Magenta Panther
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I can't believe some idiot actually went into a Disney attraction and stole an AA and thought he'd get away with it. The arrogance and self-delusion is strong with that one.
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Man Accused of Stealing Buzzy's Clothing from Disney World Arrested
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nol_dur
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Don’t worry, once more news comes out everyone on Distwitter will be talking about that for a few days.Yeahhh I'm going through a little drama withdrawal with the news having slowed down ...
I'm sure even if it dies out, everyone will snap back to attention as soon as anything new surfaces. Would pay for someone to send me a message on here or twitter or discord or SOMETHING the second we know anything elseI guess that's what following Distwitter is for
GhostlyGoofy
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I was trying to find an estimated price on Buzzy and just watched an "Offhand Disney" video, I had missed that BDD mentioned police said buzzy was valued at $$120,000
in one of his videos.
in one of his videos.
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Wow -- that would qualify as "Grand Theft Audioanimatronic!"I was trying to find an estimated price on Buzzy and just watched an "Offhand Disney" video, I had missed that BDD mentioned police said buzzy was valued at $$120,000
lazyboy97o
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And yet nobody has been charged.
glawio
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I was trying to find an estimated price on Buzzy and just watched an "Offhand Disney" video, I had missed that BDD mentioned police said buzzy was valued at $$120,000
Anything else of interest in that Offhand Disney video...?
VicariousCorpse
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Not really, he got a lot of details wrong, like saying the mold of Buzzy's head was actually the animatronic head with it's eye gouged out.
glawio
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Does literally nobody take the 3 seconds to research stuff before they make claims or even better, take 3 seconds to look at the pic of the face mold where it is abundantly clear its not what was on the animatronic..?? Like...he had articulated eyelids and eyes that were separate from his face. Isn't it super obvious that the mold has skin covering the eyes!!! Did they think his eyes were painted on? Did nobody look at a pic of the animatronic to compare I just. Geeze!!
VicariousCorpse
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It's more sensationalist to portray that he ripped the head off and gouged out the eyes, then posted the picture to taunt Disney.
Castle Cake Apologist
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Being "safe in the hands of Disney" led to him being stolen in the first place, though. There's no excuse whatsoever for the theft, but Disney probably should have moved him when it became clear that people were regularly breaking into the theatre. Especially since he was already tagged for archival.
GhostlyGoofy
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Yeah it looks like he got that info from that daily beast article... actually I think a few sites ran with the beheaded buzzy story
Dragonman
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Yeah it looks like he got that info from that daily beast article... actually I think a few sites ran with the beheaded buzzy story
Yeah lots of articles and people claimed the mold was the actual animatronic head. It’s not hard to do some generic research folks
Goofyernmost
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It just seems so silly to me. Buzzy has been dead for years. They had no plan to use him for anything. His usefulness was spent. He had a good run, but, it came to an end. Value of $120,000? Seriously? It might have cost Disney that much to create him, but, as of the closing of WoL Pavilion he was already an asset depreciated entry on the corporate tax form. Spare parts maybe to some extent. Who knows maybe Disney did just recycle him for parts, but, upon seeing the response decided to continue the charade and just said he was missing to throw everyone off the path. Hey, it could happen. Whether it did or not remains to be seen, but, I know that if I never hear about it anymore, it will not be one of the things I think about on my death bed. It would probably be more like... I wonder if I should have gotten that penicillin shot back in 1969.
Oh, I know the answer to that one: That's not the case.
It would be better to say a good number of people make claims before minimally easy research and a good number of that set do it often.
GhostlyGoofy
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It just seems so silly to me. Buzzy has been dead for years. They had no plan to use him for anything. His usefulness was spent. He had a good run, but, it came to an end. Value of $120,000? Seriously? It might have cost Disney that much to create him, but, as of the closing of WoL Pavilion he was already an asset depreciated entry on the corporate tax form. Spare parts maybe to some extent. Who knows maybe Disney did just recycle him for parts, but, upon seeing the response decided to continue the charade and just said he was missing to throw everyone off the path. Hey, it could happen. Whether it did or not remains to be seen, but, I know that if I never hear about it anymore, it will not be one of the things I think about on my death bed. It would probably be more like... I wonder if I should have gotten that penicillin shot back in 1969.
Keep in mind that $120,000 number comes from BDD himself in a video where he cropped out important parts of a search warrant. So who knows?
If that number is from Disney I am guessing they're including all the R&D to make buzzy on top of actual cost of materials.
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Goofyernmost
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Yea... insurance is a funny thing. They have no reference books to look at to determine the value of an Animatronic, so it is just whatever Disney says. As for BDD. the only way he could be quoting a number would be if that was what he got when he sold it.
GhostlyGoofy
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In the video he said that is what police told him it was worth. But all grain of salt. That could have been a number they told him, hoping he'd mess his shorts. He could have been lying to sound cool.
We just have to wait.
ImperfectPixie
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Yes, but we already know that he's not trustworthy, so there's that. He could just be saying that to say it for all we know.
glawio
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In his podcast BDD brought up the point that there is definitely a manual somewhere in the infinite files of WDW that shows how to disassemble Buzzy and shows all his schematics, functions, etc. He said something like "I would do lots and lots of nasty things to see it"
...and now I spend a lot of time thinking about the nasty nasty things I'd do to see it too bothers me knowing it exists somewhere we can't see!!
...and now I spend a lot of time thinking about the nasty nasty things I'd do to see it too
bothers me knowing it exists somewhere we can't see!!
Dragonman
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In his podcast BDD brought up the point that there is definitely a manual somewhere in the infinite files of WDW that shows how to disassemble Buzzy and shows all his schematics, functions, etc. He said something like "I would do lots and lots of nasty things to see it"
...and now I spend a lot of time thinking about the nasty nasty things I'd do to see it too
Well here’s a schematic that’s just as cool