The S.E.A. mystery has taken a turn into time travel. Walt Disney Imagineering’s latest batch of clues includes a schematic for a device called The Timeskipper, and the hunt for the thief who stole the Society of Explorers and Adventurers’ missing artifact now has eight scrambled letters to work with: T, L, A, R, O, E, E and Z.
The game began at D23 in August, when Imagineers opened a crate meant to hold an S.E.A. artifact and found only a pile of bricks and a note. Each riddle the thief leaves behind draws on Disneyland and solves to a single letter of the thief’s name. Unscramble them all and a brand-new S.E.A. character is revealed. The first three letters, T, L and A, surfaced last month, along with signs that the stolen artifact is the Ridge Jewel.
The Two Newest Riddles
The first new riddle carries the line that points to time travel: “I can go anywhere, anytime, and tell my tale.” The rest of it appears to send players to the Swiss canton shields at the entrance to the Matterhorn Bobsleds queue, with the question of how many of them are red and white.
The second riddle heads to Adventureland. Its final four lines appear to reference the oars on display at The Tropical Hideaway, each one marking a river expedition taken by an S.E.A. member as a rite of passage. The clue players need is whose expedition took place in 1831.
None of this requires a trip to the park. Every riddle can be solved at home by looking up photos of Disneyland.
What The Timeskipper Tells Us
The schematic arrived from S.E.A. Archivist Bonnie Booker with the latest riddles, and it is packed with detail. The design is labeled The Timeskipper, but the inventor’s name, the date and the location have all been smudged out. In their place sits the same cryptic symbol that appeared on the thief’s note inside the D23 crate.
Handwritten notes cover the page. One reads, “This device should ‘tune’ into the time I want to travel…” Another says, “I want to design it so that it will only work if I wear it.” That may hint at an answer to the question the earlier clues raised: how a jewel found at Rainbow Ridge in 1886 could be tied to a thief leaving riddles today.
Imagineers have also put together a second evidence board tracking every clue found so far, and the full set of riddles and the schematic are posted on the Disney Parks Blog.
The end looks close. Disney says one more update is coming before the adventure wraps up, and the new character’s name is still under wraps. Until then, fans can try their luck with T, L, A, R, O, E, E and Z.
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