For the most part, I didn’t introduce any magic to Backstage Disneyland beyond the supernatural elements inherent in each of the individual characters.
The smaller animals from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Cinderella” and “Bambi” help around the reality television show set of Real Princesses of Disneyland as gaffers and grips. A few animals speak, but for the most part they communicate without words. And just like in the Disney movies, I left them animal-sized in comparison to their human cohorts.
Although not expressly described in the book, I imagined that the small film crew animals would likely live together somewhere in Disneyland like the tiny houses that line the shores of Storybook Land Canal Boats.
I purposely put the larger anthropomorphic animals like Pluto, Winnie the Pooh and Goofy that walk and talk like humans in Club 33 with characters their own size.
Disneyland has had to deal with many of the same issues when they introduce costumed characters into the park - making Chip & Dale, Tinker Bell and Timon life size rather than stay true to their diminutive movie scales.
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Sample chapters
Prologue: Once Upon a Time
Chapter 1: Wonderful World of Disney
Chapter 2: A Whole New World
Chapter 3: Exile on Main Street USA
Chapter 4: Evil Plans
Chapter 5: Real Princesses of Disneyland
Chapter 6: Action Figure
Chapter 7: Code R
Chapter 8: Common Foes
Chapter 9: Peace, Love & Mickey
Chapter 10: Operation Death Star
Chapter 11: Frozen Ever After
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