Why do people hate Stitch's Great Escape?

[mousermerf]

One question I've been interested having answered that you might know the answer to Corrus..

Is the same designer(s) responsible for both SGE and the new Journey w/ Figment?

Both feature unpleasent smells, some potty humor, and pretty poorly written scripts...

 

[TakeMe2TheMagic]

And alot of people, such as myself, don't give SGE a chance because AE sucked and SGE is just a re-do of AE.:animwink:

My feeling exactly :sohappy:

 

[KevinPage]

They have help for that. Click here
:animwink:

Yet I'm not a fan of "interactive" type rides such as Buzz or the proposed Midway Mania, so go figure. I don't dislike them, but I rather have a traditional dark ride or one suped up with current technology.

I don't want to "work" to have fun, but I like to be moving around in a vehicle, be it a flume, roller coaster, etc. Granted this usually means there are more "show scenes" which is my favorite part of any attraction.

CoP is a good example. It's a show and you are just sitting there, but with the movement and changing scenes, makes it more of a dark ride than "show" to me.

 

[dxwwf3]

Yet I'm not a fan of "interactive" type rides such as Buzz or the proposed Midway Mania, so go figure. I don't dislike them, but I rather have a traditional dark ride or one suped up with current technology.

I don't want to "work" to have fun, but I like to be moving around in a vehicle, be it a flume, roller coaster, etc. Granted this usually means there are more "show scenes" which is my favorite part of any attraction.

Co is a good example. It's a show and you are just sitting there, but with the movement and changing scenes, makes it more of a dark ride than "show" to me.

That is interesting about Buzz and Midway Mania, it seems that it would be right up your ally. Different strokes.

BTW, thanks for realizing I wasn't be serious in my post. I thought for a second somebody might take it the wrong way, but then I realised who I was replying too :lol: :drevil:

 

[robertiscool88]

well i liked AE because it actually had the potential to scare people and now they have the Stich ride and i havent rode it yet but i heard it really stick.

 

[KevinPage]

That is interesting about Buzz and Midway Mania, it seems that it would be right up your ally. Different strokes.

My tastes can wildly differ on so many different things, it's really hard to "pinpoint" anything for me. I can have multiple reasons to like/disklike something. I'm cursed, I overthink everything. :lol:

BTW, thanks for realizing I wasn't be serious in my post. I thought for a second somebody might take it the wrong way, but then I realised who I was replying too :lol: :drevil:

No prob. I have to have a thick skin since I dish enough of it out myself with reckless abandon. But the was a dead giveaway regardless.

:drevil:

 

[brainpile3000]

Like I wrote... most of the Forum members hate the new ride...

And alas, they're not a majority of visitors of the park...

I've never been on either AE or SGE, however, based on my understanding of statistical analysis, don't you think the sample of completely random Disney guests on this forum would reflect with relative accuracy the opinions of most of the park visitors?

 

[atforpresident]

People hate Stitch's Great Escape becuase he is the worst Disney character ever thought up. I think the Imagineers sat around and pooped out ideas until one of them plopped out the craptastic Stitch.

Stitch makes Walt Disney roll in his ice.

 

[KevinPage]

People hate Stitch's Great Escape becuase he is the worst Disney character ever thought up. I think the Imagineers sat around and pooped out ideas until one of them plopped out the craptastic Stitch.

Stitch makes Walt Disney roll in his ice.

Another well thought out, verbose and intellectual take on the situation.

 

[slappy magoo]

I rode AE once, and SGE once. I thought AE was bad-a$$, and I thought SGE was half-a$$ed. I've gone into minute detail before, but here's the one thing that still irks me to this day-the audio to the attraction had voices of children occasionally pop up to sound like children experiencing the attraction with you:

"Look Mom! It's Stitch!"
"Tee-hee, he's funny!"
"He's cooooooooool!"

Now, to me if a ride has to tell you itself that it's funny and/or cooooooool, then it is neither. It came across as more obnoxious than the most obnoxious sitcom laugh track, which is saying something. "Man, I hate this...BUT WAIT! There are voices of children...somewhere...saying thit is good...soooo...it MUST BE GOOD!"

 

[Connor002]

I've never been on either AE or SGE, however, based on my understanding of statistical analysis, don't you think the sample of completely random Disney guests on this forum would reflect with relative accuracy the opinions of most of the park visitors?

No.
WDWMAGIC is not a random sample.
The majority of us that post are well informed and disassociated with the "average" guest.

 

[snakeislandboy]

I don't think that SGE is a horrible ride. I think that when you take an awesome ride and replace it with a concept that isn't nearly as cool, then the high expectations of the past hurt the new attraction. It's kind of like Star Wars. If the original 3 had never been released, then I think people would think much more of the new Trilogy...or maybe not:veryconfu

 

[A "Ghost" Host]

I really think its because we all had such high expectations for it, and were very unhappy with the results

 

[CaptainMichael]

I don't think that SGE is a horrible ride.

I don't think it's a ride at all..:hammer:


(It's Friday afternoon, time to laugh! )

 

[brainpile3000]

No.
WDWMAGIC is not a random sample.
The majority of us that post are well informed and disassociated with the "average" guest.

Being well informed has nothing to do with whether or not we think SGE is a good attraction. Just because we might know a little more then the next person doesnt make our opinion any different. We are all Disney guests one in the same. With 30k+ members in this community, I think we have a pretty good idea about how the general public feels about the quality of any Disney ride/show/blahbleblublah.

 

[CaptainMichael]

Being well informed has nothing to do with whether or not we think SGE is a good attraction. Just because we might know a little more then the next person doesnt make our opinion any different. We are all Disney guests one in the same. With 30k+ members in this community, I think we have a pretty good idea about how the general public feels about the quality of any Disney ride/show/blahbleblublah.

Yes, but a small percentage of that 30k+ actually post anything...and we're usually the most hardcore critics.

 

[HauntedPirate]

My opinion - uninspired, poor story, and terrible execution = no more SGE for me. Did it once, and that was enough. When I experienced SGE for the first, and only, time, the fabric on Stitch's ears had ripped away from the head, exposing the infrastructure. To top it off, they shove Stitch down your throat at every corner, going as far as putting him on the COVER of the MK guide map. And interjecting him in the monorail spiel. And putting him on the monorail....

 

[pacochran]

Mine and my wife's experiance, it wasn't that great, to me same as AE but just different creature, but my kids (9 & 11) loved it and wanted to do it twice last year, and would have done it again if we had let them. Maybe they like it because Stitch isn't quite as scary as the Alien from AE (only got to do that one once).

As in everything all in perspective and everyone has a different view.

Just as with Tarzan Rocks.:zipit: Not going to do that one here that's another thread.:lol:

 

[Connor002]

Being well informed has nothing to do with whether or not we think SGE is a good attraction. Just because we might know a little more then the next person doesnt make our opinion any different. We are all Disney guests one in the same. With 30k+ members in this community, I think we have a pretty good idea about how the general public feels about the quality of any Disney ride/show/blahbleblublah

Actually, it does.
The average guest does not read reviews, watch clips, and/or critique the attraction (In many cases, before experiencing it). We, as an online forum community are a group of people who have affirmed our love of most things Disney, and we are a vocal minority among the entire visiting population of worldwide Disney parks and resorts. Even if we take an example of 40,000 people, that ammounts to 0.24691358024691358024691358024691% of attendance.
It is true that over 37,000 (37,829 as of 3:00PM today) people have registered at WDWMAGIC.com, however, very few of them post here.
In fact, we can probably narrow down the [consistently] posting population to a few hundred.


*Based on reports of 2005 attendange figures of 16.2 million for the Magic Kingdom, please excuse if my math is slightly off...

 

[mousermerf]

You forgot that attendance is in admissions, not individual people.

I goto WDW regularly, thus i count as several attendance admissions