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3. Stitch’s Great Escape Image: Disney Location: Magic Kingdom Opened: 2004 – 2018 There’s probably no Disney Parks attraction quite as infamous as Stitch’s Great Escape. The theater-in-the-round special effects extravaganza was technically the fourth inhabitant of the north showbuilding along Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland entryway, which opened with the park in 1971 as Flight to the Moon, then “upgraded” in…

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