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Bloomsbury, London, England is the neighborhood where the Darling family lives featured in the Disney Junior animated series, Jake and the Never Land Pirates. The Darling family live in one of the corner houses, a Federal-style Edwardian-era townhouse.
Background[]
History[]
The Darling family lives in London, in the Bloomsbury section, in the era of 1900 to 1904 assumedly. Peter Pan often flew from Never Land to there to listen to Wendy's various stories about him. One night Peter visited the Darling family nursery. Wendy is awakened when Peter is trying to get his shadow on. Wendy offers to sew it on for him (as he is trying to reattach it with a bar of soap). Through conversation, Wendy learns that Peter likes to hear her stories. However, when Peter learns that she is to "grow up" the next day, Peter offers to take her to Never Land where she would never grow up. When the Darlings siblings return home from there Never Land adventure, Nana is overjoyed to be back in the house, as George finally realizes he's been too hard on Wendy and Nana. Sometime after the event of the original film, Wendy wrote the events of her adventure on the island in a book, so she and her brothers will never forget Peter Pan.
Role in the series[]
Bloomsbury makes its first appearance in the episode special Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Battle for the Book, Michael and John love hearing Wendy's stories about Never Land-especially when Peter Pan outsmarts Captain Hook, But that sneaky snook Hook hates to look like a bumbling fool, so he decides to fly to London, steal Wendy's storybook, and destroy her stories once and for all. Peter becomes aware of Hook's action and asks Jake and his pirate crew to go help Wendy and her siblings retrieve Wendy's book. Bloomsbury reappears at the end of the special Jake and his crew accompanied with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell return back to Darling siblings home to hear one of Wendy's new stories. Unknown to the group at first that even Captain Hook and his crew were enjoying the story from outside the window until Hook loses his footing and is left dangling from the Darling household screaming for Smee to save him as the Darling siblings, Jake, and his crew laugh at his humiliation.
Printed material[]
Bloomsbury's only appearance in printed media in the series is the storybook adaption of Battle for the Book.
Video games[]
Bloomsbury only video game appearance in the series is the Disney Junior online game "Jake's Lost Story Quest." Like in the episode special Captain Hook overhears Wendy and her siblings retelling adventures from there first visit to Never Land. Sick of looking like a fool Hook flies to London to destroy Wendy's book.Jake and the Darling siblings must collect the scattered pages of Wendy's storybook across the map as the player journey across London and Never Land to recover as many pages as they can.
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