Tinker Bell

In her most widely known appearance in the 1953 animated Peter Pan film, the character was animated and had no dialogue.

Tinker Bell has been one of Disney's most important branding icons for over half a century, and is generally known as "a symbol of 'the magic of Disney'."

She has been featured in television commercials and program opening credits sprinkling pixie dust with a wand in order to shower a magical feeling over various other Disney personalities, though the 1953 animated version of Tinker Bell never actually used a wand.

In the picture and the official Disney Character Archives, she is referred to as a pixie.

There is an urban legend that the original animated version of Tinker Bell was modeled after Marilyn Monroe.

However, Disney animator Marc Davis's reference was actress Margaret Kerry.

He illustrated Tinker Bell as a young, attractive, blonde haired, big blue eyed, white female, with an exaggerated hour-glass figure.

She is clad in a short lime-green dress with a rigid trim, and green slippers with white puffs.

She is trailed by small amounts of pixie dust when she moves, and this dust can help humans fly if they think happy thoughts.

Since 1954, Tinker Bell has featured as a hostess for much of Disney's live-action television programming and in every Disney movie advertisements flying over Disneyland with her magic wand and her fairy dust, beginning with Disneyland (which first introduced the theme park to the public while it was still under construction), to Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney.

In 1988, the same year The Wonderful World of Disney moved from ABC to NBC as The Magical World of Disney.

That year, she also appeared in the final shot of the ending scene of Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, along with Porky Pig; sprinkling fairy dust on the screen after Porky's trademark farewell as it goes black prior to the closing credits.

She also starred alongside other Disney characters, such as Chip 'n Dale, in many Disney comics, where she was also able to speak.

Tinker Bell also appears as a summon in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games.

At Disneyland, Tinker Bell is prominently featured in Peter Pan's Flight, a suspended dark ride based on the artwork from the animated film.

Beginning in 1961, she was also featured as a live performer who flew through the sky suspended from a wire from the top of the Matterhorn Bobsled Ride at the beginning of the nightly fireworks displays.

She was originally played by 71-year-old former circus performer Tiny Kline, up until her retirement three years later.

On the 2008 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special on ABC, Disney announced that a Tinker Bell float would be added to the classic Disney's Electrical Parade at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort, the first new float to be added since even long before the parade ended its original run at Disneyland in 1996.

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