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The other day I noticed that we had borrowed the Disney classic Peter Pan from a friend.  It occurred to me that I had never seen the original Peter Pan in it’s entirety.  I’ve seen clips of it over the years but never the whole thing.  Well, I figured that since I’m doing a Tinkerbell folio (trying to at any rate) that I should watch it and see the original Tink in action.  While I did expect to see a different Tinkerbell from the current CG movies, I was shocked just how different she was.  Not only that, but the over all sexiness that was put in to the movie as a whole.  I took a bunch of screen shots of what I thought where the cutest and sexiest moments of the film.  Follow the link to see what I snapped. Continue reading

So with E3 going on right now, there is probably no better time to release the new Disney movie trailer for Wreck-It Ralph.  In the film, Ralph is a video game bad guy.  Not a new game mind you.  He’s a classic 80’s arcade game baddie who’s not happy and wants to be a good guy.  I want to talk about it more, but I’ll just let you watch before I ruin anything.

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I’ve found that since I started this Tinkerbell folio I’m constantly on the look out for other Tinkerbell merchandise.  Mostly to see how other artists have drawn her.  I’m noticing that all artists seem to draw her a bit differently.  Which is understandable… I guess.  You’d think that who ever approves these at Disney would have a more critical eye when it comes to illustrations of one of their key characters.

During my study of Tink, I’ve noticed that there are now two different versions that Disney markets.  There is the classic one which has some attitude and sex in her.  She’s marketed to adult Disney fans.  Then there is the CG one that is marketed to kids.  This version is cuter, friendlier and more helpful to other characters around her.

The one that I’m basing my folio after is the CG one.  I find the appeal much greater then the classic one.  Plus she comes with a whole troop of friends in which to have fun with. ^_^

As for the fuzzy little Tink in the top picture.  I found her at a Toy’s R Us clearance table for only 25 cents!  Well, I couldn’t just leave her there, so she came home with me and is now the supervisor on the folio.  I better get back to it… she’s a real slave driver.

Thought I’d post up a bit of a tease pic from the Tinkerbell folio I’m doing up.  This pic is actually done, but I like the rough and thought I’d put a bit of it up to share (no peeking though… sorry ^_^).  If people are wondering about why her hair isn’t in her typical bun, it’s because in the Tinkerbell CG movie she arrives in Pixie Hollow wearing a milk seed dress and her hair is down like this… and she looks super cute.  I thought it might be cool to do a pic of her like that.  Any thoughts?

The other day I was getting rid of a few things laying around the house.  One of those things was the kids Valentines Day cards.  I just picked up this Tinkerbell one and my thumb just happened to fall in to the “right” place.  Oh my!  I love that Disney markets Tink as one a sexy little number. ^_^

So last year I went to Disney World (post here).  I went with my family, mostly for the kids.  I had no expectations except for the fact that my kids would love having the opportunity to go and would remember this trip (or parts of it) for a long time. We went with my Brother-in-Law and his family as a large group.  There where nine of us in total, 4 adults and 5 kids.  By the end of the week long trip my kids had caught some sort of stomach bug and puked all the way home and I was tried of my in laws and their kids.  But you know what… I want to go back so bad it hurts. Continue reading