This interactive character conversation originated at EPCOT's Future World pavilion within "The Seas with Nemo & Friends" opening November 2004. This second version opened at Disney's California Adventure on July 15, 2005 in the Disney Animation building in Hollywood Pictures Backlot.

The theater was formerly "The Animation Screening Room". A film entitled "Return to Neverland" with Robin Williams and Walter Cronkite about Disney animation originally opened with the park. "One Man's Dream" replaced that film until March 2005.

The same technology was previously tested in Disneyland's Innoventions as "Stitch's Picture Phone" beginning 2002/2003 as a temporary attraction. But this format only served less than 5 people at a time. However, that didn't stop its increasing popularity. Stitch finally said "Aloha" one last time at the end of April 2008 to much disappoint of its sudden closure. The area is now occupied by an "Air Scooter" display with the Stitch coloring book and computer games still attached.

Tests were run in Disney's California Adventure's "Drawn to Animation" theater to handle larger crowds with Stitch and then later Crush from "Finding Nemo".

This is all part of Walt Disney Imagineering's "Living Creatures" inititative, which includes the Muppet Lab Mobile (also tested at DCA and EPCOT) & "Lucky" the dinosaur (also tested in DCA, Disney's Animal Kingdom, etc.).

Recorded May 13, 2007.