‘Rise of Skywalker’ Star Tours update pays tribute to original 1987 Disneyland attraction - OCR/SCNG

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‘Rise of Skywalker’ Star Tours update pays tribute to original 1987 Disneyland attraction

Walt Disney Imagineering added two new scenes to Star Tours inspired by “The Rise of Skywalker” that take riders aboard a Starspeeder 1000 spaceship to the Star Wars ocean moon Kef Bir and an epic …

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>>The new “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” scenes in the updated Star Tours attraction at Disneyland puts a bow on the Skywalker saga just as the final film wraps up the epic space opera.


“We don’t know where Star Wars is going in the future,” Walt Disney Imagineering creative executive Tom Fitzgerald said. “Hopefully there will be episodes that fit in the timeline that will let us add more.”


Imagineering added two new scenes to the venerable motion simulator attraction inspired by “The Rise of Skywalker” that take riders aboard a Starspeeder 1000 spaceship to the Star Wars ocean moon Kef Bir and an epic space battle amid hundreds of Star Destroyers.

Fitzgerald worked on the launch of Star Tours in 1987 at the Anaheim theme park.


“Being able to wrap up the Skywalker saga with this was a pure joy for me,” Fitzgerald said at Disneyland.


In preparation for the Star Tours update, Fitzgerald traveled to Lucasfilm in Northern California to read “The Rise of Skywalker” script in a locked room.<<

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The updated Star Tours voyage also includes an urgent transmission from Lando Calrissian, which was filmed in Los Angeles with “Star Wars” star Billy Dee Williams.


“We have to have Lando,” Fitzgerald said. “He’s a classic Star Wars character. He bridges all the eras.”


The score for the updated Star Tours scenes by Star Wars composer John Williams was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.


“John Williams was so nice,” Fitzgerald said. “He rearranged his scoring schedule so that he could do the sequences that we needed.”

Star Wars heroine Rey will join the Star Tours adventure in Jakku when the limited-run “Rise of Skywalker” edition of the attraction returns to its randomized “jukebox” version in a few months.


“You have to have Rey,” Fitzgerald said. “She is so crucial to the Skywalker saga.”<<

 

[mickEblu]

Awesome. So my feeling was right when I said that it felt the most like the original Star Tours on Friday.

 

[Phroobar]

The new scenes look like a lot of fun. However, I can't wait for the jukebox settings to come back again.

 

[mickEblu]

The new scenes look like a lot of fun. However, I can't wait for the jukebox settings to come back again.

Jukebox?

 

[Phroobar]

Jukebox?

yeah, random play of scenes.

 

[mickEblu]

yeah, random play of scenes.

Ah, that’s what I thought. Except in a jukebox we’re picking the songs. I Also thought you might have been referring to something about the original Star Tours I didn’t know about.

 

[Phroobar]

Ah, that’s what I thought. Except in a jukebox we’re picking the songs. I Also thought you might have been referring to something about the original Star Tours I didn’t know about.

Wouldn't it be cool if we could choose our destination? Maybe someday we can fly our own ship and let others can act as gunners and engineers.

 

[fctiger]

This sounds great and proof Star Tours isn't going away in the foreseeable future. Can't wait to ride it next month.

 

[mickEblu]

This sounds great and proof Star Tours isn't going away in the foreseeable future. Can't wait to ride it next month.

At this point I’m hoping it survives a TL redo.

 

[Rich T]

Wouldn't it be cool if we could choose our destination? Maybe someday we can fly our own ship and let others can act as gunners and engineers.

And take our eyes off the screen to push buttons. Sounds ground-breaking!

 

[BrianLo]

Wouldn't it be cool if we could choose our destination? Maybe someday we can fly our own ship and let others can act as gunners and engineers.

When MF gets more missions, I hope they are selectable by the group and not randomized.

 

[Phroobar]

Big mistake not having the MF be open world. Practically every game on the PS4/XBOXOne is open world. I can see most eight year olds flying us in circles anyway.

 

[mickEblu]

When MF gets more missions, I hope they are selectable by the group and not randomized.

And let’s hope those missions feel more like the episodic films and less like Solo.

 

[SuddenStorm]

When MF gets more missions, I hope they are selectable by the group and not randomized.

When MF gets more missions, I hope they're actually fun.

 

[mickEblu]

When MF gets more missions, I hope they're actually fun.

And can we get some more movement? It’s like we re flying the crippled Falcon or something.

 

[BrianLo]

When MF gets more missions, I hope they're actually fun.

Very much sounds like they picked the worst of the three for the sake of synergy.