#bleakwatch chronicles: tink and the lost city

[firadessa]

Apparently this was added to Disney Fairies wiki

✨Fairies Finds✨ Color portraits of Bleakwatch characters shared by @plumwillow-pixie

[neverfaerie]

1 week to Bleakwatch Chronicles release

Are yall ready? 👀

PS please remember to spoiler tag any posts about it once it’s released! Everyone deserves to enjoy it at their own pace!

[fromfairyland]

My thoughts on Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tinkerbell and the Lost City

I really, really enjoyed this book! I would recommend it to any disney fairies fan, particularly fans of the movie series. It was also a delight to read about a nonbinary fairy in the disney fairies universe! Overall, I don't want to say that I was plesantly surprised, because I was expecting Bleakwatch to be good, but I will say that it exceeded my (reasonably high) expectations. I am very happy about this! A more spoilery discussion below the cut ✨✨✨

First of all, to expand on what I touched on earlier, Clark did an incredible job of imbuing the tone of the disney fairies film into this book. It very much felt like a Tinkerbell film through the characterisation of the characters we already know from the movies: the interactions Tink had with Clank and Bobble at the start literally felt like I was reading dialogue from a df movie. Even Scribble, the bookish fairy from Secret of the Wings, had a mention! Clark did his homework for sure. This doesn't just come through in characterisation and references though, it also moulds the new lore of the series, which is really cool. For example, in bleakwatch, dream talents are necessary because of the lack of the moonstone and moonlight that is required to generate pixie dust. Bleakwatch is firmly established in the canon of the movies and this is done is a very genuine and authentic way. It reads as a natural continuation.

All of the new characters we are introduced to in this book are enjoyable, my favourites being Quin, Danvers and Darwin. I did wonder if perhaps there were a few too many characters apart of the Flutterpunks for such a short book, we don't really have enough time to get to know any of them apart from Quin, but I understand that a team of fairy scavengers would need multiple members and I trust that they will be characterised further in subsequent books.

Though objectively I appreciated this book the whole way through, personally it took me a little while to really embrace it because my favourite thing about the df franchise has always been pixie hollow, it is to this day (and I read a lot lol) one of my all time favourite fictional universes. So at first I didn't think reading a book about a society of mainland fairies would be for me. But the concept of this book is so well done that it really drew me in, particularly the exploration of class and the exploitation of lower classes (which feels silly to be saying about a df book but here we are). The idea of fairies having their talents suppressed by those who wish to guard resources (pixie dust) for themselves is a conceit rife with potential that I trust this series will continue to fulfil. I did think it was obvious that King Bartleby was the one behind the whole scheme but I'm not going to critique a kids book for having a plot twist that was predicatble to me, an adult (also I think plot twists should be predictable to a degree but that's a seperate tangent). The lore and also just, the vibe, of bleakwatch is also so compelling, like baby's laughs attaching to pieces of metal and machinery (what would this look like in present day I have to wonder?) and all these new talents that have emerged. The dreamdross thing is particularly cool to me and i'm excited to learn more about it! Also the image of an underground society of fairies lit by glowing mushrooms is just very cool!

As I mentioned I have a bias towards pixie hollow so I was a little peeved by the constant degradation of it as 'rustic' or 'backward' by the bleakwatch fairies, not because i'm that easily offended, but because it didn't really make sense to me that bleakwatch fairies would feel this way about pixie hollow when it would provide a far better living situation than they have, even before they knew that their talents were being suppressed. I even had an annotation that was like 'man when I learnt about never fairies i'd be PISSED'. But when it's revealed that the only source of information the bleakwatch fairies have about pixie hollow is King Bartleby, who would obviously present it in this way so that no one would ever want to leave the society that he is presenting as better, I decided that this is one of the most clever aspects of the book.

I'm very interested to see how these relationships between pixie hollow and bleakwatch will progress in future novels. I have to wonder if queen Clarion will be as accomidating as Tink assumes, maybe she will decide that it's too dangerous to go back to help right away and Tink will sneak away with some pixie hollow friends and Elmira to do so (this would be too many characters I must concede... but a girl can dream). I particularly would love to see the Flutterpunks go to pixie hollow and their reactions to it.

My only real critique of this book is the pacing. I understand that the first book in a series such as this one needs to be very lore heavy, and that the balance between story telling and communicating lore is tricky, especially when you also have to tie the work to a pre-existing canon. Yet it did kind of feel like we took 90% of the book establishing the set up for the story that then happened in the last 10% and I do feel as if it could have been balanced a little better. The was so much fun and built tension really effectively. I would have loved to see a few more moments like this in the book. I have faith that this will operate better in subsequent books but I am a little nervous considering that there's so much we still don't know about the Bleakwatch-specific talents, it makes me worry that the next books will also be kind of lore-dumpy. This is nitpicky for a middle grade novel, but I also think the relationships between Tink and the Flutterpunks felt a little rushed, Tinkerbell remarks at the end of the book that she was sure she'd made friends for life and I just didn't really feel a sense of that strong of a bond between them from what was shown in the rest of the book. I don't know if Clark was given a hard limit in terms of how long the book had to be, but i've certianly encountered middle grade novels that were a little longer and I think this could have benefited from a longer length, just so these aspects of the ending didn't feel quite so rushed.

Overall though I found this to be incredibly well executed, both as a middle grade novel and as a continuation as the disney fairies franchise. I'm very excited to see where the series goes!

My favourite part was when Tinkerbell told the Flutterpunks to touch grass.

[firadessa]

Please acknowledge Bleakwatch Chronicles, Tinker Bell and the Lost City. I understand that BW chronicles may not have as much fans and are turned off by the art style. Also the author never posted (Zack Loran Clark) much promo for the book unlike Allison, nor mentioned anything about DF on his IG page. It is intended for a younger audience. However, I am much more excited for this book as it pertains to the movie universe. So please, just clap if you believe if you will.

As this is the first book to come out since 2017 that is labeled as "Disney Fairies" and the second spinoff- like this is important. You don't have to buy the book or give it the free promotion, but acknowledge the existence of it at least. WoS is not labeled as DF, if it matters.

Here are some of the reasons why I am more excited for Bleakwatch Chronicles than I am for Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft (Clarion x Milori YA Novel):

It's a post canon story implied to take reference to the cancelled Tinker Academy movie where TB goes to study at the Tinker Academy on the mainland. The art seems like they took references especially when directly compared to the concept art. WoS is a backstory.

It releases first, BWC releases in November 2024 and WoS releases in Feb.

It seems like more of original concept to me, literally because of the new concepts like the Flutterpunks and the implied secret cities of the Bleakwatch and Clockwork Capital.

New characters like Quin and Ozwald will be joining TB on this journey.

It expands on a old concept, and tweaks it in a way that makes more sense. IMO, an idea like a Tinker Academy seems to hold less weight because before the events of Tinker Bell fairies couldn't go to the mainland to spread nature, and it's implied they always stay. It is also implied in GFR that Tinker fairies don't typically go to the mainland even if TB's inventions help them in the intensive summer season (the song implies that's why she's there- it's implied in the first movie she goes there whenever she has a job) Vidia is dismayed by this and says "this is why Tinker fairies don't go to the mainland" whilst TB is checking out the car. In a deleted storyboard for Tinker Academy it is implied that it is a prestigious academy that FM gets into before the events of Tinker Bell, yet to me the idea of underground London tinkers makes more sense to me than the academy. Think about it, it's implied that TB and FM are some of the most brilliant Tinkers in pixie hollow and yet the Tinker population is small. (only Clank and Bobble greet her and we see no one in green outfits) Why do you think that is? I personally like the idea of rogue Tinkers who would scavenge on the mainland for parts and self-exile themselves from Pixie Hollow. It explains why FM calls the lost things junk, if the difference in mindset between the mainland tinkers and the pixie hollow tinkers was that the mainland Tinkers are considered "scraps" (get it) while the PH tinkers are considered more put together and community driven. It makes sense that TB being a brilliant Tinker that outshines even Vidia gets such an audience if brilliant Tinkers do not normally last in PH because they are seen as too curious and ambitious, opting to start their own community of outcast Tinkers in the mainland. Vidia's talent switch in The Pirate Fairy also implies that Tinkers have the gift of thought, and literally think differently (regardless of personality) then their non-tinker peers because it's their talent. There is much potential for this storyline as it adds more nuance to the Tinker Bell movie and the dynamic between the nature and non nature talents, something I think it would benefit from. It makes a lot of sense if the edgier steampunk designs came from a secret Tinker counterculture and not a secret academy imo.

The implication of this book suggest revitalizing the Disney Fairies franchise, possibly not just as a "brand". Not sure what that could mean but it's interesting

IMO, Wings of Starlight has more of a "booktok" vibe I'm getting from it. I'm not just saying that because it's YA, but given the (beautiful) cover design it feels more targeted for what Disney thinks grown fans of Disney Fairies might like based on whatever market research was done (and you know it was). WoS has been receiving better marketing and there are people out here that don't even know two books exist. I'm not saying the book looks lazy, slapped together, or unoriginal- or it will just be corporate and bland, I mean I'm a Disney Fairies fan I don't believe that everything is corporate greed lol and like to see creativity in the "unexpected". But I hope that future Disney Fairies books won't just be going for what is "trendy" to reel people in and instead invest in creative storytelling *in general*, in other words I hope they keep concepts and genres broad and inclusive enough so we have the potential for more creative stories. Not just expanded stories on specific characters and stories like the Twisted Tales series, or sticking to specific genres for this specific niche audience in a way that feels too specific. I feel like there has to be some sort of balance struck, or DF may be a little stuck for a while and may still have "missed potential".

On expanded stories, like I said, Disney has done a lot of that and there is an audience for that. However, I prefer the idea of post canon more than a backstory or expansion. From what I know, we know some details of the Milarion backstory and it will be adding more layers and expanding on the dynamics of the existing characters, where the new book seems to be more lore driven in focus.

I don't like Secret of the Wings that much in terms of lore as a lore fanatic. I feel like this book could also retcon other things when possibly trying to explain things that make sense in SOTW. If BWC is good, I can imagine myself thinking about it more after it releases but I can just imagine myself thinking more of how I felt and my emotional reaction after WoS with fading interest afterward, it just sort of feels like the book could resonate with me more y'know? and I got a pretty good gut feeling for that sort of thing.

Underdog bias, just acknowledge it's existence. Do that with the NG graphic novels from 2022, heck the whole Never Girls series. Do that with the whole DF franchise if you are new here somehow. That's it, that's the post.

The mystery. What is the mysterious pocketwatch and who's on the cover?

Copy and pasted plot summary- Tinker Bell loves nothing more than solving a problem. For her, red buttons demand to be pushed, treasure maps need to be followed, and lost things ought to be found. So when a strange fairy crash lands in Pixie Hollow and leaves Tinker Bell two clues to find a mysterious necklace on the Mainland, she really doesn’t have a choice but to help. However, her journey takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a hidden city of fairies living below the streets of London.

In this city called Bleakwatch, she’ll meet the Flutterpunks, the most infamous band of trinket scavengers around. Helping her may just give them their biggest score yet. But when the Flutterpunks’ plan goes haywire, they’ll be forced to choose between a big payday or saving their new friend.

When their adventure takes them inside the glittering Clockwork Capital, Tinker Bell and the Flutterpunks will uncover a villainous secret that threatens all the fairies in Bleakwatch. It turns out there’s more at stake than just finding a missing necklace, and it’ll be up to Tinker Bell to set things right. Luckily, that’s what tinker fairies do best!

[firadessa]

Quick thoughts on Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tink and the Lost City (spoilers of the heaviest amount)

And on the Ring of Belief riddle, I will reveal more about Silvermist's quest soon, then I will do more riddles on the other character quests and general post. Just know that Silvermist's early characterization is not what it seems for a Water fairy!

General thoughts of Book 1

Worldbuilding:

-The touches of worldbuilding are just extremely well done. The writer really dug deep in the movie lore and did a good job bringing magic to the movie universe. Zach remembered the moonstone being the source of pixie dust and how it transmuted pixie dust from the moonlight. Even touches like Bartleby being a Tinker Bell type who wanted to prove Tinkers had a place and had a private audience with Clarion to do so. (unlike Tinker Bell's fuck around and find out approach) Supposedly.

-Bleakwatch is a capitalistic society, with a commerce system. There is a lower and upper class, the aeronauts with the suppressed talents with magic bracelets. Suppressed who suffer from "dust deperivation" meaning their wings are brittle, and do not have touch with their talent. Then there's an upper class with technology with an artistic side. It is very interesting these undertones in an 8-12 *Disney Fairies* book when you see Tinker Bell question what being a fairy really means to her and how different Pixie Hollow is from Bleakwatch/Clockwork Capital. How she is surprised by the commerce existence. but it just shows how much the author realized how much could be done with the original movie series. including using deleted concepts and a supposed early plot rumor from the early Pirate Fairy (Mythical Island) into the story. It makes me think he recieved archives and art from now defunct Disneytoons. A while ago I thought how a flying machine could be involved in Tink Meets Peter, because like how did Peter become an elf sprite thing in this universe? It's up to question what kind of adventure could have happened, so I imagined Tink building a flying machine for him, a regular child later turned mythical.

-Bleakwatchers do not trust the Never Fairies and view them as "rustic" hippie types, Quin teases her with these stereotypes even though it would be better for them NOT to know about Never Fairies. It's to control them. Think about it. Like its not even city/country in the way you'd expect as they are characterized literally as nature folk who run their society poorly. I believe this is the one of the strongest concepts in the book. I believe this society (or rather Bartleby) believes human society is the best way to run society, to decieve and lie and put up a front. Knowing he was a mastermind behind the talent supression, I think he was able to manipulate the magic as a Tinker and was a rouge fairy like Zarina. I believe he was a Tinker, but his analytical mind wanted more and he wanted to manipulate the talent ceremonies in Pixie Hollow and wanted to "fix" things that were not objects. There is a ruse happening here, and I believe Bartleby got in touch with magic manipulation (fairy magic is a thing stated in TLT) behind talents and such and figured out to way to basically start his own society by basically creating his own moonstone that can transmute light into (blue) pixie dust. He seems the type to believe certain talents are better than others, yet lies and acts shock letting Maddox, his proxy (I dont know how that term is really used) take the fall for him. Maybe between books we will see Bartleby take more of the authoritative position (aka rise to "full official dictatorship"), and play 4d chess with the fairies of Bleakwatch/CC. Maybe he will release Maddox, and we will find out whether or not he was in on it or not. Do they have like... a magic crystal ball that predicts the rebellion of the fairies and who is loyal to who? How will this unfold.

-Not traditional steampunk which I love! It is very fairycore, natural steampunk. It feels both a fairy society and a humanistic society, combining both attributes. They feel like they are repressing their fairy selves, but it shows up in their architecture, industrialization, and overall consumption habits. Feels like an improvement from what we could have had.

-Very happy to know finally what happens with the laughs that don't make it to Pixie Hollow. But also, very sad.

-There's the idea clearly shown of repression vs freedom. The people of Bleakwatch and to an extent the elites no one can trust themselves and each other. Everyone is out for themselves. Yet those eccentric Never Fairies, are able to realize their truest selves and use the tools of nature to the advantage such as insects as commonly used as alarm clocks, volleyballs, lighting etc. Yet, Bleakwatch only uses a little but of fireflies and bioluminsent mushrooms heavily, and Bartleby has a connection to mushrooms with the Golden Dustcap. And they don't believe the Pixie Hollowians are accomplished and hardworking, that division is already sown.

-Dream talents and shadow talents as the "new talents" is getting me taking notes.

-The fairy doors, and how all the bracelets lead to Bleakwatch is interesting because the upper class fairies dont wear them and presumably live only in the capital, yet they are an integral piece of technology for the Bleakwatchers.

-The key to the talent bracelets was cold to the touch when Tink touched it and gave her a literal shock, almost like it has a security system or some arcane power

-The bracelets show "true self" when unlocked, oddly

-Bracelets reminding me of those Disney magic bands

-Gnome lore is cool, but probably a time issue with Big Ben maybe... him

Bartleby:

-Pixie Hollow exiles are canonically a thing? Was Tink almost one then? I suppose so, but it seems like the condition for exile is being 1. rejected by your talent group 2. leaving after feeling rejected by society. Maybe we will see shall it truly means to be a Pixie Hollow exile in book two.

-Dream manipulation/dream dross. Oh my gosh. What is with that. What does he know. Will this connect to the greater Peter Pan/DF lore of Never Land basically being a dream pocket dimension. Will they finally explain the connection to Neverland as like the magic pocket dimension and the Mainland and the oceans as lost human objects always appear there. I really hope they expand on that in a future installment.

-Disabled villain trope?? Bartleby has mechanical wings and has others do his work for them. But his wings almost seem prosthetic, and this makes sense as his weakness surviving in the human world, when Quin's makes her wings go fast.

-Bartleby might be more powerful, and possible a Tinker that can manipulate fairies, magic, and society. I believe she views Clarion is so sensitive, especially with the whole Milori thing which happened when Pixie Hollow was "very young".

-Weirdly conservative energy from him. He calls Tinker Bell a "reformer", this slip up shows his nature as an antagonist. And he uses the term "isolation" from PH instead of "protective measures"

-He called Pixie Hollow a Never Land colony (🤔🤨‼���💭⁉️)

Maddox

-I call the nature of his birth into question heavily, and believe he is either a creation of Bartleby (through dream energy) or his accomplice, a very talented dust keeper just like Zarina who worked with him closely. The parallels of Tink and Terence and her and Zarina to them are very high then.

-He is an interesting character, who seems to pride in "necessity" and "necessary evils"

-He takes a liking to Quin, perhaps he has some perceptive ability because he seems to pick them out as someone who will be loyal but also confused. I don't see any romantic undertones there just condesention.

-He targets people who he believed are the most useless in the society, and calls out garden and water talents but words it differently, calling water "water shaping." Humanization or just blatant ignorance?

-Seemed to have direct control of the talent ceremony, and limited the amount of talents a fairy could be. Dust talents play a crucial role in arrival day

Quin

-Best character here to me no question

-The unloyal soldier

-Heavy shipping material with Tinker Bell

-Definition of "keep your friends close and enemies closer"

-Wants the best for everyone, but is tired and exausted

-Leader of the Flutterpunks, emotionally fragile, untrusting, confused

-A dreamer who won't admit it

-Backstory was especially interesting

-Six is a crowd hmm

-Flutterpunks are family

-Has a weird "business relationship with Maddox", but its not an equal partnership and she's basically being spied on and making unfair trades. Possibly Maddox playing with his food, believing the Flutterpunks could desent one day

-Attached to their coat and pocket watch named Little Ben, given by Maddox to "pay off a debt"??

-"Even a stopped clock is nice twice a day." Stop. OMG.

-Modified wings for speed (?), shows how talented they are as a fairy

-Will write Tinkquin fanfic now.

-Calls Tinker Bell "sprocket" which is just so cute

-Got a cool little fairy loft

Danveers and Darwin

-Cuties

-Same but different trope (i eat that up)

-Their wings didnt glow because of the talent supression, meaning talents and wing glow are of the same magic.

-One is a shadow talent and one is a light talent. Is shadow a natural byproduct of living on the mainland?

-Fashion oriented

-Twintuition

-Fira and Iridessa as sibling dynamic

-One of my favorites

-A package, do not seperate

-Light talents hair has a natural glow and shadow talents have a natural aura in their hair

-Easily scare

-The glue in the group

Ozwald

-Nerd who overanalzyes

-Perceptive

-Book smart

-Scribe talent, specifically code breaking?! Good non nature talents focused on for once. And I wish he was just called a cipher talent or something but its movie universe rules so

-Dismissed as the nerd in the group (by the twins mostly) and just wants someone to listen to him, who's intellectually curious

-Nickname is Oz to who he lets in

-Gives paper hairclip to tinkerbell, even when they didnt have a good haul which could mean... things

-Enjoys mystery novels, which might not exist in Pixie Hollow bc no robbers ig??

-Close to Quin

-Tink makes a comparison to scribble

Axel

-Hate the way he was written, or at least Tink's narration of "even feeling this" as a very stoic guy. It's giving the quiet kid phenomena from many US public schools, when extroverted kids are surprised when people who dont normally talk actually do and are all surprised when it's common for someone in that environment to just not want to talk cause it sucks to be there. As a result, i initially hated many aspects of how he was written as Tink was always surprised when he expressed any sort of emotion. He was always feeling a certain way, but TB was always surprised that he was which just took me out of the story a few times

-Described to be sort of a "gentle giant"

-Theatre enjoyer

-Wanted to see the masked singer who rebelled, who is likely Elmira

-Dream talent, possibly secretive and naturally perceptive because of this

-Private fairy who keeps to himself, independent

-Works out possibly to fight back and protect himself

-Mechanical hand?

Elmira

-Voice was supressed as a singing talent

-A storyteller singing talent allegedly who sung tragic songs, storytelling is considered unnessary

-A key player in this story (get it)

-Seems to be related to Elips from early Pirate Fairy rumors

-Hoping she isnt forgotten because of the lack of official art

-Can work a plane despite being a music talent

-Knows more but has a plot related injury

Tinker Bell

-Just taking it all in

-Ignorance and culture clash

-Trying to blend in

-Made me actually interested in her character

-Awkward

-The right way to do a Tinker Bell solo story (looks at TLT who used friends as plot device instead of a little world dressing..)

-Rule breaker who's curious

-Invented balloon carriers which are used throughout the hollow

Other characters

-Clank and Bobble show up at the beginning and were very cute

-Someone told me they were setting up Clank and Tink but i really dont see it, he just complemented her literal bedhead (also thanks for lending me your book scans!)

-Terence is Tink's best friend. He's in the friend zone honestly because Tink is a natually anxious person and so his he. They will not be canon ever on that basis I'm sure

-Friends are mentioned and show up in the end. Certain characters id if they found out she was going to the mainland alone, would tie her to her bed. Love it

Comparisons to other media

-The story reminds me heavily of the story of Arcane, havent played LOL at all but in Arcane there are two societies of the rich and poor and the way both are described in the book reminds me of Arcane, and I'll basically be calling this Fairy Arcane now. Quin specifically reminds me of Vi, of meeting an outsider and not understanding what to do in this sort of society suffering from exaustion. The ambassors and higher power reminds me of Maddox

-Bartleby reminds me of Belos from the Owl House, and Maddox feels like his Golden Guard. Got control of his (own) society basically to have others speak his messages with his own agenda, having his inner circle receieve all the benefits. And Tink reminds me of Luz here in this scenario, being manipulated. So does Quin, who reminds me of Amity too.

-Bartleby reminds me of Principal Reverend from Monster High's Haunted movie. In this movie, the worlds of the ghost world and monster world are far apart. Reverend is being punished and uses chains on everyone to make her punishment easier, and lies who she is. The ghosts are afraid of the "solids" from the monster world. When Spectra, a ghost investigator tells her about Monster High, a multiple monster school she calls Monster High a "progressive" school with a sneer under her breath. Tink is also like Spectra here, fish out of water.

-The fashion sense of many Bleakwatchers reminds me of the Capital from Hunger Games, and of the elaborate looks as the colors are very saturated, it seems like the beauty and the shopping confuses people. A lot of people dress boldy but also do very difficult technician work, it seems to be a lot like our society and I think that's on purpose.

Overall thoughts:

This is a wonderful book with a confusing marketing campaign and unfortunate release timing. It has so much depth, and if I have to emphasize, for a book of it's kind and it does a lot to elevate the existing material. I was surprised at the "French" clothier fairy a little. I loved the use of imagery and was surprised on the twists in turns, expressions (one I feel like didnt have a family friendly equivalent which is funny- they say "just jam it" like jammed gears and i was like wha). I would give the book a number rating of 9.9 out of 10 and a star rating of 4.8 stars. I'm confused on the illustration aspects especially with what we have and what we don't. I hope with AI taking such a strong hold in the industry, AI wasn't considered for imagery in the book to which there is very little.

What I wish will happen in the next installment(s)

-Tinker Bell and company being a private investigator team in Pixie Hollow

-Involvement of Zarina and another character

-Fixes and expansions on Pixie Hollow lore

-Lore for islands outside of Neverland past the second star

-Expanded Pirate Fairy lore

-Expanded Lost Treasure lore (like the mirror shipwreck etc) and fairy magic

-Battle between the others

-Close calls

-Bleakwatchers in balloon carriers and seeking refuge in Pixie Hollow

-More illustration

-Others seeking refuge in the hollow

-Getting caught by humans

-Expansion on dream and shadow talents (an early reader who got it said they were to protect them from humans, dont know where they got that from)

-Fairy rebellion

-Flutterpunk secret society

-Bartleby lore

-Pocket watch lore (both human sized one and little Ben)

-Talent expansion

[firadessa]

New plot details on the new Bleakwatch Chronicles book! Spoilers

This comes from a site called Kirkus Reviews.

When Tinker Bell is out beachcoming, she comes across a mute fairy pilot who crashlanded on the shore who is in a fairy sized plane. She lives on the mainland. Her name is Elmira. This is oddly similar to a rumored plotline of Tinker Bell and the Mythical Island/Quest for the Queen where a character named Elips (Elipse?) is cursed by a mermaid (possibly Eewee from the trilogy) and can no longer talk. You can view that here:

Additonally, there is the introduction of the new talents. The new talents are Dream talents and Shadow talents. What's very interesting about these new talents, is that they exist so fairies can survive on the mainland. Apparently, there's a whole society of fairies who have adapted to live on the mainland for many years. Within the book canon, it is unknown why fairies stay away from humans other than for "general safety", but this implies that most fairies would not be able to survive on their on in the mainland. These talents could distract humans if they ever see a fairy. Additonally, it could be bringing out more of the Peter Pan style because in the book Neverland is connected to dreams and Peter Pan's shadow is alive and seperate from itself. Let me know what you think, and fly with you later!

[firadessa]

Releases in November and Feb

(just found out about this one- 3rd graphic NG novel about the mist horses releases in September)

Released 2023

Released 2018

These are all the recent and upcoming releases, it was not discontinued fully in 2015 when the movies ended and not when the toys and merchandise stopped being produced as much

If it really was "discontinued" there would be no website, products, and it's whole existence would generally be phased out. Additionally, things can be discontinued in some countries and not others and certain things can be discontinued. Making it confusing

They did try to make a Tinker Bell brand around 2018 too, but I think it failed. I think they realized how heavily DF brought up Tinker Bell as a brand, so they tried to change their directive. Of course things that are "just" Tinker Bell would sell but they seem to have shifted away of just Peter Pan TB, showcasing the wing design of DF TB even during that period. I was curious about it and I did look at trademarks cause I'm a nerd and yes they did renew a few Disney Fairies trademarks around 2018 or so, close to the GFR manga release and the new translations and reprints. Part of me wonders if they even attempted to gauge if there was still interest in the brand even when the movies and such were over, and decided to go ahead and not fully stop producing stuff with it even if the releases would be slow and the interest isn't as big as it was when movies were out

Also, it went from being US centric to non US centric pretty quick in that half dormant period and then US centric again. I hope these books can receive translations.

Bleakwatch Chronicles is the first in a series as well. I'm not sure they will make more of the NG graphic novels (which I'm still mad are unintentionally ignored in the fandom tbh)

Another notable thing is that Wings of Starlight is a YA book, the first Disney Fairies related YA book. Disney Fairies was featured in YA media but of course this is the first book (Silvermist in OUAT in wonderland)

(PS I wonder what flower Clarion is wearing? Is it forget me not?)

Another new Disney Fairy book for preorder!!

This one focuses on Queen Clarion and Lord Milori!

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/764001/wings-of-starlight-by-allison-saft/

So happy seeing all these new books/reprints coming out 😭

[firadessa]

Apparently this was added to Disney Fairies wiki

✨Fairies Finds✨ Color portraits of Bleakwatch characters shared by @plumwillow-pixie

[firadessa]

Yeah, it's a book coming out in November called Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tinker Bell and The Lost City by Zach Loran Clark.

If you look at the art Ozwald's original name is Quantum, so I think the book just lifted the designs of the characters. The movie blew up a little last year with some popular posts, so I think they are trying to bring DF back in some way. Quin's design is based off of Ember and Axel also seems to be based of of the character in the middle (can't see when I'm typing)

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✨Fairies Finds✨ Color portraits of Bleakwatch characters shared by @plumwillow-pixie

[firadessa]

Sorry, thanks for clairifying that and thanks @dandelionsprout42 for posting the pics!

Apparently this was added to Disney Fairies wiki

✨Fairies Finds✨ Color portraits of Bleakwatch characters shared by @plumwillow-pixie

[feline17ff]

IS THIS THAT CANCELLED TINKERBELL MOVIE?!!!!!!!!!!!!????

LOOK AT OZWALD!!!!

@disney-rapunzel-merida-vanellope (idk you but you made the og post) @sailorplanet1997

Apparently this was added to Disney Fairies wiki

✨Fairies Finds✨ Color portraits of Bleakwatch characters shared by @plumwillow-pixie