Extra-TERROR-estrial Alien Encounter - HOW IT WORKED 

Terminator 2: 3-D!!!

Escape from gringotts or Incredible Hulk. (If you haven’t already)

I think that the coolest ride would be the universal Studios Shanghai Jurassic World Ride. It’s got some crazy complex animatronics

The Indiana Jones stunt show at Hollywood Studios.

Men in Black Alien Attack

That’s frightening! Did you tell your parents? What did they say/how did they react?! Wow. ♥️

Gee that's terrifying sounds like you almost got kidnapped or something

@Benji Fox - When I was barely five years old, I briefly got separated from my dad at a little storefront grocery. This was in Latin America, where little storefront shops were common; there usually wasn’t a door into them, per se … they rather opened right onto the sidewalk, and at night they’d be sealed off from the sidewalk by lowering a big metal grate. So while Dad was shrouded somewhere in the unlit store‘s back aisles, this weather-hewn, rough-skinned older man, wearing shabby clothes but smiling quite kindly at me, revealing a few missing teeth, took me by the hand and-since I was a trusting young fool-led me right past the cashier’s post and out of the store, into the midday sunlight and onto the street … at which point I felt my dad grab my arm and heard him shout my name; I looked up, and it seemed Dad had bolted out from inside the store and grabbed me, yelling in fear. The older dude disappeared immediately down the crowded sidewalk. For the rest of my childhood, while my parents weren’t overprotective by a long shot, my mom did coach me extensively-and graphically!-against strangers, and against kidnapping, and about what happens to children who are kidnapped. (In fact, about three years later, after we’d moved to a different part of the city, an older boy-maybe twelve?-disappeared from one of the area’s three bilingual private schools, and three weeks later his body was found in the shopping center we frequented, decomposing in its water tank, the belt he‘d been strangled with still around his neck … so I didn’t need warning twice, really: for many years, in my mind I‘d see his body in the water, undiscovered for weeks, every night as I tried to sleep.) The funny thing is, I really didn’t put two-and-two together until I was about ten, when I realized “Holy crap, was that some dude trying to make off with me??” My parents had never again mentioned it to me outright. So until I puzzled it out for myself, it was just a really peculiar memory I’d turn over in my head once in a while, and which-since it made me uneasy-I’d push right back out of my thoughts again. And I still can’t help but mostly see it that way: rather matter-of-factly, for a moment … before pushing it out of my thoughts altogether. But-and this is the only reason I typed all this at you-it’s hard not to play what-if, isn’t it? I mean, even despite trying actively NOT to think about it. I know I turn that memory over in my head at least once a week … and it’s been decades. It feels surreal, doesn’t it?

Crazy

Whoa, you got a scared alien encounter ride and you almost got kidnapped. What a scary day you had

Knowing universal it wouldn't last that long

Because they’re both alien themed attractions

@@papingosstudios161 despite Universal’s reputation, a number of their attractions are approaching 20+ years old

Honestly, the big problem with extraterrorestrial encounter was that it was in the wrong park. Magic Kingdom was a... very unique choice for an intense horror attraction. It probably would've fared better in Epcot TBH

Yeah cuz Disney land are mostly kids

Little goblin jr, gonna cry?

There were lots of little things that were done when the budget was shaved that are fun to find out. Like that the playing on SIR is just spray painted sports padding, but it looks the part.

This ride is still to this day the scariest ride I've been on. I vividly remember that thing breathing on me. I would love it now I'm sure, but I could see how it could have ruined some kids' day at Disney.

But not for sensitive people

I guess I'm part of the small group that likes Stitch. I turned 6 the day before the ride opened lol. I got kind of bummed out seeing the dismantled animatronics.

@@ubermorph1000 yeah it might have to do with the age when you get attached to rides. I’ve lived down here my whole life since 74. I remember the horrid original attraction mission to mars. Then when aliens encounter went in sometime I’m my 20s it was insane man. But now at 47 I’m longing for all the old original rides.

Amen! This ride was a masterpiece. They should not have listened to the angry Karen moms.

@@spinlok3943 it’s also like snow whites scary adventure before they tamed it down. It used to scare the hell out of me so bad as a kid but I still asked to go on it, but too many Karen’s complained and they took the scariest elements out. They complained about the hell scene in me toad a lot too.

Agreed. There's plenty of kids who enjoy more mature rides without being scared or scarred for life... and plenty of adults who get more scared than the kids! It's really up to the parents to be making informed choices about what their kids can tolerate.... I grew up reading Stephen King & loving movies like the Alien franchise, while one of my close friends had nightmares for a month after playing an hour of the first Resident Evil game! Wish I could have experienced this ride.

We definitely saw the Phil Hartman version and liked it! The pacing & tone seemed fine to us; a nice misdirect. But both my wife and I thought it was too intense for little kids. And yeah, we saw some wee ones who did NOT enjoy themselves. The next time we visited, AE was closed for the refurbishment which was puzzling at the time.. it was a brand new ride. Why close it so soon?? Then in 1995 we saw the Tim Curry version + new warning signage about intensity and everything clicked. That was the last time we did AE though, as it seemed a diminishment over the first iteration. Stitch's Great Escape was... uh, a mistake. But understandable.

@@ralfmaximus4295 Yeah I totally get the criticism, but it makes sense story wise. It's a sales pitch.

@@mushieslushie what do you mean by sales pitch?

I saw the original version to- I went to Disney World from November 11th-19th of 1994. This ride was the scariest thing I had ever experienced up until that point of my life. I was honestly terrified!

Yeah, but i think we can all agree that Stitch was a much scarier alien

Omg! I had no idea! I'm so disappointed now! I'm shocked that Disney's Stitch was simply a painting over a previous show!

@@itsyaboi5861 the animation of that figure was genuinely amazing. The ride may have sucked, but that pre show still struck fear into five year old me.

Same here

If only time travel was real so we’ll shit ourselves again

I did notice the mirror part of the base, but I was too far along in the editing process to be able to carve out the space to include it unfortunately. As for the little air tubes Wiki did mention something like that, but misscharacterized what it was used for and given the age of the attraction it was fairly hard to track down any good quality photos of the heardrests.

Absolutely, thank you so much! 😃

Terrible mistake on their part.

Thanks. 🙂 And yeah the figure was definitely a bit gruesome.

Yes indeed.

Mmm... I'm assuming you know what happened to Dueling Dragons?

No they weren't, they were scripted and part of the show audio. Cast members had no physical lines during the actual show operation began. I have the script from the cast member operations manual.

@@ryanpervola163 That is what I was referring too. The recorded 'comments' from the audience - some of them were recorded by cast members long before the 'ride' opened

It was Definitely open for more than a month I went on it as a kid and was terrified. I remember going back to the park several months later with my mom and her friends..when they wanted to go on it I refused ... 🤣I waited outside