Stitch Live is better at Paris than at WDW (if they even still have it) It was held outside and only in one language.
You seriously need to see the first movie if you haven’t. It’s very cute, one of Disney’s best. The reason I feel that Stitch gets hate is due to what Disney did with him. He had three direct to video movies, Stitch Has A Glitch, Stitch! (Which explains the two animated series) and Leeroy and Stitch (which uses characters from the previous movie and TV series) Disney, like most networks, loved to marathon their best properties, so the TV show stole many good time slots away. I personally liked the program, but also felt like it was way too much, and stopped watching. I feel that he, and other marathons like him, is what led to the death of Toon Disney.
He didn’t just dominate your TV. His presence was everywhere Disney, and not in a good way. If their website resulted in a 404, instead of “page not found,” Stitch was accused of eating the page. If a ride broke down, Stitch was blamed for that too. A WDW fan favorite Extra Terrorestrial Alien Encounter was severely dumbed down for Stitch, in hopes parents would stop complaining that the park traumatized their child. Sadly, I felt that even that version was too scary for my toddler. I wanted her to like Stitch, so she never got a chance to ride it. And then there was the time that attraction first opened, for one day only, Stitch toilet papered the castle and wrote Stitch Was Here all over it. For being rehabilitated, his “badness level” was still pretty high. WDW is a place that, for many, people only go once in a lifetime. They save up for years. So to show up, clogging up main street to admire the magnificent castle, only to discover that it had been vandalized, well, I’m sure that ticked off a lot of people.
Disney purposefully made him into a giant pain, then wonders why there’s a sizable group that doesn’t like him. He even ruined other Disney movies
That franchise even took over episodes of Kim Possible, The Proud Family, Recess, and American Dragon Jake Long.
I like Stitch and all, but I completely understand why others hate him.