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{{Short description|Interactive show at four Disney parks}}
{{refimprove|date=September 2015}}
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| name                = Stitch Encounter
| logo                = StitchEnCounterLogo.png
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| logo_caption        = Logo for the former Hong Kong version
| image               = HKDL Stitch Encounter Entrance 201212.jpg
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| caption             = Stitch Encounter at Tomorrowland in Hong Kong Disneyland
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| location            = Hong Kong Disneyland
| location2           = Walt Disney Studios Park
| location3           = Tokyo Disneyland
| location4           = Shanghai Disneyland Park
| altname             = Stitch Encounter<br/>{{zh|t=幸會史迪仔|labels=no}}
| altname2            = Stitch Live!
| altname3            = Stitch Encounter<br/>スティッチ・エンカウンター {{in lang|ja}}
| altname4            = Stitch Encounter<br/>{{zh|s=太空幸会史迪奇|labels=no}}
| section             = [[Tomorrowland (Disney Parks)|Tomorrowland]] {{small|(original version)}}<br/>The Pavilion {{small|(temporary event)}}
| section2            = Studio D, [[Production Courtyard]] (2008–2025)<br> Studio D, [[Walt Disney Studios Park#World Premiere Plaza|World Premiere Plaza]] 
| section3            = [[Tomorrowland (Disney Parks)|Tomorrowland]]
| section4            = [[Tomorrowland (Disney Parks)|Tomorrowland]]
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| status              = Removed 
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| status4             = Operating
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| soft_opened4        = May 7, 2016 
| opened              = July 13, 2006 {{small|(original)}}<br/>June 15, 2019 {{small|(event)}}<ref name="hong-kong-event"/>
| opened2             = March 22, 2008
| opened3             = July 17, 2015
| opened4             = June 16, 2016
| closed              = May 2, 2016 {{small|(original)}}<br/>June 22, 2019 {{small|(event)}}
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| previousattraction2 = Walt Disney TV Tour: CyberSpace Mountain<br/>([[Production Courtyard]])
| previousattraction3 = ''[[Captain EO#Popularity and return|Captain EO Tribute]]''
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| replacement         = Star Wars: Command Post {{small|(original)}}
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| type                = Living Character show
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| designer            = [[Walt Disney Imagineering]]
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| theme               = ''[[Lilo & Stitch]]''
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| custom_label_1      = Hosted by
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| custom_label_2      = Sponsor
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'''Stitch Encounter''' is an interactive show located in [[Walt Disney Studios Park]] (under the name '''Stitch Live!'''), and in Tomorrowland at [[Tokyo Disneyland]] and [[Shanghai Disneyland Park]]. 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.<ref name="hong-kong-event">{{cite web|title=It's the Magic Access Members Summer Party and you're invited!|url=https://www.hongkongdisneyland.com/magic-access-members/page.html?uuid=a1198e76b8dd4cc99023b10de1a608e3|website=Hong Kong Disneyland official website|access-date=2019-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619022459/https://www.hongkongdisneyland.com/magic-access-members/page.html?uuid=a1198e76b8dd4cc99023b10de1a608e3|archive-date=2019-06-19|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

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 featured in [[Disneyland|Disneyland's]] [[Innoventions (Disneyland)|Innoventions]] according to the [[Disney A to Z]] database.<ref name="D23">{{cite web |title=Stitch Encounter |url=https://d23.com/a-to-z/stitch-encounter/ |website=[[D23 (Disney)|D23.com]]|publisher=[[The Walt Disney Company]] |access-date=April 7, 2024}}</ref>

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 (Lilo & Stitch)|Stitch]] from Disney's [[Lilo & Stitch (franchise)|''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 (Hong Kong Disneyland)|Space Mountain]]. The attraction offers shows in different languages depending on the locale: [[Cantonese]], English, and [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] in the original Hong Kong version (Cantonese only for the 2019 event),<ref name="hong-kong-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 15 minutes.

On July 1, 2021, following Disneyland Paris' reopening, Walt Disney Studios Park announced that the attraction is set to become part of '''Studio D'''.

== Attraction description ==
Guests are seated in a [[movie theater]]-like room, called the Space Traffic Control. Children are then encouraged to sit up front, on the floor, so that Stitch can see them during the show. At the start of the show, the host of the Space Traffic Control requests the computer to search for an available spacecraft captain to talk to; the computer connects to the spacecraft that Stitch is in. After that, guests (both children and adults) in the Space Traffic Control are randomly chosen by Stitch to interact with. Stitch can interact with guests in many ways such as chatting, singing them a song with his ukulele and even taking their pictures. Stitch looks, moves and sounds much like he does in the films and ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'', complete with corresponding facial expressions, gestures, and vocals (which the hidden actor performing him delivers in a mimicry of that used by the character's creator and original voice actor, [[Chris Sanders]]). At the conclusion of the show, the audience aids Stitch in his escape from [[List of Lilo & Stitch characters#Gantu|Captain Gantu]] ([[Kevin Michael Richardson]]) who seems [[revenge]] on him for stealing his cruiser.

== See also ==
* [[Hong Kong Disneyland attraction and entertainment history]]
* [[Stitch's Great Escape!]]
* [[Turtle Talk with Crush]]
* [[Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.disneylandparis.com/en-usd/entertainment/walt-disney-studios-park/stitch-live/ Walt Disney Studios Park - Stitch Live!]
* [https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tdl/attraction/detail/195/ Tokyo Disneyland - Stitch Encounter]
* [https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/stitch-encounter/ Shanghai Disneyland - Stitch Encounter]

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