It was a hairy-tale ending.
Guests at a Disney theme park in Tokyo were aghast after a pair of crows treated a Rapunzel robot to an impromptu haircut, forcing staff to remove the princess from her tower.
A video of the birds tearing her hair out scared up nearly 7 million views on TikTok and has since gone viral on X and other platforms.
The footage, taken at Rapunzel’s Forest in Tokyo’s DisneySea amusement park, starts innocuously enough with the lusciously locked animatronic singing while staring out her tower window.
That’s when the ravens decided to say “never more” to her legendary hair.
The camera zooms in to reveal two black birds pecking and ripping at her golden mane like something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror film “The Birds.”
All the while, Rapunzel continues to croon and swivel her head, oblivious to her raven-ous barbers.
It’s yet unclear why the featherbags were messing with her curls.
However, crows are known to erect their nests ranging from a variety of materials from sticks to animal hair — so it’s not beyond belief that they might’ve improvised with the Disney princess’s famous braids, as some viewers theorized.
In any case, commenters were both amused and appalled by the on-the-fly trim, with one TikTok wit remarking, “HELP – THEY THINK IT’S A NEST.”
“I thought the birds were animatronic too!” declared another, while a third joked, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let the crows have your hair!”
“It’s definitely tangled now,” quipped one jokester, referencing the 2010 Disney film about the iconic long-haired princess from German fairytales.
It appears that Rapunzel was removed after the opportunistic avians defiled her dew.
Another clip posted to X shows the animatronic missing from its tower with the caption, “Rapunzel is not here right now.”
Contributors at Inside the Magic speculated this was a temporary measure while the robot underwent repairs.
This isn’t the first mishap to befall a Disney robot of late.
A spanking new animatronic of Olaf from “Frozen” redefined new-fallen snow after toppling over during the iconic character’s coming-out party at Disneyland Paris on Monday.
Footage captured the moment that the faux snowman literally froze in place and toppled backward, causing his carrot nose to go flying.
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