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ALICE
GOOFY
FUN FACTS FUN FACTS
• Goofy’s first appearance was in • Alice first appeared in Disney’s
the 1932 Mickey Mouse cartoon 1951 animated classic Alice in
short Mickey’s Revue. Wonderland, based on author
• First known as Dippy Dawg, Lewis Carroll’s classic books
Goofy did not officially receive Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
his current name until the 1938 and Through the Looking-Glass.
cartoon short, Goofy and Wilbur, • Walt’s fascination with Alice in
which was also his first starring Wonderland stretches back to
role. his very first cartoon series, The
• Goofy has appeared in his own Alice Comedies which he began Alice is a precocious and imaginative young
Goofy is an eternal optimist, a gullible good animated television series Goof making in 1924. Victorian schoolgirl, enamored just as much
guy, and a sincere dreamer. Ready and Troop, along with the feature films • Disney released a live-action with books as she is with daydreaming.
willing to try his best at anything, Goofy A Goofy Movie and its sequel An version of Alice in Wonderland in After following the White Rabbit down the
will think long and hard about what he Extremely Goofy Movie. 2010, directed by Tim Burton and rabbit hole, she finds herself in Wonderland
needs to do, only do it wrong regardless! • Goofy made a series of “How to” starring Johnny Depp as the Mad – a place where logic doesn’t make very
Hatter.
Whatever happens though, Goofy accepts cartoons – which quickly turn into much sense at all! Polite, honest, well-
it for its best – or at least its funniest – “How NOT to” cartoons. His most spoken and respectful, Alice can sometimes
because it’s his over-enthusiasm rather recent was 2007’s How to Hook have a temper when things get too silly.
Up Your Home Theater.
than his inability that makes him clumsy.
Goofy never fails to live up to his name!
TINKER BELL
CHIP DALE
FUN FACTS
• First appearing in Disney’s
1953 film Peter Pan, Tinker
Bell has gone on to star in
her own series of Tinker
Bell movies, beginning with
FUN FACTS 2008’s Tinker Bell.
• Tinker Bell also starred in a
• Chip ‘n’ Dale first appeared
in 1943’s cartoon short Tinker Bell is a feisty fairy from the magical sequel to the original Peter
Private Pluto. island of Never Land and the best friend of Peter Pan film in 2002 – Return to
Chip ‘n’ Dale are an inseparable duo of chipmunks Pan. Tinker Bell is a tinker fairy – adept at fixing Never Land.
whose goal in life is to amass a vast stockpile of • Chip ‘n’ Dale had their own pots and pans just as much as she is at fixing her • 2008’s Tinker Bell movie was
food! Chip, with his black nose, is the dominant television series Chip ‘n’ friends’ problems in Pixie Hollow. While some of the first to give Tinker Bell a
and more logical of the pair, often coming up Dale Rescue Rangers in the the time Tink can be badly behaved (especially voice.
late 1980s.
with schemes to solve (or cause!) their latest when she gets jealous), when her cooler head
predicaments, while Dale, with his red nose and prevails she is kind and loyal to those around
buck teeth, is the more impulsive of the duo, ready her (fairies are so small, they can only hold one
and willing at his best friend’s side – with the emotion at a time!).
occasional distraction.
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