Special Report: Stolen Kingdom (2025)

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike White engages in a captivating conversation with director Joshua Bailey about his feature documentary debut, Stolen Kingdom (2025). The film delves into three decades of mischief, scandal, and theft at Walt Disney World, culminating in the heist of an animatronic valued at nearly half a million dollars. Bailey's documentary offers an unprecedented look into the park's underground community, featuring firsthand accounts from key figures and exploring the subculture of renegade explorers and collectors.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	And now to a very strange crime at Walt Disney World.
0:42.8	Cars with burglary, grand theft, and trafficking in stolen property.
0:46.3	It's iconic. Only one on the planet. Where did he go?
0:51.0	The unwanted tourists.
0:53.2	Please remain the season.
0:55.0	Part of a growing subculture called urban explorers.
0:59.0	You start to get bored of just the normal experience.
1:02.0	And then you start thinking, what else can I do?
1:04.0	I risk my freedom. I risk my life.
1:07.0	But I want to show people things that they normally can't see.
1:10.0	Oh my God. When we started doing these adventures in theme park exploration,
1:14.6	man, it just caught on fire and it led to all of this.
1:19.6	A bombshell investigation.
1:22.6	Ceiling from the happiest place on Earth
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