Stitch's Great Escape!
Stitch's Great Escape! was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction based on Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. A non-canon prequel to the original 2002 film that detailed Stitch's "first" prison escape, it was located in the Tomorrowland area of Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort, as the fourth attraction to occupy the building and theater space that was previously used for Flight to the Moon, Mission to Mars and the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, many of the animators who worked on Lilo & Stitch were directly involved with the attraction's development. The attraction, which struggled with a mixed reception from park guests during its existence, was the only major permanent attraction based on Lilo & Stitch to have operated in the United States; all other such major attractions since have been exclusive to non-American Disney Parks resorts.
| Stitch's Great Escape! | |
|---|---|
Stitch in the show theater | |
| Magic Kingdom | |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Coordinates | 28.418589°N 81.579744°W |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | November 16, 2004 |
| Closing date | January 6, 2018 |
| Replaced | ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter |
| Replaced by | Stitch's Alien Encounter Character Greeting! |
| Ride statistics | |
| Attraction type | Interactive theater |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | Lilo & Stitch |
| Audience capacity | 162 per show |
| Duration | 17:30, about 3 minutes for the pre-show |
| Height restriction | 40 in (102 cm) |
| Audio-Animatronics | 5 (three pre-show figures; two Stitch figures, one for each theater) |
| Related attraction | Stitch Encounter |
Assistive listening available | |
Closed captioning available | |