RARE Stitch Disney Sam Wang Large Statue Elvis Stitch "Lilo and Stitch Collectible"
Appx. 19" H x 17" W
Local pickup in Lakeland or Davenport, Florida. Also it can be negotiated for a price to be hand delivered in the central Florida area.
In the year 2000 when Lilo and Stitch was 2 years into development, Disney approached Soden at Elvis Presley Enterprises about the usage of Elvis’s name, photo, and music in their new film. The idea stemmed from two different ideas: one was that it allowed Lilo to be more of an outcast from the girls her age, while she listened to older music, her friends would listen to more current 2000s music. The range of Elvis’s discography also complemented the ebs and flows of the film, showing “Heartbreak Hotel” when Lilo is left home alone and Nani is trying to break back in, and “Stuck On You” when Lilo and Stitch are trying to understand each other better.
The other reason that it made sense for the directors to feature the king of rock and roll in their movie set in Hawaii, was to pay homage to some of Elvis’s most iconic movies and performances ever. He made 3 movies set in Hawaii: Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Girls! Girls! Girls!, and Blue Hawaii. He performed 2 major concerts in the Aloha state as well: the USS Arizona benefit in 1961, and “Aloha from Hawaii” in 1973. Aloha from Hawaii was a live broadcast concert and was NBC’s highest rated program of the year.