what happened to tinkerbell and the ring of belief?

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After the success of the Disney Princess brand, Disney created a Disney Fairies brand based off the character Tinkerbell. This included books, dolls, and an animated movie series. However, the development of the first Tinkerbell movie was a disaster behind the scenes, leading to a version of the movie getting scrapped late into its development. In this video, I tried to trace the timeline of the movie’s development, as well as reconstruct the movie’s plot based on trailers, concept art, and storyboards. Feel free to leave a comment, it makes my day!
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0:00 Disney Princesses and Disney Fairies
8:19 Movie Development
18:36 My Guess at the Plot
45:31 The Drama Continues
57:29 Ring of Belief is Scrapped

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  • @DrFranklynAnderson
    @DrFranklynAnderson9 ай бұрын

    Fairies being born from a child’s first laugh, and dying when they say “I don’t believe in fairies,” is straight from Barrie’s Peter Pan novel.

  • @-VoDkAsVengeance-

    @-VoDkAsVengeance-

    7 ай бұрын

    To be fair, the quote is “whenever a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead,” so it doesn't specifically have to be the same exact kid whose first laugh birthed them. I forgot the specific movie, but I _swear_ there was one where Hook begins saying "I don't believe in fairies" over and over again so the group of fairies in front of him begin dropping like flies. Like, straight up on-screen 1st degree fairy murder.

  • @DrFranklynAnderson

    @DrFranklynAnderson

    7 ай бұрын

    @@-VoDkAsVengeance- Right. Barrie’s original book doesn’t say it has to be the same kid. The exact passage about the beginning of fairies is: _“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”_ _Tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home she liked it._ _“And so,” he went on good-naturedly, “there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl.”_ _“Ought to be? Isn’t there?”_ _“No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”_ Now whether that means the first baby’s laugh became 1000 fairies, and every subsequent baby only created one, we don’t know. Later, once they get back from Neverland: _“I thought all the fairies were dead,” Mrs. Darling said._ _“There are always a lot of young ones,” explained Wendy, who was now quite an authority, “because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.”_ I tried to convince my friends that they needed to put an iron cage around their baby’s head until she had her first laugh, since iron traps fairies according to folklore, but for some reason they were opposed to the idea! 😂😉

  • @ashegrey3042

    @ashegrey3042

    6 ай бұрын

    @@DrFranklynAndersonokay but does this mean there’s non binary fairies? bc i kinda love that 🥰

  • @axelthelad

    @axelthelad

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@ashegrey3042I love that their way of saying NB was just little sillies haha

  • @ashesandposies

    @ashesandposies

    5 ай бұрын

    Perhaps fairies get to choose their gender and if the haven’t chosen yet they remain blue

  • @whatalsaid
    @whatalsaid9 ай бұрын

    The fact that there’s just a (mostly) finished Tinkerbell movie starring Brittany Murphy somewhere in Disney’s basement that has never been seen before by the public is both intriguing and somewhat terrifying to me.

  • @katherine_queen5294

    @katherine_queen5294

    9 ай бұрын

    I Lowkey hope that one day some massive Disney leak happens like the one that happened with Nintendo pretty recently where just EVERYTHING gets shared to the public including this movie

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    This message won't be related to this video but i promise that the message will be a good message and not a bad one and the message is: Will there be a Tangled 2?Keep these scenes in the film:1.Rapunzel stuffs her mouth while eating cookies thus making Rapunzel's cheeks puff out very much and Eugene says "how romantic, i have never seen any one eating like that and that way of eating is awesome" and Rapunzel says in a muffled voice "thank you" and Eugene says "you're welcome" and Rapunzel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her snack.2.Mother Gothel gets revived by her cloak's magic and her cloak fell out of the tower when Pascal used Rapunzel's cut off long hair to make Mother Gothel fall off her tower in back in 2010 and Mother Gothel takes off her cloak and she is very hungry and she voraciously stuffs her mouth while eating bread thus making Mother Gothel's cheeks puff out very much and Mother Gothel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her food and she says "that bread tasted so good and by the way, i am going to find Eugene, Rapunzel and her little chameleon" and Mother Gothel starts hunting for Eugene, Rapunzel and her pet chameleon Pascal.

  • @pokette

    @pokette

    9 ай бұрын

    insane fetish farming comment above me

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    What are you talking about?

  • @loganmiller7827

    @loganmiller7827

    9 ай бұрын

    @abhinavdammu7798 there's nothing else your comment could be but a weird fetish

  • @rinisonline4312
    @rinisonline43129 ай бұрын

    on the whole “why can tinkerbell talk??” thing, i have only vague memories of watching peter pan as a child but i was always my assumption that tinkerbell could always talk but she was so small that peter and other humans couldn’t hear/understand her

  • @dragonofspades2837

    @dragonofspades2837

    9 ай бұрын

    this is exactly what I was thinking! Tinkerbell always "talked", but it always came out in a bell-like sound, I thought this was because she was so tiny, and that part of the video had me thinking maybe I was the only one thinking that 😅😅

  • @twichmcvey6065

    @twichmcvey6065

    9 ай бұрын

    Peter can understand her but because she raised him

  • @XxLostFinalGirlxX

    @XxLostFinalGirlxX

    9 ай бұрын

    I mean.. Pan sure understood her when she called Wendy a big ugly girl

  • @dragonofspades2837

    @dragonofspades2837

    9 ай бұрын

    @@XxLostFinalGirlxX I think he was the only one who understood her tho, right?

  • @XxLostFinalGirlxX

    @XxLostFinalGirlxX

    9 ай бұрын

    @@dragonofspades2837 yup because Wendy even asked Peter what she said because she didn't understand so he had to translate

  • @FG-tu4fq
    @FG-tu4fq9 ай бұрын

    For a guy who was in charge of most of Disney and Pixar's animation division, Lassater sure hates interesting and fun ideas and instead of giving them a chance to be at least finish and release, scraps them to be never seen forever.

  • @-i_own_you_-

    @-i_own_you_-

    9 ай бұрын

    Right.

  • @weathering-the-storm

    @weathering-the-storm

    9 ай бұрын

    I'm always going to be angry at Lassater for firing the original director of the Brave film. It was originally directed by a woman and then lassater fired her for no reason which is why the movie feels like it changes half-way through and loses the focus of the mother daughter struggle because a man finished directing it ugh.

  • @bigboomer1013

    @bigboomer1013

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@weathering-the-stormI thought it was the other way around where she stepped down.

  • @Chloe4656.

    @Chloe4656.

    9 ай бұрын

    I'm still mad we never got that version of fthe film.

  • @Daeneiracorn

    @Daeneiracorn

    9 ай бұрын

    @@bigboomer1013 well of course thats what they'd WANT you to believe

  • @aceoflights.
    @aceoflights.9 ай бұрын

    Even as a kid I was never confused about the fairies being able to talk. I just assumed that they were able to talk to each other but humans just couldn't understand them.

  • @annamelvina216

    @annamelvina216

    8 ай бұрын

    Right? The same logic is used in just about any movie with animals as characters. 101 Dalmatians, Lady and the Tramp, Fox and the Hound all have the same "all the animals can understand each other and the humans, but the humans can't understand animals" logic. It's not a weird concept...

  • @fightinggamegeek9238

    @fightinggamegeek9238

    8 ай бұрын

    That was even conveyed in Tinkerbelle and the Great Fairy Rescue! To humans, Tinkerbelle’s speech sounded like bells ringing.

  • @laraalvarezzz2

    @laraalvarezzz2

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@fightinggamegeek9238 that's what I was about to say

  • @sweethistortea

    @sweethistortea

    7 ай бұрын

    In the books (from what I remember, being able to hear the fairies is a “gift”.

  • @marhawkman303

    @marhawkman303

    7 ай бұрын

    It's kind of spelled out in the book honestly. it's possible for Humans to learn, just not easy.

  • @jordyn7144
    @jordyn71449 ай бұрын

    I think Lassater scrapping an entire movie because he thought it was “unwatchable” only to create a new movie with a very similar plot only it was directed by a man for sure leans towards him just disliking that it was made by a woman and centered around only girls😭😭

  • @ursascorner4865

    @ursascorner4865

    9 ай бұрын

    It makes sense given his track record towards women in the animation industry! Never forget what he did to Brenda Chapman and her original story treatment for Brave.

  • @SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario

    @SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ursascorner4865oh…

  • @SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario

    @SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario

    9 ай бұрын

    Wait are u talking abt the movie we got? Or a different one

  • @musicalglitchsystem8896

    @musicalglitchsystem8896

    9 ай бұрын

    @ursascorner4865 The original brave movie was a lot different from the one we got, I forgot the whole story but after she left it went downhill and we ended up with the movie that’s our today

  • @ursascorner4865

    @ursascorner4865

    9 ай бұрын

    @musicalglitchsystem8896 ik this the original story treatment was called The Bear and the bow. There's an amazing documentary on KZread that goes into detail on why the movie failed. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYaeqq5xm8XRis4.html

  • @xiggles
    @xiggles9 ай бұрын

    The idea of Disney being so particular about the characters existing and interacting with characters from other Disney properties is hilarious to me as a Kingdom hearts fan lol

  • @KaminoKatie

    @KaminoKatie

    9 ай бұрын

    And then they just gave up with that mentality in the 2010's

  • @starthelotus3453

    @starthelotus3453

    9 ай бұрын

    @@KaminoKatie Except with Star Wars and the shitshow that was the marketing and products for Forces of Destiny, but that's another can of worms to get into

  • @grasonoskar7998

    @grasonoskar7998

    9 ай бұрын

    And now there's a LEGO Disney Princess special in D+.

  • @RariettyC

    @RariettyC

    8 ай бұрын

    It's sad to consider that Lasseter probably would have rejected the trailers for Lilo and Stitch where Stitch crashed famous scenes from other Disney movies. As a kid, those trailers convinced me to beg my parents to watch that movie in a theater

  • @mikafizz1022

    @mikafizz1022

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@RariettyCthose are such good trailers!!!

  • @ammymara4868
    @ammymara48688 ай бұрын

    Considering how Brave was originally directed by a woman, but was replaced by a man after disagreements between her and Lasseter, it shows that this isn't a one time situation.

  • @hanibee8729
    @hanibee87299 ай бұрын

    As a kid, I always loved the scene where Tink fixes the music box and then later takes it to the mainland. Something about it always felt special. After watching this video and knowing about the history of the movie, I think that scene would fit perfectly in with the Ring of Belief. So even though so much of her vision was lost, I want to believe that the concept of Tink fixing the music box was Morrill's idea.

  • @valentinaromo6399

    @valentinaromo6399

    9 ай бұрын

    True! Because when you think about it, "Wendy" from the final version of Tinkerbell is just Victoria's character model from Ring of Belief slightly tweaked with the background also edited to look like Wendy's room. Also, the music box key in Victoria's necklace kinda makes me think that the music box was a gift her parents gave to her before she became an orphan. And Tinkerbell fixing it and delivering it to her sounds like the epilogue where Tinkerbell makes sure to protect Victoria's belief of fairies. It kinda sounds that in Ring of Belief, Tinkerbell overall fails to approach Victoria in the first place, which causes her to lose her faith, and it makes her feel bad.

  • @magicalgirlmelanie

    @magicalgirlmelanie

    9 ай бұрын

    I always hated that it was wendy at the end. as a prequel, it didn't make any sense. How can tink so lovingly look through the window and then apparently years later try to murder wendy? Insane lol.@@valentinaromo6399

  • @mmmchkplss1203

    @mmmchkplss1203

    7 ай бұрын

    Also the idea that tinker fairies are the reason why sometimes our lost items reappear or mysteriously start working again after being broken is so magically awesome to me! 🤩 It's like the opposite of gremlins 😂

  • @marhawkman303

    @marhawkman303

    7 ай бұрын

    Fun fact: in the original book, "Tinker-bell" isn't really a proper name. See: When you remember that the fairies speak with a language that sounds like tinkling bells, actual fairy names would logically be tinkling noises. The Lost Boys call her Tinker... because she fixes things they broke. In fact, this is part of what made Tink have a rivalry with Wendy in the book. Tink saw Wendy as competition for her job. So fixing things? That's part of the original idea for Tinker-bell.

  • @supervivo7069
    @supervivo70699 ай бұрын

    As a guy, the Tinkerbell movies were my guilty pleasure as a child. I remember enjoying how all the girls interacted with one another. Male friendships aren't as explored in depth in media in my experience. That being said, this movie definitely seems darker than what we got. However, it also seems too busy. It's impossible to make a conclusion without seeing the final draft, but this movie feels like two plots (the school plot and the Peter Pan plot) crammed into one. It'd be nice if it could be reworked and released.

  • @witchplease9695

    @witchplease9695

    9 ай бұрын

    It’s interesting you say because I always felt the opposite: male friendships are given great dynamics and depth while women are given shallow relationships outside romance. Part of the reason I loved the fairies so much was because female friendships were the focus.

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    @@witchplease9695 i agree with OP. platonic male dynamics aren't explored healthily or with much depth, whereas platonic female dynamics have considerable development and significance in comparison. male friends fighting, for example, aren't seen as severe as when female friends have a falling out.

  • @s__9939

    @s__9939

    9 ай бұрын

    @@rileysjonger4192 literally every movie about a girl friend group is just filled with drama and toxicity and just every single negative stereotypes about women while male groups are showed as chill, laid back and healthy even when they aren't

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    @@s__9939 that's simply not true and a deliberate exaggeration. most male friendships in media are surface-level "bro-code" dynamics existing for the sole comedic purpose of "men stick with men" with no genuine emotion, development, or heartfelt dedication put into them. Whereas female friendships could have drama/toxicity but are often worked into a story of creativity, redemption, and emotion, as regardless, female friendships are written better in terms of development, creativity, support/healthy balance, and its significance to the plot and storytelling, and its ability to realistic resonate with audiences. Turning Red, My Little Pony, Arcane, movies about feminism, Total Drama Island, Tinkerbell, etc. the only examples of stereotypes I can think of that you're talking about are movies like Mean Girls and Jawbreaker but even then, as I mentioned, there is redemption, relatability, and genuine connection made that ties heavily into the story. "friendship makes everything better" is a positive stereotype really only tied to female friendships in media.

  • @obehiikhigbonoaremen1241

    @obehiikhigbonoaremen1241

    9 ай бұрын

    @@s__9939 True. Women are portrayed as catty and betraying one another but their friendships are supposed to be deep and meaningful. Men are portrayed as chill with each other and easy to get along with but their friendships are supposed to be relaxed and casual. So you're both right in a sense.

  • @genevieve2845
    @genevieve28459 ай бұрын

    Silvermist's and Iridessa's original dynamics with tinkerbell sounds SO GOOD in the original tho!! 😭

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah I feel like the movies focus a lot on just tinkerbell instead of her friendships with the other girls. Which I think is a shame, that would have been fun. A lot of the girls get so little screen time. And it’s also weird because if you’re trying to market the fairies as a brand and sell merch of each of them, then wouldn’t it be better if the audience gets more time to connect to them?

  • @genevieve2845

    @genevieve2845

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sarah_serif Ikr and the only exception to this is Fawn. And right when she gets her own movie and you think they’ll finally expand on the other characters THEY END THE SERIES. I will forever be frustrated by this!!

  • @gracekim25

    @gracekim25

    9 ай бұрын

    @@genevieve2845oh yeah 😅

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    @@genevieve2845 and they explored this side character depth with the most BORING fairy. i would've much preferred a movie focused around Silvermist or Rosetta- I just love them too much, and they're so much more interesting and iconic. not that Fawn isn't a good character- she is- but I think other fairies deserved the screentime more.

  • @genevieve2845

    @genevieve2845

    9 ай бұрын

    @@rileysjonger4192 So true. # justiceforsilvermist

  • @crys_cornflakez
    @crys_cornflakez9 ай бұрын

    The idea of ring of belief being this more serious exploration of the existence of fairies and the precarious balance they face just to continue living…….to suddenly become a Romeo and Juliet story with random characters and gender ends ending with a girl group fairy band with a pun name based on The Chicks….😭…something just seems so off

  • @yourfavoriteoompaloompa139

    @yourfavoriteoompaloompa139

    9 ай бұрын

    Right but I do have to say I think I would’ve liked the second one as well

  • @kimuires

    @kimuires

    9 ай бұрын

    @@yourfavoriteoompaloompa139I don’t think I would’ve 💀 it plays off of tropes I hate and feels so emotionally different from the Ring of Belief

  • @marhawkman303

    @marhawkman303

    7 ай бұрын

    @@kimuires I think the issue there is that what we're seeing is a bunch of pieces, that may or may not have ever been meant as a cohesive whole. the band scene could have actually been good if it was early film as something Tink and friends were watching BEFORE the main plot kicks off. Or maybe it was an idea for a different movie? hard to say....

  • @toribees327
    @toribees3279 ай бұрын

    One thing that could back up the boy fairy thing is that when the online game Pixie Hollow first launched, they only had girl fairies. They didn't add sparrow men until much later

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    Ooh good point! Though I do feel like the Disney fairies brand was really marketed as being “for girls” like the princesses, and so I’m sure they were also thinking like “why would we make sparrow men, little girls won’t want that” Misunderstanding that 1) not only little girls like fairies and 2) little girls like role playing as boys and doing romance stories, which was a big thing on kids virtual worlds, so you should just have a boy option. Or do like club penguin and don’t lock the avatar into one gender so you can customize them with whatever gendered items in the gameplay (sorry for the rambling reply lol)

  • @yumejln

    @yumejln

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@sarah_serifthat's a good ramble actually. and totally makes sense from a target demo/marketing to little girls perspective

  • @iwakeupandboomimarat

    @iwakeupandboomimarat

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@sarah_serifmedia conglomerates will never understand the need that 8 year old girls have to pretend to be boys on kids games to date girls

  • @nothingposted9056
    @nothingposted90569 ай бұрын

    So...captain Hook lives in Victorian England, but dresses like a 1700s pirate? That is some theatre kid energy

  • @merefinl6914
    @merefinl69149 ай бұрын

    Just going to point out Lasseter firing the director of Brave, Brenda Chapman, over similar issues. I work in animation and it's a really expensive and petty move to be the lone voice in a studio insisting that something that's almost finished needs to be entirely scrapped. He could have compromised and had a more open mind, but I'm willing to blame him for the fact that this movie apparently went so far over its budget. It's not like they would have saved any money doing things his way.

  • @RariettyC

    @RariettyC

    8 ай бұрын

    It's also interesting that, in both cases, he replaced the female creatives who championed Tinker Bell and Brave as passion projects with male directors who aligned more with his own ideas And by "interesting", I really mean "aggrevating" knowing the allegations of sexism and harassment that eventually got him justly fired from Disney

  • @pillboys

    @pillboys

    8 ай бұрын

    @@RariettyCExactly what I was thinking. The two people who wrote the original draft of TS4 also left because they felt they were not being listened to, and one of those writers was Rashida Jones… Coincidence?

  • @lindensalter6713

    @lindensalter6713

    6 ай бұрын

    Honestly only know him from watching this video but I did get a bad feeling. The woman director of a movie made specifically to market young girls kept getting her ideas shot down over and over again for what felt like stupid reasons. Then the man director comes along and comes up with a different plot that doesn’t even fix the original criticisms and gets approved. The movie that got approved will always hold a special place in my heart but now I wonder what could have been. Thank you for confirming I wasn’t over thinking this Wrote this before watching the last 3 minutes…

  • @brigc7755
    @brigc77555 ай бұрын

    The whole time I was thinking ''wow this movie is DARK'' and then this man comes out and has the audacity to say it's too childish i-

  • @loganmiller7827
    @loganmiller78279 ай бұрын

    When I was a kid, my copy of The Lost Treasure had a physical advertisement piece for the next movie that would come out, called Tinkerbell and the Mysterious Winter Woods or something like that. It had all of the fairies in winter gear in the winter woods, just casually flying around. Not only is that very different from how the eventual Secret of the Wings played out, that wasn't even the next movie they made. I've never been able to find much about this version of the movie. Basically just that piece of paper included with the DVD. If you wanted to make a movie about it and see if you could find any information about this mysterious early movie (pun not intended), I would love to have this mystery I've thought about from time to time figured out

  • @MythicalHex

    @MythicalHex

    9 ай бұрын

    there's a trailer for it with that name

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    This message won't be related to this video but i promise that the message will be a good message and not a bad one and the message is: Will there be a Tangled 2?Keep these scenes in the film:1.Rapunzel stuffs her mouth while eating cookies thus making Rapunzel's cheeks puff out very much and Eugene says "how romantic, i have never seen any one eating like that and that way of eating is awesome" and Rapunzel says in a muffled voice "thank you" and Eugene says "you're welcome" and Rapunzel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her snack.2.Mother Gothel gets revived by her cloak's magic and her cloak fell out of the tower when Pascal used Rapunzel's cut off long hair to make Mother Gothel fall off her tower in back in 2010 and Mother Gothel takes off her cloak and she is very hungry and she voraciously stuffs her mouth while eating bread thus making Mother Gothel's cheeks puff out very much and Mother Gothel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her food and she says "that bread tasted so good and by the way, i am going to find Eugene, Rapunzel and her little chameleon" and Mother Gothel starts hunting for Eugene, Rapunzel and her pet chameleon Pascal.

  • @indiesunflowers

    @indiesunflowers

    9 ай бұрын

    I think it was just the original/working title. I can't find any info of script changes

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    What are you talking about?

  • @loganmiller7827

    @loganmiller7827

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@indiesunflowers maybe. It's just hard to know because it was originally supposed to release before (what became) Great Fairy Rescue, and the only art we have of it suggests a very different story idea (potentially one that actually fits in with the lore of the rest of the series)

  • @philipp6985
    @philipp69859 ай бұрын

    it's crazy to think that a somewhat finished tinkerbell movie is just withering in some archive

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    that should be illegal; hiding away treasure like that. i hope to God SOMEONE leaks it one of these days.

  • @SonicFan2525
    @SonicFan25259 ай бұрын

    As someone who actually enjoys the first Tinker Bell film (its no masterpiece, but I appreciate so much of what its going for) and Disney Fairies branding, this was very fascinating. I knew Lasseter hated the original script and it was mostly scrapped, but I didn't realize things were THIS bad at the studio. I think a lot of what was covered sounds rough, especially making most of the film set in London with Peter and the Lost Boys. But it also seems interesting, especially the darker tone and some of the world building. Maybe one day someone will release the mostly finished version and we can get a better idea of what we would have gotten. Such a great video!

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    This message won't be related to this video but i promise that the message will be a good message and not a bad one and the message is: Will there be a Tangled 2?Keep these scenes in the film:1.Rapunzel stuffs her mouth while eating cookies thus making Rapunzel's cheeks puff out very much and Eugene says "how romantic, i have never seen any one eating like that and that way of eating is awesome" and Rapunzel says in a muffled voice "thank you" and Eugene says "you're welcome" and Rapunzel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her snack.2.Mother Gothel gets revived by her cloak's magic and her cloak fell out of the tower when Pascal used Rapunzel's cut off long hair to make Mother Gothel fall off her tower in back in 2010 and Mother Gothel takes off her cloak and she is very hungry and she voraciously stuffs her mouth while eating bread thus making Mother Gothel's cheeks puff out very much and Mother Gothel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her food and she says "that bread tasted so good and by the way, i am going to find Eugene, Rapunzel and her little chameleon" and Mother Gothel starts hunting for Eugene, Rapunzel and her pet chameleon Pascal.

  • @Meimoons

    @Meimoons

    9 ай бұрын

    ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@abhinavdammu7798 did you just essentially write a fanfic?

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes but you can help me make Tangled 2 happen for real very soon and BTW did you read the Tangled 2 message entirely from the beginning to the ending?

  • @TheLadyLiddell

    @TheLadyLiddell

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@abhinavdammu7798I'm reporting you for spam.

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    sorry

  • @FancyGrlOfficial
    @FancyGrlOfficial9 ай бұрын

    I feel so validated. I have been waiting for this information for 12 years. One of my Disney DVDs had one of these trailers on it and I still wondered why it was so different up to this day! Now I feel dumb. I totally could have found this if I just looked hard enough.

  • @crys_cornflakez

    @crys_cornflakez

    9 ай бұрын

    Me too!!! It always confused little me how different it was

  • @misssnek2213

    @misssnek2213

    9 ай бұрын

    Me too! I remember seeing this trailer as a kid and really wanted to watch this movie. I do not remember which dvd it was on and I was convinced i just made the scene of Tinker Bell disappearing up in my brain. That it was a dream. I'm happy this mystery was finally solved although, I'm really sad this movie never came out and that the franchise is dead.

  • @marhawkman303

    @marhawkman303

    7 ай бұрын

    @@misssnek2213 Yeah, Disney made a new Peter Pan... that had nothing to do with this one. :/

  • @saandyyvh6682

    @saandyyvh6682

    7 ай бұрын

    @@misssnek2213 Same here! Either could have been on a DVD/Bluray promo or something played on Disney Channel I don't fully remember, but I always noticed that the trailer and the final movie were just 'different'. Now I know why!

  • @latenightlistmaker
    @latenightlistmaker9 ай бұрын

    I had no idea Ring of Belief was even a thing, but I remember being so confused by the difference in marketing materials and the actual film that came out. I hope someone who worked on either project comes forward with a story/more concept art!

  • @mictheartist7991
    @mictheartist79919 ай бұрын

    Honestly I would’ve loved this film more than the tinker bell film that we got mainly for the darker story points of the film that match up with how dark some of the pixie hollow fairy books were. But I still love the film franchise that we had gotten from the pixie hollow brand before it was forgotten by Disney and canned once the studio responsible for the films went out of business

  • @wrightcember

    @wrightcember

    9 ай бұрын

    right? i still remember that one scene in the books involving vidia…

  • @oof2104

    @oof2104

    9 ай бұрын

    @@wrightcember what happened to vidia?

  • @wrightcember

    @wrightcember

    9 ай бұрын

    @@oof2104 i dont remember very well, but i’m pretty sure she almost died once lol

  • @crispysquidoftheacidcats295
    @crispysquidoftheacidcats2959 ай бұрын

    Actually in the og books, Tink was a pots-and-pans talent fairy but I can understand why it was changed to tinker-talent fairy. It just makes sense.

  • @moonie1488
    @moonie14889 ай бұрын

    i'd like to go back to an hour ago when i didn't know this movie existed and i didn't have to mourn the loss of a potential tinker bell movie where there was a fairy school. all jokes but still i grew up in love with the disney fairies franchise so this video reached the right audience and the way you put together the plot of this scrapped movie based on just storyboards and articles from yeaaars ago is so impressive. thank you for bringing this all into the light of day and i genuinely hope one day the movie can be recovered unfinished or not. you've done a great service for Tinkerbell lovers and fuck john lasseter.

  • @crys_cornflakez

    @crys_cornflakez

    9 ай бұрын

    Younger me would’ve been obsessed with the school setting and making some sort of fairy characters and imagining fanfiction scenarios of my fairy meeting tink and her friends. The playground fairy playing would’ve been amazing

  • @Chloe4656.

    @Chloe4656.

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@crys_cornflakezSame I would of loved that to as a fan of disney fairies in general.

  • @thatponighoul

    @thatponighoul

    9 ай бұрын

    I hate to break it to you that there's actually TWO cancelled Tinkerbell films where there's a fairy school. Tinker Academy.

  • @laraalvarezzz2

    @laraalvarezzz2

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@thatponighoulI WAS ABOUT TO SAY THIS‼️ Tinker bell lore goes deep, I wish we could've gotten more midia abt her...

  • @amymonemontoya
    @amymonemontoya9 ай бұрын

    I remember when the story of this scrapped movie was coming out into the public, I tried to tell my friend about it and she gave me the most weirdest response, "Get your hands on a demo and watch it for yourself". I was like "WTF how?". It took me years to realize that she wasn't really engaged in the story of how Disney makes the sausage, she was just offended by the negative feedback the scrapped movie was getting, especially by people who hadn't even seen it yet. She always hated hearing negative feedback, so it felt logical to jump to the movie's defense. Even to this day, I feel like it was a dumb response because NDAs are a thing and how the fuck could she tell me to get myself a demo!!!

  • @mictheartist7991

    @mictheartist7991

    9 ай бұрын

    would be cool though if we could get our hands on a demo...darn NDA's

  • @Valentineatelier

    @Valentineatelier

    9 ай бұрын

    I feel like a demo has to exist out there somewhere since it was basically ready...and its been so long too, i can only hope it'll get released somewhere

  • @sydneykelson2877
    @sydneykelson28779 ай бұрын

    this is So vindicating oh my god. i remember as a little, little kid asking my mom when the tinkerbell movie i saw trailers for on our dvds was going to come out, and she'd always tell me that the movie had already came out, that i'd seen it. and i remember that annoying me so much bc there were different scenes and whatnot, so clearly they weren't the same movie. so seriously thank you lmao [i've already watched your other tinkerbell video, so i think it's time to watch your descendants one]

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    Even the final trailer after they pivoted the story (which they have as one of the extras on Disney plus) has a lot of ring of belief animation! It’s crazy that the marketing for the movie all ended up being inaccurate

  • @aruvius
    @aruvius9 ай бұрын

    I love all of the Tinker Bell movies and thought the original was pretty good, but I would’ve loved to see Ring of Belief just because of how dark it seems. I do feel bad for Morill since her passion project just kept getting shot down, but that trilogy pitch was….something. I’m surprised I never heard of this before. I hope there’s a lost media group out there on the hunt for it.

  • @nevaehhamilton3493

    @nevaehhamilton3493

    9 ай бұрын

    John Lasseter is also kinda sexist.

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    This message won't be related to this video but i promise that the message will be a good message and not a bad one and the message is: Will there be a Tangled 2?Keep these scenes in the film:1.Rapunzel stuffs her mouth while eating cookies thus making Rapunzel's cheeks puff out very much and Eugene says "how romantic, i have never seen any one eating like that and that way of eating is awesome" and Rapunzel says in a muffled voice "thank you" and Eugene says "you're welcome" and Rapunzel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her snack.2.Mother Gothel gets revived by her cloak's magic and her cloak fell out of the tower when Pascal used Rapunzel's cut off long hair to make Mother Gothel fall off her tower in back in 2010 and Mother Gothel takes off her cloak and she is very hungry and she voraciously stuffs her mouth while eating bread thus making Mother Gothel's cheeks puff out very much and Mother Gothel makes a very big swallow thus finishing her food and she says "that bread tasted so good and by the way, i am going to find Eugene, Rapunzel and her little chameleon" and Mother Gothel starts hunting for Eugene, Rapunzel and her pet chameleon Pascal.

  • @indiesunflowers

    @indiesunflowers

    9 ай бұрын

    yeah the ring of belief sounds like a good movie - but the sequels sound like garbage.

  • @abhinavdammu7798

    @abhinavdammu7798

    9 ай бұрын

    Tangled 2 will be a good sequel.

  • @Nobody-sf2kx

    @Nobody-sf2kx

    9 ай бұрын

    i wish people were actively looking for it somewhere, but at least there's art!

  • @DaNintendude
    @DaNintendude9 ай бұрын

    This is only partially related, but I remember seeing a trailer for Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue that was pretty significantly different from the final movie. In the actual movie, Tinkerbell makes friends with the human girl she meets. But in the trailer, I remember the girl intentionally kidnapping Tinkerbell and saying "Every museum will want to have one" or something. Maybe it was just the trailer framing the movie in a misleading way, or maybe there was just an earlier version of the movie's plot that happened to show up in trailers idk. All I know if that I remember seeing the final movie and being very confused at how different it was from the trailer.

  • @bemiatto67

    @bemiatto67

    9 ай бұрын

    YESSS and I remember there being clips that the Minister of Summer in those early teasers implying she was gonna have a bigger role

  • @Pop_Candyz

    @Pop_Candyz

    9 ай бұрын

    These comments are so interesting. It seems like every trailer for each movie is a little different than the final result. I saw a comment about how Secret of the wings had an alternate title and slightly different plot, wich I didn't know about. But the trailer for it exists. It's called the Mysterious winter woods. But I've also noticed this with the trailers for the other movies. Like some scenes of The Pirate fairy being changed or some dialogue changes in Legend of the Neverbeast.

  • @m4rtha74

    @m4rtha74

    9 ай бұрын

    I remembered that as well! I just rewatched the trailer of it on youtube and even Lizzie had a slightly different character design to her original. I wonder what else might have changed too.

  • @crystalsnow5046

    @crystalsnow5046

    8 ай бұрын

    I remember seeing the trailer on my ds I forgot which game had the trailer

  • @Elena-ik8sc

    @Elena-ik8sc

    7 ай бұрын

    I THOUGHT I HAD HALLUCINATED THAT TRAILER

  • @LilyLewis771
    @LilyLewis7719 ай бұрын

    “Written by Gail Carson Levine” oh well no wonder it was good. That first set of stories touched my heart REALLY deeply as a pre-teen, and honestly I still find it really beautiful and emotional? The water fairy who gives up her wings is some serious shit; I was so disturbed and fascinated by the description of her wings being severed, and the whole idea of cutting off a fundamental part of yourself, but in return gaining access to a whole world you could never otherwise experience.

  • @igsamiru

    @igsamiru

    5 ай бұрын

    this is one of the books before the movie? I'm curious

  • @haloo_haybay
    @haloo_haybay9 ай бұрын

    I think the reason Lasseter didn’t want Peter Pan in the original Tinkerbell movie, was probably because he didn’t have faith in the project. Obviously, his stance changed after the film started making money and the later films were given heftier plot lines. The first Tinkerbell film has always been fairly boring to me. Honestly, I would actually really like to see this film released someday, if that’s even possible at this point.

  • @haloo_haybay

    @haloo_haybay

    9 ай бұрын

    Also, the fact that they dumbed down Silvermist substantially, feels particularly spiteful.

  • @LuxoDoll

    @LuxoDoll

    9 ай бұрын

    Deberían reiniciar la franquicia…y retomar esto..salvaría a Disney sinceramente.

  • @goranisacson2502

    @goranisacson2502

    9 ай бұрын

    Ah, that IS a point I didn't actually consider- that Lassetter thought primarily of the prestige of the "classic" Disney character Peter Pan, and was afraid that his participation in another direct to video cashgrab sequel would tarnish his name... but didn't have any such particular considerations for Tinkerbell, apparently.

  • @finalfroggitapproaches6418

    @finalfroggitapproaches6418

    9 ай бұрын

    @@goranisacson2502 Maybe because Peter Pan is a main character, and Tinkerbell is a sidekick? Putting Batman in a bad movie is more damaging to the Batman brand than if only Robin is in a bad movie, you know? I imagine that’s the thought process here.

  • @Tsuku_yome

    @Tsuku_yome

    9 ай бұрын

    I like the fantasy and fun vibe of the first film, it's very nostalgic, but I admit I would have liked to have seen a more serious version like the beta version of the film was :")

  • @lovinani7
    @lovinani79 ай бұрын

    >new guy hated cheap cash grabs >Disney starts making cheap remake cash grabs years later KNUCKLEHEAD 😫

  • @gingerrecords5292
    @gingerrecords52929 ай бұрын

    I remember when Lasseter first was made head of WDA, there was a lot of talk about how he "saved" various Disney projects. Pretty much every project between made in the first few years after he came in, they made a huge thing about how the original scripts were "basically unwatchable." It kept coming up in every interview, and even at the time I thought it was weird that apparently EVERY movie WDA had in the pipeline was a complete train wreck that needed Lasseter's intervention to save. And a bunch of movies that had been greenlit also got the ax for the same reasons. Always Lasseter claiming that these works were "basically unwatchable". Now, I'll be the first to admit that some of his points were good, but still, it is interesting that that phrase kept popping up. Then again, Disney Toon studio's track record of quality kind of speaks for itself, so maybe he was on to something with this. The original does sound maybe a bit complicated for it's own good, but it also sounds more interesting than the final product, so...? I guess we'll never know unless it surfaces onto the internet someday.

  • @aspiring.creative.person6092
    @aspiring.creative.person60927 ай бұрын

    The fairies giving tinker bell their pixie dust and dying really brings a new perspective to the phrase “faith, trust, and pixie dust,” huh?

  • @drawingsbyyuli5070
    @drawingsbyyuli50709 ай бұрын

    I would die to see ring of belief , that plot seems darker , more fleshed out characters, character development, orphans, imagination, seeing fairies die ?! Cmon

  • @gabbycoulombe5183
    @gabbycoulombe51839 ай бұрын

    Sooo disappointed this didn't get released, silvermist and irridessa were my favorite fairies and it seems they got so much more development for all their relationships I really wish we would've gotten this version of the fairies crazy how they even had some of the voices recorded lucy liu really put her whole liussy into saying the she cant do it part lmao

  • @illymation
    @illymation7 ай бұрын

    awesome video!! i had no idea there were any lost medias with this franchise :0

  • @grapesauce5091

    @grapesauce5091

    6 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @mscholten
    @mscholten9 ай бұрын

    I know the sequels have a bad rep but I honestly think Prince Charming is a way better character in Cinderella 3 and it’s the best sequel from that era

  • @bigboomer1013

    @bigboomer1013

    9 ай бұрын

    I think what also made the movie good and work out is that it has that "what if" kind of concept. It's just crazy and twisted on how they would change back in time to manipulate charmings memories and changing the glass slippers size to make it fit.

  • @MeLMeLMox

    @MeLMeLMox

    9 ай бұрын

    Cinderella seemed to be only(and first)disney film that has a really good sequel(ignore cinderella II)and live action

  • @pennysanchez7656

    @pennysanchez7656

    9 ай бұрын

    Speaking of the Peter Pan lore, there’s Return to Neverland. One of my favorite Disney sequels during that era.

  • @queenofeverything4004

    @queenofeverything4004

    9 ай бұрын

    There were good and bad sequels. Personally I liked Lion King 2, Cinderella 3, all the Aladdin sequels and so on. Movies like The Emperor's new groove 2 were meh and movies like Mulan 2 felt like they just read a synopsis of Mulan 1 on Wikipedia. But the whole Peter Pan universe was awesome imo

  • @TheLadyLiddell

    @TheLadyLiddell

    9 ай бұрын

    Cinderella 3 had no right to be as good as it was. I think Lion King 2 is also up there in quality (and I liked 1 1/2, I thought it was funny 😅).

  • @junidacosta5977
    @junidacosta59779 ай бұрын

    I honestly think this story is way more engaging than the final movie. I hate the fact they made Terrance a love interest for Tinker Bell in the final movie. And the story about all of them disappearing is way more interesting and made a lotta sense to its source material.

  • @reincenwash

    @reincenwash

    9 ай бұрын

    But wasn't he kinda the love interest in the books too? I didn't read many of them but I remember seeing a page that said Terrance had a soft spot for Tink but was too shy to tell her (or something along those lines), and it had an illustration of the two sitting together, with him (or both? I can't remember) blushing.

  • @junidacosta5977

    @junidacosta5977

    9 ай бұрын

    @@reincenwash Seems like Tink never had any interest in him in the books. She only saw him as a friend of her. There's a version of that fight she had with Terrance in the movie but in the book and it probably came from there

  • @indiesunflowers

    @indiesunflowers

    9 ай бұрын

    @@junidacosta5977in the books, Terrance is literally called "Tink's admirer" lol

  • @genevieve2845

    @genevieve2845

    9 ай бұрын

    YESSSSS!!! TERRENCE HATERS RISE UP!!!!!

  • @mommaname5552

    @mommaname5552

    9 ай бұрын

    we wouldn't get vidia though

  • @galenavang427
    @galenavang4278 ай бұрын

    WE WERE ROBBED OF SILVER MIST BEING SO IMPORTANT T-T

  • @fluff_bunny1885
    @fluff_bunny18859 ай бұрын

    1. the fairy band is so winx season 4 2. the tink breaks the pixie dust cycle plot and has to fix it is basically what happens in tinkerbell and the lost treasure, where tink breaks the moonstone/scepter thing. this totally couldve been pulled from the ring of belief development stages since the lost treasure is only the second tinkerbell movie.

  • @hayleyhellbound9513
    @hayleyhellbound95139 ай бұрын

    Incredibly interesting intro about the merchandising. It reminded me of a thrifted look & find book my kids have from around this era. It’s branded “Disney Bunnies” and features the bunnies from all of their franchises. Apparently it was a quickly failed merchandising strategy.

  • @FancyGrlOfficial

    @FancyGrlOfficial

    9 ай бұрын

    Can you find it and upload a video looking though it.

  • @windowcreeperbird9669

    @windowcreeperbird9669

    9 ай бұрын

    That sounds vaguely familiar.

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes! When I was researching the Princess brand I saw a lot of stuff about a short lived Disney Heroes brand and a canceled Disney Dwarves brand. It’s interesting what they tried to do, and what ended up sticking

  • @faithmoir1637

    @faithmoir1637

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sarah_serif i have a disney edition of the game sorry! and it has like the weirdest combination of characters ever. one team is villains and it’s maleficent, hades, hook and someone else (the four player was lost long ago); another is like. animals i guess? and it’s bambi, winnie the pooh, dumbo, simba; the third is princesses but jessie from toy story is there for whatever reason (whole team is ariel, snow white, cinderella, and jessie); and the fourth is like heroes, and it’s hercules, buzz lightyear, tarzan and peter pan. i think it gives insight into the various lines they had going on in the early aughts.

  • @HayLeesHomeMade

    @HayLeesHomeMade

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@faithmoir1637the fourth villain was Cruella DeVille, just looked it up

  • @gypsywoman9140
    @gypsywoman91405 ай бұрын

    I was hoping this franchise would keep going until Tinkerbell meets Peter and decides to stay with him. That in itself is a story worth telling.

  • @strawberrysprite
    @strawberrysprite9 ай бұрын

    this was such a great and well researched video! it’s so silly that this movie is probably sitting out there, almost complete, cancelled because l*sseter had an unreasonable amount of hate for it also i had noo clue about the pixie chicks animation and the proposed trilogy where fairies discover heterosexuality 😭 that would have been … something

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    Honestly the most unrealistic thing about Tinkerbell is the idea that any of these fairies would be straight

  • @crys_cornflakez

    @crys_cornflakez

    9 ай бұрын

    Or even if they’re straight, the relationships are definitely queer. Tink and Terrence….one of them is trans at the minimum.

  • @genevieve2845

    @genevieve2845

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sarah_serif preach

  • @zacharyjochumsen9677

    @zacharyjochumsen9677

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@crys_cornflakezand they sat tink might acthully be bi

  • @TheMassacre-ip7bw

    @TheMassacre-ip7bw

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sarah_serif exactly like, Tink LOVES Vidia ( in my mind XD ) Iridessa and Slivermist Bro they love each other XD

  • @chiaratraber5885
    @chiaratraber58859 ай бұрын

    That scene where the other girls gave Tink their dust and disappeared just really made me wonder what watching the whole movie would have been like. Also I'm pretty sure like you said that Morrill surely made some mistakes like things she should have done better but I don't know the whole thing with Lasseter just felt kinda fishy, like something doesn't feel right there, too bad that we're probably never going to know the full story. I also thought it was kinda interesting the director whose pitch won later said that it was basically all Lasseter's concept and how much Lasseter was later presented as the hero. Kinda seems like the guy thinks pretty highly of himself and just likes people to kiss his ass and I also definitely got the vibe that there had to have been sone kind of personal issues involved in the decision making

  • @mauritsponnette
    @mauritsponnette9 ай бұрын

    I don't know anything about Lasseter, but as a lover of the first Tinkerbell movie (especially the first six minutes where the lore is explained and Tinkerbell is born) I'm glad that the plot wasn't about believing, but instead about nature. Traditionally, fairies are nature spirits that bring the seasons, so to me the film is quite faithful to real life lore and myth. I always get super warm and cozy listening to the soothing voice explaining who teaches animals to growl and who crafts the snowflakes. And then the dandelion seed travelling through a nighttime Pixie Hollow with a beautiful score as fairies wake up in their flower beds and all flock to the Pixie Dust Tree. I can't know for sure what the Ring of Belief movie would have been like, but I'm grateful for the Pixie Hollow we got.

  • @soup9884

    @soup9884

    7 ай бұрын

    omg you explained it so perfectly!! There's so much I want to say but i completely agree, while ring of belief sounds nice and has ELEMENTS that I would've preferred the released films to have (more focus on their friendships maybe and no Terence). The released films gave us such a better magical world and has so many details that are so precious (Tinkering machines, tiny fairies and their interactions with a big world, changing seasons, etc) that we have no guarantee the ring of belief would've gave. Plus the plot points are just a bit confusing (granted this is just an analysis of pieced together content that was found) and its more direct connection with peter pan just seems so restrictive. The only reason why I would want it to be released is just so we can get another tinker bell movie, but what we have had is amazing, even with its flaws, and what I hear other people talk about how ring of belief would've been seems a lot like their own theories and imagination than what we actually saw.. But yes the released films are so precious I'm glad we got them at least.

  • @mauritsponnette

    @mauritsponnette

    7 ай бұрын

    @@soup9884 thank you for your comment!

  • @mahaliathompson3639

    @mahaliathompson3639

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your comment! I completely agree. A lot of people are saying they like the darker theme of ring of belief but that’s exactly why I don’t like it and why I live the movie we do have. I love their lightheartedness. My first reaction to this movie was thank goodness for John Lassiter because I dislike th ring of belief plots and their sequals. But hearing more about him… eehhhh

  • @user-pj2vr7jy5u
    @user-pj2vr7jy5u9 ай бұрын

    Personally, I LOVE the fact that TinkerBell has a speaking role in the franchise! I liked the original Peter Pan version of her, but I always wished that she spoke in the movie, so it's really nice to see that change in her movies later on. Also, I would love to see TinkerBell and the Ring of Belief as a 7th TinkerBell film, and then maybe the other scrapped TinkerBell movie, "TinkerBell: Tinker Academy" as the 8th TinkerBell film💚 EDIT: Also, I think having Mae Whitman go onto the TinkerBell movies was a wonderful idea! I don't mean any disrespect to the late Brittany Murphy, but Mae has always been my favorite actress, and TinkerBell is what introduced me to her!🥰

  • @awhimsyreader9015

    @awhimsyreader9015

    9 ай бұрын

    Same like Brittany Murphy is a wonderful actress but for me personally Mae Whitman was literally the perfect Tinkerbell

  • @indiesunflowers

    @indiesunflowers

    9 ай бұрын

    how would they even make a tinkerbell franchise without her speaking? ☠️

  • @parisknight1840

    @parisknight1840

    9 ай бұрын

    @@indiesunflowerssilent movies exist

  • @MostlyAnimatedSketches
    @MostlyAnimatedSketches9 ай бұрын

    Hey! I'm the person who put together the compilation of released stuff from Ring of Belief (it's the video seen on the lost media wiki page lol). Really enjoyed this video. I definitely agree that both versions of the movie have their own pros and cons. There was this google doc that was shared around -- not sure where it's from -- that said something about the test screenings doing poorly because there were too many fart jokes and "lesbian overtones" (lmao) in it, and like... yeah I can definitely see the former being true. I feel like some of the things that ended up being in the final version of the film could have enhanced the scrapped version. I actually also think that Peter Pan should not have played a major role in the film, because I like the structure of the movies building up to him and Tinker Bell meeting. But a small cameo like Wendy ended up having, that would have been cool. And I actually think I see where Lasseter was coming from with the whole Wing Maiden/imagination thing, because "spreading imagination" is such a broad concept. I like that each talent in the final film has their own role in changing the seasons, and I think more of an emphasis on each fairy finding out what their specific role is would have been cool. Another thing I don't like about the original draft is the fairy school... it just feels kind of cheap lol but I'm sure it could be transformed into something more fitting for this fictional universe. Also, the heteronormative Romeo and Juliet idea SUCKS. On the other hand, I think that going to the mainland being specifically a "changing the seasons" things is incredibly limiting because there are so many talents that have nothing to do with nature. The final film is also very safe. It's a fun time, but I do feel cheated from the intense story that the original film would have had. I always thought it was kind of a waste that the film series ended up being mostly stories you'd see in the smaller chapter book series, when they could be so much more epic. Also, for the record, I prefer the original designs over the final ones (although I don't mind the changes). I love that the friendship between Tink and her friends would have been a little more fleshed out, because I feel like in the final films we didn't really get to know them that well. Silvermist especially, I feel, gets reduced to being the dumb one more and more as the series progresses. A lot of the elements in the Ring of Belief version of the movie probably could be spread out over the course of the series. Whatever they had planned for Hook seems way more coherent with previous canon than what we got in The Pirate Fairy. The CGI also looks nicer in the scrapped version, I prefer that art style way more. And Tink's characterization seems more in line with her character in Peter Pan. I hope the Morrill cut gets released eventually somehow lol, because this is all just so interesting. Also, I think Joel McNeely made a different score for that cut of the movie, judging from what we hear in the trailers, and I would love to hear more of that.

  • @MostlyAnimatedSketches

    @MostlyAnimatedSketches

    9 ай бұрын

    This is one of those cases where I wish that Disney Fairies and other girls franchises were treated like superhero franchises were treated lol, because I think seeing more than one person's expression and interpretation of what they like in a franchise is really cool and I wish Disney Fairies could be reincarnated in the same way. I wish that one movie *potentially* not being very good or to someone's liking wouldn't be the end of the world like it was here.

  • @EpixAndroid

    @EpixAndroid

    9 ай бұрын

    Also, in 2007 there used to be a game on the Disney Fairies website called “Hopeful’s Quest” where you had to complete a test in the “fairy school” that was a big part of Ring of Belief, and was administered by Fairy Mary in her purple outfit. They later revised this game with newer art in 2008, but I figured it was worth mentioning.

  • @olliesthreeleafclover

    @olliesthreeleafclover

    9 ай бұрын

    TOO MANY FART JOKES??? HELP

  • @galenavang427

    @galenavang427

    8 ай бұрын

    LMAO TYTY

  • @primordialgazpacho

    @primordialgazpacho

    8 ай бұрын

    not here for the fart jokes but i would have LOVED to see the version with lesbian overtones

  • @littlebones4441
    @littlebones44419 ай бұрын

    I was a Tink performing at WDW in the early 2010s and we were trained to say that our voices were too small for humans to hear and that's why she sounds like a bell in the Peter Pan films!

  • @deerlyqueery
    @deerlyqueery9 ай бұрын

    I feel like Tinkerbell did graduate but it's revealed she cheated to graduate or something so they revoked her fairy dust

  • @spontaneouslycombusted7664
    @spontaneouslycombusted76647 ай бұрын

    Ok but can we please start a lost media search for ring of belief cause after watching the clips i really wanna see it now ☹️

  • @taylorvictoria3285
    @taylorvictoria32859 ай бұрын

    This scratches an itch in my brain I’ve forgotten about for ten years or more. As a kid I always wondered why the dvd trailer was so different than the real movie.

  • @irisfilmproductions
    @irisfilmproductions6 ай бұрын

    Omg the artwork of the fairy books brough back such a core memmory for me, the character design was GORGEOUS

  • @aurorasowerbii
    @aurorasowerbii9 ай бұрын

    I think this is a proper use of the term “we were robbed from!” Because lasseter robbed the ALMOST FINISHED movie concept

  • @funsix1
    @funsix19 ай бұрын

    Ring of belief would’ve been a great conclusion for the Tinker bell series

  • @funsix1

    @funsix1

    9 ай бұрын

    They could’ve use the band assets for the first movie after they come back from saving spring

  • @vaehtay
    @vaehtay9 ай бұрын

    Im not some professional artist or anything (yet, at least) but as an artist in general, I just wanna say it’s really neat to see someone acknowledging how much of our work and projects in general go unseen. It’s on a lesser scale, but I have SO many unfinished sketches and concepts just sitting on dozens of hard drives because of lack of motivation, or not having enough time, or simply because I decided I didn’t like them, and none of them will ever see the light of day. There’s definitely so much art and creativity out there that will never be viewed, even if it’s from hobbyists and not massive studios.

  • @icecreamhero2375
    @icecreamhero23759 ай бұрын

    I notice how in the original version Tinkerbell is more in line with her original jerkish character. In this version, they turned her into Ariel.

  • @azzarox6661
    @azzarox66619 ай бұрын

    "There was a lot of concept art of them together" my first thought when I heard that was, "AND THEY WERE ROOMATES!"

  • @asuka1993
    @asuka19939 ай бұрын

    I still have a pillow case someone gave me that has the original disney fairies designs on it and its black and white because it came with markers intended to color it but the markers were awful so I left it as is! I adored the original fairy designs. It felt more fantasy themed, almost leaning into like the styles people wear while larping at a renaissance faire. I was sad to see their designs change so drastically for the movies. :(

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    Disney loves to butcher creativity for the sake of capitalism. it's gross and uninspired.

  • @bigsmellbad1187
    @bigsmellbad11879 ай бұрын

    Seeing the 2D test animation and photos... Man we really could have had a banger. It makes me so sad that even though most of the Tinkerbell movies are good, it could have slayed severely

  • @senink
    @senink9 ай бұрын

    As a person who loves both Peter Pan and tinker bell It wouldve been interesting to see the ring of belief However i don’t know about Peter being in the first movie of tinker bell Sense it’s a franchise it would be weird to show Peter Pan so early on. It would’ve been interesting for a final movie. Which is possible that’s what they were planning based on the movie I mean hook eventually shows up but isn’t really a captain yet and is young In the first movie they reference the little girl at the end is Wendy when she was way younger as well So it probably was a plan to eventually have a movie where tink and peters friendship began But I don’t think they were able to make all the movies they were hoping for unfortunately, I would’ve love to seen it though

  • @yamarryvizcarra3120

    @yamarryvizcarra3120

    9 ай бұрын

    I could be wrong but wasn't there supposed to be 2 more Tinker Bell movies. And in one of them we were going to meet Peter Pan and learn his backstory and Captin Hooks backstory as well.

  • @stellarbabe
    @stellarbabe9 ай бұрын

    I think I agree with you on the possible sexism thing. I also think it just has to do with "girl franchises" in general, he may have called it unwatchable because they were making a movie for young girls, an audience he is not a part of.

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    maybe. he still wanted to be in production and he even included wendy in the final film. i think this is just a case of slandering creativity for the sake of a quick buck.

  • @shirokyuubi3284
    @shirokyuubi32845 ай бұрын

    I'm somewhat surprised she didn't talk about Tinker Academy, supposedly it was going to be the seventh movie, but was scrapped. I didn't know about this until I watched another video talking about Tinkerbell. Then again, there isn't a lot of information about it aside from concept art, but I still would have liked her input on it.

  • @mams3862
    @mams38625 ай бұрын

    A core memory of mine is seeing a tinker bell preview on a disney DVD and being so confused when the tinker bell movie came out and it didnt match the trailer

  • @Ravenna.E.Blackbird
    @Ravenna.E.Blackbird9 ай бұрын

    24:19 I...genuinely thought, for all these years, that this whole segment (along with their subtle outfit variations) was some form of oddly vivid *fever dream* from my early childhood. Seeing all of this show up on screen made me actually second-guess my concept of reality for a solid 10min 😭 Thank you for all the thorough research you've put into this project, this has been a very enjoyable hour

  • @davelewandoski4292
    @davelewandoski42929 ай бұрын

    I wish they continued making a least a few more Tinker Bell movies. I mean, they already had a young Wendy in the first movie, and then Hook, Smee, and the crocodile in The Pirate Fairy. Having the film series end on a movie where Tink finally meets Peter Pan would've been the perfect way to lead into the Peter Pan movies.

  • @MSSProductions1
    @MSSProductions19 ай бұрын

    Back then, I was totally scammed into buying the first tinkerbell DVD because it said "how tinkerbell met peter pan" and I was like oh, interesting. BUT no peter pan, it didn't even feel like it played in neverland

  • @jmalexander
    @jmalexander5 ай бұрын

    I wish you had talked about the lore of Return to Neverland, i know its not a beloved movie... But i really like it. And it talks about fairies not being believed in anymore.

  • @rylievoyles9719
    @rylievoyles97199 ай бұрын

    So as a little kid about 3 or so, I remember seeing that trailer on DVDs and being so excited for a Tinkerbell movie. When it eventually came out and was nothing like the movie I wanted to see, 5-year-old me was DEVASTATED. For years my mom and I have wondered what happened to that original movie.. Thank you for solving this mystery that has seriously bothered me for 3/4ths of my life.

  • @nixthedork3429
    @nixthedork34299 ай бұрын

    If I had to guess the "ring" was possibly linked to how when fairies talk it sounds like "bells ringing". And maybe it's only able to be heard of you believe in fairies so you get the 'ring of belief'

  • @blizzybee222
    @blizzybee2229 ай бұрын

    I was obsessed with fairy’s as a kid and I think they used a lot of the concept from ring of belief in the pirate fairy. I remember watching that trailer and just thinking it was teasing how fairy’s interacted with people, I was sad the girl wasn’t in the movie tho. I never read the books and understood why tink couldn’t talk to humans but could talk to the fairies those bloggers just gotta get good ig

  • @armyforlife3191
    @armyforlife31915 ай бұрын

    You did a lot of research. I didn’t know the behind the scenes was so in depth The dude that was an assh*ole giving the instructions, just simply hated whatever the animators did. It’s insane that his word/opinion regarding the movie, were put ahead of the CEO’s own opinion!! If the movie was literally almost done, it’s common sense to finish it and release it.

  • @sakurap95
    @sakurap959 ай бұрын

    Fairies bringing the magic of the seasons is (to me) a much smarter magic system than fairies being responsible for kid’s “imagination”. For one, the “imagination” system treats humans like cattle. Fairies live because of belief in them, so therefore fairies are able to control how they interact with humans and inspire that belief. Why even bother to imply having different talents when all you have to do is show up in front of a kid, flying with your wings? It treats belief like a currency. Instead, by interacting with nature, it inspires the idea to kids that they might have caught a glimpse of a fairy at work. Therefore inspiring that belief. Second, it breaks fairy lore about rules of being seen by humans and that intrinsic link with the power of belief. And weakens the risk of dying of disbelief. Third, the use of their talents to have magical affects on the world (and not humans, in this case) is still in line with fairy lore and creates an entire ecosystem that the fairy culture is based around. Instead of directing their focus on making children believe, their powers can be used in endless creative ways in their environment, or for whatever adventure they’re on. In this way, the nature system brings magic to our world and belief isn’t something even the fairies can (entirely) control.

  • @elenpena42564
    @elenpena425649 ай бұрын

    It's probably a matter of time before someone gets a hold of the basically finished version and puts it out there on the internet

  • @ashrimpcalledhank
    @ashrimpcalledhank8 ай бұрын

    For years I liked to say that when Tink was removed from the Princess line she was so angry she was threatening to expose Disney secrets going back to the 1950s the only thing Disney could do to calm her down was to give Tink her own franchise.

  • @genevieve2845
    @genevieve28459 ай бұрын

    I just wanna say I am OBSESSED with these videos. I honestly hope this becomes a tinkerbell focused channel bc my love for the Disney Fairies franchise is growing stronger each day. (side note: apologies for overfilling ur comment section with FOUR comments already, can you tell this obsession is spirally already?)

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    I definitely have lots more Disney fairies videos planned (and some other topics too!) And don’t worry, I love comments!

  • @sleepy_cricket
    @sleepy_cricket4 ай бұрын

    what sucks the most is that the money sink for ring of belief was probably a MAJOR factor in the studio's eventual bankruptcy. i mean, it was a small secondary studio that was probably always going to go down, but they made a whole fucking movie and john lasseter got it scrapped. the only thing he really did was kill disneytoon faster.

  • @24kgoldplatedvermeil
    @24kgoldplatedvermeil9 ай бұрын

    Also, most disney princess films begin with a book opening and the film starting. So its like a fairytale book opening and theyre reading it to you. So most likely they were going to include that at the start and those were the concept drawings

  • @bookishchef

    @bookishchef

    9 ай бұрын

    I like that idea a lot

  • @gloomiiii
    @gloomiiii7 ай бұрын

    It’s genuinely so sad that somewhere out there, this cancelled movie is just sitting there. I’d love to see this and I’m a 14 year old boy lol.

  • @imjustvibinglol
    @imjustvibinglol5 ай бұрын

    i know this isn't suuper related but one of the BEST childhood memories i have is of the original tinkerbell ds game, i LOVED playing it and was heartbroken when i eventually lost it in my teen years, i also had a wizards of waverly place ds game, and borrowing one of the hannah montana ds games for a day, but that tinkerbell game was one of my FAVE games of all time

  • @deee71194
    @deee711949 ай бұрын

    This was a really great video! Ironic that the guy who was so vehemently against cash-grabs at one point would go on to write and promote cars 2 😬

  • @pochijp

    @pochijp

    7 ай бұрын

    isnt cars 2 like the worst

  • @radicalradical7437
    @radicalradical74378 ай бұрын

    Infuriating how one man can come in and trash so many people's years of hard work

  • @squirrel9920
    @squirrel99209 ай бұрын

    They were going to make it 2D, and then they went with 3D? That is extremely sad. Especially for a franchise with the illustrations they had.

  • @khfan4life365
    @khfan4life3659 ай бұрын

    I always preferred the books to the movies. The first one was adorable, but I was already accustomed to the books and found it a bit disappointing that it didn’t line up with the books. We didn’t see Rani, Fira, Bess, Prilla, and Beck.

  • @RebeccaGunn
    @RebeccaGunn9 ай бұрын

    So your background is pretty good but just for additional context - Pixar was considered *the* hot animation studio of it's time. Cars hadn't come out yet which was arguably the start of Pixars struggle to stay top quality. At the same time, Disney was in a weird hot mess and it wasn't just Disneytoon that was the problem. The films that would become Meet the Robinsons (which I think was also pretty much done but had a Lassetter demanded re-do of certain scenes), Bolt, Tangled, Enchanted, Malificent were *all* in development hell around this time and Disney top brass seemed to believe making Lassetter head of Disney's film production would allow him to magically fix everything. Plus they wanted to make their own CGI dept to challenge Pixar as the original 10 film contract they had with Disney would be up with the release of Cars. Disney had already decided there was no future for 2D animation and was pivoting to their own CGI departments to prepare for a Pixarless future - Tangled had already gone from 2D to CGI in it's own development. What really happened is Lassetter seemed to do a round robin tour to see all these projects shortly after he got the role, then got into fistycuffs with the creatives. Chris Sanders I believe left Disney pretty much because of how Lassetter barged into the project for "American Dog" and changed it massively to Bolt. The team behind Meet the Robinsons didn't appreciate the exec meddling as well. It was definately sold via insider talk as Lassetter "saved" these projects when really it seems he told creatives it was his way or the highway...and a lot of those creatives decided to take the highway to other companies like Dreamworks. The projects came out but most of them bar Tangled did pretty poorly. On one hand, there had certainly been a lot of time wasted with the creative teams not really knowing how to get these projects off the ground, on the other - while having this new boss come in and immediately create order was great for the shareholders. It massively impacted all these projects in some form and I don't think Lassetter ever really delivered quite on being the savior everyone thought he would be for Disney animation.

  • @sarah_serif

    @sarah_serif

    9 ай бұрын

    This time period in animation seems like just a big mess, especially with the transition to 3d

  • @rionaka8835
    @rionaka88359 ай бұрын

    The reasoning behind Timkerbell being able to talk but not being able to later seems simple. I thought the implication was that they always could talk but it sounds like a bell sound to humans ears (hence the name Tinkerbell). It’s too high pitched to too magical or something for them so that’s all they can hear. And so by later movies (I don’t think she talks directly to any humans in the following Faerie movies) and Peter Pan she’s mostly given up and let’s her actions speak for her. Why this seemed to go over reviewers heads Im not sure if other then it probably being a LONG time since they saw Peter Pan and just remember seeing her used in other material where she didn’t talk (which again is explained away by having no one to talk to or just humans to interact with, so it matches up with the original movie).

  • @rileysjonger4192

    @rileysjonger4192

    9 ай бұрын

    the 3rd installment of the Tinkerbell movie franchise literally explores this. Faries can't talk to humans because it sounds like tiny little bells being jingled, which makes complete sense. whenever Tinkerbelle tried to talk to the human girl that captured her, it sounded like jingling. Tink understood Isabella but she couldn't understand Tink. i don't get why people have such a gripe with this... it's a matter of interaction. if she can't have a conversation with humans, of course she'll seem mute, but to other fairies, this won't be the case, lol.

  • @blueyblue5831
    @blueyblue58319 ай бұрын

    As someone who loved the movies as a kid and now, I think they made the right choice on the changes. Although I am interested to see this "darker" version of the movie, It definitely had some big flaws in it that would of dated the movie & made it unenjoyable as a adult.

  • @Ioonatic
    @Ioonatic3 ай бұрын

    ring of belief sounds sm more interesting bro

  • @sandraestrada3295
    @sandraestrada32958 ай бұрын

    speaking on the princess pink void, i get so happy when i see merch where the princesses are actually interacting. I saw a hallmark gift bag that had them like hugging. You can actually see their personalities shine through too. For example you can see how excited rapunzel was and bear hugging like princess tiana i think.

  • @bemiatto67
    @bemiatto679 ай бұрын

    This video was incredible, I NEED you to talk about the original Little Mermaid 3. That teaser still runs in my head rent free cause of how wildly different it is from the Ariel's Beginning movie we got

  • @eduneyra2003

    @eduneyra2003

    9 ай бұрын

    omg tell us about that teaser

  • @bemiatto67

    @bemiatto67

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@eduneyra2003 so yt isn't letting me post the link to the trailer, but it'll show up if you type up Little Mermaid 3 teaser on KZread. And I know it's official cause this was shown on Disney DVDs. It uses edited footage of the first movie so it must've been pretty early in development but here's a run down of the teaser: A ship is sailing through a strong sea storm, lightning strikes the ship and catches it on fire as the ship then explodes. Then we're shown a sea shell necklace (presumably Melody's necklace from The Little Mermaid 2) sink into the depths are we hear Ariel ominously singing and we see two eyes as the teaser ends.

  • @valeriaaaa9029
    @valeriaaaa90299 ай бұрын

    I always wondered why the final movie never had that human girl in the trailer but didn't think much of it since I was still a kid, so this answered my question, thank you 🤣 to think that the whole tinker bell movie was a big deal back in the day. I just wish they'd release more of the original content publicly online, all the constant rewriting makes the tinker bell lore more interesting..

  • @sailorstarfairy1
    @sailorstarfairy19 ай бұрын

    I was and still am annoyed that when you look at the dvd cover art for the first three or four Tinkerbell movies show the tree on the spine of the DVD cover and it's incomplete because the last movie was pirate fairy and it doesn't finish the tree 🙄

  • @Sydtheswiftie13
    @Sydtheswiftie139 ай бұрын

    I feel like I used to know everything about Disney but I swear I thought they started thinking about the princess branding after the success of The Little Mermaid like around 1995. It’s crazy to me that so many people were against making the Disney princesses a brand lol

  • @JohnGrecArchibald
    @JohnGrecArchibald9 ай бұрын

    Ring of Belief comes across as a Tinker Bell take of Winx Club or W.I.T.C.H. it would’ve made too much fairy type magical school girls. And the Peter Pan and lost Boys would’ve drag the Tinker Bell and fairy friends attention down. The 1st Tinker Bell somehow helped grounds the whole Fairy lore and now everytime I see Tink I always associate her with Pixie Hallow rather than Peter Pan, I think they could’ve made the Ring of Belief plot minus the fairy school as part of the franchise and tie something up on how they might lost the pixie dust and belief from children. With all the sequels we have that talks about where and how Pixie Dust works plus visiting the main land and children’s laughter is what the fairies came from Ring of Belief would’ve been great as the 8th movie as it helps build up Tink’s journey from Pixie Hallow until meeting Peter Pan. I didn’t know that there was so much history prior to the 1st Tink movie, such a great video. Amazing work putting up all materials that we have and yes JL is creepy 😂

  • @leonardomapache
    @leonardomapache9 ай бұрын

    I hate the narrative around Sharon Morrill, as if she wasn't trying to push Disney Toon to something with artistic integrity. I need her version. Her departure from Disney conincided with that of talents such as Chris Sanders, Brenda Chapman and Alan Menken, so talent wasn't an isue.

  • @DrawpinionDump
    @DrawpinionDump9 ай бұрын

    I'm in love with the plot for this old movie! It sounds so dark, which is not what I was expecting! I would also like to see more of the relationship between Silvermist and the rest of the gang, I'm interested in how she'd be the "glue" of the team :o

  • @tinybullfrog1955
    @tinybullfrog19558 ай бұрын

    Seeing that scene of Victoria getting a glower crown definitely unlocked a memory.

  • @Pixelayedfae
    @Pixelayedfae9 ай бұрын

    I want to belive ring of belief still exists and hopefully one day it gets leaked with all kinds of scrapped movie concepts.

  • @lilacnoonsnomore
    @lilacnoonsnomore8 ай бұрын

    We dodged a bullet from the trilogy idea, still would've loved to watch Ring of Belief

  • @dollsareageekbestfriend1777
    @dollsareageekbestfriend17779 ай бұрын

    You did such an amazing video! This movie was one of the biggest disappointments from my childhood, waiting almost two years for the movie to be released and been absolutely different from the trailers and books. But, despite all that I grew to appreciate the final movie in certain points like the whole thing with the fairies changing the seasons really gives a propuse to Pixie hollow and the art style looks better without the extremely large eyes and lashes, but still the final movie has the big problem of been oversimplistic along with barely giving screentime to other fairies, but the ring of belief also has it's own problems. The whole Fairy school concept seems out of place with the nature of pixie hollow and having Peter and Hook on the mix makes everything more chaotic. I hope you do more fairy stuff in the future and again great video

  • @ameliarose8822
    @ameliarose88229 ай бұрын

    If I’m going to be completely honest, as much as I liked the Tinker Bell franchise that ended up being released, it confused me even more as all I could wonder was “wait, so when and how did Tinker Bell end up going to stay with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys?” I would’ve like to have seen this film though 🤷‍♀️ Anyone else or just me?

  • @winifredeghrudje9427

    @winifredeghrudje9427

    9 ай бұрын

    That should have been the final movie for the franchise

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