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BURBANK, Calif., March 17, 2006 - Meet Leroy, aka ‘experiment 627!’ The lovable characters from Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch’ are back, including Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, along with Stitch’s outrageous cousin and 625 fellow experiments in the all-new movie Leroy & Stitch, available on DVD June 27. It’s a hilarious and extraordinary battle for the future of the galaxy, and this all-new animated funfest includes a bonus never-before-seen episode from the ‘Lilo & Stitch’ TV series, and a Big Red Battleship Flight Simulator Game. Leroy & Stitch is available for $26.99 (S.R.P.) on DVD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment.

In this all-new movie, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley have each gone their separate ways. Jumba’s back in the lab, Pleakley teaches college, Lilo’s in Hawaii and Stitch commands a Big Red Battleship. But when Dr. Hämsterviel breaks out of prison, he creates the ill-mannered Leroy, the evil twin of Stitch. One Leroy is disastrous enough, but Hämsterviel plans to clone Leroy into an entire army. It’s up to Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley to band together again, and with help from all 625 of Stitch’s experiment cousins, stop Dr. Hämsterviel’s plans. When the chips are down, our friends discover that the one place where they all truly belong is together.

Bonus Features

- Never-Before-Seen-Episode From The ‘Lilo & Stitch’ TV Series

- Big Red Battleship Flight Simulator Game
Every galactic pilot must be trained on how to navigate the busy airways of outer space. Stitch is given command of a "BRB" (Big Red Battleship), and now viewers can try the flight simulator themselves in this fun and challenging hyper-speed space game. But Dr. Hämsterviel will do his best to disrupt the most daring pilot.

STREET DATE: June 27, 2006
Direct prebook: May 2, 2006
Distributor prebook: May 16, 2006
Suggested retail price: $26.99 (DVD)
Rated: Not rated. Bonus materials not rated or subtitled.
Bonus materials subject to change.
Feature run time: Approximately 73 minutes
DVD aspect ratio: 1.78:1, enhanced for 16x9 TV screens
DVD Sound: Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Languages: English audio. Close captioned for the hearing impaired.

This DVD is enhanced with Disney’s FastPlay, an easy start-up feature that plays the movie and a selection of bonus features automatically, without using your remote control.

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With the news of this upcoming direct-to-video release, slated for June 27, 2006, one begins to feel a roadmap is needed to stay on top of the Lilo & Stitch film series. It all began in June 2002, when Lilo & Stitch was released to theaters following a longterm and clever marketing campaign. The film grossed $145 million domestically, and nearly that much outside of North America too. While not on par with Disney's tremendously successful '90s musicals, the film was clearly a hit.

Making sure to capitalize on their hottest original animated property of the decade, Disney soon followed suit with an animated series set after the events of the movie, cleverly titled "Lilo & Stitch: The Series", for ABC Saturday mornings and Disney Channel around the week. Right before the series made its fall 2003 television debut, though, there was Stitch! The Movie, a direct-to-video feature-length launch to "The Series" released in August of 2003.

In August 2005, a "proper" direct-to-video sequel entitled Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch came to DVD. Naturally, this also is set after the events of Lilo & Stitch...but before "Lilo & Stitch: The Series." Leroy & Stitch, coming next spring, will be the feature-length conclusion to the television series.

To sum up, Leroy & Stitch will become the fifth Stitch DVD Disney has released in Region 1. That number does not include the long-delayed 2-disc Lilo & Stitch special edition that has already made its way to several parts of the world (and was last heard to be due in the US July 2006), but it does include Lilo & Stitch's Island of Adventures, a standalone set-top/boardgame released to DVD in November of 2003.

In its opposition towards "mild sci-fi action", the MPAA has helped figuring out the Stitch chronology; both the original movie and its 2005 "official" sequel were rated "PG." Leroy & Stitch will carry a G rating, like Stitch! The Movie which launched the television series Leroy ends; these three entities follow the two films. And Island of Adventures is still just a game, therefore lacking a firm need to fit in with the rest.

Got all that? Good. After Lilo and Stitch say their goodbyes and part ways, Leroy & Stitch reunites them.