Reporting from Walt Disney World in sunny Orlando, Fl:
Star Wars Weekends is just around the corner, and it's going to be the biggest SWW in a very long time. Mostly because of the opening of:
It's going to be massive, especially on opening weekend. Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios (it will forever be The Disney-MGM Studios to me) was created because of the original Star Tours.
So for those who never heard of Star Tours, it's a motion-sim ride that is located at Disneyland in California, and Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fl. The concept that a droid named Rex (who was voiced by Paul Ruebens) who, on his first flight with the Star Tours starspeeder, will take you on a tour of Endor, but you never get there because going into hyperspace, he completely misses Endor, and runs into a meteor shower. After getting out of that mess, the starspeeder gets trapped into a tractor beam in the middle of the Battle of Yavin from A New Hope. Then you go throught the Death Star trench and watch it blow up.
BTW for those who don't know, im castmember at DHS over at The Great Movie Ride. Maybe I probably was your Tour Guide on a magical journey into the movies, or I hijacked your vehicle as 1930s gangster or Western bandit
Pretty sweet gig
For it's time, Star Tours was the most popular motion-sim ride of all time. Then in August of last year, it was shut down with a big bang of an event called "Last Tour To Endor". I happened to have met Mark Hamill that night as I was his gangster. He said I have a great gangster voice. THIS IS COMING FROM THE JOKER!!!!
Starting May 20th, Star Tours will reopen to the world (we open before Disneyland. Sorry Cali) with a new ride system, which includes an improved motion simulator, new high-definition video with high def 3-D.
There was a castmember preview for this attraction, and i got to ride it a couple times.
First of all, it's amazing. This is the best thing George Lucas has done for Star Wars since releasing the originals that werent touched with Special Edition on the label on DVD. I had expectation coming onto this ride, and it exceeded them.
This new ride will take place during events between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Because of this, the Starspeeders which used to be the "3000" model is now the "1000" because of the earlier timeline. And it's not a tour to Endor. You fly through Hoth, Tatooine, Coruscant, Naboo, and Dagobah. Your destination is random. Rex isnt your pilot (the queue gives a nice shout out to him though), but C-3PO is.... when he wasn't suppose to be. And that all im gonna give you about that plotline.
I know you saw 3D in my description but it's not like some sort of hokey in your face gag like Captain EO or Muppets 3Dvision. It's 3D in the sense that you see massive depth of field in the picture quality. Everything looked sharp and real. The space sequences had my mouth dropped to the floor. I was completely blown away.
The technology they use for this attractions makes Star Tours the most superior motion-simulator i have ever been on. It completely blows the original out of the water in terms of theming and entertainment.
Opening day on May 20th, there's gonna be a massive media event. George Lucas, Mark Hamill, and Peter Mayhew will be there. Major news networks are reported to sending reporters and journalists out here for this thing.
This will be the biggest opening attraction in Walt Disney World history. I will report to you guys the mass hysteria that will be coming here.
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