Man Accused of Stealing Buzzy's Clothing from Disney World Arrested

[glawio]

Another thing I find particularly interesting is that this concept art exists of a design that's somewhere right in between Captain Cortex (blue hat, red jumpsuit Buzzy) and Buzzy as we know him. (Honestly this just looks like Buzzy's dad) This is from the animator Sue Nichols's website, here's the description:

"Since the Development Department was just starting, it was not yet organized and often had you drawing ideas for stories that we did not have the rights for. Most of my work in the beginning were on such ideas that will never see the light of day. I got to know Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale during this time and joined their team to design characters for an animated intro used at Epcot's ride Cranium Command. My face even appeared in the show as a brain being jumped started. Very cool."

I guess this shows they had the AA completed first and had to go back and fix him to look like the new design!

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

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Another thing I find particularly interesting is that this concept art exists of a design that's somewhere right in between Captain Cortex (blue hat, red jumpsuit Buzzy) and Buzzy as we know him. (Honestly this just looks like Buzzy's dad) This is from the animator Sue Nichols's website, here's the description:

"Since the Development Department was just starting, it was not yet organized and often had you drawing ideas for stories that we did not have the rights for. Most of my work in the beginning were on such ideas that will never see the light of day. I got to know Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale during this time and joined their team to design characters for an animated intro used at Epcot's ride Cranium Command. My face even appeared in the show as a brain being jumped started. Very cool."

I guess this shows they had the AA completed first and had to go back and fix him to look like the new design!

It's wishful thinking but how cool would it be if Disney+ produced documentaries that detailed the development of these retired rides.

Its probably way too much of a niche audience. But one can dream.

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

Someone will pop up to take his place - sigh....



Nope, retail is out with a record of thieving. (yeah, innocent until and all that)

Yeah but he knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy. If there's any justice he'll have to chase out thieves with his trusty pushbroom.

 

[glawio]

It's wishful thinking but how cool would it be if Disney+ produced documentaries that detailed the development of these retired rides.

Its probably way too much of a niche audience. But one can dream.

I don't know if Disney is going to even acknowledge Cranium Command again after all of this.

I'd do some seriously nasty stuff for the preshow to be put on Disney+ so a small documentary about the ride would take me out. I've wanted to contact some of the people who worked on CC (Sue Nichols who helped design Buzzy, his voice actor Scott Curtis) but I'm scared I'd be annoying or bothering them sending them an email asking questions about a thing they worked on over 30 years ago that they may not remember well

 

[Dragonman]

They did restore the pre-show video for an interview with Pete Docter so there’s a chance.

 

[glawio]

They did restore the pre-show video for an interview with Pete Docter so there’s a chance.

UHHHHHHHHHHHHH I was not aware of this!!! Thank you SO much!!! Not quite the whole thing but it's enough for meeeeeeee~

 

[WondersOfLife]

They did restore the pre-show video for an interview with Pete Docter so there’s a chance.

Imagine if they made a new Disney+ show for Cranium Command. Maybe merge it with an Inside Out show too. I think they could co-exist.

 

[WondersOfLife]

I'm sorry, man... But this?... THIS IS MESSED UP.

(How am I just now finding this picture..)

 

[glawio]

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I'm sorry, man... But this?... THIS IS MESSED UP.

(How am I just now finding this picture..)

Don't fret, that's just the "plug", the sculpt that they made the mold for his face from.

..doesn't make it any less creepy though

 

[Dragonman]

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I'm sorry, man... But this?... THIS IS MESSED UP.

(How am I just now finding this picture..)

It’s basically a plug used to make the original mold used for the final animatronic head. Some sources who fail to do proper research are claiming its the actual animatronic head with its eyes gouged out however

Edit: Dang glawio beat me lol

 

[GlacierGlacier]

There should be Disney+ releases on attraction development. I’d love to see more of the original drafts for CC and the show planned beforehand. Still think they should’ve kept the song, it would’ve blended right in with the rest of the Epcot Classics

There is a WDI series in the works on Disney+, IIRC

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I'm sorry, man... But this?... THIS IS MESSED UP.

(How am I just now finding this picture..)

That's a mold for the face. Not the face itself.

 

[brb1006]

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I'm sorry, man... But this?... THIS IS MESSED UP.

(How am I just now finding this picture..)

It was on Backdoor Disney's Twitter for a while until it got deleted along with his account.

 

[glawio]

I take back what I said about Buzzy having no hair in the preshow. This man got like 5 dang hairs

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

There is a WDI series in the works on Disney+, IIRC

That's a mold for the face. Not the face itself.

Bring back tom morrow as host!
(Unless spikes stole him as well)

 

[the.dreamfinder]

Someone will pop up to take his place - sigh....

Remember Dark Side of Disney and (now also ran) Adam the Woo?

 

[tomast]

I'm going to admit that I had this pegged totally wrong. I thought there was no way that the clothes got stolen and then MONTHS later, the whole AA got stolen. So could Disney be that incompetent at security?

I think that they want them to be stolen.

 

[tomast]

There is a WDI series in the works on Disney+, IIRC

A Disney+ Series showing the famous inside-job/conspiracy of the disapiaring AA buzzy

 

[tomast]

He was on the radar for a while.

@marni1971 , sory for bothering you. But I have thsi dought and I think you may know the anwser , why does Buzzy was still in preaty good shape and the Stich animatronic (wich was newer) was totally wasted?

 

[trainplane3]

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Bring back tom morrow as host!
(Unless spikes stole him as well)

At least one of the Tom AAs from Innoventions was up for sale when I last checked. I think he was $16k? It was only the top half since that's all he was in his spot in Innoventions.

 

[GhostlyGoofy]

At least one of the Tom AAs from Innoventions was up for sale when I last checked. I think he was $16k? It was only the top half since that's all he was in his spot in Innoventions.

16k? No wonder Spikes turned into Swiper the fox.