15 Oct 2009

Tinkerbell’s Extreme Makeover

I wonder if this will get more hits than the Dora post. Probably not.

In the new straight-to-dvd movie, the little fairy has taken off her dress and is fully clothed. How… not so scandalous. It’s a nice look I suppose, but she doesn’t look all girly and spunky anymore not to mention she’s head-to-toe in green. Excessive much? Guess it was time to retire the frock of 1953

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55 Comments

  1. sunny wrote:

    It’s so cute

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  2. Terry wrote:

    I like the new look ! A little less like a sexy teasing lolita.
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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  3. Pretty Project wrote:

    That seems a little backward. As time goes by it seems characters clothing is getting shorter, not longer! 😉

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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  4. Steven Harris wrote:

    Conservatism gone mad?
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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  5. Steven Harris wrote:

    Conservatism gone mad?
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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  6. Steven Harris wrote:

    Conservatism gone mad?
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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  7. Steven Harris wrote:

    Conservatism gone mad?
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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  8. k wrote:

    She looks like Peter Pan with wings.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
    • PunjabiGirl wrote:

      lol, agreed!

      Posted on 10.15.09 ·
      • Period, Case-Closed! wrote:

        I completely agree! In fact…that was my FIRST thought.

        Posted on 10.16.09 ·
    • Kyetsu wrote:

      That was my first reaction. She hardly looks like Tinkerbell anymore. just a really girly Peter Pan. 😛

      Posted on 10.16.09 ·
    • Oh yeah… you certainly got that one right.

      She looked nicer, I mean I don’t think it’s cute for little girls to see ‘sexy stuff’ but I do think she needs to look a bit ‘girlier’. She now looks like a tomboy or the new girl in ‘My Friends Tiger and Pooh’. I guess she should take off her hat and shawl.

      Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  9. Darcia wrote:

    Not quite as girly but still a bit coquettish. Which is strange because she looks like she has raided Peter Pan’s closet.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  10. 1953 did it better.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  11. kittyjane wrote:

    I love the old Tink much better…although they’re both pretty cute. The newer Tink looks more like a member of Robin Hoods band of merry men though…

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  12. So is Disney setting the stage for redoing Robyn Hood next, this just being a test platform for that?

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  13. Even in the original story of Peter Pan she’s scantily clad to show off her curvy figure. This is upsetting.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  14. Kathleen wrote:

    Perhaps Disney is trying to overcome its reputation for sexism in portrayal of female characters. The market for the film, I presume, is little girls, who probably don’t care if Tinkerbell no longer looks like a pin-up.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  15. dang thats so not rite

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  16. jeff wrote:

    tinkerbell is soo stylish now!

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  17. KyraRaeWhiteHat wrote:

    it seems lyke she lookz lyke peter pan or su’um
    they juss killed her look
    i lyke the old look
    she doesn’t look so old

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  18. Elizabeth wrote:

    She looks more Jolly Green Giant than sassy sprite… but at least her slippers are still pom-pommed. 🙂

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  19. Anna wrote:

    But haven’t you heard Green is the new Black?!?

    Well it is in Blighty, anyway.

    I think she looks cute in a ‘Robin Hood’ kind of way.

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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  20. Erin wrote:

    She looks like a mini Peter Pan– but I like the new look! She looks more like the fun, daredevil pixie she is! It’s an improvement from the days us little girls watched Peter Pan waiting for a girl to show up amongst the “lost boys.” Even as a kid I thought it was weird that Tinkerbell was essentially a pinup girl.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  21. It’s just for the new movie, isn’t it? She’s still wearing the dress on the cover of the game version of it.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  22. amanda wrote:

    Someone ought to warn Sprout, sidekick to the Jolly Green Giant, that his day of reckoning has come – move over little buddy. Is this in answer to that Time article on women taking over the workplace? I miss the kick-y little dress!

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  23. "Special" Human Monkey wrote:

    I love her new Tomboyish look! Its cute!

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  24. I like it.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  25. Lex wrote:

    Hmm..I’m confused about it. I like it in a sense, but I’d probably like it if the colors varied a bit. She really does look like she raided peter pans closet. Maybe she has penis envy?

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  26. adiblogger wrote:

    both look pretty cute. robin hodette? ;o)
    how would she look like as Robin Hoodie? 😉

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  27. Inmanyways wrote:

    I think the older tink was better!

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  28. danakennedy wrote:

    The new Tinkerbell seems to lack the impish streak so apparent in the original. Oh, well, this too shall pass!
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    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  29. dafilex wrote:

    Bah, like older Tink more than tom boy Tink. Course it probably ends with her in a princess dress like every Disney flick

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  30. Shelsea wrote:

    I think it’s nice. She looks more sophisticated and distinguished. It is a nice change from women being skimpier and sluttier. Taking back the female body! Woot!

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  31. Awww, not as cute! I love the new wings and the boots, but keep the glittery dress and lose the hat!

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  32. yenny wrote:

    isnt green the color for kinky/horniness? *ahem green m&m*

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  33. Mike wrote:

    One of the possible reasons for the new outfit: merchandise. It gives Disney a new style Tink outfit or entire doll to sell. Kids will “need” the new Tink. And the trailer for the film makes it look like she’s headed off on an expedition so something other than the skirt does kind of make sense.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  34. dgadget wrote:

    the new look are realy cute but i think glittery dress would be more match for tink, isnt it?

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  35. haciiiiiii wrote:

    the new look are realy cute but i think glittery dress would be more match for tink, isnt it?

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  36. dgadget wrote:

    i like the old tink, with glittery dress and cute shoes she look really cute 🙂 but i like the new wing

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  37. Tasha wrote:

    it’s alright…although I think the other one looks better. besides, it’s Walt Disney’s staple why change it? then again, I know that change can be a good thing…

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  38. carebear wrote:

    Having her dress like that took all of her being “tinker-y”.. its like the small version of robin hood only this time he has this “tomboy-ish” aura..

    I dont think little girls would want that for their tinker bell because little girls LOVE dressing up and looking like a princess and looking “girlie” and not so much of dressing down, fantasizing about looking like peter pan or robin hood while holding a wand with glitters all over them.. There’s just something so wrong with that image..

    🙂

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  39. Lisa wrote:

    That… is not Tinkerbell. I wish Disney had come up with an altogether new character, or at least respected J.M. Barrie’s basic universe. Oh well.

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  40. wow

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  41. emsyjane wrote:

    I prefer the older one

    Posted on 10.15.09 ·
  42. Kellierocks26 wrote:

    I think the old Tinker Bell “Tink” look is awesome. She looks like a fairy should look–and saucy…why make her look androgenous and all green? I like green, but come on!

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  43. C. Brooke wrote:

    I like the old Tinkerbell. This one is cute, too. If they wanted to change her outfit it would be fun, but I honestly didn’t know if she was a boy at first. It would be nice if she looked just a little more like a girl. It’s perfectly fun and o.k. to be girly. 🙂 I do like how she’s in an outfit I would actually let me daughter wear the new outfit for Halloween, but not the old one.

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  44. C. Brooke wrote:

    I like her new boots, too! I also like how she isn’t too skinny or has a big head like a lot of dolls I’ve seen lately. I think she is cute.

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  45. Amy wrote:

    She looks like an Elf….

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  46. spinkie wrote:

    she looks like shes in peter pan’s clothes! haha but i still love her anyhow (:

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  47. mediababe wrote:

    How androgynous. I much prefer Hot Topic’s naughty Tink. Much more faithful to the true nature of faeries.

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  48. Maybe she’s gonna be the front woman for Disney’s ‘green’ campaign!

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  49. lori wrote:

    My 8 yr old is reading Tinker Bell books. Apparently, (and at my ripe old age, I didn’t know this) “Tink” is really a tinker. Her “talent” in the fairy kingdom is to fix things…metal things…with a hammer; And she’s the best at it. I guess her name is really Bell, and since she’s a tinker, she is known as Tinker Bell. So, with that in mind, I wonder if the change in outfit is more befitting this “talent” that Tink has. I guess I always just thought she was a spunky, sparkly fairy who like to pal around with Peter Pan. IDK. I’m kinda tired of everything having to be updated and modernized. I think my daughter would have liked the old Tink without the special skill set just as much as all the other girls since 1953.

    As for my take on the outfit…hm. Well, I’m more conservative so I’m in a quandry. Although I like the fact that she’s not a pin up, I’m not sure I’m into the gender-bending look either. What’s the opposite of drag queen?

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
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    Posted on 10.16.09 ·
  51. spinkie wrote:

    I watched a few trailers of the tinkerbell movie and I think she was dressed in this outfit only because she went on a quest to find the lost treasure. Maybe they felt that she had to be a bit less girly when shes on an adventure so that explains the boyish clothes. Shes pretty much still girly and pretty in her sexy short green dress when shes fluttering around in pixie hollow (: You can watch the trailers here: http://sundayslove.wordpress.com!

    Posted on 10.16.09 ·

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