Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 2/7/2002 news item <b><a href="http://www.wdwmagic.com/magic.htm" target="_blank">WDWMagic: Alien Encounter Makeover</a></b> <I>WDWMagic</I> offers up the rumor that the Magic Kingdom's Alien Encounter could get a makeover incorporating the characters from an upcoming Disney animated feature.
Originally Posted By kennect Even though this might be a rumor, leave it to Disney management(at this moment) to tie everything into a film related experience...While this can be nice at times it gets old and seems to me personally to be getting really old...Even though AE might not be the greatest thing in the world I have always found it to be some fun the few times I have done it...I have always thought of it as one of the few times Disney really went out on a limb in terms of an attraction for the Magic Kingdom to create something different and new....
Originally Posted By WeevilKneevil what happened to the Lilo and Stich overlay for the tiki room? what kind of movie is this? please dont let them change AE!! dont touch S.I.R.!!!!
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I really hope this isn't a permanent makeover. It's nice to have something at the parks that are for the adults. But until I see the movie and what they're going to do with the ride itself, I'll reserve my judgement.
Originally Posted By tmonee11 I don't think this is going to happen. The themes don't seem to mesh well, even with Stitch being an alien. I think this is just a wild rumor.
Originally Posted By Memory Oh, I see we created a WHOLE 'nuther topic on this. Just for that I'm going to have to copy all I said in the first one! I become real suspicious when disney even talks about doing things "temporarily" because for some reason we still have a giant gaudy epcot sign on spaceship earth. Even if they were to keep their promise and have it be temporary, I'm still not sure it'd be a good idea. I mean Alien encounter is perfectly fine as it is. It doesn't need a tie-in with anything. There getting so that they're afraid to introduce new park-specific characters anymore. Besides that it'd be a bone-headed marketing move, isn't Lilo and Stitch a kids movie? Isn't Alien encounter WAY too intense for the kiddies? Do tenagers looking for something to do at MK want to ride a kiddie ride? The answers are yes, yes and no. Which would end up with nobody on the ride. Unless they're thinking of making it tame as a lamb and instead of getting the scary alien instead of Chairman Clinch they get like a fuzzy tribble or something. I know it's just in the rumor stage as of now, but I'd like to just go on record as being against it. -Tristan
