Stitch Encounter

Stitch Encounter is an interactive show located in Disney Adventure World (under the name Stitch Live!), and in Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland Park (renamed to Space Chat with Stitch in 2025). The first edition of the show at Hong Kong Disneyland was closed on May 2, 2016, to make room for Star Wars: Command Post, although it temporarily returned to Hong Kong in 2019 for a limited time as a "Magic Access Members"-exclusive event. Disney attractions similar to Stitch Encounter include Turtle Talk with Crush, located in Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort, Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort and in Tokyo DisneySea, as well as Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. Neither of the American Disney resorts have ever seen the release of this attraction, with Stitch's Great Escape! in Magic Kingdom having been the sole major Lilo & Stitch-themed attraction in the United States, although this attraction is based on an earlier exhibit called Stitch's Picture Phone featured in Disneyland's Innoventions according to the Disney A to Z database. The attraction employs 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 of Hong Kong’s Tomorrowland. It is located adjacent to the entrance of Space Mountain. The attraction offers shows in different languages depending on the locale: Cantonese, English, and Mandarin in the original Hong Kong version (Cantonese only for the 2019 event), French and English at Disneyland Paris, Japanese at Tokyo Disneyland, and Mandarin in Shanghai. Show times are available at the entrance of the attraction and each show has a length of approximately...