The Original Stitch Was a Criminal Mastermind? Plus Emporium Updates and Disney Castle Color Confusion (Ep. 47)

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Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jim Hill and Lauren Hersey dive deep into the surprising origin of Stitch—and it’s not as cuddly as you think. Before becoming Disney’s mischievous blue icon, Stitch was pitched as a green, intergalactic outlaw leading a robot uprising. Jim shares the full, unfiltered story of Chris Sanders’ original pitch, including unused scenes, a darker backstory, and a surprisingly heroic role for Pleakley. But first, Lauren recaps her latest Orlando trip with a look at: Discovery Cove travel hacks (bring your own water socks!) Changes at Magic Kingdom’s Emporium and the scattered state of merch The growing mystery of Cinderella Castle’s color shift Stitch merchandise overload ahead of the new live-action film The creepy (and hilarious) quirks of the new “Many Moods of Stitch” plush Puppetmetronics, pin trading, and a Stitch-themed shipping tip From castle color controversies to plushes with personality disorders, this episode proves that even Disney classics have an unexpected side. Be Our Guest Vacations Planning your next Disney vacation? Be Our Guest Vacations is a Platinum-level Earmarked travel agency with concierge-level service to make every trip magical. Their team of expert agents plans vacations across the globe, from Disney and Universal to cruises and adventures, ensuring you have the best possible experience without the stress. Learn More Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Welcome back to I Want That To, the podcast where Disney merch meets Disney history. I'm
0:35.6	entertainer writer Jim Hill, and as always, I'm joined by the lovely
0:40.1	Lauren Hersey, who you're not on the air away to the airport again, right? You're home for like
0:45.6	five minutes? I am. I listen, with all the crazy stuff going on at the airport, I'm keeping my feet
0:52.4	on the ground for a minute.
0:55.3	But I did just get back. All right. Well, no, it's interesting you say that. What Lauren is
1:00.0	alluding to is right now sounds like, you know, that if you're flying through Newark and you
1:05.1	actually make it to the ground, you should go straight to Atlantic City because you're
1:09.0	officially the luckiest person on the planet.
1:11.9	Yeah, I want to say three times in the past two weeks, the air traffic control system has
1:16.9	cut out.
1:17.8	Totally.
1:18.6	I mean, cut out totally.
1:20.8	And did you see the, like, CEO of United came out and was like, it's totally safe.
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1:29.2	I'm like, I don't know about all that.
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