DocMcHulk
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Well that's silly and potentially confusing. Just move it into the new Star Wars land now while they have the chance.
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Goofyernmost
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Things change and, for the time being, there will be plenty of Star Wars exposure. It is time for something new to be there. Before you know it the whole property will be called Star Wars World instead of WDW.
The Millennium Falcon ride is another ride simulator that would put Star Tours to shame. Star Tours would only be held on long enough to satisfy the initial rush of SW tourists and then be repurposed. If they were to ever put a third attraction in SWL, it wouldn't be a simple simulator.
G00fyDad
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My guess is that they will attempt to shoehorn GotG in here.
Kamikaze
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Its not there for the long term. Probably will be rethemed by 2023.
Rteetz
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Star Tours really doesn't fit the entire theme of SWL, and they will have a flight simulator in the land already that being the Millennium Falcon.
Kman101
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It would be better here than the other two options that were once floated about.
DocMcHulk
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OH! I forgot that the Millennium Falcon ride was a simulator as well. Yea, makes sense then.
DocMcHulk
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I really like that idea.
Star Tours and Falcon would be different enough to both stand together as different experiences.
Jones14
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Which do you prefer? The direction they're going with or keeping Star Tours?
Personally? I'd have wanted to have ST and Falcon.
G00fyDad
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I'd prefer a Kuka arm ride that takes us through several SW worlds. It could be "the next ST experience" in that it could be a storefront that you enter in the SWL area that sells you transportation to other worlds via some sort of device/vehicle. You would then load into the ride and put on the 3D glasses. It would then move along a track (just like the HP attraction) and it would move you through different scenes on other worlds.
ChrisM
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I'm surprised they didn't mildly repurpose ST to act as a Hogwart's Express-esque transport to whatever Outer Rim planet is being represented by SWL.
It seems that it would have at least been possible to sort of back-alley an exit path into SWL behind Muppets 3D. Heck, they could have made the whole schtick that you are stowing away through a gleaming spaceport on one end and exiting in a seedy back alley on the other (and vice versa).
jt04
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My sentiments for over a decade. Even before Disney bought Star Wars.
roj2323
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I'd agree with you but in a world filled with $1800 SUV sized strollers and ECV's it's just not workable. If all guests were walking it might be a different story. That said, I do think they lost out on a good opportunity to pull Starwars land forward all the way up to back lot express and do a minor reconfiguration of the StarTours exit that would do the same thing you are suggesting with a few view blocks. Starwars land would still take up the same amount of acreage but it would have been more central to the park leaving room for a big expansion at the back (former LMA area) and it would have been possible to use more of the existing infrastructure instead of starting from scratch.
Stephen novak
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Love this idea
If there is one thing about Pandora that I wish they could have done a better job with explaining how you got to a different planet. Simply walking across a bridge doesn't do a great job of transporting you. This would solve that problem perfectly
Unplugged
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If you bought the optional $25 bag of pixie dust and dumped it on your head as they tell you in the fine print, you'd walk across the bridge blindly trying to find an eyewash station and not realizing you'd been transported to another world.
Goofyernmost
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Yea, heaven forbid that we should have to use our own imaginations. I wonder if that comes from our societies current obsessions with electronic images. If you don't show us we cannot envision it. I can remember, as a child, playing store with a wooden plank and a small sawhorse draped over the top (acting as a cash register) and playing for hours or getting in my wagon with one leg out and pushing it around a dirt path and imagining I was driving cross country. Like the demise of "Sounds Dangerous" if we cannot physically see it... we cannot imagine it. I wonder if imagineers will even be a possibility in the future.If you bought the optional $25 bag of pixie dust and dumped it on your head as they tell you in the fine print, you'd walk across the bridge blindly trying to find an eyewash station and not realizing you'd been transported to another world.
DisneyGentlemanV2.0
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Better yet, turn Star Tours to the darkside and have the two rides in a vitual battle.