I just got back from the Boston Museum of Science today after seeing the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit. If you get a chance to see it, GO!!!!! (especially if you're a Star Wars fan like me.)
http://www.mos.org/doc/1869 (The schedule for the tour)
Anyhow, the reason I'm posting this is because one of the exhibits is a mock-up of the inside of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. It sits four people and looks almost like the Falcon as we've seen it in the O/T. It is on the Main Floor and on the floor with no motion control like Star Tours. I sat in Chewbacca's seat. We fly from the Star Wars universe to our's (just outside the Earth's orbit. We fly out past the Moon, Mars and the outer planets, then out of our galaxy and then to the "edge" of the Big Bang. With the movement of the stars on the screen just outside the cockpit made me feel like we were actually flying in the Falcon. With the sound and the motion, it was like being there.
Now if the Imagineers could capture the same feeling in an improve Star Tours I would be a very happy Star Wars fan.
http://www.mos.org/doc/1869 (The schedule for the tour)
Anyhow, the reason I'm posting this is because one of the exhibits is a mock-up of the inside of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. It sits four people and looks almost like the Falcon as we've seen it in the O/T. It is on the Main Floor and on the floor with no motion control like Star Tours. I sat in Chewbacca's seat. We fly from the Star Wars universe to our's (just outside the Earth's orbit. We fly out past the Moon, Mars and the outer planets, then out of our galaxy and then to the "edge" of the Big Bang. With the movement of the stars on the screen just outside the cockpit made me feel like we were actually flying in the Falcon. With the sound and the motion, it was like being there.
Now if the Imagineers could capture the same feeling in an improve Star Tours I would be a very happy Star Wars fan.