“Walt Disney World” and “scandal” are two matters that don’t typically go collectively. Disney World and lengthy strains? After all. Disney World and churros? Completely. However that time period above does not crop up a lot for the park And but, about 5 years in the past, the largest story within the theme park world, which CinemaBlend coated extensively on the time, was a couple of string of thefts on the most magical place on earth and a nonetheless missing-in-action audio-animatronic. With that, CB just lately spoke to the director of a brand new doc in regards to the wild story.
Stolen Kingdom is a brand new documentary movie that explores the pattern of city exploring at closed elements of Walt Disney World, and its connection to the black marketplace for all issues Disney. This consists of the case of Patrick Spikes, a YouTuber who stole and offered the garments belonging to the audio-animatronic referred to as Buzzy from the defunct Skull Command attraction.
What makes the story even crazier, nonetheless, is that sooner or later after Buzzy’s garments had been stolen, Buzzy himself disappeared. Since then, the precise whereabouts of Buzzy have been unknown. Stolen Kingdom doesn’t have any “smoking gun” relating to Buzzy’s whereabouts so, after I just lately had the prospect to speak with the movie’s director, Joshua Bailey, I requested him, having now spoken to many individuals doubtlessly concerned, what he thought had occurred to Buzzy. Bailey’s reply was fairly trustworthy…
I confidently do not know. I believe there’s two nice potentialities, and one in all them may be not possible, and it is that perhaps it was a misunderstanding and that Disney does have him, it will require them to come back out and admit this, and I do not know if that’ll ever occur. I suppose I lean a bit of in direction of that he was stolen. But when he was stolen, I genuinely have no idea the place he could possibly be at this level. He could possibly be anyplace.
Patrick Spikes, whereas admitting to stealing Buzzy’s garments, which he offered to NBA star and famous Disney fan Robin Lopez, has continued to assert that he didn’t steal Buzzy. Stolen Kingdom signifies that Spikes might have been supplied cash for Buzzy sooner or later however, even when that’s the case, it solely proves there was any individual who needed Buzzy, who might have been simply as prepared to pay any individual else to get what they needed.
However, as Bailey says right here, it’s additionally at the very least attainable that Buzzy isn’t lacking in any respect. It’s attainable that, following the theft of the garments, with a purpose to forestall the animatronic from being stolen, Disney merely eliminated it from its location within the closed Disney World attraction.
Regardless of that, although, there are nonetheless questions. If Disney World eliminated Buzzy, followers don’t know what state the audio-animatronic is in. He may need been taken down in a single piece and put in a nook of Walt Disney Imagineering’s warehouse, the place issues generally get misplaced for many years. The character might, nonetheless, as Joshua Bailey suggests, have been destroyed as a part of the elimination. Bailey advised me…
An unlucky idea that I believe a few of us have thought-about is that he was type of taken aside due to all the pieces that occurred, or hopefully, he was simply, you recognize, locked away In a storage unit someplace, simply so he is been hiding. However, yeah, I would lean a bit of in direction of that he was, the truth is, stolen.
If Buzzy was stolen on the behest of a personal collector, it’s unlikely we’ll ever know. Maybe Buzzy may flip up years from now, however the animatronic’s destiny simply might turn into an unsolvable theme park thriller.