Star Tours — Page 3

timdiggerm said:

Frink is the new Ric!

I'm too old to be new.

...

So I refuse to go see Star Tours.

/getoffmylawn

Oh man! This girl is awesome and completely adorable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xByYLtYAm5s&feature=watch_response

If I were her father I would be incredible proud.

Wally, that is really cool you'll get to check out the new ride early. I loved the original ride. Here is hoping the new ride is as imagination inspiring to new generations of SW fans as the original one was to me as a kid (and I am sure it will be).

greenpenguino said:

David Prowse said:

OO-AAR! 'Ello Princess! Don't talk bollocks! You weren't on any mercy mission, Oo-ar oo-ar!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJOA46HAec

Is this Star tours gonna be in EuroDisney also?

J

So the Star Tours preview was yesterday so I'm going to try to recall my experience in as great of detail that I can:

So, when you first walk in, you see C-3PO bickering with R2 just as in the original line but with completely different dialog. To the right there is a giant screen showing all the times that the "flights" are leaving in English and Aurebesh. It also showed advertisements for different planets. Mostly footage from the prequels that I saw. I did not see anything from the OT. The next room the first thing you see is the droid pilot from the original Star Tours malfunctioning, which I thought was pretty clever, and on the other side there is a robot doing "bag checks". At the end of that hallway you see silhouettes through a window of different species and droids. Then you walk by a robot and can see yourself in thermal vision. You're definitely not bored waiting in line. When you finally get to the boarding area and you get your "flight goggles" you proceed to the doors. Then, just like before, you watch a boarding video telling you not to do anything stupid pretty much. It is much like the old one just newer visuals. Finally, you get onto the ship, I was front row, 3 seats from the end. First, you hear C-3PO's voice arguing with R2 who was on a screen to your right. The blast door comes down to reveal that C-3PO is going to be the pilot. Apparently there are 54 different possibilities that can happen during the trip. Ours started off with the millennium falcon in front of us in a docking bay, I think it was supposed to be the scene where Luke, Han and Leia are escaping from the Death Star. A bunch of storm troopers were walking around and a little droid flew up to our view screen and "scanned us for rebel spies". It held up a photo of someone on the ride. Alerting us that he was the spy. Immediately we blasted off, following the Millennium Falcon out into space dodging a bunch of TIE fighters, which was pretty exhilarating. Then we went into hyperspace and came out just over the surface of Kashyyyk. reminiscent to the speeder bike chase in Jedi, we blew up a couple scouts and accidentally a wookiee bug plane thing causing a wookiee to hit our windshield and slide off. we flew higher and went to lightspeed again (with the blue hyperspace tunnel) while in hyperspace we received a transmission from Admiral Ackbar telling us to return the rebel spy to the base or something and we came out in a battle over Coruscant with the episode 3 X-wings flying around. We followed them a while watching them blow up some enemy fighters. I don't remember if the were Empire, keeping continuity or Seperatist which wouldn't make much sense. A couple "buzz droids" landed on our ship. When R2 got rid of them we made a dive toward the ground and just barely pulled up before we hit ground , dodged a couple ships flying around and landed on a pad in Coruscant, ending our ride. The ride was only a couple of minutes and I wish we would have gone to more OT planets but overall it was a great experience and is easily the best ride at disneyland if the 54 different events thing is true.

Edit: Forgot to mention a couple things: There are 6 different cars and unfortunately the original ride is not still running as far as I can tell.

^P.S.

she's the one who works there and got the tickets for Star Tours.

Whoa! She is a girl AND she works at Disneyland! Best. OT.com member. Ever.

I want to work at Disneyland. As of right now that is my new life's dream. What do I have to do?

CP3S said:

Best. OT.com member. Ever.

Wrong.  You're reading his post right now.

What the hell is Grad Night?

/old

Well, that's the last we'll see of her...

;-)

Star Tours The Adventures Continue - Queue area and onboard video   

Or link to the best part of the day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzK0hfIhaKg&t=1m10s

http://youtu.be/uH3YzXKf2VI?hd=1&t=15s

PT ships flying about with OT ships?

Death Star above Geonosis?

Podracing!?

They're trying really hard to make the OT universe mesh with the PT universe.

It'll never work, though. It's as jarring as seeing Daleks or Klingons in the cantina scene.

I have a scorched earth attitude to the PT - retcon it. All of it.

Oh, and Vader is surfing U.S.A for a bit.

Won't be riding this thing. Yeuch.

hahaha it's got a pseudo TSA check point: (via: boingboing.net)

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/05/the_normalizati.html

TSA-style security is now so normal that it's part of a Disney ride:

The second room of the queue is now a security check area, similar to a TSA checkpoint. The two G-series droids are still there, G2-9T scanning luggage and G2-4T scanning passengers. For those attraction junkies, you'll remember that the G-series droids are so named because in the original Disneyland Park version of the ride, they were created by removing the "skins" from two of the goose animatronics from the soon-to-close America Sings attraction (Goose = "G" series). While we won't tell you why, you'll enjoy paying a lot of attention to what the scans of the luggage show is inside. When it's your turn to go through the passenger scan (a thermal body scan), you may be verbally accosted by a security droid. Also, keep an eye out in the queue for an earlier version of RX-24 ("Captain Rex") from the original Star Tours; he's labeled "defective" and has some familiar dialogue.

This is the new Star Tours ride at Walt Disney World in Orlando.