Did you ever wonder....

Did you ever wonder what happened to the kid from Walt Disney's Flight of the Navigator? Or if perhaps that one doesn't ring a bell...so how about Runaway, or I-man? All were three awesome sci-fi films from my youth, staring child actor Joey Kramer. The biggest of course being Flight of the Navigator and if none of those ring a bell well the rest of this post wont be of any interest. If you search IMDB you don't really come up with a solid answer as to what happened to him. One person claims he took his life, and another claims he's a teacher with a wife and kid. Well I actually know what happened to him. And how might I be privy to such information. I just so happen to work with his half-brother. How cool is that!! He's hopefully coming to town this weekend so I might actually get to meet the Navigator himself. It would be pretty freakin cool to get him to autograph my Flight of the Navigator DVD. I found out that I was working with the Navigators brother from a fellow coworker. She knew I was a huge movie buff so she told me all about it. My fellow coworkers were either too young when the film came out to know anything about it, or didn't believe him. I believed him right away. First off if your going to claim your the brother of a former child star you'd have to be pretty creative to pull his name out of a hat. Sure I may have had some doubts but there are two tid bits of information I was able to pull from IMDB that would support his claim. First, Joey was born in BC. So there's my first tell tale sign. Second, one other fan was able to snap one clear picture of himself and Joey when he worked at a Source for Sports. The pic has the fan holding a copy of Flight of the Navigator and you can see his name on his name tag. Plus I can tell from the pic that he is definitely related to my coworker. I told my coworker I found a pic of his brother online and showed it two him, he said that was him when he worked at a sporting goods store. I'm not going to be one of those people to share what he's been up to all those years, b/c I personally feel it's not my place to say. I've told his brother he should go around and do Sci-fi conventions. All three of his movies that I'm personally familiar with were all Sci-fi. I feel people would love to meet him and get his autograph. Hell, they were charging $20 an autograph at the comic convention I went to for Ando from Heroes and the Voice of General Grievous. I wasn't about to drop $20 to get an Ando autograph (still cool to see him in person though), but I sure as hell would pay that to meet and gets the Navigator's autograph.

This is a picture of the ship from Flight of the Navigator I took when I was in Orlando. It's part of the 'boneyard' on the MGM Studio's backlot tour.