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A duo of Stormtroopers have been having some extra curricular fun in Tomorrowland these days in between showings of the Jedi Training Academy.  Our Bothan spies tell us that this pair of Stormtroopers (who aren’t at their post) visit with Disneyland guests, pose for photos, and even have some fun with the poor souls waiting in the over-flow queue area of Star Tours.

Click ahead to see more photos of this activity and go ahead and see them for yourselves!  If you do see them, feel free to comment on your experience below.

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The Disney Parks Blog reports: “When the actor who voices Anakin Skywalker on the hit series Star Wars: The Clone Wars visits Disneyland park, you just know that he’s going to check out Star Tours – The Adventures Continue, and that is exactly where we caught up with Matt Lanter.” Read more.

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Brave explorers coming to the Disneyland Hotel can enjoy island style food and cocktails at TRADER SAM’S ENCHANTED TIKI ROOM, one of the newest hot spots at the resort.  Inspired by the Jungle Cruise’s head salesman of the same name, this intimate location serves up more fun than the God’s will tolerate.  But it’s not just the island “cruise”-ine that brings worldly travelers to this “Tiki Room” it’s the thousand plus trinkets, artifacts, photographs, props, and artwork that adorn the space that really make coming here something special.  Here at EndorExpress, we have a huge appreciation of all things Indiana Jones and The Rocketeer so we went straight to Brandon Kleyla, “head” decorator of Trader Sam’s to tell us about the unique décor that went into creating one of Southern Californian’s hottest bars.

Read our interview with Imagineer Brandon Kleyla here

Trader Sam’s, the new “Enchanted Tiki Bar”, has been delighting guests at the Disneyland Hotel for months now and for good reason! Not only are the island style food and drink stellar, but there’s enough artifacts and decoration in the place to open up it’s own museum of unique artifacts and antiquities! What strikes our fancy specifically, however are the close ties to the man in the hat himself, Indiana Jones.

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This video game looks like a must buy for Disney/Disneyland fans!!

Xbox 360 Announces “Kinect: Disneyland Adventures” Launch Date and New Experiences

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Fans of Star Wars and Disney have even more to celebrate as a new character has been seen rolling around Tomorrowland.  No, WALL-E hasn’t yet made his appearance but astromech R2-D2, star of every Star Wars film to date has.

UPDATE: Visit Artoo at Disneyland “Off and on – through 8/18″.

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Captain EO returned to Disneyland in February 2010 in Tribute to the star of the 3-D short film Michael Jackson. With Captain EO Tribute now playing at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris, The OCRegister recently asked Disney if the show will become a permanent addition to Tomorrowland.

http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/06/14/captain-eo/79787/

We have the pleasure to introduce you to a brand new interview with Tom Fitzgerald; Vice President, Senior Creative Executive at Walt Disney Imagineering and voice of droid G2-9T in the Star Tours queue. After doing an interview with us on the history of Star Tours before, we now take a look at the completely revamped Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. Read the full exclusive interview here.

Greetings, Programs! As you may have already heard, ElecTRONica will continue on through Spring 2012. Read more.

After weeks of Cast Member and Annual Passholder previews, Disneyland was finally able to conduct the launch of STAR TOURS: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE on June 3, 2011.  There was no gala or explosions on the west coast but plenty of Stormtroopers, Jedi Knights, and Darth Vader were on hand for the celebration.

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