CommandoDisney
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well i forgot where i read this so sorry i cant quote the source, but apparently when episode 1 was being made, when the special effects guys were editing the pod race scene, they thought it would be really cool to have a ride like this. so they edited a whole first person sequence of the race, and even convinced the people at disney to have a test run. they played it in one of the pods at disneyland and were trying to convince eisner to update the ride. Lucas really wanted to update it with new digital projectors and new surround sound (like he did with the original movies, make everything new and fancy). the problem is, eisner had just spent a bunch of money redoing tomorrowland that was met with mediocre reviews. so lucas got ed off and went away but apparently they have made some sort of agreement recently and we might see a Star Tours II ready in i think 2007 for like the 20th or 25th anniversary of the ride... but that would only be in disneyland.... thats what i heard or read, sorry if im wrong!