Rex from Star Tours Returns!

[Matt_Black]

Remember Rex? Good ol' RX-24 from the first incarnation of Star Tours? Of course you do, because he was awesome. Anyway he's coming back... in animated form! Yes, he's going to appear in an upcoming episode of the new Star Wars Rebels series, and yes, Paul Reubens is returning to voice him.

 

[wdisney9000]

Im really looking forward to Rebels. Thanks for the news. It would be awesome if he slips in a line from his Star Tours spiel. I think Rebels looks great! My only gripe with Clone Wars was that after ALL the encounters they had with buzz droids, they never came up with a good defense against them. I mean, c'mon, you have the technology to travel through the galaxy at light speed yet you cant create a defense against the buzz droids... that you KNOW the enemy ALWAYS uses????!!!!

 

[Bairstow]

Better than nothing I guess.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Have to admit, that's a pretty cute idea.

 

[BrerJon]

Rex is consigned as being 'defective', in the queue of The Adventures Continue, despite that ride being a prequel, which was always a bit odd.

So, given that Rebels takes place in the same time period as Star Tours 2, perhaps we will finally learn how Rex went from cleaning the toilets in the Star Tours terminal, to being labelled defective and shut down, to being rescued from the scrap heap and trained up to be a Star Tours Captain in time for the first movie/ride. How good would that be?

 

[Bairstow]

Rex is consigned as being 'defective', in the queue of The Adventures Continue, despite that ride being a prequel, which was always a bit odd.

So, given that Rebels takes place in the same time period as Star Tours 2, perhaps we will finally learn how Rex went from cleaning the toilets in the Star Tours terminal, to being labelled defective and shut down, to being rescued from the scrap heap and trained up to be a Star Tours Captain in time for the first movie/ride. How good would that be?

Does Star Tours 2 really take place during a specific time?
I thought it was just a bunch of popular scenes and characters taken willy-nilly from all the movies and mashed up randomly by the computer.

 

[FigmentJedi]

Does Star Tours 2 really take place during a specific time?
I thought it was just a bunch of popular scenes and characters taken willy-nilly from all the movies and mashed up randomly by the computer.

Takes place like a year or so before ANH. The whole mess on Hoth was apparently some previously unseen battle between Rebels and Imperials and the Imperials didn't expect the Rebels to bother going back to Hoth. That handwave came straight from George.

As for the CIS ships at Naboo, Imperials using old Clone Wars surplus to save money?
The Coruscant ending doesn't really have any workable handwave.

 

[danlb_2000]

Takes place like a year or so before ANH. The whole mess on Hoth was apparently some previously unseen battle between Rebels and Imperials and the Imperials didn't expect the Rebels to bother going back to Hoth. That handwave came straight from George.

As for the CIS ships at Naboo, Imperials using old Clone Wars surplus to save money?
The Coruscant ending doesn't really have any workable handwave.

You have obviously spent to much time thinking about this....

... and I approve.

 

[Matt_Black]

Rex is consigned as being 'defective', in the queue of The Adventures Continue, despite that ride being a prequel, which was always a bit odd.

So, given that Rebels takes place in the same time period as Star Tours 2, perhaps we will finally learn how Rex went from cleaning the toilets in the Star Tours terminal, to being labelled defective and shut down, to being rescued from the scrap heap and trained up to be a Star Tours Captain in time for the first movie/ride. How good would that be?

Erm... Doubtful. They're doing an episode about droids, so the more droids the better. C3PO & R2D2 are going to have the most screen time.

 

[doctornick]

Takes place like a year or so before ANH. The whole mess on Hoth was apparently some previously unseen battle between Rebels and Imperials and the Imperials didn't expect the Rebels to bother going back to Hoth. That handwave came straight from George.

A better retcon would have just been arguing that it's a similar but different ice planet. But then you couldn't say "we went to Hoth".

 

[FigmentJedi]

A better retcon would have just been arguing that it's a similar but different ice planet. But then you couldn't say "we went to Hoth".

Well this is George we're talking about. Imagineers wanted to do Tauntauns and Wampas for Hoth, but George wanted AT-ATs because "This is Disneyland! Who gives a crap about continuity or internal logic?"

 

[doctornick]

Regarding the show, I rather enjoyed Rebels and think it has good potential.

 

[Wags14]

Awesome, thanks for the heads up! So far it seems Rebels has had very positive reviews.

 

[Matt_Black]

I'm hoping we see Ensign Akbar at some point.

 

[Captain Neo]

Remember Rex? Good ol' RX-24 from the first incarnation of Star Tours? Of course you do, because he was awesome. Anyway he's coming back... in animated form! Yes, he's going to appear in an upcoming episode of the new Star Wars Rebels series, and yes, Paul Reubens is returning to voice him.

I know that RX droids would be in rebels but where did you hear that it is indeed rex and that reubens is voicing??

 

[Captain Neo]

Takes place like a year or so before ANH. The whole mess on Hoth was apparently some previously unseen battle between Rebels and Imperials and the Imperials didn't expect the Rebels to bother going back to Hoth. That handwave came straight from George.

As for the CIS ships at Naboo, Imperials using old Clone Wars surplus to save money?
The Coruscant ending doesn't really have any workable handwave.

The battle you see taking place on Hoth in Star Tours 2 is the battle from the game Rebel Assault during the assault on Gamma base

The droid ships at Naboo are part of the Trade Federation which is still around and works with the Empire on occasion much like other criminal and corporate entities like Black Sun.

TBH I don't understand what exactly they gained by setting the ride between the two trilogies. Just so they could make a couple of lame jokes about alderaan? Why not just say it takes place during Empire Strikes Back? I'm sure pod racing was still going on at that time which seems to be the biggest thing in the world to Lucas and the imagineers (despite the fact that no one else cares about pod racing)

 

[Matt_Black]

I know that RX droids would be in rebels but where did you hear that it is indeed rex and that reubens is voicing??

Endor Express.

 

[KLinder7]

Was nice to see him last night!

 

[dstrawn9889]

have had that episode for a week now... eztv. i t

 

[FigmentJedi]

TBH I don't understand what exactly they gained by setting the ride between the two trilogies. Just so they could make a couple of lame jokes about alderaan? Why not just say it takes place during Empire Strikes Back? I'm sure pod racing was still going on at that time which seems to be the biggest thing in the world to Lucas and the imagineers (despite the fact that no one else cares about pod racing)

Some loose notion that they could use elements from both trilogies, the lack of material in that gap, and the original idea before the whole Rebel Spy thing being that that we would be the ones that had the stolen Death Star plans, which got thrown out fast because the Imagineers realized that whole plot's been done to death.