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On September 22, 2016, Kearsley's sister found a VHS of the pilot in her garage labeled "'''KINGDOM HEARTS''' "KH DVD V.6 MOV" ALT" and dated August 28, 2003. Kearsley posted a photo of the VHS on Twitter and tried to spread word of its discovery.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SethKearsley/status/779055424209158144 Seth Kearsley finds a VHS of the pilot]</ref>
On September 22, 2016, Kearsley's sister found a VHS of the pilot in her garage labeled "'''KINGDOM HEARTS''' "KH DVD V.6 MOV" ALT" and dated August 28, 2003. Kearsley posted a photo of the VHS on Twitter and tried to spread word of its discovery.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SethKearsley/status/779055424209158144 Seth Kearsley finds a VHS of the pilot]</ref>


In January 2022, Kearsley was involved in a life-threatening car accident, and afterwards decided that he wanted to show off his work while he still had time. On September 27, 2022, Kearsley posted another photo of the VHS on Twitter, this time asking for help to transfer its content to a digital format.<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1574917393477824512 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Who knows an easy way to import VHS to digital? #KingdomHearts'''"]</ref> The following day, he released a cast list for the show,<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1575150136287580160 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Cast list #kingdomhearts'''"]</ref> adding that {{w|Haley Joel Osment}} having a schedule conflict necessitated {{w|Bobby Edner}} voicing [[Sora]] instead.<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1575153699197841408 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Schedule conflict. He may have been cast as Sora if the series went and His schedule cleared.'''"]</ref>
In January 2022, Kearsley was involved in a life-threatening car accident, and afterwards decided that he wanted to show off his work while he still had time. On September 27, 2022, Kearsley posted another photo of the VHS on Twitter, this time asking for help to transfer its content to a digital format.<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1574917393477824512 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Who knows an easy way to import VHS to digital? #KingdomHearts'''"]</ref> The following day, he released a cast list for the show,<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1575150136287580160 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Cast list #kingdomhearts'''"]</ref> adding that {{w|Haley Joel Osment}} was unable to reprise his role as [[Sora]] due to a schedule conflict and was thus replaced by {{w|Bobby Edner}}.<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1575153699197841408 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Schedule conflict. He may have been cast as Sora if the series went and His schedule cleared.'''"]</ref>


On October 11, 2022, after some attempts to transfer the pilot himself, Kearsley went to a media transfer company to do it instead. He posted the 11-minute pilot to his YouTube channel later that day, but he later took it down.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SethKearsley/status/1581025737926070272 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''As some of you have already seen. The #kingdomhearts animatic is taken down. I got the call from an old friend at Disney who was politely asked to politely ask me to take it down.'''"]</ref> The animatic has since been uploaded to archive.org.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/kingdom-hearts-pilot-animatic archive.org: '''Kingdom Hearts Pilot Animatic''']</ref> Seth Kearsley briefly reuploaded the animatic as an unlisted video on February 2, 2023 before quickly taking it down again.
On October 11, 2022, after some attempts to transfer the pilot himself, Kearsley went to a media transfer company to do it instead. He posted the 11-minute pilot to his YouTube channel later that day, but he later took it down.<ref>[https://twitter.com/SethKearsley/status/1581025737926070272 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''As some of you have already seen. The #kingdomhearts animatic is taken down. I got the call from an old friend at Disney who was politely asked to politely ask me to take it down.'''"]</ref> The animatic has since been uploaded to archive.org.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/kingdom-hearts-pilot-animatic archive.org: '''Kingdom Hearts Pilot Animatic''']</ref> Seth Kearsley briefly reuploaded the animatic as an unlisted video on February 2, 2023 before quickly taking it down again.