Star Wars and Star Tours veteran Anthony Daniels was kind enough to share with us some personal insights in the 25 years of Star Tours. Read his entire exclusive text here.
Congratulations to Industrial Light & Magic as they have been nominated for a Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production for their work on Star Tours: The Adventures Continue.
We have the press release that confirms the original version of Star Tours is scheduled to close April 2, 2012. Star Tours: The Adventures Continue has a scheduled opening in the Spring 2013 at Tokyo Disney Resort.
On Tuesday Disney Parks Blog posted that Star Tours – The Adventures Continue was one of the winners of the 18th Annual Thea Awards.
Star Tours – The Adventures Continue was honored with the award for Outstanding Achievement – Attraction Refresh.
Congratulations!
We recently caught up with Oscar-winner and amazing composer Michael Giacchino at the D23 expo. The topic, of course, was his score for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. Read the entire interview here!
I’ve been having fun lately deciphering the omnipresent Aurebesh lettering found in Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. There is wording on the X-Wing in the Star Trader which conceals the names of classic Disney characters like Mickey, Donald, the Cheshire Cat, and Peter Pan. G2-4T’s screen contains references to THX 1138, TK-421, the number 42 made famous in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and 626, the experiment number of Disney alien Stitch.
Of course, there are also a few misspelled words. I recently downloaded an Aurebesh font for my computer, and discovered that it can be disconcerting to type in an unfamiliar alphabet, without the usual ease of telling at a glance whether you’ve mis-keyed. (I wish the Imagineers had learned my new trick… type it in English, double-check your spelling, highlight it, and THEN switch fonts!)
But late last night, while translating a new batch of pics that my buddy David Yeh sent of the screen behind C-3PO, I found a new inside joke that tops all the previous ones and makes even the worst typos forgiveable!
Among the various system readouts of the Starspeeder 1000 (deflector shields, nav comp, hyperdrive, thruster vents, countermeasures, life support, repulsors, laser cannons), seven little letters can be found which spell out FLUX CAP.
We had a chance to sit down with Marianne McLean, Visual Effects Producer for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. She takes us behind the scenes on creating one of the most anticipated Disney attractions ever. You can read the entire interview here in our special feature archive.
I remember the first time I picked up a Star Wars Role-Playing Game sourcebook from West End Games that contained an ‘Aurebesh’ chart, back in the late 80′s/early 90′s. My initial two thoughts were, “Wow! That’s pretty cool!” and “Wow! Someone has too much time on their hands!” I specifically recall a pretty cool graphic for a tabletop gaming diorama featuring an Aurebesh-graffitied MPC model kit of the AT-AT, but told myself that was about the only application for which the Aurebesh would ever be useful.
Shows what I know!
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.
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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