Stitch's Great Escape!

Stitch's Great Escape!
Stitch's Great Escape!
	Stitch in the show theater
Magic Kingdom
Area	Tomorrowland
Coordinates	28°25′07″N 81°34′47″W / 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
	Wheelchair accessible
	Assistive listening available
	Closed captioning available

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,^[3] was the only major permanent attraction based on Lilo & Stitch to have operated in the United States; all other such major attractions since (i.e. Stitch Encounter and Tokyo Disneyland's Stitch-themed Enchanted Tiki Room) have been exclusive to non-American Disney Parks resorts. As of 2024, no new major attractions have opened in this attraction's former space, making Stitch's Great Escape! the last attraction to have operated in Tomorrowland's northern show building since (not including the PeopleMover that runs through the building).

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