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I still stumble across new Disney Fairies things to this day

Tonight I found Tinker Bell and the Friendship Garden. https://disneyfairies.fandom.com/wiki/Tinker_Bell_and_the_Friendship_Garden

From what I've been able to tell during research, the illustrations are very beautiful (as is customary for Disney Fairies books). I cannot readily recall seeing Rosetta dressed with green sleeves and neck before, so the book has that going for it too. The English-language version has been published in at least United Kingdom, Ireland, India, and Thailand.

The book seems to be aimed at roughly ages 5-6. Most (but not all) of the sentences are fairly short, with lots of nouns and character names (For instance "She gave the roses food. She gave the roses water.") and detailed info on what the characters are doing (For instance "Fawn had a big sack. Iris had a bigger sack. (…)"). The main story is approx. 25 pages.

From what I've been able to tell from a handful of photos on Google Images, it's hard for me to figure out the plot. Something about Rosetta overworking at a garden into the late night and falling asleep on an outdoor rose from exhaustion, after having refused help from the other fairies.

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Found a deemed-lost Disney Fairies official Flash game

I learned less than 24 hours ago that a full version of Hopeful's Quest had been saved, recovered, and made available 3-4 years ago. So I gave myself a challenge: Could I recover the 2nd of the two significant Ring of Belief-era Discover Pixie Hollow, which had been considered lost to this day?

Answer: For the most part yes.

I figured out how to get both Ruffle and the Adobe Flash Player "Projector Content Debugger" version to play the game from the only currently known online raw hosting of it, which is the somewhat awkwardly looking link to it at VseigruNET, by pasting the URL into either of the Flash player tools.

As the game has 3 SWF files that depend on each other in order to run correctly, downloading the SWF game locally, let alone compile it for re-hosting on e.g. Flash Museum, is easier said than done, or as is said in Norway (and which I've added to Wiktionary under some doubt from their moderators), it isn't only only.

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Amazon USA didn't disappoint me all that much.

And yes, I really did buy 6 of this book.

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People who still call Terence "Terrance" in 2023, need to rethink their life decisions.

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I found a recipe on Disney Fairies Wikia for something called "Poppy-Puff Rolls", so I was like "Man, I guess I'll have to find my imperial-to-metric recipe calculator script again."

I took a closer at the recipe and saw one of the ingredients as "1 1/2 capfuls mouse butter, melted", and it dawned on me, "Oh, right."

(For those not invested in the franchise: Disney Fairies has the fairies milk mice instead of cows for various reasons.)

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Me trying out being a factchecker

A rumour has developed recently that Tinker Bell died at the end of the "Pixie Hollow books", and I need to debunk this really fast before it gets out of control.

It is in the last of Barrie's books that Tink dies. Not in any of the 4 Disney Fairies book timelines.

In the "Pixie Hollow Tales" chapter books, the last one I can readily remember being released was Vidia Meets Her Match. I'm pretty sure Tink was still alive in the aftermath of that book.

In the Gail Carson trilogy, there's some very close calls, but Tink remains alive after the 3rd book, albeit narrowly.

She's nowhere even close to dying in Never Girls or the Italian/Papercutz comics.

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Calculating when the Disney Fairies books took place

The Disney Neverland timeline is a contradictory mess for some years now, but a bit of math demonstrates a very interesting aspect of Disney Fairies, that makes it not quite as eternally timeless:

Peter Pan 2 starred Wendy's daughter. It was very explicitly shown that the movie took place during the London blitz, around 1943. (Probably the only Disney movie ever made to acknowledge World War II, come to think of it.) We can presume she was around 11 at the time.

Then that character gets a daughter, Gwendolyne, who stars in Fairies and the Quest for Never Land, very notably alongside fairies from the regular chapter books with pretty much no changes. At this point, one has to guess at how old Gwendolyne's mom was when she got pregnant, but this means the vast majority of the Disney Fairies books and comics would take place around 1964~1972.

Whether this opens up for crossover potentials? Who knows. I'd be all in favour of a Disney Fairies × Life on Mars BBC crossover or something.

(Image source: Four Clues for Rani, Disney Fairies Wiki.)