The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

[Dunston]

@Loopzoop444 ... WHERE DID YOU FIND THE CAST MEMBERS AND MOLD PICS...
I must know!

M-maybe... maybe there's more... I can find... Just maybe... maybe...
That alien has such a great design and it's a shame you never really got to see it... It's like Predator had an unholy baby with Maleficent and one of the Buena Vista gators that chill in River Country...!

p.s. im pourin one out for morpheus

I'm just a human boy using the search engine of google

 

[powderehss]

Oh. You know what yeah. It's as simple as that...

 

[WDWTank]

Unfortunately, I was born in 1998 and too young to experience this attraction. I wish I could go back in time and experience past attractions

 

[danheaton]

We experienced the Alien Encounter in December 1994 before the changes, though I don't have a great memory. I went there again in May 1998, and it was one of the highlights of the trip. I'm still amazed that an attraction where an alien basically eats people in your ears was at Disney World. I loved that they took the chance and tried something different.

 

[macefamily]

I used to love Alien Encounter ! However, it had more of a Universal Studios vibe as far as a thrill ride. I could see why they wanted to 'soften' it up. I took my 6 yr old daughter on it. Big mistake.

 

[Den Carter]

Just stumbled across this thread and enjoyed reading the comments from 14 years ago saying ‘Loved this. Hopefully Stitch will be good’ etc. Now Stitch is gone (and good riddance, in my view), I wonder what’ll come next?

In any case, I loved the scary Alien Encounter and wish they’d be brave enough to do something as cool as this again... but I doubt it.

 

[WDWTank]

Just stumbled across this thread and enjoyed reading the comments from 14 years ago saying ‘Loved this. Hopefully Stitch will be good’ etc. Now Stitch is gone (and good riddance, in my view), I wonder what’ll come next?

In any case, I loved the scary Alien Encounter and wish they’d be brave enough to do something as cool as this again... but I doubt it.

They should

 

[some other guy]

I would start saying stupid stuff to S.I.R. like "Am I really your dear friend?" and "May I really call you S.I.R.?"

heckling a prerecorded production involving Tim Curry?
that's just crazy talk

 

[PrinceCharming617]

I would have loved to have seen a Xenomorph version.

 

[some other guy]

I would have loved to have seen a Xenomorph version.

yeah weren't the early rumors that it was to be similar to the UK attractions set in a Weyland Yutani joint?
I def recall the early ads the silhouette of the monster looked waaaaaaaaaay more Xeno.

 

[Thelazer]

Anyone got the complete list of effects, (some disabled after stitch was added?)

 

[PrinceCharming617]

yeah weren't the early rumors that it was to be similar to the UK attractions set in a Weyland Yutani joint?
I def recall the early ads the silhouette of the monster looked waaaaaaaaaay more Xeno.

I think it was going to be like Alien Encounter. But they couldn't get the rights or were too cheap to buy Alien.

 

[some other guy]

I think it was going to be like Alien Encounter. But they couldn't get the rights or were too cheap to buy Alien.

well, yeah, iirc the Piccadilly walkthrough attraction was "you're on a walking tour of a WY research lab and Things Go Terribly Wrong (tm Theme Parks)", I think the Scotland was described as similar but it was a dark ride?
but still basic "science will happen on your science tour experience oh no xenos" setup

 

[some other guy]

S.I.R. is way better than Ash. Fight me. Also, he's similar to OG Boba Fett (in the Star Wars Holiday Special), what with both's disdain of "lower life forms" and constant usage of "friend."

I'd be willing to compromise on a high-end Lance Henriksen AA voiced by Tim Curry.

 

[some other guy]

Lance Henriksen is Brainiac, already.

oddly enough this popped on cytube today