A few weeks ago, Disney changed the Disney Fairies YouTube channel to the official Disney Princess YouTube channel. The decision is a bit late, to be honest...
Well, if anyone was in denial about Disney Fairies being truly dead after DisneyToon shut down, this confirms it.
Sad, but inevitable. To me, it was well and truly dead after I saw a bunch of "Tink"-themed merchandise in the stores, instead of "Disney Fairies".
The unfortunate thing is, I hear the changes were made due to poor merchandise sales- the movies were doing just fine. Going to Toys R Us and Disney Stores, I've found the Fairy merch was often VERY sub-par compared to the usual Disney stuff- think that if they'd put more of an effort into making the Fairies an all-ages thing (the merch is REALLLLLLY focused towards 3-5 year old girls), the line might have survived.
The unfortunate thing is, I hear the changes were made due to poor merchandise sales- the movies were doing just fine. Going to Toys R Us and Disney Stores, I've found the Fairy merch was often VERY sub-par compared to the usual Disney stuff- think that if they'd put more of an effort into making the Fairies an all-ages thing (the merch is REALLLLLLY focused towards 3-5 year old girls), the line might have survived.
Yeah, it's really sad how this ended. Things first seemed off to me when I got the Legend of the NeverBeast DVD and there wasn't a preview for the next installment in the series like there usually was. There wasn't even anything about another movie in the DVD case. So I just thought they'd skip a year or something. Then, they didn't even bother updating the Disney Fairies website.
In my opinion, the advertising for the series is partly to blame. Sure, they had music videos playing on Disney Channel, and even a TV series (it was just the movies split up into 30-minute segments) on Disney Junior, but I've asked around, and a LOT of people don't know that there's more than just one TinkerBell movie. Some people aren't even aware that there's more than just one fairy!
The interesting thing about the death of the line is that the "NeverGirls" line is basically a continuation of the Disney Fairies line in all but name. Though Vidia is using her movie design, she has her book attitude. The recent book featuring the first-ever "Fire-Talent Fairy" is so fairy-focused that the human girls are basically side characters, and the writer, Kiki Thorpe, was a Disney Fairies novel writer as well. So those "NeverGirls" books are basically sequels to the fairy stuff.
So the line still lives! Almost! Kind of! Well, it's something :).
Jabroniville wrote: The interesting thing about the death of the line is that the "NeverGirls" line is basically a continuation of the Disney Fairies line in all but name. Though Vidia is using her movie design, she has her book attitude. The recent book featuring the first-ever "Fire-Talent Fairy" is so fairy-focused that the human girls are basically side characters, and the writer, Kiki Thorpe, was a Disney Fairies novel writer as well. So those "NeverGirls" books are basically sequels to the fairy stuff.
So the line still lives! Almost! Kind of! Well, it's something :).
I love the Nevergirls series so much. It blends the books and movies really well. But I only have a few of them... almost all of the first 8.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
-Random Wiki Stalker who loves Periwinkle more than life
I emailed Kiki asking about more Never Girls books cause I was afraid this new series "Finding Tinker Bell" was going to be the last but she says theres still a few more books left to be published!
Oh cool! I want to email her now, too! I always forget that’s an option these days :). I’m so curious about some things, like why later writers almost never used Mother Dove.
