Buster Jangle I agree, too many people thinking this type of attraction is boring, is why Disney World ain't what it used to be. The younger crowd doesn't realize that this type of attraction, with the animatronics and imagineering is what had everyone talking about the magic when Disney World first opened. It 's the kind of thing that made Walt Disney such an icon. People had never seen things like this before. You couldn't imagine how they even thought to create something like this,, let alone make it so real. Now it's just about how fast you can go on a ride and how many times they can turn you upside down without dumping you out of the thing, or it's all about advertising their latest movie.

@@serenatwilite4005 this was a great ride… If you believed hard enough, the way the seats moved and vibrated actually gave a sense of movement that jived with that was being shown on the screens.

In a simpler sense, I agree big time.

Plus great animatronics

I need details 😆 what is left in this old building? How much of stitch’s great escape remains?

@@BenLaurence All of the animatronics are gone, but pretty much everything else is untouched. Just a lot of boxes of merchandise everywhere 😅

@@ameliabrown3987 rip stitch 😭

All of them? You know for an fact? There's one room where every time it's shown the tube shield is up so I always thought it was to cover the creepy skinned stitch

@@FilmThePoliceFTP Could be. I just never saw any but yeah, it could be hidden in theory

Great memories

Don’t care what attraction. Where crowds that low..

@@markpanzarella5899 New Phil Hartmans The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

Thanks for pointing that out. LOL

“In our galaxy” 🧐

@@JohnDoe-sg1pd omg - I didn’t catch that part! That’s hysterical LOLOLOL

No wonder I failed Geography, or Astronomy, or whatever. Should've never listened to them when I got on this ride 😭

@bellboy That's true.

The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

As a kid I loved all three of those attractions, but I can understand why working at this attraction and seeing the same thing over and over would be a special kind of torture. ;)

I'm wondering what happened when Mr. Johnson sprung a leak in his neck? Part of what is so creepy about these animatronic people is that it seems like you never hear about them getting messed up and even real human beings mess up, say the wrong thing or trip occasionally. You think about how they're forced to operate over and over again, hour after hour, day after day, and yet you never hear anybody talk about anything going wrong. It makes them seem like some kind of creepy superhumans. I think it really is creepy to watch them.

The first time I saw him, something was up with his neck. There was nothing leaking, but it was at an ever-so-slightly wrong angle.

Until 1994...... "Bring back life form, priority one. All other priorities are rescinded. You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. It's structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Last word: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies." 🙂

The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

Stitch Great Escape was a very good attraction. Alien Encounter would have lasted longer if it had been opened at Epcot or in original Disneyland.

that's why people in the 90's were so buff

I went on it when I was 7 (1987). It was really too much (or just too boring) for me to pay attention to what was going on, but I remember being impressed by the animatronics, and I thought the hyperspace sequence was pretty cool. I liked the strobing lights and the moving seats.. I didn't hate it, and I'm sad it's gone now.

@@swampdonkey4919 Went for my 18th birthday in 1987 with my girl friend probably one of the last times I went we lived near there so we would go all the time by then I lost interest in it. We did go to Magic Mountain number of times and Knotts during Halloween.

i went to your channel and couldn't find it. still a work in progress i guess.

And calling out, "Hello. Mr. Johnson!"

Mission to Mars digivolves to... Mission:SPACE! 😂

It seems to me like the Space 220 Restaurant at Disney World, has a little touch of the same concept. Possibly this attraction helped to inspire that restaurant.

Not exactly a lot of moving parts that can break...

@@kevinodonnell4094 It seems that way until you take into account the animatronics, film projectors, analog sound system, and moving seats. Physical media degrades over time, that's why obscure old grindhouse movies look and sound so awful. This one was probably a lot easier to maintain than the other ones, anyhow.

Star tours kinda

Yeah but Alien Encounter was creepy then it went to Stitch Great Escape but it closed too

That I remember!

I knew I knew that voice! Pete Renaday is his name

Same there was a reply said “I rode it when it was Mission To Mars”

@@ElsaIsAmazing 🤯

Same head mold.

That was the flight number. It's mentioned in the audio a couple of times, so it never changed. I have no idea if they came up with this number as some behind the scenes reference or not (I don't THINK so).

Alien Encounter and then Stitch's Great Escape. Now it's primarily used for a character meet-and-greet with Stitch.

@@Texaslawhorn Thank you.

@@Texaslawhorn I'd take a dated Mission to Mars over Stitch's Great Escape any day of the week.

@@Richard-fv7rqActually also it’s also now a Wheelchair parking

@@Richard-fv7rqhere’s the reason why Ailen Encounter closed, it was too scary, Now stitch’s great escape closed cuz it was too boring

Speaking as one of those kids, at least one.

The ride itself didn't move, but there were inflated and deflated seats.