VIDEO 1 - Exploring the Abandoned Pokemon Theatre - FOUND LIFE SIZED POKEMONS
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- VIDEO 1 - Exploring the Abandoned Pokemon Theatre- FOUND LIFE SIZED POKEMON
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HISTORY
This Abandoned Theatre dates back to 1875 and has housed a carriage factory, live vaudeville acts, a storefront, nickelodeon, movies and live stage shows. It was closed in 2004 after a portion of the building collapsed. Although the lobby was demolished, the auditorium remains, and is about to be included in a condominium project that was given the green light by the city earlier this week.
The building was first constructed as a carriage factory in 1875, but by 1908 was established as the first in a sequence of theatres.
The theater became a prominent vaudeville and motion picture venue and was noted for being the first cinema in the area to present movies with soundtracks
HAUNTINGS
A man who was the theatre owner in the early 1900’s owned multiple buildings, one of those that he owned was this theater.
In th year 1919 the man signed away all his theatres for $1.7 million ($243 million in today’s money). He walked out of this meeting, went shopping, met with his lawyer… then nobody saw him again.
“Victorian Homeless Dude” -
During the renovations of this theater in the 1990’s, staff started seeing a homeless man inside the building. They thought a man got in and was hiding, telling the manager many times. He found nobody. A week later he had to become the detective.
Sitting down with the witnesses, he asked, “what’s the man look like?” The answer was strange…
“He’s wearing an old fashion suit, a bowler hat and has an curled mustache”
They started calling him the “Victorian homeless dude”. The manager knew the theaters history, went over to the Library and borrowed a book on the Canadian theatre.
Then showing each witness the picture of a man. They all said, “That’s the dude!” The picture was of the man who used to own the theater.
A skeleton -
A small storage room was revealed inside the courtyard during renovations in 1995. It was a theatre nerd’s dream, dusty steamer trunks filled with posters, reels and vaudeville props, and in the back dustier more rusted out trunk.
Dragged out and pried open, inside they found what looked like a human skeleton. Nobody could tell if it was a Vaudeville prop or the real thing so they called in a forensics team from Toronto.
The trunk was put aside and the team finally arrived a few days later. It was gone!
Confusion during major renovations, it’s believed contractors tossed it into a dumpster. If true, then there’s a dusty steamer trunk in a junkyard somewhere that may contain the answer to, “What ever happen to the man who owned the theater?”
The boy under the statue -
2 statues stand slowly rotting inside that auditorium. Staff constantly heard noises from inside a large vent under Caesar.
They said it was a crying child. Curiosity caused some to pull off the vent cover, but stopped when seeing a dirty, dusty void. Then for one week straight the boy cried every day, causing a frustrated theatre manager to crawl in.
He didn’t find a ghost. Instead, under a pile of dirt was a piece of paper. He Cleaned it up to reveal a report card belonging to a boy in Grade 4 who attended a local public school.
Norbert T. Rottweiler -
“Nobby” to his friends was The theatre manager’s pet that moonlighted as the theaters guard dog.
The manager locked the front office every night, only giving Nobby access to the foyer and lobby. One morning he came in to find his dog was missing. Frantically looking everywhere until hearing a whimpering behind the locked front office door. He Opened it and Nobby ran out.
The office was locked and the manager sure Nobby was outside that door. But maybe he was mistaken… until the next night when it happened again.
The only explanation is something unlocked and opened the door, waited for Nobby to walk in, then closed and locked it behind him. Multiple staff members witnessed the occurrence.
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did you take some of the puppets and mascots
Just the fact that all these years, a lost part of me and a lot of other people's childhoods was just laying beneath us, abandoned
Oh wow, so strange to see our dancing Pikachus, Pigeot, Butterfrees, and many more of the puppets and costumes we worked so hard to make so fast for a rushed opening, there they are in a puppet Tomb of sorts. Amazing.
Wait, you used to work on those pokemon puppets and costumes? Cuz they look freaking amazing!
Is there a way you can go rescue them?
Chadtronic sent me here, but this is really interesting stuff! Hopefully these props don’t get thrown away or something like that.
they are safely locked inside, the owner of the theatre has sealed it up very tight
@@Freaktography Did the owner do this after your video I assume?
Nice find. Those are old costumes and stage props from Pokemon Live! that ran for about 4 months in late 2000-early 2001.
Yes they are! Thanks for watching
I was wondering if the costumes were from Pokemon Live. They look in-between the quality of professional and in house made costumes. Was this theater abandoned shortly after? Surprised there wasn't other genre of costumes / outfits left laying around.
Still in fairly amazing condition too!
Incase you need context on the Pokémon stuff there, in 2000, Pokémon had a live musical called Pokémon Live. It toured the U.S. and Canada (for one city) for about a year, In 2015 CZcamsr Chadtronic was trying to find footage of the show to make a reaction video on, but to his surprise, he found nothing.
One of the stage producers managed to put his bootleg online for everyone to see. According to him, 4Kids (the company who dubbed Pokémon at the time) was trying to find a way for audiences to have the same experience at home like they did the theaters. But to no avail. And then 4Kids lost the rights to Pokémon, went bankrupt, and had their assets sold to Konami (for some reason) and Saban. Making an official release impossible.
This is incredible! Now, I've noticed that it's confirmed that the props are safe inside the theater, but is the theater just locked up tight, or is it legitimately sealed up? I ask because I don't want this to basically be a mausoleum for the props. I'd like to see them put in the care of a museum or exhibit, maybe even a collector just so they're gaurrenteed safe
Prob gonna go pick them up if they are still there, i live super close to this theatre
@@ysljaygee9145
Save our super powered animal friends if you can!!! I don’t like the sound of them being left to rot either… they hold such a loving place in the hearts of a lot of Trainers out there. If you can find MewTwo, I’d especially love it if you could get him to a museum with some of the others… he’s my favorite Pokémon… I’d love to take him myself but I don’t know a thing about repairing costumes and I don’t have the space for him at the moment anyway…
@@ysljaygee9145 get the costumes and yeet a magneton at some random guys face on halloween
EMILY WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
Would've never thought pokemon live would be discovered
I saw the photos on your website of putting the glow sticks in the Pikachus mouths...did you find those with the props? because if so, then those were given out at the show and you just found the last ones in existence
amazing if they still work after almost 20 years too
Hey, I'm here from Chadtronic, but I wanted to say it's really cool to see the video! I'm concerned about the props being abandoned, is it possible for you to get in touch with a museum or someone to help preserve the props? I don't like to see the Pokemon props in decay. I subbed to your channel and also followed you on social media. Looking forward to your other videos!
Who's here from Chadtronic!?
thanks for stopping by!
I am
Me
Yeah how has this vid been up for 2 years and we didn’t know 😂
Me
The fact that these things look like theyre crawling out of the coffins they were shoved in give me chills
Boy this is super cool founding Pokemon. Love the video and the history that came with it.
thank you
Such a cool explore at the abandoned pokemon theatre seeing all the props but what was with the noose and the caution tape creepy ❤
Thanks very much!
Besides the warping, camera shake that seems to happen alot, this a cool explore and video.
thanks
I wonder how long until someone makes a five nights at Freddy's parody of the Pokemon live stuff that was abandoned at that theater
Fun fact: your channel is badly underrated.
Thanks for that!!
@@Freaktography No problem! ^^
dude we need to find this place and maybe take some of the props home to restore them back to there original state and i would fully support someone if they did this
What if the fandom started a petition or a GoFundMe to restore them and put them in a museum???? We need updates… it’s been a year…
I'm gonna take that Vaporeon home. No legal whatever can stop me.
Came from Chadtronic. Great finds! I hope they find good homes tho rather than the dumpster
Ill save em🤣💯i live right by the theatre
here from Jordan Fringe. 👀
Hopefully the Pokemon props are okay and be safe.
they are currently sealed inside
Poor Golduck and Wartortle… they look awful…
You gotta take one of them home with you!
I love how creepy this is
indeed it is very!
Are these still sealed in there??? If they are, I’m going to try to see if I can do a GoFundMe to get them put in a museum…
I’m no influencer so I don’t know how successful it would be but I LOVE Pokémon. I’ve loved it since I was a little girl, when the generation of Pokémon featured here was the only one we had. Many of the poor things left to rot were there for me in my games when I had a bad day. I don’t want to just let them rot more.
i have been told that they are gone
@@Freaktography just curious but I would also like to go and see if I can save any of these props. Is it true they are gone? If so, would you happen to know why? And is it true the building is abandoned?
@@Freaktography Do you have any info on where they went? Really hope they were saved and not just stolen or thrown out..that theatre is not to far from me, really wished I came across this video earlier, would have loved to help save them.
Where are all my ladies and fricks
Gia Kotobuki ayyyyyy🙋🏻♀️
Ive seen versions of this with audio, was there a later change after this was posted? I know its the original video, just confused where the speaking is. Like at 7:00 in is where i saw the clip and he was talking about how happy they looked or something
ya i have a few videos here
@@Freaktography I noticed after I posted the comment. Excellent find! Can I ask what started your exploring series?
I half-expected these props to get up and follow you out. 😨
Very cool explore!
Thanks for watching
Abandoned by Nintendo
Lol
Freaktography hey I recommend looking at my new horror themed animation that I’m gonna upload at some point this year
I think you might be interested in them
@@alexarcher910 oh shit sorry i didnt see this comment before i commented sorry
Not abandoned by Nintendo, Nintendo licenses the games. I believe 4Kids was in charge of the musical
great video hate the camera warping
sorry :( Thanks for watching
SMASHED!
THATHSH
Chadtronic
I kinda want to steal these so they don’t become lost forever
I honestly would love to own one of these props. Is anyone selling them?
Nope, someone has actually been trying to buy them with no luck
@@Freaktography :( Would be really interested in buying them too!
@@Freaktography welp. Guess I might as well give up before I even attempt to buy one.
@@Freaktography
Why won’t the owner give them to a museum? They’re Pokémon! They deserve much better than this…
great place 👍👍👍👍
Creepy bruh
Damn poor golduck
What is the theater called and where is the location
Sho else is here from chads video
You know why we’re here.
They will return.
*abandoned by Nintendo*
I want one
Why is this theater abandoned????
Where is this place?
btw u should not be touching pikachu they might have a chemical or bugs
nobody cares if it’s Pokemon live
r u sure zubat is life sized?
frickin weeaboos
LOL
amazing
It has been a long time dream to find and restore that vaporeon puppet, would anyone by chance have a method of contacting the owner of this theater? I would love to discuss bringing it to safety and repair it
Very suspicious
Also most of the pokemon were destroyed, to my knowledge only beedrill, butterfree, golduck, and wartortle still exist
@@lostinthemesozoic
Suspicious how?
As of now there hasn’t been any confirmation that they have been destroyed (even though that’s likely what happened). I’ve spent months doing research and talking to almost every person I could think of that can be linked back to the puppets, but I just keep hitting dead ends. The running theory is that they’re either being stored (a very low chance but it’s a chance), or they’ve been stolen/discarded… unfortunately.
Regardless, just being able to document these puppets is a goal of mine. I actually had the chance to talk to Yvette Helin(the team lead on the creation of the props and puppets) and got some exclusive workshop pictures of Vaporeon!
@@lostinthemesozoic
Suspicious, how?
I’ve been doing research on these puppets for months now, and I haven’t found anything saying that the puppets were destroyed (though that is likely what happened) so there’s a chance they’re still out there somewhere.
Regardless, just being able to dive into the history of these puppets was already a big goal of mine. Few months ago I actually got to have a conversation with Yvette Helin (the studio director and team lead on the creation of the props, puppets, and costumes) about the vaporeon puppet specifically, and she gave me some never before seen, behind the scenes pictures!
Im 14 seconds in. If there isnt lavendar town music then dislike cus u aint a pokomo fo and just using this for dollah sob