These are 10 fun fact you probably didn’t know about Lilo and Stitch. (Photo: Archive)
Director Chris Sanders provided Stitch’s voices during test animation, and since everyone got so used to it, they eventually decided to keep it. (Photo: Archive)
Months before the premiere, theaters in the U.S. started playing trailers showing Stitch messing up some Disney classics, like Lion King, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. (Photo: Archive)
When Stitch licks his glass surroundings at the beginning of the movie, you can see the Walt Disney “D” logo shaped with his saliva. (Photo: Archive)
Cobra Bubbles was inspired on the Pulp Fiction character, Marcellus Wallace, and they were both played by Ving Rhames. (Photo: Archive)
Like in every Disney movie, there are some hidden Easter eggs. Like a Mulan poster in Nani’s room, a Pixar-like ball, and a stuffed-animal Dumbo. (Photo: Archive)
The license plate A 113 appears 5 times in the movie. That same number has been shown many times in other Disney movies, like Wallee, and even Toy Story. It is a reference to a room number at the California Instituto of the Arts, where many of the animators received their educations. (Photo: Archive)
A scene showing racism from tourist to locals in Hawaii was eliminated from the final version of the movie. (Photo: Archive)
A scene of Stich flying a plane through city buildings was also eliminated, out of respect after the 9/11 terror attacks. (Photo: Archive)
Originally, the story was going to be set in rural Kentucky or Kansas, and not in Hawaii. (Photo: Archive)
And Stitch was going to be an intergalactic gangster, and not a science experiment. (Photo: Archive)
A day like yesterday, 15 years ago, Disney released Lilo and Stitch, a quirky film about a little Hawaiian girl who lives with her 19-year-old sister, and their strange—very strange—pet Stitch.
As unusual as this story was for Disney criteria at the time, the movie had 86% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and earnings of $273.1 million, and shedloads of fans all around the globe. The film was a critical and commercial success, and till this day, it remains one of Disney’s favorite movies for the millennial generation!
Lilo and Stitch just turned 15, and although many of us have watch it over and over again since its premiere in 2002, there are something that you may still need to learn about this Disney classic.
Here are 10 fun facts about Lilo and Stitch that you probably didn’t know!
