Stitch's Great Escape!
Lost Disney Attraction
*Inside the Princesses Only Room*
All of our favorite 14 Disney Princesses are chilling. One is reading, while another brushes her hair. One is taking a leaf out of another's hair, while another is talking to a bird. Some talk to each other while others do their own thing, like painting and sleeping.
Suddenly, the room grows silent as a stranger crashes in. No one knows how they go it but before everyone knows it, all the princesses get up and they attack the stranger. They all use weapons whatever they find that is closest to them like a glass slipper, a lamp, bow and arrow, and a frying pan.
The stranger they all face is blue and looked alien to them. Could it be a dog? No, it was an alien named Stitch. All the Princesses got fed up with him that they told him to get his movie.
GET YOUR OWN MOVIE STITCH! OR BETTER YET YOUR OWN THEME PARK RIDE! Oh, wait, it's closed now.
Remember earlier this year when I wrote this chapter right before I left to go to Disney World then I delted the chapter thinking that Disney hasn't "officially closed" the ride? I mean, no matter where you look, the ride is still technically opened but as a Meet and Greet.
(My own photo)
"And that is why 2068 is the PERFECT year to get rid of Stitch. What the hell is Stitch?"
Well, I have GOOD news folks! Stitch is FINALLY getting replaced.
By what? Let's recap the Stitch Attraction before we get to that....again.
Stitch's Great Escape! is a Tomorrowland attraction at the Magic Kingdom theme park within the Walt Disney World. It is a "theater-in-the-round" experience starring the titular alien from Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2002 film Lilo & Stitch. It opened November 16, 2004, and is the fourth attraction to occupy the site in Tomorrowland. Many of the animators who worked on Lilo & Stitch partnered with Walt Disney Imagineering for Stitch's Great Escape! The attraction is a replacement of the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which formerly occupied the building the attraction is housed in. On September 21, 2016, it was announced that the attraction would be switching from a daily operated attraction to a seasonally operated one, depending on attendance, starting October 2, 2016. From October 2, 2017 onwards, the ride's first pre-show room is turned into a Stitch meet-and-greet called "Stitch's Alien Encounter Character Greeting!".
The attraction last operated from December 23, 2017 to January 6, 2018. After that last day, many Disney Parks fans and even cast members quickly assumed that the ride was permanently closed for good, but on January 9, a Disney spokesperson told Orlando's Spectrum News 13 that the attraction is still in seasonal operation and that it would reopen, although the spokesperson did not specify when it will. The ride's official website remains online as of July 31, 2018, marking the attraction as "temporarily closed".
The experience, set before the first film, takes place in the Galactic Federation Prisoner Teleport Center. Guests have been recruited by the Grand Councilwoman to be guards for the Galactic Federation. After being taught the basic procedures of guard duty and the classification of prisoner hazard levels by a robot sergeant (and a brief, but comical, reprisal of Skippy from the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter), Captain Gantu gives an alert of a Level 3 prisoner being beamed to the Center. Guests are then instructed by Pleakley over an intercom communicator (off-camera) to proceed to the Level 3 prisoner teleportation chamber.
After being seated in the chamber, shoulder restraints (made to resemble scanning units for DNA) come down onto the guests' shoulders and the prisoner is then beamed into the chamber via a large plume of smoke and is revealed to be an enlarged Stitch. After a brief period of puzzled talking by Gantu and his two assistants, Stitch uses the flaws of the armed laser cannons (the cannons follow and destroy any genetic material, including saliva) and disables all power to escape, causing mass (happy) chaos in the crowd. During this period, hydraulic pumps and small hoses in the shoulder restraints make it seem as if Stitch is jumping on guests' shoulders and tickling their heads. When the power comes back on, the laser cannons continue their attempt to bring Stitch down. Again using the cannons' fatal flaws, he manages to fire the laser cannons into the crowd. Shortly after using the diversion, he escapes to Florida's Walt Disney World. Cameras capture him traversing Cinderella Castle before licking the camera lens. The audience is then released from their duty and exits into one of two gift shops—Merchant of Venus or Mickey's Star Traders.
Rewrite: *Snores*
Sparky: Uh, Rewrite?
Rewrite: IMMA AWAKE!
And now for the replacement.
Wreck-It-Ralph strikes again! It makes perfect sense when you think about and good thing it's not another MARVEL theme ride.
Sparky: It sounds like you don't like MARVEL movies.
Rewrite: I do too it's just...the rides...and...*Picks up book that says "Avoid Eye Contact monthly."* Oh, would you look at that.
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10-10-18 Update:
Here's what he looks like now.
WARNING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED:
Source: Instagram and Reddit
1-21-19 update:
Here's a video on more information about the ride: