Pixie Hollow Laptop
Return to Pixie Hollow for a heartwarming adventure, Disney’s Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast. An ancient myth of a massive creature sparks the curiosity of Tinker Bell and her good friend Fawn, an animal fairy who’s not afraid to break the rules to help an animal in need.
Blogging Disney has featured the world of Pixie Hollow on three previous occasions.
In August 2011, I blogged about the Disney Fairies Magazine and the Disney Fairies Fly mobile app: Tinker Bell and Disney Fairies Magazine.
In September 2011, I promoted the TV premiere and home video release of the Pixie Hollow Games movie with links to online games and contests. Pixie Hollow Games, Contests, and More!
And in July 2013, I gave a detailed review of one of my favorite Disney apps: Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique.
Tinkerbell Pixie Hollow Laptop
Are you surprised there’s so much happening in the tiny, magical world of Peter Pan’s temperamental fairy sidekick? Don’t be!
Introducing the Garden Fairy Chloe, screenshot from disney.go.com/fairies/
Fans of the Disney Fairies franchise have always known the world of Tinker Bell and her friends is more than just movies, magazines and mobile apps: it’s a vast multiplayer online universe where you can create your own fairy avatar, play games, design fashions and interact with thousands of other Tinker Bell fans.
Err, well…it used to be, anyway.
As it happens, Disney shut down the Pixie Hollow online world in September 2013, just two months after I raved about the Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique app (which I came THISCLOSE to spending real $$$ playing). But on September 19th, Pixie Hollow vanished, and along with it, the Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique app.
Boutique closet, screenshot from Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique, copyright Disney
What about Disney Fairies Fly and the Disney Fairies Magazine? Are they still around? Nope. All gone. Poof. It’s as if they never existed.
Of course, Disney can delete Pixie Hollow from the internet and remove the games from the App Store, but my blog posts are still online. I didn’t even know Disney purged the Disney Fairies universe until I received several comments from readers who couldn’t find the Fashion Boutique in the App Store. The comments were from angry Fairies fans who loved the fashion boutique app but couldn’t download it on new devices and were unable to recover the game after accidentally deleting the original download.
As a Fashion Boutique fan, the frustrations of other gamers inspired me to investigate the vanishing app. The internet isn’t always the easiest place to find things that no longer exist, but after a fair amount of Googling, I found an FAQ explaining Disney’s purge of Pixie Hollow and its related apps.
Unfortunately, the FAQ page is a JPG image, making it inaccessible to screen readers and devices without image support, and the text can’t be read and indexed by search engines. To help the distraught Fairies fans who come to Blogging Disney looking for answers, I’ve copied Disney’s official FAQ below.
Thank you for being a flutterific part of the Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow community and for your loyalty.
Pixie Hollow accounts have now been automatically closed, and can no longer be accessed.
Guests with paid Memberships should have received an email with information about their Membership including refund details. If you have any additional billing-related questions, please contact us at billing@pixiehollow.com or (877) 787-4943. Billing support will no longer be available after November 18, 2013.
Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique has also been removed from the App Store as of September 19, 2013.
When did Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow close?
Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow closed on September 19, 2013.
Why did Pixie Hollow close?
Disney Interactive is committed to offering high-quality, entertaining play experiences in both online virtual worlds and mobile apps. At this time, we are shifting our development focus towards other online and mobile play experiences, such as the Disney Fairies website and a growing selection of Disney Mobile apps. We deeply appreciate your enthusiasm and loyal support for Pixie Hollow and sincerely hope you will continue to enjoy the large variety of online and mobile play experiences Disney offers – with more to come soon!
Can I still access my account and my Fairy/Sparrow Man avatar(s) and items?
Unfortunately, you can no longer access your account to Pixie Hollow or log into the Pixie Hollow virtual world.
Why can’t I purchase or re-activate my membership?
Pixie Hollow closed on September 19, 2013. Memberships are no longer available for purchase.
I had a recurring paid membership for Pixie Hollow. What happens now?
As of August 20, 2013, your credit card or PayPal account was no longer charged a recurring payment for Pixie Hollow. Guests with paid Memberships received an email with information about Memberships including refund details. Pixie Hollow closed on September 19, 2013. You can no longer access your account to Pixie Hollow or log into the Pixie Hollow virtual world. Billing support will no longer be available after November 18, 2013.
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Can I still redeem a secret code I got from a Disney Fairies toy?
Pixie Hollow closed on September 19, 2013, and code redemptions of any kind for Pixie Hollow are no longer available. Please contact us at billing@pixiehollow.com for additional help.
I had purchased a Pixie Hollow game card, but I never redeemed it. What do I do now?
Pixie Hollow closed on September 19, 2013, and Membership for Pixie Hollow is no longer available. If you have purchased a Pixie Hollow Game Card at Target or Toys R Us retail stores, but have not yet activated your Game Card online, please contact us at billing@pixiehollow.com or (877) 787-4943 for additional help. Billing support will no longer be available after November 18, 2013.
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I have a Membership/Free Trial code (either from a Game Pass or DVD insert). Can I still use it?
Pixie Hollow closed on September 19, 2013, and Membership of any kind for Pixie Hollow is no longer available. Please contact us at billing@pixiehollow.com for additional help.
Is the Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique mobile app also closed?
Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique was removed from the App Store on September 19, 2013. If you have already downloaded the game on your device, you can continue playing it with more limited functionality.
Will there be any Disney Fairies online games coming out in the future?
You can continue to play flitterific games and activities right here at the official Disney Fairies website! More Fairiy fun will be added regularly!
| Reviews for Pixie Hollow's Modernization |
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| StellarDust2Kchapter 2 . 7/26/2016 Not a bad start. It's a clever idea bringing modern technology to a culture that's stuck in the medieval ages. But your story seems a bit rushed; if you took your time, you could weave all sorts of interesting stuff into the early chapters that would only be fully revealed later on. About the laptop 'washing up' on Neverland - On the surface it seems unlikely, but ask yourself this: How did Wendy's 'tiny dancer' get to Neverland? How did it get dis-assembled with all the parts within a few feet? How long was it there? (Fairy Mary said 'many seasons ago'.) And how are the metal parts not corroded? Seems to me this topic is worthy of its own forum. Maybe the fairies don't actually know how 'lost things' get on the beach, and just assume they wash out of the sea. If your story continues, consider that fairies shouldn't know what a laptop is, or even how to turn it on. Imagine taking a laptop back in time 200 years and sliding it front of someone. Unless you've actually seen a laptop PC used, you wouldn't have a clue. I think the fairies would have to do some research to understand what they have in their hands. Same with the cellphone. Anyone who's lost their cell connection can tell you how dumb their 'smart phone' becomes. There would be no wired telephone network on Neverland, no cell towers, and no electricity to power the cell towers even if they had them. Without a microwave (or sub-sea fiber optic) connection to the Mainland, there wouldn't be any InterNet. And once again, if you've never seen anyone use a cellphone before, you'd have no clue what it was for. Also, your opening chapter says this story starts in 1990. Cell phones from that era were pretty primitive, and laptop PCs were downright ugly - we're talking Windows 3.0 at best, or MS-DOS 4.0 at worst. You sure you don't want to move it up a decade or 2? Maybe you can get around it by stating that Neverland time does not necessarily correspond with Mainland time. So Fairy Mary could find 2016 computing devices back in 1990. Something else I've thought about, is those tiny fairy hands would be great at working with sub-miniature electronics. So there's some technical challenges for you. Can you write your way through them? How about if the laptop and phone belong to a girl who lost them in a move? After the fairies finish playing with the devices, they should take them back. But maybe leave a few surprises on the devices for the girl to find. How about if the fairies hide their wings and call her up using Skype? The girl wouldn't know she's actually talking to fairies! Alright, fairies jingle when they talk... so Pixie Hollow gets their first software-talent fairies to code their way past those problems. I hope to see more chapters soon. |
| scorpion2chapter 2 . 5/1/2016 Please sorry about typography. All my apostrophes and quotes in the last comment are gone. Stupid FF. I cannot correct it, so, feel free to contact me, I'll explain the details. |
| Scorpy-lchapter 2 . 5/1/2016 First of all, English isnt my native language, so I can only make suggestions about general style and not about chosen words. Fairy Mary was on a mission to find the kind of 'lost things' that would help Pixie Hollow work more efficiently. You should specify. Think about a problem. A problem that is serious enough. Otherwise the reader doesnt care. Since you talk about technology, your story is supposed to be scientifically correct. When that happens, it washes up onto the shores of the Neverland. […] She saw the on switch, and pressed it. No way. There is no laptop that will still work perfectly after lying in salt water for hours. At the very least the machine would need to be repaired but most likely it stops working once and for all. Unless! Unless this is a military laptop. Google for more information. One more problem! This thing is heavy. It cannot float at all. It should lie on the bottom of the sea. I see only one explanation: the pirates have lost it while being of fairies island. Keep in mind that a fairy weights approximately 10 grams and her strength cannot be exceeding her weight thousand times or so. How strong is a fairy is a great topic for my new article (I have already calculated height and weight). The relationship between weight, height and muscle strength is certainly not linear and right now I can only give you an order of magnitude based on study about measuring the strength of mice. Long story short: up to 0.2 kilograms of force. The laptop instantly shrunk to fairy size on contact, and boomeranged back to her in the process. Sorry, Jacob, but you are a bit lazy and you are cheating. The fairies should have taken the big broken device apart, study it, understand the principles of electronics and informatics and after several years build their own computers: first using lamps and then transistors. Moreover! Show us the confrontation between conservative fairies (or religious fanatics—even better) who want to burn the device and progressive younger fairies who want to study and create. Right now this is a very poor start. If you are writing about informatics, please show us that you understand the subject. Last but not least: if you just copy human devices and give them to fairies, you will ruin the aesthetics at once! Keep in mind that we all love fairies mostly because of aesthetics. Dont kill the beauty. Anyway, Im pleased to see a new colleague! Finally, someone writes anything close to popular science and science fiction in fairies world. Good luck! |
| Guest chapter 1 . 4/30/2016 |
| Scorpy-lchapter 1 . 4/30/2016 Do I finally have a competitor? Because I explain how science works using the Tinkerbells universe as the stage. Well, not really. It looks like your Pixie Hollow is completely different. Are you sure, this kind of modernization wont destroy the esthetics we like the movies for? |