Ride Review - Stitch's Great Escape

[Red Randal]

A couple of notes as I've been reading through the comments...

1. Alien Encounter was close to a ***** attraction before it closed but I admit that it was probably too intense for the Magic Kingdom. The problem with the makeover isn't that they did it, it was in a fundamental misunderstanding of what made AE frightening. The ride is so scary because it's in the dark and has those restrictive harnesses for the speakers. Stitch keeps both of those elements, only instead of snarling and killing people the alien burps and spits. It's still frightening to children and now, because it has the silly toilet humor instead of the intense original alien, it's no longer interesting to adults. The show is bad but that's not why it's unsuccessful. It's unsuccessful because it appeals to pretty much no one.

2. I'm reasonably certain this is the first time I've posted a poll where the ride did not garner a single ***** vote (as of right now.)

3. I only call it a "ride review" because I think "attraction review" is kind of a long and clunky name (and is confusing for people unfamiliar with Disney, so it's tough for me because I post these reviews on some other sites too.) I don't like to change the name of each individual post to "ride review," "show review," etc. for more of a branding reason. Just thought I'd clear that up.

[wire0monkey]

I thought this was mildly amusing, but I miss Alien Encounter a lot. I loved AE.

My 6 year old son and 4 year old son thought SGE was hilarious. They loved it! Burps and spitting are pretty fun to a couple of small boys.

[Babyvett]

I hated it.. Dh says its not bad, but not that great.. I personally thought the smell from the "burp" was the most retched smell I have ever come in contact with and I cringe remembering it.. it was disgusting.

I rode AE and I liked it alot more..