The Time Machine is one of the many mechanical devices invented by Jumba Jookiba. Appearing as a surfboard with an engine placed on the back, this device is used for surfing through time. It is seen in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Melty".
Background[]
When Lilo accidentally falls into a mud puddle while she and Stitch were attempting to capture Experiment 228 (Melty), she makes an idiot out of herself in front of Keoni. Lilo and Stitch later learn about Jumba's time-traveling surfboard and decide to use it to go back in time and change the past.
In several alternate timelines created by Lilo and Stitch meddling with time travel, Melty's fate was different:
- In one timeline, Lilo barely avoided embarrassing herself by falling in the pool of mud, but Stitch's change of action caused Melty to melt the hotel, and he was caught in a fashion similar to Sparky. As a result, Nani was promptly fired from her job, causing Lilo and Stitch to start over.
- In the next timeline, Lilo easily avoided her previous mistake, but when Stitch tried to react his original steps, he accidentally threw off the balance of a falling tree, which destroyed Officer Kahiko's car, resulting in Lilo and Stitch being thrown in prison.
- In the third timeline, Lilo caused a chain reaction: she placed her hand against a palm tree and startled a butterfly, causing it to fly above the ocean where a fish jumped up and ate it; an eagle then snatched the fish and dropped it onto a ship's windshield, which startled the captain who then fell backward onto a green button, causing his cruise ship to crash into the hotel, but Melty's fate was unknown in this timeline.
- In the fourth timeline, Melty's fate was unknown, as Stitch forgot to turn on the paradox inhibitor, therefore causing him and Lilo to meet themselves.
- In the fifth timeline, Melty was unintentionally hurled into the ocean, where his melting blasts opened up a volcanic fissure in the ocean floor, causing a massive tsunami to form and destroy part of Kauai.
- In the sixth timeline, Melty was captured exactly like in the original, but Stitch caused a chain reaction this time: he blew off a feather that fell onto his arm, causing the feather to land on an unstable coconut, which fell off its pile and bounced down a hill onto a golf tee, where it got whacked into the air by an elderly golfer and hit the roof of Gantu's ship with a loud thud, waking Gantu up. When Experiment 625 revealed Melty's activation to Gantu, the latter then searched for the experiment at the hotel and wrecked it before coming to the Pelekais' house. After Melty melted his containment orb and their entire house, Gantu recaptured him. The time-traveling surfboard was melted as well, causing future alternate timeline Jumba (whom Lilo and Stitch accidentally met when unintentionally going forward in time) to go back and give them a new time-traveling surfboard.
- In the final timeline, and one corresponding to the original, Lilo and Stitch simply imitated their previous actions, but this made Lilo forcibly embarrass herself in front of Keoni again. They captured Melty the same way as before and took him home. Stitch then guarded Melty like a hawk in case Gantu decided to show up and rip off the roof of the house like he did in the previous timeline. Keoni even paid Lilo a visit to cheer her up, and thus everything turned out better than they had expected.
Trivia[]
- The Hangin' Ten Stitch With Surfboard Power Disc in Disney Infinity is similar to this device, being able to levitate.
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