Star Tours - Tomorrowland, Disneyland, 1987-2010

RX-24

Star Tours was a Disney simulator ride theme park attraction located at each of Disney's resorts except Hong Kong Disneyland. The ride was based on the successful Star Wars movie franchise created by George Lucas. This made it the park's first attraction that did not use Disney-designed imagery. 

Groups of visitors, or "passengers", was taken on by the fictional travel agency known as Star Tours, via a space tour bus called the StarSpeeder 3000 and set in the Star Wars universe. Thanks to an inexperienced and thoroughly incompetent robot pilot named RX-24, what was billed as a leisurely tour to the Endor moon became a wild ride as the tour got caught up in a battle between the Empire and the Rebels. 

The first incarnation of the ride appeared in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in 1987, replacing the previous attraction, Adventure Thru Inner Space. The original Star Tours closed in 2010 (July 27th in Disneyland, September 8th in Disney's Hollywood Studios) while Disney engineers built the updated and renovated ride, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, which opened on May 20th, 2011. 

Story

Advertised as "The Ultimate Star Wars Adventure!," Star Tours puts the guest in the role of a space tourist en route to the Forest Moon of Endor via the "Star Tours" travel agency. Much is made of this throughout the ride queue, and the design and theme of the inside holding area is convincingly modeled to look like a spaceship boarding terminal. This area is stocked with Audio-Animatronic characters that seem to interact with the ride patrons including Mon Calamari technicians and versions of C-3PO and R2-D2, as well as a life-size mock-up of the StarSpeeder 3000, the "starship" that guests embark on. The figures of C-3PO and R2-D2 in the Disneyland park are actual props from the original film, modified to operate via Audio-Animatronics.

The great C3PO

...and Admiral Ackbar

...and the little robots located in the Droids room.

Star Tours map

Starspeeder 3000 plan

Once guests reach the head of the line, the ride operators escort them into one of several ride theaters. As the doors close, the ship's bumbling RX-24 pilot droid, aka "Rex" (voiced by Paul Reubens), chats up the guests about the trip as he sets up. All goes well until a slight mistake on Rex's part sends the ship down the wrong tunnel and plummeting into a maintenance yard, just managing to escape into open space before a giant mechanical appendage nearly crushes the ship...

 Relive Star Tours in 1987 

as if you were there or almost!

With
"Star Tours 1987 Pack"

You will find:

- The full ride video (interior & exterior)

- Promotional & commercial videos and many more

- The original attraction poster and ads in PDF format

- Plenty of rare photography from the construction to the final flight

- Concept Art, Visual Development, and Illustrations

 

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