The first Tinker Bell to glide down a cable from Matterhorn Mountain to Sleeping Beauty’s Castle in 1961 was a 70 year old circus performer named Tiny Kline.
At the end of her flight each night she had to crash into a mattress in order to stop! Since Tiny, there have been other Tinker Bells, and it is said that they, too, had to brave the mattress ending.
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