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Tag Archives: star tours 2.0
Star Tours: The Adventure Continues opens at Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland is the third Disney theme park to get the Star Tours 2.0 upgrade (Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disneyland are the other two). The actual ride mechanics is the same, with over 50 possible ride combinations, but the setting … Continue reading
Tony Baxter relays the untold history of Star Tours, the original
Tony Baxter, Senior VP Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering, recently chatted with the ForceCast, one of the more respected Star Wars fan podcasts, about Star Tours. They discussed the new version a bit, but Baxter was really excited to … Continue reading
Darth Vader at Disneyland Viral Video
A very funny video from Disneyland that follows the exploits of Darth Vader and two Stormtrooper minions as they explore Disneyland while waiting for Star Tours to open. Not quite the Volkswagen commercial. But cute.
Posted in Disneyland, Star Wars
Tagged darth vader, Disneyland, marketing, star tours, star tours 2.0, Star Wars, stormtrooper, theme park, video, viral, viral video
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Star Tours – Inside Jokes, Tributes, Remnants, Homages
Part of what makes the new Star Tours so awesome, for me at least, is the incredible level of inside jokes, easter eggs, cookies, remnants, and homages. Probably this is because I publish a book of such tributes (Walt Disney … Continue reading
Posted in Disneyland, Walt Disney World
Tagged cookies, dhs, Disneyland, easter eggs, homages, remnants, star tours, star tours 2.0, star tours the adventures continue, sttac, tributes, WDW
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Scoring Star Tours
Here is the great Michael Giacchino on scoring and recording the music for Star Tours – The Adventures Continue queue. I don’t know if you caught it. But there were a couple scenes in there that are not in the … Continue reading
