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One of my biggest ANGRIES with the Disney factory has been and always will be the ELIMINATION of my favorite fairy BECK (if you saw my drawings you will notice that she stands out a lot), which does not appear in any of the movies; I feel the same disappointment regarding PRILLA, DULCIE and MOTHER DOVE (oh my God)!!!, also of my favorite characters...Yes, I love Silvermist, but I was very disappointed that they didn't include my other favorite fairies (Yes, I really love BECK sooo much)
I mean SAME
I love the movie fairies but would it have been too much to ask for the book fairies to even so much as make a cameo or something
O.K, LILLY OR ROSETTA? The books present Lilly as the "master" in gardening and as the greatest reference to the art of garden fairies; in the movies this role is played by Rosetta; Will it be a clear "SUBSTITUTION" of one character for another? also for Fira, the fairy of light, which is "replaced" by Iridessa and Rani, who is "replaced" by Silvermist... Is it because the people of Disney did not have rights to use the original books characters?
The theory I've seen a lot and that seems right to me is that the books and the movies were kind of developed separately: the book writers had the freedom to develop the characters they wanted, but they were never necessarily meant to become the main characters of the movies (I believe Gail Carson Levine had only been given (In)Vidia as a character that had to occur). So I don't really think it's a substitution, also because then the characters would have to be a lot more alike (Lily and Rosetta have very different characters, and so do Fira and Iridessa, and Rani and Silvermist), and because the books kept existing next to the movies in their own continuity (albeit giving a little more attention to the movie fairies because they were of course marketed more extensively).
That being said, though I understand why the movies developed that way, I would have loved for the book fairies to appear in the movies, even just as non-speaking background cameos. Like at least Dulcie, Elixa and Beck got to be included in the Pixie Hollow online game, but it would have been great to see the others, perhaps even in the place of newly developed side characters (like Fira could have Iridessa's partner in the Pixie Hollow Games instead of Lumina, Bess could have been used instead of Blair in the DS game, etc.)
Not me using my very limited knowledge of Russian and the Cyrillic alphabet to find out that this book is called "Prilla and the Vanishing Fairies"
Now to find a PDF of it though
my friend taya is a real legend. not only did she make me crochet bobble and my fairysona, she gifted me this book today!!!