Star Tours
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| Star Tours | |
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| The entrance to Star Tours at Disneyland. | |
| Disneyland Tokyo Disneyland Disney's Hollywood Studios Disneyland Paris | |
| Land | Tomorrowland (DL, TDL) The Backlot (DHS) Discoveryland (DLP) |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering Industrial Light & Magic |
| Attraction type | Motion simulator |
| Theme | Star Wars |
| Opening date | January 9, 1987 (DL) July 12, 1989 (TDL) December 15, 1989 (DHS) April 12, 1992 (DLP) |
| Closing date | October 2010 (DL) |
| Hosted by | RX-24, voiced by Paul Reubens |
| Music | Composed by John Williams |
| Vehicle type | Motion simulator |
| Vehicle names | StarSpeeder 3000 |
| Guests per car | 40 |
| Ride duration | Approximately 4 minutes, 30 seconds minutes |
| Height requirements | 40" (102 cm) |
| Audio-Animatronics | 4 in simulators (1 per simulator), 5 in queue |
| Sponsored by | Panasonic (TDL) |
Star Tours is a simulator attraction based off of the Star Wars film saga at Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, Disney's Hollywood Studios (nee Disney-MGM Studios) and Disneyland Paris, in order of opening. It is themed as a galactic travel agency and spaceport that is employed with droids such as R2-D2 and C-3PO and that you are traveling to the Forest Moon of Endor. However, your inexperienced pilot, RX-24, ends up taking a journey through an asteroid field and a battle with the Death Star.
Although Star Tours may or may not be not be considered canon, its StarSpeeder 3000 is referenced in canon Star Wars works. In the PC game TIE Fighter, one ship appears on a certain level, and when the player identifies it, the ship is identified as "StarSpeeder 3000," LucasArts' tribute to the attraction. The StarSpeeder 3000 is also mentioned in the Star Wars Expanded Universe novel Specter of the Past and PC game Star Wars Galaxies.
Anthony Daniels reprises his role as C-3PO for this project. RX-24 is voiced by Paul Ruebens, a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman. (Ruebens also voiced a similar role--that is, a wacky alien pilot--in the Disney movie Flight of the Navigator in 1986.)
The ride premiered in Disneyland in 1987, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Star Wars franchise. The ride was placed in Tomorrowland and had to be fit in between other attractions. It debuted at the Disney-MGM Studios in 1989, and was given a much more spacious venue, complete with a large AT-AT walker outside the ride entrance.
The soundtrack was remastered and remixed in 2004, and can be found on the CD A Musical History of Disneyland.
[edit] Star Tours sequel
At the inaugural D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, on September 12, 2009, Jay Rasulo and Darth Vader announced that Disneyland's Star Tours attraction would be closing in October 2010 to make way for an updated version, which will open in 2011. Tatooine was announced as one of the new destinations in Star Tours II, with footage released of the StarSpeeder 3000 speeding through a podrace.
[edit] Known destinations
- Tatooine
[edit] Notes
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