was first chosen to voice Tink in the 2008 film before Mae Whitman took the role?

The film went through two dozen script versions and several directors, and its budget swelled to almost $50 million before it finally arrived on DVD in October 2008.

Which Oscar-winning actress voices Queen Clarion in the Disney Fairies films?

Clarion welcomes the newborn Tink to Pixie Hollow and oversees the fairies who bring the four seasons to the mainland.

Which Welsh actor voices Dr. Griffiths, Lizzy's sceptical scientist father, in Great Fairy Rescue?

Disney screened the 2010 film at the El Capitan Theatre for two weeks so it would qualify for the Best Animated Feature Oscar; it did not get a nomination.

Which former James Bond voices Lord Milori, leader of the Winter fairies, in Secret of the Wings?

Secret of the Wings was the first Disney Fairies film released in 3D and took about $67 million at cinemas worldwide.

Which Project Runway winner designed Zarina's costumes for The Pirate Fairy?

Siriano said it was his first time designing for an animated character. Natasha Bedingfield sang the film's original song, 'Who I Am'.

Which actress played Tink in season three of ABC's Once Upon a Time?

The episode title nods to Barrie, who originally described the character as 'a common fairy'. McIver went on to star in iZombie.

Who flew as Tink over Disneyland from 1983 to 2005, the longest run of anyone in the role?

She trained three girls to replace her when she retired. Only five people individually flew the role at Disneyland between 1961 and 2005.

Who played Tink in the 1924 silent film of Peter Pan?

Betty Bronson starred as Peter in the same film. Silent film gave the character her first screen outing, but not yet a voice.

Programmes credited a fictitious 'Jane Wren' as Tink. Who sent her a demand?

The joke helped preserve the fairy's mystique. On stage she was really a circle of light from a hand mirror, with a collar of bells for her voice.

Which singer performed 'Fly to Your Heart' on the soundtrack of the 2008 Tinker Bell film?

Loreena McKennitt, who narrates the film, also sang 'To the Fairies They Draw Near', and Celtic violinist Mairead Nesbitt played on Joel McNeely's score.