Stitch’s Great Escape!

If I could rate this a zero I would. This ‘ride’ if you were to call it that… Was awful. My husband and I unknowingly brought our 4 year old son. He was terrified and crying the entire time. I had to pull him out of his chair and rock him to soothe him after it went pitch black and water was sprayed at his face. It made him very wary to go on any rides after. Not cool Disney, not cool…

This is easily the worst attraction in all of WDW. I think I would pay my own hard-​earned money to make «Alien Encounter» come back. The smell of that chili dog haunts my nightmares.

By far the worst ride in magic kingdom! My niece who loves stitch hates this ride too. It’s not very kid friendly. The fact that they strap you in is so unnecessary. When this was alien encounter it was so, creepy and innovative for its time. Now it’s a junk ride that we pass by instead of wasting our time. If you’re going to MK, skip this ride and maybe Disney will get the message and create a better ride in its place.

Do not take younger children on this ride!!! Disney needs to redesign this ride altogether or at least verbally warn (like they do multiple times on Mission Space at Epcot) that the ride may not be for everyone… Especially young children! There are a few times you are in complete pitch black darkness for what seems like 30 seconds and some of the younger children are absolutely terrified. It was so uncomfortable to listen to these poor little girls next to me screaming in terror sobbing. At least 6 children were sobbing and they didn’t stop the ride. Seriously Disney? You haven’t heard from one parent that this ride is horrific for little kids? Not fun!

Pretty cool ride. My little one absolutely LOVED it. Age is key in bringing your kids to Disney. If you time it right, everything seems sooo real & magical!

Too much preparation and the attraction is nothing out of this world
It is definitely not worth the wait

This ride used to be a gremlin escape. Last time I came to Disney I was 8 and I still remember being terrified of the gremlin they have now replaced with Stitch. Stich is not nearly as scary as a gremlin, which definitely added to the poor effect of this ride.
The premise of the ride is that Stitch tries to escape capture and get sent to alien jail. We are new police recruits that are trying to keep Stitch inside his jail chamber.
Once you enter the room, plastic shoulder restraints lower down onto you. They announce these restraints are meant to «keep you safe» from Stitch and that lowering these restraints onto your shoulder will be «gentle.» It’s all lies. TIP: hold the restraints up with your arms. They will smash into your shoulder.
The ride just goes downhill from there.
The reason for these restraints is that Stitch will come «bounce» on your chair once he escapes his chamber. Ouch. The shoulder restraints go up and down and once again smash your shoulders.
Other things that will happen in the dark: Two laser beams look around the room trying to catch Stitch and keep spraying the audience with water. Stitch tickles the back of your head. Stitch burps onto your face and they release a nasty smell by your face.
I honestly had no idea what was going on half the time, and was just hoping not to get sprayed with water. We left the ride completely confused. It wasn’t too enjoyable.

This one is great experience. Great technology a cute story and lots of fun for the kids. Haven’t experienced anything similar anywhere else. It is old enough it doesn’t have the huge lines as some of newer rides and definitely shorter lines than the princess and most popular younger kid rides. One of our 5 year old grandchildren loved it the other was scared.

At 1:30am me and my daughter had time to waste while wife and son were on space mountain. There was no line so why not?
Big mistake. After a great day of rides we unwittingly walked into this. First a uninspired bank of TVs explain that you’re new recruit prison guards?
Next room a animatronic robot yammers on about a level 3 prisoner coming in and warns us all. This lasts so long people were just sitting on the floor. Again, the theme story is contrived and lame as a premise so the overwhelming feeling of «get on with it» prevails.
Finally you are shuffled into the real «ride» part of the attraction. This is where it really falls apart. Plastic harnesses drop and smash into your shoulders. You think you’re going to launch or something but no. The lights go out. You feel claustrophobic. I began to get that fight or flight feeling. Stitch «escapes» and wreaks havoc on you by burping a horrid smell onto you, spits on you etc. This was all terrible and unfunny. Then poof its over and you can’t believe this was a thing at Disney.
I openly complained walking out and told the story of this atrocious ride as a running joke for days.

I must admit this has to be the worst «ride» in Disney World. I don’t even get it. Basically you watch a robot talking to you about Stitch escaping. Then you get into a room and all that happens is a little bit of smoke comes out and Stitch talks from the top of this device and that’s basically it.
There’s really not much to this ride at all and it doesn’t even make sense. It’s not even fun. I was really shocked that they would actually put this into Disney as a final finished product. A total skip! I am still scratching my heads as Disney is typically much more creative!

Stitch’s Epic Failure
I did a no-​no here and read the reviews before entering this attraction, so my expectations were rather low. Needless to say my experience at this attraction fell below those expectations.
The introduction with you as new recruits is nice showing off some cutesy prisoners. Heck even the Stitch animatronic looked pretty cool, but everything went downhill from there. Pitch dark for the majority of the ride. Uncomfortable seating with heavy shoulder straps. A few jolts here and there. The disgusting burp smell from Stitch, that makes me wonder if anyone has ever thrown up. More jolts and Stitch makes his unseen Great Escape.
With the majority of the other rides/​attractions at Disney following some continuation of the storyline from their movies Stitch’s Great Escape has little identity. You think it happened before Stitch met Lilo, but who knows. I know I’m overthinking it, but as a Disney fanatic it really bugs me.
This attractions may be a little too intense for younger children (under 5), since there were 2 – 3 crying during it.
With all the animatronics in the darkened room I felt like I was playing a real life version of «Five Nights at Freddy’s»
Stitch’s Great Escape is a MUST SKIP.
The standard wait time during my mid-​July trip was 10 – 20 minutes.

This attraction is not very good… It doesn’t seem like the imagineers put much thought into this one… It’s pretty boring. If you’re a huge Stitch fan like me, this attraction is a big letdown!
It’s loud dark most of the time and smoky… Unless you’re one of those people who wants to try everything at Disney at least once, don’t bother – it’s not worth the time.

This was probably the worst ride experience I had in the Magic Kingdom. Even if you’re a stitch fan, there really isn’t much going on. You move from room to room until you get into a huge room where they tell you to move all the way down the row.
Big mistake because if you move all the way down you’ll only see the backside of Stich which was weird because the the seats where you can actually see Stich were completely empty. Really?
It’s a pretty weird ride overall, but thankfully we went for the worst ride first so everything was better after that. This ride needed some more planning.

I liked this more than I thought I would. The unnecessarily harsh reviews had my expectations low.
It’s fun for kids and adults alike, has neat effects, and is a nice change of pace from rides.
I wouldn’t wait more than 20 minutes to see this, thought.

I’m sure the attraction was great when it was Alien Encounter but now it is lame. Why strap us in? So we don’t run screaming from this ride? That may make since.
The gist of it all is that Stitch has been captured and he makes his escape from us. The lights go out and he’s supposedly «playing» with us by «eating our food», «sniffing us», and crawling around above, behind, and under us while we’re sitting. The lights come back on and Stitch is in the middle of the room then escapes one more time to the Magic Kingdom as shown on a video screen. That’s it.
Hopefully someone will rethink this one over and improve it pronto.

I remember when this ride used to be a Flight to Mars. Same sitting around the center in a circle but now, for some reason, some gizmo comes down over your shoulders like you are going to be riding a roller coaster. My grandson loves Stitch and loved this attraction ~ I cannot even call it a ride.
It’s dark, it’s loud and Stitch has arrived as a high risk creature that evades capture. Some of us were lucky enough to get spit on near the end. That’s it in a nutshell.

Many years ago in the nineties this used to be «Alien Encounter» and it was so awesome. I totally agree that they needed to go with something a little more Disney — like so they changed the alien in the teleportation device to Stitch… afterall, we are in Walt Disney World
Some of the original animatronics can still be found throughout the ride. This ride is now a cutesy and child-​friendly version of the original attraction.
Upon entering the main attraction area you are greeted and briefed by an animatronic robot with a funny sense of humor.
Once seated I recommend you sit upright because the sensor bars will drop to your shoulder length and if you are too low in your seat you’ll stay stuck that way and will not be able to move the shoulder bar. I also do not recommend this if you hurt easily. I find that the bars are an bit heavy and can tend to hurt the shoulders an bit while the sensor finds the right height to lock.
We sat in the back row this time, and although it suggests that everyone gets the same experience I found that we missed out on most of the audio while in darkness. We even questioned if the audio was working. I recommend sitting near the front and center rows.
I hate to spoil anything but there are some silly times where Stitch is supposedly stepping over everyone… I would watch your shoulders as the bar will tend to move up and down on your shoulder repeatedly for a brief period of time… I for one found this uncomfortable. Maybe if the shoulder bar had some cushioning it would rest comfortably for us bony people and small kiddos.
Overall this ride has its humor and definitely more kid-​friendly but the original Alien Encounter had more thrills and made us a tad scared… now that was a Class 3 alien.
P.S I would not wait more than 20 minutes to ride this, it’s just not that impressive.

This ride has fast pass.
My fiancé is a big fan of Lilo and Stitch and was so excited to learn that Stitch has his own ride here (Disneyland lacks Lilo and Stitch anything)
The ride was a big disappointing, I felt they could have done a lot more with it. Its a Sensory ride and the seating is awkward.
I’d try it atleast once, just to experience it, and move on to other better rides.

Wow-​there are some dramatic people on Unilocal!
Is this the best attraction in the park? Not by a long shot, but come on people, it’s not nearly as emotionally scaring as you are leading folks to believe.
The setup is simple: it’s your first day as new recruits learning how to handle intergalactic prisoners. After a welcome video and brief introduction as to how the prisoner transports work something BIG happens… a high level prisoner is coming! So you go into the theatre room (or torture room as other Unilocalers make it sound like) and they transport in Stitch! In typical Stitch fashion he gets free and things get crazy and go wrong! As I point out the attraction is a sensory «ride» all of the extreme reactions should point out that this attraction does in fact satisfy its goal: it makes you feel/​think/​react to the situation without so much as moving a seat. So for all those haters talking about how they felt on the ride, you’re actually endorsing Stitch’s Great Escape as successful in its creation.
So yes-​the ride locks you down in your chair (I didn’t received the painful Vulcan nerve pinch others described) and yes, Stitch burps and it smells and he «spits» and oh no, you may get sprinkled with water, but overall it’s a lot of fun! And if you think about that Disney magic, making you feel and think and react like something really is happening in that dark room, then you should appreciate the goal they’ve accomplished.
Calm down, you dramatic queens. I think your reviews about your «horrible experiences» may be a derivative from the fact that you fell for it. You bought into it. It’s okay to be afraid of the dark, but calm down, after all, it’s only Disney Magic.

I think it’s about time to retire this ride.
I have visited this attraction three times, but only had the full experience once. The first time was two years ago when my then seven year old got scared and we had to exit before taking the ride. When we returned this year, the ride broke down as we sat down and were about to have the full experience. These first two experiences should have been an omen, but when your kids want to do something, you’re kind of stuck.
My final experience was a full one. The pre-​show is lame. The actual ride is even lamer. In fact, the term ride is very misleading. Sure you’re strapped into a seat as if you’re going to flip upside down, but you never really move. Depending where you sit, you may end up with a face full of simulated smoke, or water «spit» in your face. Everyone gets to experience noxious odors, but I don’t think anyone actually enjoyed the experience.
Of all the experiences at Disney, this is one to avoid at all costs.