WhyteAL
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I wonder how this will affect Star Wars Weekends in 2008...unless closings will be partail like what is going on with SSE.
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Possible new Star Tours 2 info straight from Anthony Daniels
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I wonder how this will affect Star Wars Weekends in 2008...unless closings will be partail like what is going on with SSE.
PhilharMagician
Well-Known Member
I would bet that it would not effect SWW. There are three times during the year where ST absolutely has to be open.
1. SWW
2. Christmas week
3. Easter week
So you can probably guess when it will go down (between SWW & Christmas). It may also be done in phases and reopened depending on the amount of work that needs to be done.
If they are changing the sims, they can't do it in phases.
Plus, once TSM is open, it is much easier for Disney to keep ST down for a long stretch of time, even through the big weekends.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
if they are considering a StormRider system upgrade (and I'm pretty sure if Lucas were to agree to do this, he would want a new ride system), late '08 makes more sense.
PhilharMagician
Well-Known Member
Wasn't the Storm Rider ride system talked about for MK Adventure Land expansion not MGM.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
it's been talked about for a lot of projects, but the upgrades we will see for Star Tours 2 were tested in StormRiders.
imagineer boy
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Aw, I hope they ad the same stuff to Star Tours. I can imagine that it would also be cool if they could have some smoke effects in the cabins and maybe seat vibrators like AE used to have to add intensity like when the ships hit astroids.
CBOMB
Active Member
I may be way off base with this so I need some help. Isn't there a fair piece of land across the road from the Studios that could be used for expansion. Walk-ways are built across roads all over the country, so it is possible to expand I think.
While three seperate ride destinations is a great idea, and I think it would make for a better attraction, I just don't think Disney will do it when they can get by with one. Just my opinion. Still a very good idea.
They won't build walkways across the 'real world' at WDW. If anything they'd move the highway.
There are plenty of usable expansion spots before they would even think about that, though. I believe that one of the larger plots involves removing the Indy stunt show and the parking lot behind it and turning those into attraction space and then building a new parking lot.
CThaddeus
New Member
Or leave the stunt show alone and work around it...
I don't think thats possible because of the huge size of the sets. They take up a lot of the backstage space in that area as is, and if you were going to use the parking lot but keep Indy, you'd have to have a new huge backstage area to truck those sets back and forth.
If Star Tours really is getting a massive facelift, we're probably going to see a new Indy attraction. Whether that means the old one stays or goes remains to be seen.
figmntal95
Active Member
Uh.. didnt you get a chance to get to SW Weekends? Did you get to ask him?
Here's what they had to say today:
2008/2009 - Star Tours 2 - Rumor - (6/6/07) A new big piece of the Star Tours 2 puzzle came in today and claims that Anthony Daniels was about a year off… as the current plans to remodel Star Tours wont be complete until the end of 2008. Our source claims that the Star Tours 2 plans are likely connected to the Disney-Pixar name rebranding of the park which is also likely to happen in 2008. As for the ride itself, our sources tell us that WDI is still finalizing all the details right now but that it seems a good bet that Captian Rex will be retired from action this time around. It also seems a sure bet that the new version of Star Tours will go into Disneyland and Walt Disney World, though the window of time left to do the work may stretch the reopening into 2009.
I wonder if the Captain Rex thing means they will redesign him (much like the robot from Alien Encounter was changed into 90210 in Stitch's Great Escape) or they will completely take him out and leave his space empty, or will they replace him with something completely different.
I actually hope they have some type of interaction narrator like Capt. Rex. I wish we didn't have to wait so long for this new Star Tours if these new time frames are indeed the correct ones.
No, unforunately fig, he did not appear at my weekend. It was Jay Laga'aia, Kenny Baker, and Bonnie Piesse (who replaced Warwick Davis).
Anthony Daniels will appear the fourth, and last weekend, June 22-24, with Warkwick Davis and Jay Laga'aia.
So if anyone is going that weekend, they should ask him.
Speaking of Star Wars Weekend, I always thought it would be cool if they would make a special simulator film to be played during the weekends, much like the Haunted Mansion and It's a Small World are changed for the Christmas Holiday.
Here's what Screamscape had to say today:
What season in 2009 though?
ToTBellHop
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whatever season Universal likes?
jedimaster1227
Active Member
Disney really only considers two seasons... Winter and Summer. This project would be ready for the Summer so that any neccescary tweaks required could be made before the busier Winter season...
hmm...I think 2009 is a bit out there for a Star Tours upgrade though. If disney closes it fall 2007...I think they can have a new version open by summer of 2008 to coincide with the "grand opening" of Disney-Pixar Studios. They should use 2009 to unviel another new attraction for the studio like Indy, Muppets, Monsters Inc., or Cars.
ToTBellHop
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that depends on how extensive the changes are...and I don't see George Lucas settling.