Move over, Cinderella, Snow White and Ariel: The Disney Fairies are on their way.

Preparing for the Oct. 28 release of a straight-to-DVD animated children’s movie about Tinker Bell, Walt Disney World is about to open a walk-through attraction in the Magic Kingdom based on, and featuring, that pixie and four other Disney Fairies characters.

The Disney Fairies are a new set of characters, developed for books, movies, Internet games and merchandise, that expand the role of the always-popular Tinker Bell. Four DVD movies are in the works. The theme park’s Pixie Hollow attraction opens Oct. 24 in Mickey’s Toontown Fair.

“This is a franchise that is soon to be like our princesses franchise,” declared Francois Leroux, a vice president of character programs with Walt Disney World Entertainment, who introduced the characters to the media on Wednesday in downtown Orlando.

For full story by Scott Powers, Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer – 25th September 2008

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The UN are meeting on 25 September 2008 to discuss the goals they set to tackle poverty. We want them to ‘get on track’ with their goal to cut child deaths by two-thirds by 2015. Progress on this goal has been slow – 10 million children still die every year, mostly from preventable causes. That’s appalling.

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