History Ride / ExtraTERRORestrialAlienEncounter

** If one audience member had been chosen to teleport, as Dr. Femus had planned, [[FridgeHorror he or she would have been stuck on the planet with carnivores.]]

* MegaCorp: X-S Tech are a sinister interplanetary tech company.

The pre-show underwent two versions: The original 1994 version (December 16, 1994 to January 12, 1995) was a little more comical and featured T.O.M. 2000, voiced by Creator/PhilHartman. Shortly afterwards, at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the show was reworked to become much darker and Creator/TimCurry replaced Phil Hartman as the voice of T.O.M., now renamed as S.I.R. The ride was not really greatly popular during its run, considering it was an adult-oriented attraction in otherwise family-friendly Disney, but it managed to gain a cult following from a number of Disney World fans who loved the dark, sophisticated, and [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] atmosphere, which only intensified after its ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''-themed successor opened and got lambasted like there was no tomorrow[[JustForPun (land)]].

* AliensAreBastards: Not only the ferocious alien that tries to eat the audience (albeit being more of [[NonMaliciousMonster a hungry and likely frightened animal]] than something truly malicious), but the corrupt corporate executives of X-S Tech fit this as well.

* AliensAreBastards: Not only the ferocious alien that tries to eat the audience, but the corrupt corporate executives of X-S Tech fit this as well.

-->'''Spinlock:''' Ladies and gentlemen, live in person, Chairman Clench!
-->'''Femus:''' Uh, Spinlock, ''[[WhamLine since when does Clench have wings?!]]''
-->'''Spinlock:''' [[FlatWhat Wings?]]

-->'''S.I.R.''': Oh shut up, Scruffy, you're not burned, you've just got a healthy glow.

* WeaponisedTeleportation: Dr. Femus overclocks the teleporter's power to explode the alien.

* FateWorseThanDeath: S.I.R. sends the fried Skippy through the teleportation procrss yet again, except this time, with just a simple push of a button he suspends the process mid transportation, ''permanently''. Poor Skippy, while still alive is doomed to remain in the seemingly painful dissembled state at the molecular level, forever.

->''"My dear friends, you've just witnessed a small sample of the awesome power of XS teleportation. But wait! There's much more. Imagine if the trip were not merely the width of this room, but the breadth of a galaxy! The span of a universe! Well, imagine no more. Because soon one of you will be taking that trip. One of you will seize the future with XS! Bon voyage!"''
-->--S.I.R.

At Tomorrowland's Interplanetary Convention Center, shady MegaCorp XS Tech invites you to a demonstration of their new teleportation technology, however a carnivorous alien is mistakenly beamed into the auditorium and terrorizes the audience.

The preshow underwent two versions: The original 1994 version (December 16, 1994 to January 12, 1995) was a little more comical and featured TOM, voiced by Creator/PhilHartman. Shortly afterwards, at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the show was reworked to become much darker and Creator/TimCurry replaced Phil Hartman as the voice of TOM, now renamed as S.I.R. The ride was not really greatly popular during its run, considering it was an adult-oriented attraction in otherwise family-friendly Disney, but it managed to gain a cult following from a number of Disney World fans who loved the dark, sophisticated, and [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] atmosphere, which only intensified after its ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''-themed successor opened and got lambasted like there was no tomorrow[[JustForPun (land)]].

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Clearly the XS Tech people had no trouble learning it.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Clench, no matter how much he claims to be the opposite. Spinlok is a cowardly middle-management version too.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: In this case, XS Tech has received a fair share of checks and wants more for their technology.

** Yet, it's still LighterAndSofter compared to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original story proposal]] by Creator/GeorgeLucas in which [[spoiler: XS brings the alien in on purpose to see its destructive capabilities by using a captive audience as guinea pigs. The alien then reveals itself to be an intelligent captive and breaks the guests out of the testing facility before the scientists try gassing the entire test facility. The exit area would have featured the sounds of the alien enacting vengeance on the scientists. (At least in this one the alien ended up being on your side.)]]

* TheDitz: TOM in the 1994 pre-show.

* FunWithAcronyms: S.I.R. stands for "Simulated Intelligence Robotics".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The frying of Skippy during the S.I.R. preshow makes clear that the teleportation technology is very flawed.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: The female host in the preshow counts, played by Tyra Banks no less.
* HumanoidAliens: The green-skinned aliens that run XS Tech.

* MegaCorp: XS Tech are a sinister interplanetary tech company.

* NoIndoorVoice: TOM in the 1994 pre-show.

** The entrance to the ride suggests that XS is illegally tapping into the power grid.

* RRatedOpening: Well, not quite R-rated, but the BlackComedy preshow, complete with the tormenting of a poor helpless adorable alien creature, was deliberately chosen by the Imagineers to ensure that parents would take the hint and not bring their young kids into this thing.

* TechnoBabble: One of XS's fields is "cryo-cybernetics" which would be ice robots...

* DontTouchItYouIdiot[=/=]SchmuckBait: A LOT of signs were placed in line warning parents that this was not a kid-friendly attraction. Too many parents didn't listen.

The show underwent two versions: The original 1994 version (December 16, 1994 to January 12, 1995) was a little more comical and featured TOM, voiced by Creator/PhilHartman. Shortly afterwards, at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the show was reworked to become much darker and Creator/TimCurry replaced Phil Hartman as the voice of TOM, now renamed as S.I.R. The ride was not really greatly popular during its run, considering it was an adult-oriented attraction in otherwise family-friendly Disney, but it managed to gain a cult following from a number of Disney World fans who loved the dark, sophisticated, and [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] atmosphere, which only intensified after its ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''-themed successor opened and got lambasted like there was no tomorrow[[JustForPun (land)]].

The '''[=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter''' (commonly abbreviated as Alien Encounter by its fans) was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction in the Tomorrowland section of the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]] at the Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Resort and one of Imagineering's various collaborations with Creator/GeorgeLucas. A replacement for the 18-year-old Mission to Mars, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. It officially opened on June 20, 1995 as part of "New Tomorrowland" and ran until October 12, 2003. It was replaced by the now-defunct Ride/StitchsGreatEscape the following year.

The show underwent two versions: The original 1994 version (December 16, 1994 to January 12, 1995) was a little more comical and featured TOM, voiced by Creator/PhilHartman. Shortly afterwards, at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the show was reworked to become much darker and Creator/TimCurry replaced Phil Hartman as the voice of TOM, renamed as S.I.R. The ride was not really greatly popular during its run, considering it was an adult-oriented attraction in otherwise family-friendly Disney, but it managed to gain a cult following from a number of Disney World fans who loved the dark, sophisticated, and [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] atmosphere, which only intensified after its ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''-themed successor opened and got lambasted like there was no tomorrow[[JustForPun (land)]].

The '''[=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter''' (commonly abbreviated as Alien Encounter by its fans) was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction in the Tomorrowland section of the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]] at the Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Resort and one of Imagineering's various collaborations with Creator/GeorgeLucas. A replacement for the 18-year-old Mission to Mars, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. It officially opened on June 20, 1995 as part of "New Tomorrowland" and ran until October 12, 2003. It replaced by the now-defunct Ride/StitchsGreatEscape the following year.

The '''[=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter''' was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction in the Tomorrowland section of the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]] at the Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Resort and one of Imagineering's various collaborations with Creator/GeorgeLucas. A replacement for the 18-year-old Mission to Mars, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. It officially opened on June 20, 1995 as part of "New Tomorrowland" and ran until October 12, 2003, after which it was later replaced by Ride/StitchsGreatEscape.

At Tomorrowland's Interplanetary Convention Centre, shady MegaCorp XS Tech invites you to a demonstration of their new teleportation technology, however a carnivorous alien is mistakenly beamed into the auditorium and terrorizes the audience.

* TheTheTitleConfusion: It's often referred to as "The [=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter", and the definite article was used in some official Disney media featuring the attraction (such as ''The Walt Disney World Explorer'' application from TheNineties), but the official title is apparently just "[=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter".

The [=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction in the Tomorrowland section of the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]] at the Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Resort and one of Imagineering's various collaborations with Creator/GeorgeLucas. A replacement for the 18-year-old Mission to Mars, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. It officially opened on June 20, 1995 as part of "New Tomorrowland" and ran until October 12, 2003, after which it was later replaced by Ride/StitchsGreatEscape.

The show underwent two versions: The original 1994 version (December 16, 1994 to January 12, 1995) was a little more comical and featured a character voiced by Creator/PhilHartman. Shortly afterwards, at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the show was reworked to become much darker and Creator/TimCurry replaced the Phil Hartman character's voice. The ride was not really greatly popular during its run, considering it was an adult-oriented attraction in otherwise family-friendly Disney, but it managed to gain a cult following from a number of Disney World fans who loved the dark, sophisticated, and [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] atmosphere, which only intensified after its ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''-themed successor opened and got lambasted like there was no tomorrow[[JustForPun (land)]].

-->'''S.I.R.''': Oh shut up, Scruffy, you're not burned, you just got a healthy glow.

The [=ExtraTERRORestrial=] Alien Encounter was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction in the Tomorrowland section of the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom Park at the Walt Disney World Resort]] and one of Imagineering's various collaborations with Creator/GeorgeLucas. A replacement for the 18-year-old Mission to Mars, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. It officially opened on June 20, 1995 as part of "New Tomorrowland" and ran until October 12, 2003, after which it was later replaced by Ride/StitchsGreatEscape.

* {{Portmantitle}}: Extraterrestrial + Terror = [=ExtraTERRORestrial=].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman Clench. Spinlok is a cowardly middle-management version too.

The show underwent two versions: The original 1994 version (December 16, 1994 to January 12, 1995) was a little more comical and featured a character voiced by Creator/PhilHartman. Shortly afterwards, at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the show was reworked to become much darker and Creator/TimCurry replaced the Phil Hartman character's voice. The ride was not really greatly popular during its run, considering it was an adult-oriented attraction in otherwise family-friendly Disney, but it managed to gain a cult following from a number of Disney World fans who loved the dark, sophisticated, and [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] atmosphere, which only intensified after its ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch''-themed successor opened and got lambasted like there was no tomorrow.