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The fate of Star Tours?
- Thread starter 999th Happy Haunt
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Is relocating the simulators a possibility? I can't imagine it being difficult to move them into a new building in Galaxy's Edge. It probably wouldn't be with the opening of the land but maybe an expansion a few years down the road?
Haymarket2008
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Many, many insiders on these boards have indicated that the plan is to retheme this attraction once Galaxy's Edge opens. So it is technically a rumor with a LOT of credibility.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Rumor has it Frizen is going to take over Star Tours when a Frozen 2 comes out. Loved the Frozen sing a long and the dark ride over at a EPCOT.
DisneyJayL
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- In the Parks
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Just shoot me with ice shingles right now. Cut through the heart cold and clear.
AEfx
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That doesn't really make sense to me. Given that the simulators are going to offer wildly different experiences.
EmperorKuzco
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Why can't Star Tours be moved to Tomorrowland? MK could still use more capacity. There are already multiple IPs in different parks. Is there not enough space inside Stitch or Monsters?
Kman101
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So? We don't need two Star Wars simulators. Yeah they offer different experiences but it makes sense to me to close it and offer something new. Which, as it stands, sounds like they will so I guess people need to expect it to not be around. I get liking it. I love it, but why have two simulators for the same IP? The Millenium Falcon can't take us to different places in the universe like a vehicle from Star Tours can?
Until an insider tells us that WDW has a definite plan for Stours or that space, the history of WDW suggests that Stours will continue there for years and years past the opening of SWGE. They'll eventually stop refurbishing it because they know they're going to get rid of it, even though they don't have a plan yet. Then when there's two or more shuttles that are no longer operational, they'll be forced to decide what to do with it and then two years later, do it.
Horizons '83
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- In the Parks
- No
Interesting thought, perhaps there is space in Laugh Floor? Giving way to a Monsters Inc land in DHS?
GlacierGlacier
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Move the sims over to the old Body Wars building, make a new show, put some additional little kiosks or something, and have a cheap new E - D ticket for ecpot.
Tours and Bird will be sufficiently different experiences to be able to coexist.
Marc Davis Fan
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Obviously this isn't high priority, but if Star Tours were to remain a while, it would be nice to redo the facade so that it fits the "city" (rather than "studio") theme and merges nicely with Grand Avenue, etc.
That would also be one of the last steps toward making Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard, Echo Lake, and Grand Avenue a holistic continuation of each other. It might even make that collective area the largest single themed environment in any Disney park (even though they technically take place in different time periods, they still broadly fit as one continuous "city").
That would also be one of the last steps toward making Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard, Echo Lake, and Grand Avenue a holistic continuation of each other. It might even make that collective area the largest single themed environment in any Disney park (even though they technically take place in different time periods, they still broadly fit as one continuous "city").
Kman101
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DreamfinderGuy
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Why don't they move the sims back to Epcot and use the Star Tours building for a new attraction?
Goofyernmost
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Or they could put something new in Epcot to fill the old building and just change the focus and identity of the attraction there in DHS.
I know this ship has sailed but I wish creative could have been more "creative" in the beginning to try and keep Star Tours tied to Star Wars land. After all the ride is about passengers on a fight to a destination from a space port. I envisioned this ride as being sort of a third entrance to the land. This is how I would imagineer it if money were no object.
Beginning wait and cue mostly the same but with travel posters and departure times like an airport. Get on ride with whole new movie showing our trip to Galaxy's Edge. When the ride ends you exit to the terminal of a space port at Galaxy's Edge onto a moving walkway like at real airports. Off to your side you would see a terminal with airline gates with actual set pieces of seats, gate kiosks and other props populated with various alien life forms both static and some movement sitting in the seats waiting for their flights and maybe robotic trash cans or baggage carts moving about. Beyond that you would see the window looking down on the tarmac but instead it would be screens showing ships taxiing, landing and taking off. You would continue on your walkway following the signs like a real airport to "exit to Galaxy's Edge" and be there.
I admit I don't know based on its location it could have been done or how they could theme the outside so its location makes sense but I think it would have been a lot of fun.
Beginning wait and cue mostly the same but with travel posters and departure times like an airport. Get on ride with whole new movie showing our trip to Galaxy's Edge. When the ride ends you exit to the terminal of a space port at Galaxy's Edge onto a moving walkway like at real airports. Off to your side you would see a terminal with airline gates with actual set pieces of seats, gate kiosks and other props populated with various alien life forms both static and some movement sitting in the seats waiting for their flights and maybe robotic trash cans or baggage carts moving about. Beyond that you would see the window looking down on the tarmac but instead it would be screens showing ships taxiing, landing and taking off. You would continue on your walkway following the signs like a real airport to "exit to Galaxy's Edge" and be there.
I admit I don't know based on its location it could have been done or how they could theme the outside so its location makes sense but I think it would have been a lot of fun.