Pixie Dust

Pixie Dust is a magical golden glitter-like powder that grants the abilities of flight. Many believe that flight is fueled by "happy thoughts", and this idea has been used in the Peter Pan movies and Hook, but in reality, Peter Pan was actually joking with Wendy, John, and Michael Darling when he told them to think happy thoughts.

Background[ ]

There are two types of dust: golden dust and blue dust. From the movies, "pixie dust" flows from the heart of the Pixie Dust Tree. From the books, following the Pixie Dust Tree's destruction, "fairy dust" is created by grinding the molten feathers of Mother Dove. In its common appearance, Pixie Dust is nothing more than a golden, sparkling powder. This dust comes from special blue pixie dust which replenishes the supply. As a golden color, it enables pixies to fly. Blue dust is shown to be a powerful augment and rejuvenator. However, there are other colors of pixie dust revealed/created in the movies, such as green, pink, orange, cyan, amber, and purple, each granting a fairy a talent or augmenting one. If a fairy's wings get wet, pixie dust cannot replenish them until they are dry.

Blue Pixie Dust is the most powerful of them all, as if infused within a regular maple tree it can turn it into a special one by making it produce regular golden Pixie Dust as soon the Blue Pixie Dust is dropping inside it. The process of growing Pixie Dust Trees was discovered by an extremely gifted and powerful dust-keeper named Zarina.

Abilities[ ]

This is called "Pixie Dust Alchemy" and was invented by an extremely gifted dust-keeper fairy named Zarina.

When a fairy changes his/her talent, the only way to revert back to their original is to be sprinkled with the dust related to it.

The Ingredients[ ]

• Green Pixie Dust: It is made with a green rock.
• Amber Pixie Dust: It is made with sunflower seeds and a pinch of moonflower.
• Pink Pixie Dust: It is made from the essence of flowers.
• Purple Pixie Dust: It is made with purple feathers.
• Cyan Pixie Dust: It is made with dewdrops.
• Orange Pixie Dust: It is made with eggshells.

Appearances[ ]

Peter Pan [ ]

Originally shown in Peter Pan, Pixie dust apparently comes from the fairy Tinker Bell through her wings. It allows Peter's friends to fly away from London to Neverland.

Return to Never Land [ ]

In the sequel, pixie dust is used to assist Wendy's daughter, Jane in her flying lessons, as well as to lift up objects twice the fairy's size, most notably the Octopus. It also allows Jane to fly back home from Neverland to London.

Once Upon a Time [ ]

A greatly more powerful version of Fairy Dust. It is capable of granting flight to the user if they believe, and the ability to find a soulmate for a person in need of love. David Nolan once described the potency as "nuclear fairy dust."

It can either be highly refined from Fairy Dust or retrieved from the trees of Neverland. When Pan's youth was close to expiring, the trees no longer had any Pixie Dust; likely his breaking of Neverland's rules of only visiting in dreams caused too much strain on the world to continue production of it.

Tinker Bell uses it in both the Enchanted Forest and while in Storybrooke. Henry and Peter Pan also use it when they are Neverland. Pretending to be a lost boy, Pan convinces Henry to use the dust so they can jump over a cliff and fly over to Skull Island. Once there, Peter Pan reveals his true identity and claims Henry as his property.

Weeks later after the heroes rescue Henry and return to Storybrooke, they learn that Henry and Pan switched bodies and must figure out a way for Pan to be destroyed forever. Pan's shadow kills the blue fairy and David, Mary Margret, Hook and Tinker Bell try to use the pixie dust to defeat the shadow but Green, (Tink) is scared to believe in herself again as she lost her fairy wings and Blue's trust. However, when Green believes in herself again, she is able to use the pixie dust to levitate and use the makeshift candle to defeat the shadow, which revives the blue fairy.

Tinker Bell [ ]

In the Disney Fairies franchise, it is shown to come from a reservoir in Pixie Hollow and evenly portioned out to every fairy in Never Land by the Dust-Talent fairy, Terence. Not only that, but Pixie Dust is needed for fairies to be able to fly and use their magic.

In Never Land, every eight years, when the moon turns blue, is a celebration called the Autumn Revelry, during which a Fairy is chosen from a Guild to create a scepter, which will hold the Moonstone, which, when the blue moon shines its light through the moonstone, creates blue Pixie Dust, which also rejuvenates the pixie dust tree.

Jake and the Never Land Pirates [ ]

In Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Peter Pan asks the fairies to bestow Izzy with a small pouch of Pixie dust which is used in emergencies only, however she did have to use it one time when her crew (Jake, Skully, and Cubby) lost Bucky in a race against Captain Hook. In the episode "Pixie Dust Away!", Izzy loses all her pixie dust in the Never Sea by accident. The Fairies inform Izzy and the other young pirates that they can restore their supply by visiting the Fountain of Forever which creates Pixie dust all year round.

The Pirate Fairy [ ]

In The Pirate Fairy, both the golden-yellow and blue pixie dust can be merged together with the help of a special ingredient to make various colors of pixie dust; each possessing its very own magical properties. Zarina uses the variously colored experimented pixie dust to switch Tinker Bell and her friends' talents.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[ ]

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, before the battle begins, Sora flies in with Pixie Dust from the background stage, one of his on-screen appearances.

Peter Pan & Wendy [ ]

In the remake, it has a similar role as in the original film.

Trivia[ ]

• It may be noted that the grain of blue pixie dust is larger than ordinary grains, and can be split, as seen in The Pirate Fairy .
• S.S. Malarkey from Theodore Tugboat says that he has pixie dust, but the bags of "pixie dust" are actually bags of sand.
• This item is commonly used in the Disney parks.

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