Disney fans stunned after finding out part of iconic intro animation ‘was all in their imagination’

The iconic Disney intro may not have happened quite how you remembered.

Ah, remember the days where you used to come back from a hard day's drawing at school at 3:30pm, eat a dinner already cooked for you at 5pm before settling down to watch a Disney movie at 6pm and being tucked up in bed by 8?

Well, sadly, those days are as fantastical as some people's memory of the Disney castle intro that you probably think you can picture pretty accurately in your head right now.

Prepare to immediately rifle through your Disney DVD collection - you're lying if you say you don't still have one - to test out the theory:

Disney movies are iconic from their very opening screen - the Disney castle which appears as a result of Tinkerbell flying over with some magical fairy dust, dotting the 'i' in Disney with her wand.

But what if I told you Tinkerbell didn't actually whoosh over the screen and sprinkle her magical dust?

TikTok users are flooding to the streaming platform in shock after realising the opening didn't happen exactly how they remember it.

One user posted the intro with a voiceover saying: "How this even possible?"

Many people remember Tinkerbell in the intro. (TikTok/ @marelize.pretorius)

A screengrab underneath reads: “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. Instead, people are likely combining several memories into one."

Makes you wonder what other childhood memories you have aren't real - let's not open that traumatic can of worms.

Disney fans aren't happy about it, with one taking to the comment section to write: "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.”

What?! (Disney)

“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, albeit with a different Tinkerbell.

One user claimed that this particular animation was only at the start of the Peter Pan film.

However, others agreed that this intro never happened, with one person saying: “I’ve never seen this intro with Tinkerbell on.”

And 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'.

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This is a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing.

That’s because our memories aren’t always precise. They can change over time and we can even have different memories in different contexts.

According to Medical News Today, memory is also very suggestive, meaning what other people recall can impact on what we remember.

This mass misremembering was coined the 'Mandela effect' after writer and researcher, Fiona Broome, created a website with her recollections of Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s.

However, although many other people remembered this, it didn’t happen and Mandela went on to become president of South Africa before dying in 2013.