“Walt Disney World” and “scandal” are two subjects that don’t usually go collectively. Disney World and long lines? After all. Disney World and churros? Completely. However that time period above would 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 lately spoke to the director of a brand new doc in regards to the wild story.
Stolen Kingdom is a new documentary film 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 contains the case of Patrick Spikes, a YouTuber who stole and bought the garments belonging to the audio-animatronic often known as Buzzy from the defunct Skull Command attraction.
What makes the story even crazier, nonetheless, is that in some unspecified time in the future after Buzzy’s clothes were stolen, Buzzy himself disappeared. Since then, the precise whereabouts of Buzzy have been unknown. Stolen Kingdom doesn’t have any “smoking gun” concerning Buzzy’s whereabouts so, once I lately had the possibility 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 sincere…
I confidently do not know. I feel there’s two nice prospects, and certainly one of them is likely to be unimaginable, and it is that possibly it was a misunderstanding and that Disney does have him, it could 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 the direction of that he was stolen. But when he was stolen, I genuinely have no idea the place he may very well be at this level. He may very well be wherever.
Patrick Spikes, whereas admitting to stealing Buzzy’s garments, which he bought 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 provided cash for Buzzy in some unspecified time in the future however, even when that’s the case, it solely proves there was anyone who needed Buzzy, who might have been simply as keen to pay anyone else to get what they needed.
However, as Bailey says right here, it’s additionally at the least attainable that Buzzy isn’t lacking in any respect. It’s attainable that, following the theft of the garments, to be able 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 things sometimes get lost for decades. The character might, nonetheless, as Joshua Bailey suggests, have been destroyed as a part of the removing. Bailey informed me…
An unlucky idea that I feel a few of us have thought-about is that he was form of taken aside due to every part that occurred, or hopefully, he was simply, you understand, locked away In a storage unit someplace, simply so he is been hiding. However, yeah, I might lean a bit of in the 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 grow to be an unsolvable theme park thriller.
