Tinkerbell is my favourite character in all literature. The Disney film (2008) doesn't do her justice, which is a shame because Disney's Peter Pan (1953) was rather good. As a boy I fell in love with a light projected onto a stage. The fact that I couldn't actually see Tinkerbell, just the light, made her even more alluring. I saved her life when she was in mortal peril and despite all my years in science I still believe in fairies. (See the play - belief in fairies is crucial to the plot.)
Unlike Tinkerbell, I would never have fallen in love with this Tinker Bell character that Disney have dreamed up more recently. The name change, it turns out, is significant and also underlines the fact that she and Tinkerbell are not the same fairy. For a start, she's a girl (and I mean that with the pejorative inflexion a 6 year old boy would give the word 'girl'). Nevertheless, I love it that Tinker Bell is an engineer. I could see her hanging out at Dorkbot and subscribing to Make Magazine. I imagine that she will come to reject Disney's conception of the miracle of Spring as a sentimental and impoverished account that disguises how truly magical Spring really is. In short, I respect this new girly Tinker Bell, and approve of her as a role model for today's youth even though she doesn't have the same naughty magic as the fairy I fell in love with.