- Stitch's Great Escape!
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cc= 1Stitch's Great Escape! is a
Tomorrowland attraction at theMagic Kingdom theme park within theWalt Disney World Resort . It is a "theater-in-the-round " experience starring the title alien fromWalt Disney Pictures '2002 animated comedy "Lilo & Stitch ". It openedNovember 16 ,2004 and is the fourth attraction to occupy the site inTomorrowland . The space debuted asFlight to the Moon when the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, and later was replaced by Mission to Mars and theExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter , which closedOctober 12 ,2003 .Walt Disney Feature Animation produced all of the attraction's narrative character animation. Many of theanimator s who worked on "Lilo & Stitch" partnered withWalt Disney Imagineering for Stitch's Great Escape!ynopsis
The experience 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 theclassification of prisoner hazard levels by arobot sergeant (and a brief, but comical, reprisal of Skippy from TheExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter ), CaptainGantu gives an alert of a Level 3 prisoner being beamed to the Center. Guests are then instructed byPleakly over a communicator to proceed to the Level 3 prisoner teleportation chamber.After being seated, shoulder restraints 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 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 traversingCinderella Castle . The audience is then released from their duty and exit into one of two gift shops--Merchant of Venus or Mickey's Star Traders.Technology
The attraction includes much of the technology and sets from its predecessor, the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, including the comical alien Skippy in the preshow area. The 39-inch
Audio-Animatronic Stitch figure built by Imagineering reportedly is one of the most complex creations of its size. Stitch is also the first audio-animatronic to spit water. Other special effects include binaural sound, simulated laser cannons and a pungent smell (that of a chilidog, which lampoons the rule about bringing food and drink into the theatre).External links
* [http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=StitchsGreatEscapeAttractionPage Official page within disneyworld.com]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUDWOsugas Several parts of the attraction can be found on YouTube.]References
* cite web
url = http://www.wdwhistory.com/MagicKingdom/Tomorrowland/StitchsGreatEscape/
title = Stitch's Great Escape
work = WDWHistory.com
accessdate = August 12
accessyear = 2006
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