Being a fan of Disney isn’t a choice, it’s a must if you were born between the 80s and 2000s.
After all, we had all of the best classics come out within those twenty years, and the film intro was burned into our skulls from an early age.
But do we remember it correctly?
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Come on, let’s recant it and see where we could have gone wrong, because apparently a part of the intro never actually happened.
So, you had the Disney castle appearing ahead of our favourite animations… that’s a given.
Remember, you had the whoosh of Tinkerbell flying over to sprinkle fairy dust and dot the ‘I’ in Disney with her wand? Right?
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It turns out that part never actually happened and is another Mandela effect that's ruining childhood memories.
What more can we lose?
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TikTok users have had their minds blown as they realised that it never happened, and we’ve all collectively come up with some strange pseudo memory.
One user posted the intro with a voiceover saying: "How this even possible?
“Is Tinkerbell in the beginning of Disney movies?
“Fake. Based on everything that we know, this never actually happened. Disney did not release a video intro where Tinkerbell ‘dots the I’ on the word Disney.
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“Instead, people are likely combining several memories into one.”
What else have we decided happened in Disney but never did?
Disney fans are obviously upset about this and took to the comments to gripe.
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One person wrote: “I'm tired of people telling me I remember wrong. This I remember vividly.”
Another wrote: “I remember this intro from around 25yrs ago. It was on all the Disney VIDEOS not CD or Blu-ray...VIDEOS.”
“It did happen, I saw this as a child, I'm 35 and I saw this when I was 5..before google was born,” commented someone else.
Some wrote that they also remembered this intro with a different Tinkerbell.
One user claimed it was only the intro for Peter Pan.
However, others agreed that they’ve never seen an intro with the fairy and that others imagined it happening.
One person said: “I’ve never seen this intro with Tinkerbell on.”
Another wrote: “I don't remember this, it's obv fake. But there's a cartoonist one where she flies around and dots the I, I swear.”
However, one reason that we could be misremembering could be down to the 'Mandela effect'.
The Mandela Effect is a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing.
According to Medical News Today, memory is suggestive, meaning what other people recall can impact on what we remember.
The 'Mandela effect' was named after writer and researcher, Fiona Broome, created a website with her recollections of Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s.
However, it didn’t happen, and Mandela went on to become president of South Africa before dying in 2013.
So, our memory isn’t reliable - got it.
Britt Jones