I sometimes question Pixie Hollow’s geography when it comes to the book continuity… Like where exactly is the Home Tree located on Neverland? Or how much of Neverland do the fairies occupy?
The Pixie Hollow in the movies feels more like a dimension separate from Neverland, that I sometimes forget that Tink and her friends live in Neverland.
I've thought about this too! Pixie Hollow's geography and where exactly it is located in Neverland is a very messy part of the lore throughout most of the continuities. So this is gonna be a long answer
In the books the Pixie Hollow with the home tree, it's supposedly in what I think is "a clearing", like behind some foliage. In the third guide book "The Hidden World of Fairies" which is made up of book and movie canon (a lot of elements from the books and movies together) we see that Pixie Hollow is located behind a leafy clearing somewhere in Neverland.
According to this map, Pixie Hollow is located towards the right of Neverland next to Skull Rock and Mermaid Lagoon
However, it's still sort of complicated!
In In the Realm of Never Fairies, we have some illustrations of areas that seem to be around Pixie Hollow- that seem to be quite vast and empty, including concept art.
Here, we have a lovely concept drawing of Tinker Bell near a waterfall- note the waterfall, it will become important later
This is the original illustration of that image:
Here's an interesting illustration with Havendish Stream, the dust mill, and several mountains:
We also have a detailed explanation of Prilla's arrival in Quest for the Egg and world building in the trilogy which suggests it is located in the island somewhere near the mountains, but also somewhat close to the Lagoon (after all Soop could flood Fairy Haven/Pixie Hollow) with the cove seeming close- but also still a several days journey for fairies, with it taking at least couple hours to get to both locations. It can be assumed Torth Mountain where Kyto resides is close to the fairies, as well as the Tiffens which are creatures that trade with the fairies unique to the Levine books. A fire almost destroyed Neverland (Kyto I believe) and Mother Dove survived and made the island magical. So I have an idea that it's close to the mountains, but still on a flat terrain. In the forests of Neverland, in like the center leaning a bit to the right. Likely the "heart of Neverland"
In the books, I think it is also heavily implied that the Dust Mill is further away from the Home Tree than it is in the movies.
It's very interesting you say that "The Pixie Hollow in the movies feels more like a dimension separate from Neverland, that I sometimes forget that Tink and her friends live in Neverland." Because, in the original version of Pixie Hollow it was a distinct place behind a secret portal in Neverland, and had a unique apperance different from Neverland! They try to connect it to the book lore, and the story was even on the website at one point. In this version, Pixie Hollow is located in the waterfall in the middle of Pixie Hollow, and the waterfall is a magical portal. However, the idea of Pixie Hollow being located behind the waterfall- even if it is not magical, is scarcely used in the final canon. I mean in the Pixie Hollow game, there is the speedchat phrase "See you around the waterfall!" for a goodbye phrase and maybe the waterfall is mentioned one or two times in Never Girls. Personally, I'm very biased to this design of Pixie Hollow because I really like the style and how it feels both separate and unique to Neverland. It shares the design of Neverland but is still it's own unique and original place.
Compare to the final version, which takes a lot of cues from the books, down to the Pixie Dust Tree being modeled from the home tree. Design wise I don't hate it, but it always felt a bit "off" to me and rushed. (very likely wise, considering the timeline of the movie's development)
Ironically, it's said by the director they used a lot of shots of the mountains (Discovering Pixie Hollow DVD documentary) to give some sense of Neverland in Tinker Bell. But Tinker Bell, imo- also has felt too different from the world of Neverland and also not similar enough. And a lot of that art was not from the final version of the film!
But when it comes to the movies, we can get an idea where Pixie Hollow is located based on certain scenes in the films- which I believe is more similar to the books, a forest area- but still close to the falls and closer to the coast of Neverland. It is very hard to see where, but I have an idea.
Very close to the center and the falls, but also an elevated forest area as we can see from Tinker Bell's arrival. So the waterfalls were relevant in some ways.
When they leave Pixie Hollow to go to the Mainland, this is the direction they are coming from.
In Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, she goes north and this is what she sees behind her when she says "Goodbye Pixie Hollow, I'll miss you."
This shot to me, shows the strong differences of Pixie Hollow and Neverland. How in some cases, they went too realistic imo...
TLDR- So, Pixie Hollow's location in both the films and the books (as well as everywhere else) is quite messy to me! I get there's some mystery in not knowing where it is, but there isn't really any indication besides "in the forest clearings of Neverland". Very odd to me that they never directly say where Pixie Hollow is located- anywhere besides a few random places. Also there's the implication that the seasonal meadows of Pixie Hollow are a speck compared to the full world of Neverland in the films, which is surprising to me. It's magical and yet sort of surreal in some ways too I guess hehe
But I overall, prefer the concept movie designs for Pixie Hollow compared to the movie designs, as the design feels very intentionally crafted. The idea of Pixie Hollow being hard to find makes sense, so I wish the movies had it be behind a clearing of some sort as well and not in the middle of the mountains/forest
Yo! Another one! Thanks for using the icon I made!
hey, you're welcome!! i wanted to have some kind of christmas-themed icon for december and couldn't decide on anything until i came across the twst ones you made--i could've used your riddle reindeer because of my URL, but i had a riddle icon for a while and wanted to switch it up haha. so thank you for making them!! they're so cute! 💙
What is it about Yoshi that makes you fond of him?
Without getting into details and divulging into an entire life story...
...the little fella helped me go through my depression. Back when I didn't realize that that was what being depressed felt, there was Yoshi.
He's a big reason why Super Mario eventually became my absolute main fandom and why I continue to occasionally make content for it, regardless of whatever fixation I may have at the moment. （´▽｀）
QS: What are Ottilie and Ru’s relationships with each other like? - From QueenSharotto
Ru would be the babysitter because Ottilie would NOT care if she's about to step on radioactive swamps just to get the thing that piqued her interest.
Though Ru finds Ottilie weird, there are times that Ottilie can have her moments when she proposes an opinion that only a scholar would say that shocks Ru.
Is it just me or do a lot of the book character illustrations feel traditional, like they were illustrated utilizing pencils?
No it's not just you! I think many of the original illustrations were sketched traditionally, then scanned and edited. I'm not sure about the colors/backgrounds but I think at least a few utilize traditional art like pencils and watercolor. There's even some art you can look at that suggests this. But 100% i think most of the original character illustrations and book art was done traditionally, and then modified
