Stitch Encounter

Stitch Encounter

Stitch Encounter at Hong Kong Disneyland
Hong Kong Disneyland
Name 幸會史迪仔
Area Tomorrowland
Status Closed
Opening date July 13, 2006
Closing date May 2, 2016
Replaced by Star Wars: Command Post
Walt Disney Studios Park
Name Stitch Live!
Area Production Courtyard
Status Operating
Opening date March 22, 2008
Tokyo Disneyland
Name スティッチ・エンカウンター(Japanese)
Area Tomorrowland
Status Operating
Opening date July 17, 2015
Replaced Captain EO Tribute
Shanghai Disneyland Park
Name 太空幸会史迪奇
Area Tomorrowland
Status Operating
Opening date June 16, 2016
General statistics
Attraction type Living Character show
Designer Walt Disney Imagineering
Theme Lilo & Stitch
Hosted by Stitch
Must transfer from wheelchair
Assistive listening available

Stitch Encounter is an interactive show located in Walt Disney Studios Park (under the name Stitch Live!), and in Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland Park. The first edition of the show at Hong Kong Disneyland was closed on May 2, 2016 to make room for Star Wars: Command Post.

Disney attractions similar to Stitch Encounter include Turtle Talk with Crush, located in both Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort and Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort, as well as Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.

The attraction is a prime example of both real time animation and digital puppetry. Stitch Encounter consists of an unscripted, real-time conversation between park guests and the animated character Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. The attraction, which opened in July 2006, was part of a three attraction expansion to Tomorrowland, Hong Kong. It is located adjacent to the entrance of Space Mountain. The attraction offers shows in different languages depending on the version (Cantonese, Mandarin, and English in both Chinese versions, French and English in the Parisian version, and Japanese in the Tokyo version), to accommodate the variety of languages guests in the different parks speak. Show times are available at the entrance of the attraction and each show has a length of approximately 15 minutes.

Attraction description

Guests are seated in a movie theater-like room, called the Space Traffic Control. Children are then encouraged to sit up front, on the floor, so that Stitch can see them during the show. At the start of the show, the host of the Space Traffic Control requests the computer to search for an available spacecraft captain to talk to, the computer connects to the spacecraft which Stitch is in. After that, guests (both children and adults) in the Space Traffic Control are randomly chosen by Stitch to interact with. Stitch can interact with guests in many ways such as chatting, singing them a song with his ukulele and even take their pictures. Stitch looks, moves and sounds much like he does in the films and Lilo & Stitch: The Series, complete with corresponding facial expressions, gestures, and vocals (which the hidden actor performing him delivers in a mimicry of that used by the character's creator and original voice actor, Chris Sanders). The conclusion of the show occurs when the audience aids Stitch in his escape from Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson).

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