Lilo & Stitch/ Stitch
Above:Lilo & Stitch logo used since the 2002 original film Below:Disney Stitch logo used since 2021, primarily used when only the characterStitch is emphasized
Created by	Walt Disney Animation Studios Chris Sanders Dean DeBlois
Original work	Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Owner	The Walt Disney Company (throughDisney Enterprises, Inc.)
Years	2002–present
Print publications
Book(s)	Agent Stitch series (2022–2024)[1]
Comics	Stitch & the Samurai (2020) Lilo & Stitch (Dynamite; 2024)
Comic strip(s)	Comic Zone: Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002–2006)
Films and television
Film(s)	Lilo & Stitch (2002) Lilo & Stitch (2025) Upcoming live-action sequel (TBA)
Short film(s)	The Origin of Stitch (2005)
Animated series	Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003–2006) Stitch! (2008–2011, 2012, 2015) Stitch & Ai (2017)
Television special(s)	Stitch and the Planet of Sand (2012) Stitch! Perfect Memory (2015)
Television short(s)	"Stitch MeetsHigh School Musical" (2007)
Television film(s)	Leroy & Stitch (2006)
Direct-to-video	Stitch! The Movie (2003) Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
Games
Video game(s)	Disney's Lilo & Stitch (Game Boy Advance; 2002) Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (2002) Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 (2002) Lilo & Stitch Pinball (2002) Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc (2004) Kingdom Hearts II (2005)* Disney Friends (2007)* Disney Stitch Jam (2009) Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)* Motto! Stitch! DS: Rhythm de Rakugaki Daisakusen (2010) Disney Universe (2011)* Kinect: Disneyland Adventures (2011)* Disney Magical World (2013)* Disney Infinity 2.0 (2014)* Disney Magical World 2 (2015)* Disney Magic Kingdoms (2016)*† Kingdom Hearts III (2019)* Disney Mirrorverse (2022)*† Disney Dreamlight Valley (2023)*† Disney Speedstorm (2023)*†
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	Lilo & Stitch: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (2002) Lilo & Stitch Island Favorites (2005) Lilo & Stitch Hawaiian Album (2006) Stitch!: Original Soundtrack (2010) Lilo & Stitch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2025)
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)	Disney Tsum Tsum*
Theme park attraction(s)	Stitch's Great Escape! (2004–2018) Stitch Encounter/Stitch Live! (2006–present) The Enchanted Tiki Room: Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai! (2008–present) Stitch's Supersonic Celebration (2009)
* Work where this franchise's characters or settings appeared as part of acrossover. † Franchise-related content added to crossover work via update(s).

Lilo & Stitch orStitch (marketed asDisney Stitch) is an Americanmedia franchise created byDisney. Thefirst installment was written and directed byChris Sanders andDean DeBlois, and released in 2002. The combined critical and commercial success of the original film, which was a rarity forthe company's feature animation studio during the studio's post-Renaissance downturn in the early 2000s, led to twodirect-to-video and one television sequel feature films,a short film, three animated television series,a live-action/CGI feature film adaptation, several video games, theme park attractions, comics, literature, and various merchandise. As of 2024, the franchise became one of Disney's top ten best-selling franchises, with retail sales reaching $2.6 billion^[2] and overall revenue (including the box offices of the two theatrical films) reaching over $3.8 billion, making itone of the highest-grossing media franchises.

The franchise, primarily the original 2002–2006 animated continuity, mainly focuses on the adventures of the titulareccentric andmischievous duo: an orphanedHawaiian girl namedLilo Pelekai and an artificialextraterrestrial creature originally named Experiment 626, whom she adopts and namesStitch. Stitch was created viagenetic engineering by alienmad scientistDr. Jumba Jookiba to cause chaos and destruction across the galaxy but was rehabilitated by Lilo thanks toʻohana, the Hawaiian concept ofextended family. The duo'sʻohana mainly consist of themselves; Lilo's older sister and legal guardian,Nani Pelekai; Jumba; and Jumba's Earth-loving partner,Agent Wendy Pleakley. Most of the sequel and spin-off material of the franchise also involves manygenetic experiments similar to Stitch, whom he treats as his "cousins",Captain Gantu, a giant militaristic alien from the original film who becomes an antagonist to the mainʻohana in later works, andDr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, Jumba's diminutive former partner-in-crime who desires the experiments he funded the creation of to use them for intergalactic domination. Additionally, the franchise's films and first television seriesmake frequent references to American musicianElvis Presley (of whom Sanders himself is an avid fan), using his music and sometimes his likeness in the films.

The later spin-off material released from 2008 through 2020—the Japanese animeStitch!, the Chinese animated seriesStitch & Ai, and the Japanese mangaStitch & the Samurai—emphasize Stitch by separating him from Lilo and putting him into other regions of Earth (primarily in the countries where these works are produced), replacing her with different humans who take him, along with Jumba and Pleakley, in with their families. The original Japanese version of the anime was produced by an entirely different crew from the original franchise, while the Chinese series was partially produced by American animators; crew members fromLilo & Stitch: The Series worked on both shows, although the anime only involved them in the international edit (which includes the English dub). The two Asian series replace the original voice cast of the four films and the first TV series. Later spin-offs beginning from 2022, including the children's detective book seriesAgent Stitch and aLilo & Stitch comic book series that began in 2024, resumed Lilo's involvement as a main character and Stitch's best friend but continued the post-Leroy trend of the alien and his extended family going on adventures in places outside Hawaii. Both of them also serve as continuations after only the original film rather than continuations afterLeroy & Stitch.

A live-action and computer-animated adaptation of the original film was released in 2025, with Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch. A sequel to that film is in development.

Anextraterrestrialmad scientist named Dr.Jumba Jookiba (voiced byDavid Ogden Stiers) is put on trial for illegally creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment isExperiment 626 (Chris Sanders): a little blue alien with four arms, two legs, and antennae who is deceptively strong and indestructible. 626 (pronounced "six-two-six") is sentenced to exile, while Jumba himself is jailed. However, 626 escapes custody, steals a police cruiser ship, and heads to the planet Earth. Jumba gets sent on a mission to retrieve his creation along with a partner on board, self-proclaimed Earth expertAgent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald), who is forced to go along to keep an eye on him.

Masquerading as a dog, 626 is adopted by a little girl namedLilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase) who is living with her 19-year-old sisterNani (Tia Carrere). Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626 whom she names "Stitch".

Ex-CaptainGantu (Kevin Michael Richardson) is hired by the evilDr. Hämsterviel (Jeff Bennett) to retrieve the remaining 625 experiments. Meanwhile, on Earth, Stitch is still not fitting in, but when trouble comes calling through the form ofExperiment 221 (Frank Welker), he and Lilo must band together to stop his electrical rampage. Meanwhile, Gantu ends up with a new ally,Experiment 625 (Rob Paulsen), but is displeased by his lazy behavior and love ofsandwiches.

Continuing whereStitch! The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumba's missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong. Meanwhile, the former Captain Gantu and his reluctant partner, Experiment 625, try to capture the experiments for the imprisoned Dr. Hämsterviel.

Running for a total of 65 episodes over two seasons,The Series ended with the television filmLeroy & Stitch.

Set at a time between the original film andStitch! The Movie, Lilo (voiced byDakota Fanning in this film) and her classmates are preparing for ahula competition where the winner gets to perform at the localMay Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance. While preparing for the competition, Stitch's past comes back to haunt him. It seems that after Stitch was created, Jumba did not get a chance to fully charge Stitch's molecules before he was arrested. At first, this glitch causes Stitch to revert to his old destructive programming, but it will ultimately destroy him if Jumba cannot create a charging pod before Stitch's energy runs out.

In this short film included on theLilo & Stitch 2 DVD, serving as a bridge between it andStitch! The Movie, Stitch discovers Jumba's computer and is scared to find out what a monster he is, only for Jumba to come and explain how he found family and love when he met Lilo. The other experiments are also hinted at.

After three years, their mission to capture all 624 experiments and repurpose them on Earth has been completed, so Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Despite originally turning down their new offered positions to stay with Lilo, Stitch and the crew separate to live out their ambitions. However, after Gantu frees Hämsterviel from his prison, they create a new experiment of their own,Leroy (Chris Sanders). Lilo and Stitch must reunite and unite every single experiment they have to fight Leroy and his army of duplicated clones.

Stitch and a number ofLilo & Stitch characters play afriendly game ofbasketball and then dance to "We're All in This Together" fromHigh School Musical. This anime short aired onDisney Channel Japan on June 18, 2007^{[citation needed]} and was later released internationally on September 23, 2008 on theHigh School Musical 2: Deluxe Dance Edition 2-disc DVD set.^[3][4][5][6]

The anime series features a Japanese girl named Yuna Kamihara (voiced byEden Riegel in the English dub) in place of Lilo and is set on a fictional island off the shore ofOkinawa instead of Hawaii. The first two seasons were animated and co-produced by the Japanese animation houseMadhouse,^[7][8][9] while the third season and two post-series television specials were animated byShin-Ei Animation. 86 episodes (including three specials) aired from 2008 to 2011, while two post-series specials aired in 2012 and 2015.

Set years after the events ofLeroy & Stitch, the anime sees Stitch (now voiced byBen Diskin) having left Lilo after she went to college. He ends up on the fictitious Izayoi Island where he meets Yuna, a tomboyish girl who lives with her grandmother (Gwendoline Yeo) and practiceskarate. Stitch befriends Yuna, Jumba (Lilo & Stitch: The Series screenwriter and executive producerJess Winfield) and Pleakley (Ted Biaselli) later rejoin Stitch, and the three aliens move in with Yuna's family. In the first two seasons, Stitch tries to do 43 good deeds to appease the Chitama Spiritual Stone, a magical stone that can grant wishes, with Stitch wanting to become the strongest being in the universe. He and Yuna also meet variousyōkai, with them befriendingKijimunaa (Colleen O'Shaughnessey), a little yōkai with long red hair who has a powerful sneeze. Meanwhile, Hämsterviel (Kirk Thornton), who is at large along with Gantu (Keith Silverstein) and Experiment 625/Reuben (Dave Wittenberg), wants to defeat Stitch and take his good deeds to gain ultimate power.

The first season sees Stitch doing good deeds while enjoying his new life with Yuna on Izayoi, with them befriending various yōkai. Three of Stitch and Reuben's fellow experiments also make appearances, namely Experiment 221/Sparky, Experiment 010/Felix (bothSteve Blum), andExperiment 624/Angel (Kate Higgins), the last of whom becomes a more recurring character compared toLilo & Stitch: The Series and has—since her last Western appearance inLeroy & Stitch—remained Stitch's girlfriend while also having become a popular singing sensation in the years since.

The second season, titledStitch! ~The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure~, sees Stitch continuing to live his life with Yuna and completing his goal of doing good deeds for his wish to be granted. More characters join the cast during this season, including BooGoo (Blum), a purple insect-like alien who becomes the aliens' new pet, Sasha (Melissa Fahn), a transfer student who becomes Yuna's newest friend, and Tigerlily Sakai (Laura Bailey), Yuna's beautiful but mean cousin who bullies her and Stitch. Additionally, more experiments, both originating fromLilo & Stitch: The Series and newly introduced to the franchise, appear from this season onward, with most of them now inexplicably under Hämsterviel's possession. By the end of this season, however, Stitch loses his motivation to have his wish granted, deciding that living with Yuna is better than being the strongest in the universe.

In the third season, titledStitch! ~Best Friends Forever~, Yuna, Stitch, Tigerlily, Jumba, Pleakley, and BooGoo move to a city called Okinawa New Town. Meanwhile, Hämsterviel partners with an evil alien woman named Delia (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn), who desires to retrieve a power cell within Stitch, eventually making a powerful experiment of her own—Dark End (Roger Craig Smith)—to do so. Lilo (Yeo) also returns in one episode of this season for a brief reunion with Stitch.

Taking place inHuangshan in Anhui, this 13-episode Chinese animated series stars Stitch (voiced by Ben Diskin in the English version, reprising his anime role) and a local girl named Wang Ai Ling (Erica Mendez). Produced in English with the partnership of American animators, the series was animated by Anhui Xinhua Media and Panimation Hwakai Media and was broadcast onCCTV-14 with aMandarin Chinese dub from March 27 to April 6, 2017.^[10][11] The original English version later aired in Southeast Asia in February 2018 and released in the United States on theDisneyNow service on December 1, 2018, streaming on the service until June 2019.

Set afterLeroy & Stitch but on a separate timeline from theStitch! anime, the Chinese series shows Stitch having been captured by a warring alien faction called the Jaboodies who wants to use him as their own destructive genetic experiment, but he escapes when a rival faction also wanting him, the Woolagongs, attacks the ship he was held in. Ending up in the Huangshan mountains, Stitch meets Ai, a spirited girl whose aunt Daiyu (Laura Post) wants to move Ai from her sister Jiejie (Post) and their mountain home to a city. Stitch joins Ai's family as her new "dog", with Jumba (Jess Winfield, also reprising his role from the anime) and Pleakley (Lucien Dodge) also joining them after initially being sent to rescue Stitch. Stitch helps Ai stay in the mountains and she helps him ward off the Jaboodies and the Woolagongs, both of whom desire to make use of a secret metamorphosis ability Jumba programmed in Stitch that turns the experiment into a destructive giant.

In October 2018,Walt Disney Pictures announced that a live-action adaptation ofLilo & Stitch was in development, with Jonathan Eirich andDan Lin announced as producers.^[12] In November 2020,Jon M. Chu entered early negotiations to serve as director on the project.^[13] Filming was announced to take place in Hawaii.^[13] In July 2022,Dean Fleischer Camp signed on to replace Chu as the film's director.^[14][15] Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, a Hawaiian-born-and-based writer whose scriptConviction made the 2018 edition ofthe Black List, and Mike Van Waes wrote the film's script.^{[14][15][16][17]} Filming began by late April/early May 2023^[18] but was suspended in July 2023 due to the2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.^[19]

In August 2024, the film was announced to have a summer 2025 theatrical release.^[20] It was released on May 23, 2025.^[21]

On June 26, 2025, also known as "626 Day" or "Stitch Day" in reference to Stitch's codename, Disney announced that a sequel is in development.^[22] The film will be written by Chris Sanders, the first time since his original animated film that he would contribute to the franchise he created outside of voice acting. Jonathan Eirich will also return as producer.^[23]

•  ^P indicates an appearance in onscreen photographs or graphical pictures.
•  ^S indicates an appearance in silhouette only.

From 2002 to 2006,Disney Adventures released a number of comic strip tie-ins to the franchise. These include prequel comics set before the original film (which include the first appearances of later major characterExperiment 625/Reuben, who has a teal coloration in these comics), additional comics set around the time of the film, comics set during the events ofLilo & Stitch: The Series, comics set around the time ofLilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, and comics set during the events ofLeroy & Stitch. On March 7, 2006,Disney Press published a collection ofLilo & Stitch comic strips that were originally published from 2002 to 2005 asComic Zone, Volume 1: Disney's Lilo & Stitch,^[33] the first of four volumes compiling various strips that featured in the "Comic Zone" section ofDisney Adventures.

Stitch & the Samurai, known in Japan asTono & Stitch (殿さまとスティッチ,Tono-sama to Stitch;lit.The Lord and Stitch), is a manga written and illustrated byHiroto Wada [jp]. It was first digitally published onKodansha's website Comic Days from January 13 to December 28, 2020.^{[36][37][38][39]} It takes place in an alternate universe where Stitch crash lands in Japan during theSengoku period and gets taken in by a warlord named Meison Yamato (大和命尊,Yamato Meison), who finds the "bluetanuki" to be cute.^[34][36][40] Throughout 2021, an official English translation of the manga's threetankōbon were published byTokyopop.^[35][38][34]

The manga's art style is a combination of hyper-realistically drawn humans and environments as featured in other historical manga with the cartoonish design of Stitch and related characters and elements maintained from past franchise entries, with short animations added on some panels.^[40] Aside from taking place in Earth's past instead of the modern day, the manga also deviates from past franchise entries by having Stitch's human companion be an adult male rather than a young girl.^[40][38]

On October 9, 2023,Dynamite announced that a spinoff comic written byGreg Pak with art by Giulia Giacomino would be released in stores starting January 2024. The comic is described as a direct sequel to the 2002 film.^[41] The comics' first arc has the title duo going on a world tour to escape giant alien robots who are going after Stitch for his DNA.^[41] The first issue was published on January 31, 2024.

Agent Stitch is a children's book series written by American author Steve Behling and illustrated by Italian artist Arianna Rea.^[1][42] It is the first major Western-produced work in the franchise sinceLeroy & Stitch (2006). The book series takes place on an alternate timeline after the original film, with Stitch becoming a detective for the United Galactic Federation as part of the Galactic Detective Agency to investigate extraterrestrial-related mysteries happening in various Earth cities. The first book,A Study in Slime, is set inParis and was published on August 16, 2022. The second book,The Trouble with Toothoids, is set inNew York City and was published on May 30, 2023. The third and final book,The Menace at the Mall, is set inSeoul and was published on May 21, 2024.

Disney's Lilo & Stitch is a 2002side-scrollingshoot 'em upplatform video game based on the original film that was developed byDigital Eclipse for theGame Boy Advance.

Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (titled simplyDisney's Lilo & Stitch on the American release of thePlayStation version)^[43] is aplatform video game developed byBlitz Games for PlayStation andMicrosoft Windows that was released on June 14, 2002.^[43]

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is aplatform game for thePlayStation 2 on June 19, 2002, and serves as a prequel to the original filmLilo & Stitch, although it wasretconned from the franchise's chronology byLilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch.

Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Hawaiian Adventure (released in some countries asDisney's Lilo & Stitch: Hawaiian Discovery) is a video game developed by Gorilla Systems Corporation and published byDisney Interactive on June 22, 2002, consisting of various minigames, similar toDisney's Activity Center series.AllGame rated 3/5 stars, writing: "Less like an adventure game and more like a series of arcade games, there's enough entertainment on hand to get to the three-game finale".^[44]

Disney's Lilo & Stitch Pinball is apinball video game developed byBuzz Monkey Software and published byDisney Interactive for Microsoft Windows.^[45] It was released on October 8, 2002.^[45]

Disney's Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc (titled simplyDisney's Lilo & Stitch 2 in Europe andDisney's Lilo and Stitch in Japan)^[50] is an action-platform game developed byClimax Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios for Game Boy Advance on October 12, 2004.Hämsterviel Havoc is the sole tie-in game forLilo & Stitch: The Series and a standalone sequel to theLilo & Stitch game released on the same platform in 2002. While the game is primarily a platform game, the player has the chance to play as other characters and vehicle segments. The game was met with average to mixed reception, as GameRankings gave it 71.67% based on 6 reviews,^[46] while Metacritic gave it 66 out of 100 based on 4 reviews.^[47]

Disney Stitch Jam, known in Japan asStitch! DS: Ohana to Rhythm de Daibouken (スティッチ！DS オハナとリズムで大冒険（だいぼうけん）; Stitch! DS: A Great Adventure of Ohana and Rhythm), is arhythm video game developed byCattle Call and published byDisney Interactive Studios. The first video game based on theStitch! anime series, it was released in Japan on December 3, 2009, in North America on March 23, 2010, and in Europe on March 26. Different from pastLilo & Stitch adaptations,Disney Stitch Jam has players taking control of Stitch and some ofhis cousins in a variety of missions set in space, out on the seas, and in a variety of areas by touching musical notes and exclamation marks. In the game's story,Angel (X-624) gets kidnapped byGantu andHämsterviel, and Stitch has to rescue her by traveling into ten worlds. Stitch is the main playable character, while Angel,Reuben (X-625) and Felix (X-010) are unlockable.

NGamer gave the game a review score of 44% in their May 2010 issue.^[51]Common Sense Media's Chad Sapieha gave the game 4 out of 5 stars, calling the gameplay "polished and fun", and praising the game's visuals and sound, but criticizing the game's short length.^[52] On release week,Famitsu scored the game a 28 out of 40 across all four reviews.^[53]

Motto! Stitch! DS: Rhythm de Rakugaki Daisakusen ♪ (もっと！スティッチ！DS リズムでラクガキ大作戦♪;lit.More! Stitch! DS: Great Mission to Doodle in Rhythm), is arhythm video game and a sequel toDisney Stitch Jam. It was developed by Cattle Call (the developer of the first game) and published by Disney Interactive Studios. Like the first game, it is also based on theStitch! anime series, although this game is based on the show's third season,Stitch! ~Best Friends Forever~. It was released in Japan on November 18, 2010. This game was not released in North America or Europe.

This game has the same gameplay as its prequel,Disney Stitch Jam, and has more new features, characters, and experiments. This game is a modified engine of its prequel. Players can enjoy the rhythmic action of Stitch, who has a magic microphone that can draw his drawings on the air for decorations and traveling (which resembles and is a parody ofDoraemon's secret tool, "Air Crayon"). Players can also dress up characters like Stitch and Angel. On release week,Famitsu scored the game a 30 out of 40 across all four reviews.^[54]

Bomberman: Disney Stitch Edition (ディズニー スティッチ ボンバーマン;lit. Disney Stitch Bomberman) is a spin-off of theBomberman franchise for thei-modemobile internet platform developed byHudson Soft and distributed by D2 Communications.^[55][56][57] Based onStitch!, it was released for free under theDoCo DeMo Game banner in 2010 exclusively in Japan.^[55][56][57]

• A 2004EyeToy party game calledDisney Move includes aLilo & Stitch-themed minigame.
• The franchise has been used in theKingdom Hearts series:
  • InKingdom Hearts II (2005) andIII (2019),^[58] Stitch may be summoned alongsideSora to aid him in battles.
  • Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010) features characters and the outer space environment from the franchise.
• InDisney Friends (2007), players can voice and touch to control the actions and emotional behaviors of the game's characters, which includes Stitch.
• InDisney Universe (2011), Stitch costumes are available in the game.
• Stitch appears in theTomorrowland area ofDisneyland inKinect: Disneyland Adventures (2011) as a meet-and-greet character, and like other characters in the game, he gives the player characterquests to complete.
• Lilo & Stitch is referenced in theDisney Infinity series (2013–2016):
  • Inthe first game (2013), twoLilo & Stitch-themed power discs were released in which players can use Stitch's plasma blasters and the "Hangin' Ten Stitch with Surfboard", a hoverboard with a miniature Stitch figure in front.
  • InDisney Infinity 2.0 (2014), Stitch is a playable character, while theLilo & Stitch franchise is tied into a Toy Box Expansion Game; atower defense titledStitch's Tropical Rescue, which features Agent Pleakley in cutscenes and voice-over. Several in-game toys related to the franchise were also added to the game series. He is part of the non-Marvel2.0 Edition Toy Box starter pack, alongsideMerida fromPixar'sBrave.^[59] As with other playable characters in the series, Stitch can also be used inDisney Infinity 3.0 (2015).
• Both title characters of the franchise appear in theNintendo 3DSlife simulation gameDisney Magical World (2013) andits sequel (2015), with the latter game also featuring Jumba, Pleakley, and a world based on the franchise.
• In an April 2017 update toDisney Crossy Road,Lilo & Stitch became a playable world. Over fifteen original film characters are featured in the game.^[60]
• In Disney crossover games developed and published byGameloft:
  • In an April 2018 update toDisney Magic Kingdoms, sevenLilo & Stitch characters (Lilo, Stitch, Nani, Jumba, Pleakley, Cobra Bubbles, and Angel), several attractions based on franchise-related locations and other elements were added to the game as part of a limited time event.^[61] The event features an original storyline based on the films andLilo & Stitch: The Series that involves theLilo & Stitch characters. Another update released in May 2025 added David, Reuben, and Gantu as a mini-event tie-in for the live-action film's theatrical release, along with anotherLilo & Stitch based attraction.
  • InDisney Dreamlight Valley, Stitch (who was added in a December 2022 update during the game'searly access period)^[62] appears as one of the villagers of the titular Dreamlight Valley. It's revealed after completing a series of quests that takes ten days to complete that he fled the valley during "the Forgetting" to find help. After he returns to the valley, he resides in a house that resembles his and Lilo's bedroom dome on the outside but resembles a condensed version of the Pelekais' home on the inside. VariousLilo & Stitch-themed furniture, design motifs, and other items can also be unlocked.
  • Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Captain Gantu, and Angel were added toDisney Speedstorm as playable characters on August 1, 2023, for the game's third season of content updates, its last season in early access.^[63] The season also added a track environment based on the franchise's depiction ofKauaʻi and several other characters, all of whom apart from Reuben originally debuted in the original film, as crew members.

VariousLilo & Stitch-themed attractions have opened inDisney theme parks.

Stitch's Great Escape! was a "theatre in the round" show that opened on November 16, 2004, inMagic Kingdom at theWalt Disney World Resort as a replacement for theExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. It last operated on January 6, 2018, and confirmed by Disney officials to be closed on July 16, 2020.

Stitch's Supersonic Celebration was a short-lived stage show that ran from May 6, 2009, to June 27, 2009, at Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort.

Stitch Encounter is an interactive show similar toTurtle Talk with Crush that opened in 2006 atHong Kong Disneyland at theHong Kong Disneyland Resort. Other versions of the attraction openedWalt Disney Studios Park atDisneyland Paris (as Stitch Live!) in 2008,Tokyo Disneyland atTokyo Disney Resort in Spring 2015, andShanghai Disneyland Park atShanghai Disney Resort in 2016. The original version in Hong Kong closed in 2016, and no versions of this attraction have ever opened at either American Disney resort.

The Enchanted Tiki Room: Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai! is a "theatre in the round"Audio-Animatronics show that opened in 2008 in Tokyo Disneyland at Tokyo Disney Resort, and is the fourth incarnation ofThe Enchanted Tiki Room.

When the originalLilo & Stitch film was released in 2002, it was accompanied by a huge merchandising campaign, fromMcDonald's meals to marketing emphasizing Stitch as being as a chaotic character, very different from other Disney heroes.^[64]

As of 2025, Stitch is a very important character in the Walt Disney Company’s sale of licensed merchandise, mostly in the form of a very wide array of products. The company's annual financial reports for 2023 and 2024 includedLilo & Stitch as one of nine examples of its major licensed properties.^[65] In February 2025, theNew York Post reported that Stitch was likely going to be the most popular toy in 2025.^[66]

Lilo, Stitch, Nani, David, Jumba, and Pleakley appeared inOnce Upon a Studio (2023).

The originalLilo & Stitch film received positive critical reviews, while the live action remake received a mixed to positive reception and thedirect-to-video and television sequels received mixed to negative reception.

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