I rode the original scary pre-stitch version as a kid and remember being absolutely TRAUMATIZED. It was awesome. Would have loved to ride it now as an adult
I wish there was still a stitch ride that exisitied in the us, kinda sad we haven’t got anything for him recently even though he’s almost as popular as Mickey himself
I'm going to tell you guys more about this ride for those who want to learn more. In 2016, 2 years prior to the permanent closure of Stitch's Great Escape, the attraction became a seasonal attraction. Only opening during Disney World's busy days. Also, after the attraction permanently closed, everything from the building, including the Stitch animatronic, were dismantled. And 2020 was when Disney officially announced the rides' permanent closure.
My whole family thinks I’m the reason it closed 💀 Story time: So basically I was about 4 or 5 and I never really liked stitch but my sister did so we went to see if for her. When we went it we were some of the last people to come in so we were in the back of the theatre higher up because how the theatre is made. And I was kind of scared being a little kid who didn’t like stitch. But the thing that made it worse was when stitch spits at the one part he spit, apparently smt malfunctioned so he did it a tiny bit lower but that tiny bit go in my 4yr selfs eye 💀💀💀 I brushed out crying apparently and one cast member saw it or just came over not sure but they came over and were like “omg we are so sorry it was a malfunction!” Then once the show was over they gave me free fast passes and cookies for the whole day 😁 but then a week later the ride was closing 💀 so yes, my whole family thinks I got the ride closed 💀 I mean I was fine I was all happy after I got about 3 cookies. 😂
I remember the promo for the ride and the movie. In my opinion, Lilo & Stitch to this day had the best media and park marketing. I remember a lot of people complaining about the scents that were boosted in the air during the attraction, but I enjoyed it. I think there was an apple pie scent and a stinky/fart scent. I thought it was hilarious!
i loved it and i was super sad when i saw it closed. i asked the staff and thye said it was broken. but when i returned a year later it was still closed and the staff said it was being remoddeled. i asked if it would still be stitch and they shrugged and said they didnt know personally. very sad
I never went on it, I never even knew or heard about it either till now, what’s even more crazy is that I’ve been to the park a few times in the past, the first time being in 2005 after fully recovering from brain tumor surgery, and, the last, was probably back in 2013/15 when they did the parade at night with the lights, I forgot what it’s called.
I love Lilo and Stitch! I would call it one of my favorite movies - not even disney movies just movies in general. I went on the ride with my mom. We didn't know what to expect. I think the ride was new at the time. The shoulder harness came down on us and in my head I was like "Oh no! This is going to be like a rollercoaster or something scary! I don't like this." But then we were very confused. Stitch was "running around causing havoic" but nothing actually happened! I don't think the seats moved! I don't understand why it had such shoulder bars. It wasn't like we were going upside down or something. We just didn't understand this one. We felt like nothing happened.
I remember going to that attraction when I was little and I don't know why but I got super scared and cried when the attraction was done I told my mom that I wanted to go to the castle to beat Stitch up because I was scared 😅😂
Honesty stitches great escape was my best Disney ride I went to Disney for 2 weeks and I went on it 2x every day I can remember sitting at the front when I was so close to stitch it will still always be my favourite ride 😢
I only went on it once before it closed. I was very young and terrified so I screamed the whole time and couldn’t enjoy it. I wish I could ride it again I’m sure it was very fun
Stitch was one of my brother and I favorite ride at Disney I will always remember doing this with him. My brother is looking down at heaven now shaking his head.
I honestly loved it when I was a kid and it was a shock to me when I went back a bit older and noticing it’s not there anymore I don’t think it was bad at all
Stitch has been my favorite Disney character since I was a toddler, but I never got to go on the ride. It seems like it was a lot of fun, so it makes me sad
Whaaaat i didn’t know they closed it down that was a very good ride and me and brother after we left we decided to find stitch because gantu said if you find him bring him to us but when we found him me didn’t bring him to him we just walked away but I have to admit when we where sitting out handles would jump up and down and it kinda hurts a bit but it was worth it I was like 10 or 11 or maybe a bit younger and he was 9 or 10 idk all I know is we had fun and I love the Lion king one it was really good as well
This is a similar situation to another ride that opened just a few days ago, and you guys know what i mean, it’s the attraction that lazily replaced splash mountain and shall not be mentioned. Also another reason why alien encounter had to close is that one of the actors in the movie jeffrey jones who played chairman LC Clench was arrested for possession of CP and disney wanted to distract themselves from it because they didn’t want to be associated with sex offenders.
bro I feel like the reason that thing closed I was like 7 and j got on that thing they separated me from my mom on God all you could here was me screaming bloody murder and my mom trying to calm me down by yelling across the theater
Stitch is my favorite Disney character and when I went to Disney World back in 2012 I was excited to go on the ride and I loved it. I’m still sad the ride closed
I remember going on that ride when I was 5 and everyone was screaming except for me 😂 Edit: I called them last night and I asked them what there gonna do with it it’s just Been a stroller parking and they told me wdk where thinking about it so yeah that’s what happend
I personally had a really bad experience at this ride when I first game to Disney world when I was around 5 or 6. I was a really sensitive child afraid of loud noises darkens and stuff. So my mom took me on it thinking it would be something cute and fun. I was so traumatized after we actually left the resort early because I couldn’t sleep thinking stitch would come through our door. However it’s been about 13 years since then and I honestly feel if it was still open and I tried again I might like it.
I really wanted to see this attraction but it closed before i even got there, so my dreams are crushed. Now the only way to experience it for real is to travel back in time, but sadly time travel isn’t possible.
I think they should replaced stitch’s great escape with a with a scares house which is also a laser tag just like any zombies attractions called buzz lightyear’s space adventure where it is the Florida’s version of planet rescue from Shanghai Disneyland where the it is a walk through attraction where the it is based on the opening of toy story 2 where the score boards are hand held devices and the targets are on the z of the robots and there’s animatronic and live actors and the cast are Chris Evan as buzz Jeff pidgeon as the lgms and Wayne knight as zurg
i dont renmeber it we had a choice back then in 2014 between stitch and monsters inc laugh floor we chose monsters inc and my grandma thought it would be a meet and greet this one would of been intresting tho
They should’ve never gotten rid of Alien Encounter and just left it as it was. But unfortunately it had to be closed not because of how scary it was, no at all… The main reason, was because of the Incident of Jeffery Jone’s arrest of taking pictures of under aged child corn, and Disney didn’t want the main star of the attraction be known as a pedo. If Jeffery Jones never committed the crime, Alien Encounter would’ve lasted all the way until Bob Iger came in.
I was Going TOO Walt Disney World every other year growing up! Alien Encountered was One of the Best Attractions ever Made! And ....IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK AT A DIFFERENT PARK! KIDS OTHER 12YEARS OF AGE...JUST SHOULDN'T GO IN!! Stitch was TERRIBLE!
I love this stitch and idk why they have to close inesent stitch I never try it and it's super cute! Its maybe because some people just made stitch so creepy inside I still so sad it's closed
Stitches great escape was less of a ride and more of a show with lapbars that occasionally did something. It was essentially a 4d movie but not as cool as that sounds. Both times i was at disney world i rode it. I liked it a whole lot more at 7 versus 16
I love this and I love stitches Great escape but first of all it was actually 2002 not 2004 I love this so much I would love stitches Great escape at Disneyland I love him so much❤❤❤❤❤
I’ve always wanted to go on this ride, but i was never brave enough to. My mom and some other family members told me about it, and how it would tickle you and stuff, and i was literally terrified. Still regret not trying it out to this day. (P.S. i was very very young when i fully decided I wouldn’t go) but pls tell me if it was that bad or not
I thought it was great but I was also 9 when I went and 9 year old me was pretty dumb so the question still stands open this ride again I wanna see if I can still love it
I rode the original scary pre-stitch version as a kid and remember being absolutely TRAUMATIZED. It was awesome. Would have loved to ride it now as an adult
This was actually one of my favorite rides when I was little. Still sad they got rid of the ride
Same I went this year and stitch is my fav character and I was heartbroken when I heard that I couldn’t ride I could only meet him
same i was sad when they replaced it and im still sad 😢😢
I wish there was still a stitch ride that exisitied in the us, kinda sad we haven’t got anything for him recently even though he’s almost as popular as Mickey himself
I'm going to tell you guys more about this ride for those who want to learn more. In 2016, 2 years prior to the permanent closure of Stitch's Great Escape, the attraction became a seasonal attraction. Only opening during Disney World's busy days. Also, after the attraction permanently closed, everything from the building, including the Stitch animatronic, were dismantled. And 2020 was when Disney officially announced the rides' permanent closure.
Sad, I remember enjoying it, it doesn’t deserve all the hate.
Stitch appearing in odd locations just like the advertisements for his film, nice touch
This shouldn’t have closed. I ❤ stitch
My whole family thinks I’m the reason it closed 💀
Story time:
So basically I was about 4 or 5 and I never really liked stitch but my sister did so we went to see if for her. When we went it we were some of the last people to come in so we were in the back of the theatre higher up because how the theatre is made. And I was kind of scared being a little kid who didn’t like stitch. But the thing that made it worse was when stitch spits at the one part he spit, apparently smt malfunctioned so he did it a tiny bit lower but that tiny bit go in my 4yr selfs eye 💀💀💀 I brushed out crying apparently and one cast member saw it or just came over not sure but they came over and were like “omg we are so sorry it was a malfunction!” Then once the show was over they gave me free fast passes and cookies for the whole day 😁 but then a week later the ride was closing 💀 so yes, my whole family thinks I got the ride closed 💀 I mean I was fine I was all happy after I got about 3 cookies. 😂
You ruined my favorite ride
@@JeffTheLandSharkReal boo hoo
You should tell them the real reason it closed,if they don’t believe it,idk what to do then.
Only reason I remember that sign is because of an old family photobook☠️
Alien encounter > any other ride at Disney
Straight facts right here.
@@lukeskywalkerstudios941 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@JasonsBasementBand amen
I remember the promo for the ride and the movie. In my opinion, Lilo & Stitch to this day had the best media and park marketing. I remember a lot of people complaining about the scents that were boosted in the air during the attraction, but I enjoyed it. I think there was an apple pie scent and a stinky/fart scent. I thought it was hilarious!
i loved it and i was super sad when i saw it closed. i asked the staff and thye said it was broken. but when i returned a year later it was still closed and the staff said it was being remoddeled. i asked if it would still be stitch and they shrugged and said they didnt know personally. very sad
Awe, we miss it too. :(
I never went on it, I never even knew or heard about it either till now, what’s even more crazy is that I’ve been to the park a few times in the past, the first time being in 2005 after fully recovering from brain tumor surgery, and, the last, was probably back in 2013/15 when they did the parade at night with the lights, I forgot what it’s called.
I know that there whete 2 stitches and disney kept one of them and trashed the other.
and by being "remodeled" they actually meant converting it as a break area for CMs
I love Lilo and Stitch! I would call it one of my favorite movies - not even disney movies just movies in general. I went on the ride with my mom. We didn't know what to expect. I think the ride was new at the time. The shoulder harness came down on us and in my head I was like "Oh no! This is going to be like a rollercoaster or something scary! I don't like this." But then we were very confused. Stitch was "running around causing havoic" but nothing actually happened! I don't think the seats moved! I don't understand why it had such shoulder bars. It wasn't like we were going upside down or something. We just didn't understand this one. We felt like nothing happened.
It was to make sure the effects were line up right. For example the speakers would be right where your ears are
I remember going to that attraction when I was little and I don't know why but I got super scared and cried when the attraction was done I told my mom that I wanted to go to the castle to beat Stitch up because I was scared 😅😂
Unpopular opinion, but it was my favorite attraction.
I always wondered why it closed down!
Honesty stitches great escape was my best Disney ride I went to Disney for 2 weeks and I went on it 2x every day I can remember sitting at the front when I was so close to stitch it will still always be my favourite ride 😢
I used to LOVE Stitch! I was so sad they closed it down
I know! We miss it!!
That ride sucked by love stiche
I only went on it once before it closed. I was very young and terrified so I screamed the whole time and couldn’t enjoy it. I wish I could ride it again I’m sure it was very fun
I honestly loved it as a kid. Sad to see it's gone
Stitch was one of my brother and I favorite ride at Disney I will always remember doing this with him. My brother is looking down at heaven now shaking his head.
Even as an adult, this was the first ride I always wanted to go and do when I went to magic kingdom. I still watch POVs of this ride fairly frequently
I love Stitch 💙🌺
Alien Encounter was the truth. Made me cry as a kid.
I honestly loved it when I was a kid and it was a shock to me when I went back a bit older and noticing it’s not there anymore I don’t think it was bad at all
Stitch has been my favorite Disney character since I was a toddler, but I never got to go on the ride. It seems like it was a lot of fun, so it makes me sad
Brings back a lot of good memories when I was a kid
I used to love the stitch encounter attraction that sucks that it's closed now
I love the stitch ride
Whaaaat i didn’t know they closed it down that was a very good ride and me and brother after we left we decided to find stitch because gantu said if you find him bring him to us but when we found him me didn’t bring him to him we just walked away but I have to admit when we where sitting out handles would jump up and down and it kinda hurts a bit but it was worth it I was like 10 or 11 or maybe a bit younger and he was 9 or 10 idk all I know is we had fun and I love the Lion king one it was really good as well
I feel like they should add some rides for stitch because he is nearly as popular as the big mouse mickey himself.
No! I loved this ride! 😢
This is a similar situation to another ride that opened just a few days ago, and you guys know what i mean, it’s the attraction that lazily replaced splash mountain and shall not be mentioned.
Also another reason why alien encounter had to close is that one of the actors in the movie jeffrey jones who played chairman LC Clench was arrested for possession of CP and disney wanted to distract themselves from it because they didn’t want to be associated with sex offenders.
It’s bad in today’s world and I agree with you.
bro I feel like the reason that thing closed I was like 7 and j got on that thing they separated me from my mom on God all you could here was me screaming bloody murder and my mom trying to calm me down by yelling across the theater
Stitch is my favorite Disney character and when I went to Disney World back in 2012 I was excited to go on the ride and I loved it. I’m still sad the ride closed
That was so much fun! They need it back I love stitch and so does everyone else ,
No it was a pretty cool attraction.
One of my favorite rides!
One word: Yes!
The alien encounter was awesome!!!! Wish they didn’t get rid of it!
I remember going on that ride when I was 5 and everyone was screaming except for me 😂
Edit: I called them last night and I asked them what there gonna do with it it’s just Been a stroller parking and they told me wdk where thinking about it so yeah that’s what happend
My mother loved stich, she would be crying if she hears about this
That alien ride killed me as akid
The attraction was great when it first opened by 2014 you could tell it was already on its way out
i want alien encounter back
I went on it at my first time to Disney world when I was 5 and it was a very good memory for me and I remember I loved that ride
I personally had a really bad experience at this ride when I first game to Disney world when I was around 5 or 6. I was a really sensitive child afraid of loud noises darkens and stuff. So my mom took me on it thinking it would be something cute and fun. I was so traumatized after we actually left the resort early because I couldn’t sleep thinking stitch would come through our door. However it’s been about 13 years since then and I honestly feel if it was still open and I tried again I might like it.
No it was pretty good I was 5 when I went
I loved stitch’s Great Escape!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I remember going on this when I was like 7 and it honestly scared me so bad idk why tho cause looking back on it now it’s not even that bad 😭
As someone that had experienced both shows, Stich's Great Escape was completely inferior to Alien Encounter.
It was great , as a kid it was fun born in 96
I loved stitch great escaped I was heart broken when it shut down
I really wanted to see this attraction but it closed before i even got there, so my dreams are crushed.
Now the only way to experience it for real is to travel back in time, but sadly time travel isn’t possible.
10 years later: stitch:I always come back
-A wise person
It was amazing and am very disappointed that it’s closed.
Man I love it there it was not supposed to be hated😢
I think they should replaced stitch’s great escape with a with a scares house which is also a laser tag just like any zombies attractions called buzz lightyear’s space adventure where it is the Florida’s version of planet rescue from Shanghai Disneyland where the it is a walk through attraction where the it is based on the opening of toy story 2 where the score boards are hand held devices and the targets are on the z of the robots and there’s animatronic and live actors and the cast are Chris Evan as buzz Jeff pidgeon as the lgms and Wayne knight as zurg
Definitely was one of my favorites I went back and it was gone and I was so sad I wanted my younger brother to ride it but I was gone
This ride furlin terrified me omfg
I highly enjoyed it
i dont renmeber it we had a choice back then in 2014 between stitch and monsters inc laugh floor we chose monsters inc and my grandma thought it would be a meet and greet this one would of been intresting tho
They should’ve never gotten rid of Alien Encounter and just left it as it was. But unfortunately it had to be closed not because of how scary it was, no at all… The main reason, was because of the Incident of Jeffery Jone’s arrest of taking pictures of under aged child corn, and Disney didn’t want the main star of the attraction be known as a pedo. If Jeffery Jones never committed the crime, Alien Encounter would’ve lasted all the way until Bob Iger came in.
I’m sad I really miss the ride
It was great and I hated it when it had to be closed
I remember this ride
I love stitch he doesn't deserve that but to be honest I never went to the ride or whatever that but I love stitch ☺️
I was Going TOO Walt Disney World every other year growing up! Alien Encountered was One of the Best Attractions ever Made! And ....IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK AT A DIFFERENT PARK! KIDS OTHER 12YEARS OF AGE...JUST SHOULDN'T GO IN!! Stitch was TERRIBLE!
100% agree
I went in 2004 and it was awesome!! I can see maybe why it was scary to some but I loved it and I was 9 when I went
I love this stitch and idk why they have to close inesent stitch I never try it and it's super cute! Its maybe because some people just made stitch so creepy inside I still so sad it's closed
Idk because I never been to Disney world and l really don't want to if I could I would go to universal
Universal is really fun!
I've never been I have only been to Holliday world and six flags
Which both are really fun
Just went to Disney world for the first time and loved Japan in Epcot. Before hand I’d only had been to holiday world and silver dollar city
Never been to 6 flags
I mean it was an okay ride. The bars on the seat were really uncomfortable though.
I had to wait an hour for that ride it was really stupid. I LOVE STITCH but it was just like-😅
I liked this ride as a kid I thought it was interesting and was fun if you watched Lily & Stitch the series
Stitches great escape was less of a ride and more of a show with lapbars that occasionally did something. It was essentially a 4d movie but not as cool as that sounds. Both times i was at disney world i rode it. I liked it a whole lot more at 7 versus 16
Stitch is a good movie and has a lot going on but this probably would make people feel like they are there which is kinda freaky
And now there's nothing in that space. 🤦♂️
I miss Alien encounter 😞
It Was a Fun!
Anyone who opposes Stitch’s Great Escape, must face me (says in an ominous and deep voice while getting in a fighting stance)
Well I just went to magic kingdom and took a photo with stitch so it can’t me that bad … 💀
( there was stitch merchandise so I bought some )
I love this and I love stitches Great escape but first of all it was actually 2002 not 2004 I love this so much I would love stitches Great escape at Disneyland I love him so much❤❤❤❤❤
I was there
new animatronic 😤
old animatronic (stitch) 😍😘
I’ve always wanted to go on this ride, but i was never brave enough to. My mom and some other family members told me about it, and how it would tickle you and stuff, and i was literally terrified. Still regret not trying it out to this day. (P.S. i was very very young when i fully decided I wouldn’t go) but pls tell me if it was that bad or not
Them: its was too intense for kids
Me: then don’t let kids go on it
I wouldve gone on it! (btw apparently its reopening due to the popularity of Lilo And Stitch the movie)
I wanted to ride this ride I never got the chance
I was going to ride it but it was closed when I was walking into Tomorrowland
it's coming back 😎
I thought it was great but I was also 9 when I went and 9 year old me was pretty dumb so the question still stands open this ride again I wanna see if I can still love it
Stitch deserved to close after it replaced alien encounter
It was good but I never saw the attraction
The lapbars are uncomfortable and brining and my parents was right about it.
A Maintenance staff member on Tiktok claimed the ride was acting out even when switched of the Animatronic laughed at him ifk if this is true
i like it.
It is so cute how to get mad at this how to get they just shut this right away😢
No I love stitch 💙
Alien encounter should’ve never closed