- “My memory isn't what it used to be. I've lost my mind. Ha ha! I've lost my mind!”
- ―B.E.N.[src]
B.E.N. (Bio Electronic Navigator) is a supporting character in Disney's 2002 animated feature film Treasure Planet. He is an eccentric robot that originally served as the navigator of the legendary space pirate, Captain Nathaniel Flint. That is until Flint stranded him on Treasure Planet. Flint also removed B.E.N.'s memory chip to keep him from revealing his self-destruct mode for the planet, when it's collapsing.
Role in the film[]
B.E.N. was trapped on Treasure Planet until Jim Hawkins and the shapeshifter Morph came along. B.E.N. was able to remember one clue that would lead Jim to Flint's treasure. He reveals that the treasure is "buried in the centroid of the mechanism." In exchange, Jim allows B.E.N. to come along with the crew on their adventure, as long as he didn't talk so much and touch Jim. Later that very same evening, Jim, Morph, and B.E.N. go on the RLS Legacy to retrieve the map, quietly. B.E.N. went to disable the laser cannon for Jim.
However, while searching for the laser cannon wire, he kept pulling wires that put Jim at risk. However, he unknowingly saved Jim's life by pulling the ship's gravity wire, which sent Jim's arachnid nemesis Scroop tumbling into the vacuum of space. B.E.N. was useful later on when Jim, the crew, and Silver's pirates found the treasure. Jim found B.E.N.'s memory chip in Flint's skeleton. Jim put it back in B.E.N.'s head and gave him his memories back. But B.E.N.'s joy was short, for he then revealed Flint's booby traps to prevent anyone from stealing his loot. After Jim saved the crew by opening the portal to Montressor Spaceport, B.E.N. hugged Jim in triumph, and Jim hugged him back, as they were friends at last. Shortly after Silver left, B.E.N. lived with Jim and helped his mother around the Benbow Inn.
Disney Parks[]
At the time of the film's release, B.E.N. and Jim made a few appearances in the Disney theme parks to promote the film. Though they have long since retired from use in American parks, they have occasionally appeared at Disneyland Paris at Discoveryland.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- When B.E.N. is seen without his memory chip, his eyes are green. When he regains it in the film's climax and reboots, his eyes turn and stay blue for the rest of the film.
- When B.E.N. reboots after regaining his memory he beeps and makes the old startup noise of an old Macintosh Computer and the entire planet begins to collapse.
- B.E.N. is the only fully CGI character in the film.
- B.E.N.'s name derives from Ben Gunn, a character from the novel who was a former pirate of Flint and was left on Treasure Island for three years until Jim's arrival: this is exactly what happened to B.E.N.
- At one point in the film, B.E.N. sings a brief snippet of Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at the Disney Parks.
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