Stitch's Great Escape! | |
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Magic Kingdom | |
Area | Tomorrowland |
Coordinates | 28°25′07″N 81°34′47″W / 28.418589°N 81.579744°WCoordinates: 28°25′07″N 81°34′47″W / 28.418589°N 81.579744°W |
Status | Operating |
Opening date | November 18, 2004 |
Replaced | ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter |
General statistics | |
Attraction type | Interactive theater |
Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
Theme | Lilo & Stitch |
Audience capacity | 162 per show |
Duration | 17:30, about 3 minutes for preshow |
Height restriction | 40 in (102 cm) |
Audio-animatronics | 4 |
Closed captioning available
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Stitch's Great Escape! is a Tomorrowland attraction at the Magic Kingdom theme park within the Walt Disney World Resort. It is a "theater-in-the-round" experience starring the title 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.
The experience takes place in the Galactic Federation Prisoner Teleport Center. Guests have been recruited by the Grand Councilwoman (Zoe Caldwell) to be guards for the Galactic Federation. After being taught the basic procedures of guard duty and the classification of prisoner hazard levels by Sergeant C4703BK2704-90210 (Richard Kind)—and a brief, but comical, reprisal of Skippy from The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter—Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson) gives an alert of a Level 3 prisoner being beamed to the Center. Guests are then instructed by Pleakley (Kevin McDonald) over a communicator to proceed to the Level 3 prisoner teleportation chamber.