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A stuffed orca or killer whale as it’s more commonly known, is one very large plush toy. While it can be purchased in smaller sizes, why would you want to when the real thing is so big? With any stuffed animal, including the stuffed orca, it’s always nice to be able to replicate in looks and size the real thing.

Free Willy was a 1993 family film which told the story of a young boy named Jesse who befriended a killer whale. After being captured out at sea in a net, a killer whale was taken to a local amusement park where Jesse was given a job cleaning up the park. While there, he made friends with Willy, the captured killer whale, and went on to teach him various behaviors which the trainer had been unable to accomplish. The owner of the park, who was without scruples, planned on capitalizing on the talents Willy has shown but when things didn’t go as planned, he resorted to whatever he needed to to make money. As a result and through other series of events, Jesse came to the conclusion that Willy needed to be released back into the wild so he could once again be with the pod he was taken from.

The orca that played Willy in the film was named Keiko and like the character from the movie, he was captured in the wild (in Iceland in 1979) at the age of two and taken to an aquarium in Iceland. Three years after that, he was purchased by the Marineland Theme Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario. While in Niagara Falls, Keiko was trained so he could perform for the public but he began to get sick with lesions that formed on his skin. In 1985, for 0,000 dollars, Keiko was sold to an amusement park in Mexico City. In 1992, Warner Bros. Pictures went to the park where Keiko was living in Mexico so the Free Willy film could be made. With publicity generated from the movie, a November 1993 feature story in Life magazine, revealed the terrible conditions at the park where Keiko called home and that essentially the giant whale was dying. The Work of the Earth Island Institute (an environmental advocacy group for marine animals) was the group which was instrumental in ensuring Keiko found a new home.

In 1994, Warner Bros. along with several other groups, donated million and the Free Willy Foundation was formed (it was later changed to Free Willy Keiko Foundation). While it would still be a few years before any discussion would take place about releasing Keiko back into the wild, in 1995 he was moved to a brand new .3 million dollar pool in Newport Oregon where he gained a whopping 1,900 pounds in the first 18 months he was there. After an additional two films were made – Free willy 2: The Adventure Home and Free Willy 3: The Rescue – pressure continued to mount to have Keiko set free. After much planning and more money, along with the assistance of the United States Air Force (for transport purposes), Keiko was flown to his new home, back in Iceland. Despite still being dependent on humans for food, on March 3, 2000, Keiko swam out in the open for the first time in Klettsvik Bay, Iceland, very close to the place of his birth. While he never had the opportunity to interact with other orca’s during his lifetime, he died a free animal, at the age of 25 on December 12, 2003.

If for no other reason than to pay tribute to Keiko, purchasing a stuffed orca is a great way to remember this remarkable animal. On the other hand, a stuffed orca doesn’t have to be bought for remembrance purposes if you just love a great plush toy, that’s as good a reason as any to get one.

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