Throughout the film, pleakley and jumba are forced to wear disguises to blend in with the humans around them as they hunt for stitch, with pleakley opting to dress as a woman tourist. In his tiktok, fleischer camp responded to the multiple people who have messaged him to ask, “why is pleakley not wearing the dress?” “i just want to say, i tried,” he said, as what appeared to be a character design for pleakley in a gorgeous red wig appeared briefly on screen. Their reliance on horoscopic technology for disguises in the original animated film provided a wealth of hilarious wardrobe malfunctions. For proof, camp shared what appeared to be his original concept drawings for pleakley, wearing a wavy red wig and a blue dress Lilo and stitch director dean fleischer camp hinted that the alien pleakley won’t be wearing a dress in the new film He said he “tried” and posted concept art.
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