News The future of Star Tours, Star Wars Launch Bay and Star Wars shows at Disney's Hollywood Studios

Robbiem

Robbiem

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MatheusPG said:
They should have built Star Tours instead of Iron Man, and Rise of the Resistance instead of the Avengers E-Ticket ride. That, with Hyperspace Mountain and a few tweaks in the land, would have made for a much better and cohesive area than this new Tomorrowland that they mixed with Marvel...
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That‘s a great idea. Retheme ant man/buzz to a clone wars shooter and the spinner to x wings around a death star and go all in
 
SaveDinosaur

SaveDinosaur

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Speaking of Star Tours, does anyone know why Tokyo Disneyland never receives the new stories? It's not like OLC is not willing to invest in updates of their attractions...
 
Marc Davis Fan

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fgmnt said:
Also will add in my experience the last few times at either of the parks in the states, it’s not like people are banging down the doors to ride it. Usually a 15 minute wait most if the day. That’s my anecdata at least.
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This is interesting, as I've seen the opposite. Every time I go to Disneyland, Star Tours has a fairly long wait for most of the day (usually comparable with Big Thunder), and most notably, riders seem to be having a lot of fun (e.g., they often clap, and when I was there a few weeks ago someone commented at the end "that was a WOW ride!").

As noted, the DHS version has 33% more capacity.

But here's what's really interesting and strange to me... and I was just thinking about this a few days ago... when I ride Star Tours at DHS (rather than at DL or DLP), I'm much less satisfied/impressed - it feels much more "meh." Why would this be? I can think of two reasons: (1) The massive facade overhypes it; even for someone who has done it before, that may unconsciously "frame" my experience. (2) At the same time, the facade is also thematically weak and immersion-breaking: when it was obviously a "movie set," it made sense, but now that they've removed the "movie set" cues, it just looks like the kind of half-finished cheap decoration you'd find at a non-Disney park (and indeed, people in the queue make comments like "they didn't bother to finish the back of that?")... and now the contrast with Galaxy's Edge makes this even more noticeable. Together, I think these two things might be what make DHS's version feel like a weaker overall experience. It seems silly, but much of theme park design is about subtle cues that have a big impact...
 
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Blobbles

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Okay so sourceless educated-guessing crackpot rambling time but with
all the work going on at DHS:
  • Millennium Falcon Is finally getting a new mission, being themed to Mando, taking away the unique gimmick that probably has kept star tours around all these years
  • Muppet courtyard is becoming monstropilis, permanently ending the “SWGE STAR TOURS CONNECTION” Talk
  • RNRC theme is finally getting squared away after all these years in Electric Mayhem
  • Is one of the few remaining relics of the studio theme from the MGM days
  • I don’t remember the last time I saw Star Tours with an actual line, and i assume it doesn’t sell the most lightning lanes
  • Screen based Simulator nature of the attraction makes it easier, and cheaper to retheme and reprogram to something else, especially compared to TOT
Yeah, excuse my insane rambling but in my mind, I’m pretty sure Star Tours is probably gonna die next.
 
horatiog

horatiog

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Blobbles said:
Okay so sourceless educated-guessing crackpot rambling time but with
all the work going on at DHS:
  • Millennium Falcon Is finally getting a new mission, being themed to Mando, taking away the unique gimmick that probably has kept star tours around all these years
  • Muppet courtyard is becoming monstropilis, permanently ending the “SWGE STAR TOURS CONNECTION” Talk
  • RNRC theme is finally getting squared away after all these years in Electric Mayhem
  • Is one of the few remaining relics of the studio theme from the MGM days
  • I don’t remember the last time I saw Star Tours with an actual line, and i assume it doesn’t sell the most lightning lanes
  • Screen based Simulator nature of the attraction makes it easier, and cheaper to retheme and reprogram to something else, especially compared to TOT
Yeah, excuse my insane rambling but in my mind, I’m pretty sure Star Tours is probably gonna die next.
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Disney is certainly well within its rights to eliminate an attraction in one place while keeping it in another, but I just can't see Disney taking out Star Tours in Florida while leaving it at Disneyland. How it is, they have a ride on each coast, and easily have the ability to do simple updates with new content as they do with Millennium Falcon.

Of course, I think we're in a humorous situation where what needs to happen is a big-ol' switcheroo: Star Tours needs to go to Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland to add capacity, spread out Star Wars to more than one park, and match Disneyland; while Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor needs to go to Studios to put Monsters content together and maintain the jovial, "humans are now allowed in monstropolis" theme of the new Monsters Courtyard.

That will never happen -- it would cost too much to be worth it to the Mouse -- but it would be quite sensible. But perhaps Disney has a more comprehensive Tomorrowland improvment coming down the road, as both coasts desperately need serious reworking and at least one new attraction.
 
DonniePeverley

DonniePeverley

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Stars Tours can easily be changed to another IP.

I rode Iron Man experience in Hong Kong, and it is pretty much the same as Star Tours.

The ride design, however is woefully out of date and needs to be closed down.
 
Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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DonniePeverley said:
Stars Tours can easily be changed to another IP.
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