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Throughout the 90's and the first half of the 2000's,I made several solo trips to Walt Disney World,so I was fortunate enough to experience the now-defunct Tomorrowland attraction ExtraTERRORrestrial Alien Encounter,also known simply as Alien Encounter. I'm telling you,it was fantastic...a spook-show for the science-fiction era.
I was also unfortunate enough to see it close...and replaced with Stitch's Great Escape,which I saw...once. I can't even describe my disappointment at this. It was like riding the Haunted Mansion and finding all the lights turned on,everything painted in vomit-enducing day-glo colors and the ghosts replaced with insufferably cute happy little elves. Not since Journey Into Your Imagination With Figment had I seen a worthwhile attraction replaced with insufferable crap.

In the past year,videos on YouTube on the subject have revealed why it closed...and while actor Jeffrey Jones' 2002 arrest for possession of child pornography was probably a factor,the main reason for its closing a year later was the large number of parents who chose to ignore the posted warnings about how scary this show was,then demanded a refund of their park admission on behalf of their supposedly traumatized kids; I imagine it didn't take long for scam artists to take advantage of this.

While I was very much into the Disney Renaissance,I never saw Lilo & Stitch...I think it was all those trailers showing him horning in on scenes from other Disney animated features. I still don't want to see it.

Description
Throughout the 90's and the first half of the 2000's,I made several solo trips to Walt Disney World,so I was fortunate enough to experience the now-defunct Tomorrowland attraction ExtraTERRORrestrial Alien Encounter,also known simply as Alien Encounter. I'm telling you,it was fantastic...a spook-show for the science-fiction era.
I was also unfortunate enough to see it close...and replaced with Stitch's Great Escape,which I saw...once. I can't even describe my disappointment at this. It was like riding the Haunted Mansion and finding all the lights turned on,everything painted in vomit-enducing day-glo colors and the ghosts replaced with insufferably cute happy little elves. Not since Journey Into Your Imagination With Figment had I seen a worthwhile attraction replaced with insufferable crap.

In the past year,videos on YouTube on the subject have revealed why it closed...and while actor Jeffrey Jones' 2002 arrest for possession of child pornography was probably a factor,the main reason for its closing a year later was the large number of parents who chose to ignore the posted warnings about how scary this show was,then demanded a refund of their park admission on behalf of their supposedly traumatized kids; I imagine it didn't take long for scam artists to take advantage of this.

While I was very much into the Disney Renaissance,I never saw Lilo & Stitch...I think it was all those trailers showing him horning in on scenes from other Disney animated features. I still don't want to see it.