Dark Doge X-s Tech I remained calm thanks to my neighbor, who explained to me the blood was just water and there was no one actually dead. She also told me to laugh.
+Shay Blay You too? I was too scared to go on anything the rest of that whole trip. My dad complained about it for weeks afterwards. I honestly think the original idea was way less troubling. Having a gun to fight Xenomorphs would at least put the power in the audience's hands, rather than be restrained, which is part of what made it so troubling, especially for younger audience members :'/
Yes! My family was very upset at me also for being a "baby" I could of been around 12. I suffered with anxiety severely at the time and that on top of being forced on rides like that didn't end well. Lol! Hell if that wasn't enough the next day, I was forced onto the Earthquake ride at the other park. Have you been on that one!? In a subway tunnel,Theres fire and water surrounding you and then a truck comes sliding towards the ride and blows up. It's dark. Next was King Kong and Jaws. All terrifying for me, didn't help my father loved to act like it was a real danger. Ha! The ET ride was the only one I enjoyed. Lol! 😂 I don't know why any parent knowing what the ride was like would take someone that young on it.
xxm3141 Lol, I went on this when I was 8 and absolutely loved it. What actually scared me was the Tower Of Terror ride, which I believe is in Universal Studios?
This ride scared me to death as a kid. You just sit in the dark, and its what you dont see that gets you. After many years, maturing, if it were up (it was replaced by Stitch's Great Escape) and running today, I would totally go back on it.
The attraction was plastered with parents urging them to exercise personal discretion and common sense when considering taking kids inside. Guess what, everyone ignored them, and then complained about not being properly warned despite being repeatedly warned.
that warning sign was worthless, no one was actually going to follow it, they were never going to keep this ride, it was too scary having a sensory deprivation in dark, its like close to being held captive , this ride would never have lasted without complaints.
+AdrenalineAddict610 My dad insisted it would be easier to get to Space Mountain by going through XS tech. I was six, so he wound up paying for it the rest of the trip. It's actually pretty hysterical in hindsight.
They should re-theme Stitch's Great Escape back to this during Halloween, like how they re-theme the Haunted Mansion to The Nightmare Before Christmas in California. If we're not getting TNBC Haunted Mansion on the East Coast, then we should get this.
xbox360guy19 Which opened after his death? And no, it's not necessarily meant to be scary. It's more of an homage to the original TV series, which production was based heavily in Hollywood.
I was like 12 when i went on this for the first time and it scared the daylights out of me..... so much that I had to run from the exit right back to entrance to do it again!
I REALLLY hope and Pray that Disney will bring back this ride after hearing that Stitch is going to get shut down soon :) I never rode this when I visited Disney in 2003 because I was Too Scared. :( I rode the Stitch ride years later, but it really wasn't anything THAT thrilling as I hoped it to be. :P After watching this video now that I am 20, I want to go on this ride SOOOO BADDDLLLY!!!! If you are reading this Disney, PLEASE PLEAAASEEE bring "Alien Encounter" back when you close down Stitch, even if it's just for a limited time like "Captin EO"! I know there might be a way to balance the intensity for both kids and adults. You should give guests special scan cards that increases or decreases the intensity for them, like what you did with "Mission Space". I know this can work! Please Disney? Can we please just "seize the future with X-S" just one more time? Please? Thank you. :)
@@cheyturtledragon8374 A. Karens and because they want to be kid-friendly (look at how they changed the Snow White ride at Disneyland to remove all the danger) and B. because they want to plaster their IPs across all 4 parks and not care about original properties. DISNEY+, MAKE AN X-S TECH SERIES WITH S.I.R. AS THE MAIN CHARACTER!!
I remember when I first rode this, right after the lights went out and the screaming starts someone sent me a text message and my phone vibrated in my pocket. Scared the crap out of me.
Ok, maybe not a troll. Just not bright enough to figure out that the phone that "vibrated" in my pocket was on silent (thus the vibration) and was not heard or seen by anyone. Forget the rock, go climb back on the short bus.
Hahaha, well, at least we know that you can read since you obviously read Danielle's post above. Unfortunately you didn't check it out. The reality is that text messaging began commercial use on cell carriers in 1993 after Nokia began producing handsets supporting it. ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter opened in 1994 and didn't close until 2003. You're showing your ignorance again.
Cole Walker the idea was way far away from this concept of you being in seats held down by the restraints You would be in the nostromo shooting them instead In darkness
Glaxir and plus if you were there in person you can pretty much see the person up there Though I have not been on this ever in my life Stuck with boring stitch
Imagine being that alien. Minding your own business, hanging out with your alien homies, maybe smoking a little bit of alien weed. Then all of a sudden, you get sent to some random area with small beings you’ve never seen before. How do you even react to that?
He was probably really pissed off. That’s part of why he acts that way in this ride. And then his luck really runs out at the end where instead of being sent back home they just blow him up :(.
This ride was freaking terrifying. I will never forget riding it. I was around 7 or 8 and my brother was 5. We actually got on to it thinking it was a different ride. We were in shock to say the least. I remember sobbing hysterically after getting off of it. Disney doesn't really cater to the scary/alien-obsessed crowd so it only made sense for them to take it down. Fourteen years later and I'm still traumatized.
Ohmygod. I remember BEGGING my mom to let me experience this attraction when I was about 7 or 8? I can't remember. She kept telling me it was boring and made it seem like the seat restraints were a pain. I wouldn't stop bugging her until she let me... and I immediately regretted it as soon as that alien was transported in that tube thing😂 I cried sooooo hard afterwards. I remember not even leaving the attraction yet, just standing in the exit area, crying with my mom comforting me😂😂 Now watching this as a 22 year old... I really wish they'd bring this back. It was just so real. I think what scared me the most was the maintenance worker "dying". I kept asking my mom if that was blood that sprayed (which I think we were supposed to believe that) But of course she kept saying "What? No that was water. What're you talking about?" 😂 Also that one robot being mean to that cute alien in that pre show thing made me feel really uneasy😂
triforce princess My neighbor told me it was water and that's why I wasn't scared. But I remember SIR being mean to Skippy and how both of us thought it was "alien abuse." LOL
Tim Curry was perfect to play SIR. Super ominous at the end of his monologue, which was a perfect contrast of the start. They all did wonderful acting! Too bad it's gone now
I must have been 6 or 7 when I went on this ride. So creepy. You are strapped in your chair, sprayed with water, hearing all these noises and and getting blown with wifts of air. Hands down one of the coolest rides ever. And I only got to experience it once.
They had two chambers on this ride. Only one was ever really used. I think on the final week of the ride both chambers were simultaneously, but I never went that week..... I only heard about it from a blog on the internet of the ride closing. This ride was awesome. It was a true sensory overload.
I did it in 1997 ... so scary ^^ I was 17, I knew that it wasn't real but ... my brain was fooled ... everybody was screaming ... terrific and fantastic :)
so i'm curious, is this show really as terrifying and traumatizing as everybody says it is? I was alive around the time it was still open, but I was only 3 years old by the time it closed down so I was definitely way too young to be seeing a show this scary at the time. I imagine it was about 10 times more scary in person than it is in this video because you don't get the whole surround sound affect and everything but is it really THAT terrifying of an attraction? I'm just curious because i've been really fascinated with this show pretty much ever since I found out it existed.
Short answer: Yes, it was legitimately scary. Long answer: The show was designed entirely to mess with your head, and they exploited the show system very well. The alien is only visible long enough to establish in the mind that it exists, and it is a threat. When all the lights go down, your other senses try to fill the void of darkness with whatever information it can get. At that point, you're much more susceptible to sound cues and tactile effects. Though the effects were rather simple, they became incredibly scary when the brain thinks they're from a bloodthirsty monster.
Additionally, Alien Encounter was such an extreme contrast to the family friendly atmosphere of Disney World that a ride this intense comes as such a shock. Basically, riders weren't prepared for a scary ride like they would've been at other theme parks, so Alien Encounter caught a lot of people off guard. I rode Alien Encounter several times in my childhood. I think I was about 6 when I first went on it in the mid-90s, so it was probably fairly new then. I was never traumatized by it, but I thought it was awesome and exciting. However, I was a bit upset by the pre-show because I misheard the robot and thought that the cute Skippy alien got killed. To be honest: I was actually scared more by the haunted mansion that same visit when I was 6. Not because the mansion was scarier (it's really tame in comparison) but I was nervous and hid my face in my hands most of the ride because I expected a horror-based ride to be inherently scarier than the scary alien sci-fi ride I had ridden earlier in the day.
And the interesting thing about it is that it was originally an Aliens attraction where the xenomorphs would be monster. It would have been terrifying attraction for those who have seen the Aliens films and know what these creatures are capable of. It is definitely not for young kids.
Also, add to that the fact that you're trapped in a harness that comes down over your head and pins your shoulders down. Claustrophobics didn't last too long. It also made it worse that if you got too frightened during the show, you couldn't just get up and leave. I was 37 when I rode it, and it terrified me. Mind you, I hate haunted houses and things where the scary things touch you.
it was kind of scary cause it felt like the alien was actually near you with effects and it was real but thats what made it so awesome. mostly young kids would be terrified of this especially for first time if you never experienced it.
I didn't find this too scary when I went as a kid.. I must've only been about 8. What scared me, though, was when I left and Dad turned around and said dead seriously "I swear fewer people are leaving than the amount that entered". Only then was I scared :P
sadly I never got to ride this ride. I was too young :( I wish they would bring it back. My whole family talks about how scary and awesome this ride was. I wish I could experience it for myself BRING IT BACK!!! D:
It’s my goal in life to build a VR accessory that brings back the feeling of this ride. Even though I was born too late to enjoy it myself (I probably could’ve but I was 5 when it closed).
This ride being unsuitable for small children is not an excuse for taking it down. Any adult who hasn't been living under a rock knows what Alien is and should know not to bring children into an attraction based on what is widely regarded to be one of the scariest movies of all time, let alone a ride with "TERROR" in the name. This obviously is not going to be at Haunted Mansion level. Not everything at Disney has to be suitable for 5 year olds, and that's not limited to just the big rollercoasters.
While similar to the Ridley Scott films in tone and style, Disney refused to sign off on an attraction that was directly tied to Alien. To compromise, they made their own story, but that in turn helped kill off Alien Encounter. The big selling point of the Alien tie in was that guests knew what Alien was, and would know right off the bat an attraction based on the films would not be appropriate for sensitive audiences (including young kids). By going with an original story, Disney lost that built in parental control; despite providing adequate and repeated warnings about the show's intensity, parents didn't take them seriously because they didn't expect Disney to actually make something that scary. Since Disney owns enough "adult" franchises with established hostile alien races (e.g. Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy), they could feasibly revisit this and give it the proper tie in that would show parents their 5 year old probably won't like it.
I've come back to this comment with a completely different opinion lmao. Of course I would love to see this back at Disney... but it's just not the place for it regardless of my interests. I think it would be amazing at a park like Universal, however, since they've had success with scarier rides like Jaws and King Kong.
Scariest thing I ever experienced, and I was sitting still the whole time! I got on this in 1995 when I was 18! My sister was sitting next to me and I knew she was dead. I screamed and cried, all I wanted to do was get out of there! You missed out if you never go a chance to experience Alien Encounter!
Lol...no I thought she was dead. There was a moment when you could hear the Alien crunching on bones. It really sounded like it was eating the peeson sitting next to you.
Telisa Bryant Oh. i though you meant that she had a heart attack from terror during the Extra-TERRORestrial Alien Encounter. those sound effects really did sound realistic.
This ride was amazing! It's a goddamned travesty they got rid of it. Even worse that they replaced it with that horrid piece of godawful shit known as Stitch. I'm so ashamed to be a Disney fan because of this.
Even worse, they refuse to acknowledge S.I.R. They changed him into some fat little shit in Stitch instead of just giving him a police hat and having Tim Curry record new dialogue. That is worse than outright destroying the animatronic. They acknowledge the alien and Skippy, but S.I.R.? Nope. Even when this attraction was around, they didn't give S.I.R. any popularity. They just released an action figure of him and that's it. Not even a vehicle to go with the action figure (like so many '90s franchises.) AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S BAD?! THE ACTION FIGURE COULDN'T HOLD ANYTHING, SO THEY DIDN'T MAKE ANY ACCESSORIES FOR IT! He also didn't appear in the WDW video games. S.I.R. could've been Disney's Nineties Anti-Hero and they failed to recognize him.
Dreaklock Alien encounter was too scary for some people That is not a family friendly ride that’s why they replaced it with stitche’s great escape because it was more family friendly
omg was that you?! i found it hilarious. im only 14 so i was never able to go on it before they turned into stitch but it seemed pretty scary. not a ride you would think would be at disney...
BonecrusherT800 I was 6, and thanks to my neighbor doing a great job explaining how it all worked, it didn't scare me. Helps I'd seen Alien and Aliens before this, and was a major Terminator fan. Nothing on TV usually scared me. The things that scared me I don't look up on RU-vid or elsewhere online.
+Fanai Armstrong. They did! There was a big sign at the entrance that said "May not be suitable for small children and some people may find the attraction disturbing". Besides, it was scary for Disney, but not really THAT scary.
never got to do this ride. I wanted to go as a 5 year old but parents said its too scary. then it became stitch before I could go back. thank god for this video
I experienced this ride aged 5! Pure scared me for life haha Apparently I came out crying and hitting my dad saying it was his fault! He had no idea what the ride was, or so he says haha
it's weird seeing a video of people from early 2000's walking around with kids that's probably about my age now, knowing that was the time all my vintage Disney world childhood photos were taken...
This ride scared the crap out of me I was only 6 years old. I don't know how but I knew there be something scary but noooo my mom and dad did not listen to me cause my sister wanted to go. So yeah dragging a 6 year old to this shit was mess up
+gsamalot haha my parents did the same thing! Afterwards I was crying and yelling at my Mom for laughing about it and she said I should have known better because the signs outside the ride warned against going in if you had a pacemaker... I had no more concept of what that was than most other 8 year olds.
gsamalot I hate when parents do things like that. I've volunteered at a haunted house as an actress twice. Whenever I see parents dragging their horrified kids through and get mad at them for being scared, I always make an effort to scare the parents and not the kids. Sometimes it makes the kids laugh and they're ready to face the rest of the attraction.
I just got off the phone with my mom, talking to her about the time we went on this ride. I was about 5 and it freaked me tf out! As soon as they said that damn alien escaped and I felt it on my neck and arms I screamed for somebody anybody to come save my ass! lmao its funny now, but to remember how scared I was at the time I could of passed the fuck out lmao my mom still cries real tears when she or I bring it up, because one of the workers had to come get us mid way through the ride and because I damn near choked her out trying to get tf out of my seat and on to hers. This ride clearly had my 5 year old self fucked up! lmao
My brother and I had the pleasure of going on this when it was open. I thought it was the most awesome ride....especially since my brother, who is a few years older than me, screamed like a little bitch when the aliens 'tongue' slapped him in the face and the alien was breathing down his neck. Made the ride much more enjoyable hearing that.
Disney is now a money-hungry, IP-loving bastard. As soon as AE closed in 2003, that's when Disney died. S.I.R. was Disney's most ballsy move (and they REFUSED to give him any popularity besides an action figure.)
Thank you for having this video…I was able to share it with my daughters that never heard of it and they think they would’ve left crying from the ride lol
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I remember when me and my dad first went inside the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter to see what it was like when we went to Walt Disney World in Orlando in Florida one summer of my elementry school days of either the late 1990s or earlly 2000s and it definitely scared the hell out of me and I didn't want to go back inside it again. It was a freak show. But now watching this recorded vacation video here on RU-vid makes me wish they had never ever closed the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter on October 12th of 2003 to replace it for Stitch's Great Escape. If the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter was still in the Tomorrowland area of the Magic Kingdom park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando Florida to this very exact day, I would be so scared of it anymore. Both the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter and The Haunted Mansion would be the two best pre-show and ride for Halloween every year. And If I talked my mom into going inside the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, It would've also probably really scared her too. BRING THE EXTRATERRORESTRIAL ALIEN ENCOUNTER BACK PEOPLE OF WALT DISNEY WORLD!
But we would have Ash instead of S.I.R. in the preshow, and Ash looks like a goddamn human. Part of what made S.I.R. so attractive to me was his humanoid appearance, especially that bike helmet and vest.
Aw man I would have loved to have the crap scared outta me on this! It closed when I was young and when we went in 2001 I don't remember this as my mum and dad probably didn't want us to go on it since I was only 6. But now I'd love to go on it!
Damn I went to DW a couple months before this ride ever opened and I remember looking at the sign they had for it describing the ride sounded so cool, shows u how scary your imagination can get.
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 Yeah, and it would've likely used the TOM 2000 preshow. In that case... WHY WOULD TOM WORK FOR A COMPANY THAT EVIL?! LOOK AT HOW HE CLEARLY ENJOYS HIS JOB!!
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 Poor TOM. I bet in that universe, I'm the Ripley kinda gal who comes to take the company down, and I rescue TOM along the way. He's all "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" like he says when he fries Skippy.
Ya know, we went in 2002 and I remembered riding something like this but when we went back in 2012 I couldnt figure out what it was until I went to the Lilo and Stitch ride and it was very similar. It was so cool and much scarier than Lilo and Stitch (which doesnt suck but its like the same thing, with it running around you and such, but more family friendly)
The whole "family friendly" thing is precisely why Stitch doesn't work. This show was built from the ground up to be really scary (effects, restraints, minimal lighting). No matter how much it's sugarcoated, there's no getting around it. Sensitive audiences can see right through the happy facade and will get scared regardless.
+AdrenalineAddict610 Exactly. The only difference is that right after the jump scare you feel a bit better because you know its a friendly alien rather than one that isnt.
I had to get on this ride when I was 6 with my family bc no one wanted to sit outside with me. it literally scared the shit out of me I almost had an anxiety attack on the ride my mom was freaking out. lol. good times
I just posted about my experience. My mom swears I broke out of the safety restraints because I was on her lap by the time someone could come and escort us out of the ride midway through it! I guess my screams of horror was proof that I was literally going to cause them a law suit lmao
Aurora Cuthill I don't even REMEMBER Haunted Mansion.... I just remember my neighbor (who went with us) explaining all the effects. I mean I like supernatural stuff but it just wasn't my taste mang.... I much more enjoyed the Tower of Terror even if I puked on that xD
I was trying to say I was mad when I heard they changed it about that movie with the Hawaii girl and the alien. This is much better than what they have know.
I was 10 or 11 when me an my mom where on vacation in Florida. We had no idea what was going on, we thought its Disney and that everything was alright. As a younger child I had to experience other things related to Aliens and everything with Aliens was a nightmare for me. Today I'm 30 and it still bothers me, this was really some scary shit. I remember singing a lullaby, having my eyes closed and my ears covered. The seat had some kind of boxes in the head area. I could feel the wind from the Alien flying around, I heard bones breaking and felt some sticky liquid on my body that seemed to be blood. My mom said that she didnt know about that. We didnt see any information with a warning or something like that. Today I might find this funny, but back in the days... ohhh my, I had nightmares for months.
Probably since the sign is so poorly placed. Its placed at the front of the ride and at 0:10 the cameraman walks RIGHT BY IT. It honestly should've been posted in the first pre-show. The second pre-show should've been way scarier to increase the chances of weeding out little kids and scared adults.
We where turists from germany, we seriously had no idea. We've seen other familys with young children walking in and thought its gonna be alright. But glad to know that others experienced the same.
According to a YT Short I watched, this ride was made because the creators of Disney World thought their rides weren't thrilling enough. Usually you think of those as roller coasters, Hurricanes, Frisbees, etc, but Disney took it too far in that ride.
I could see an Alien (Ridley Scott) version of this ride. It doesn't have to be made by Disney but it could be done. If it already has, someone tell me.
Parker Sellers Yeah, the original plan was to name the ride Nostromo and have it feature the Alien. But I think they decided it wasn't appropriate for a Disney park. There is an Alien segment on the Great Movie Ride however.
this ride is the most vivid memory i have from being a kid it was so fucking scary. i thought this ride was a dream because the next time i had went to disneyland it no longer existed :’) glad to see it was in fact not a dream!!
I want Disney to bring back both Stitch's great escape and Extra TERRORstrial. Like, have Stitch's Great Escape open every day but this time fix the problems of why it didn't work, and then on the Halloween season just open up Extra TERRORstrial.
Haven't seen a video yet that shows the alien's face. Holy cow, that was creepy! Don't know how you did it, but thanks for sitting through that and taping it. Glad I got to see it!
This was the most terrifying attraction ever. The darkness was pure pitch black.. The crunching, blood splatter!! The fear of the unknown. Great attraction! So sad they replaced it!
