The Best Banksy Controversies… So Far

Disneyland Goes Guantanamo
Not long after his Paris Hilton stunt, Banksy turned his attention upon another pop culture institution: Disneyland. Visitors who waited in the zillion-hour-long line for the park’s Big Thunder Mountain ride were surprised by an unlikely addition to the Old West-themed scenery. Standing amid the cacti, mining dams, and archaic machinery that the ride’s runaway train passes on its brief journey was the unmistakable figure of a detainee from Guantanamo Bay. Dressed in an orange prison suit and wearing a cryptic black hood over its face, the inflatable dummy remained on site for 90 minutes before the ride was shut down to have the figure removed.

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I love the work of Banksy! Hope to see it for real sometimes!

am looking around LA for the spirit of Banksy. Sorry to see OBEY turned capitalist. Maybe we should piss OBEY off, too.

I just realized a very important lesson concerning a-Non-i-mi-ty. Good work, Banksy. Long live!

not to mention page views and ad impressions.

Don't like the way this is broken into pages. Should be one long scroll. I assume this was done to maximize ad space. Bah.

Some of these are insightful, and some of them felt misdirected-- but all of them memorable.

Cool pieces. I wonder how involved some of the riskier "installations" are...and how many lookouts you need to paint the checkpoint wall.

what if bankys voice really sounds like that?

My favourite was only up for two weeks. Holloway road, over what was then the taxi cab dealership. Perched on the CCTV camera, a good 2o ft up, two stuffed crows having a fag.

There should be more people like Banksy.

Paris Hilton deserves much worse.

I love the shopping cart submission. That's one way to to get your art acquired!

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