Sometimes, viral stories double as portals into subcultures that you’ve never heard of before, but need to know everything about as soon as possible. Remember the chlorine gas attack at Midwest FurFest in 2014? Or the liminal horrors of the DashCon ball pit? Or the time that an animatronic worth around $400,000 on the Disney black market went missing, resulting in a criminal investigation and dozens of YouTube videos obsessing over the character’s whereabouts?
If your first response to that information is, “hang on, did you say Disney black market?,” then Stolen Kingdom should be on your weekend watchlist. Co-produced by the popular YouTube channel Bright Sun Films, the documentary comes from first-time director Joshua Bailey, who spent years building connections within both the Disney collector and urban-explorer communities before starting work on Stolen Kingdom in 2021.
