Disneyland has released a series of videos that show more of Darth Vader ‘enjoying’ his day at the theme park as part of the Viral video campaign to promote Star Tours 3D: Watch more on Youtube or LaughingPlace.com has collected them.
Miss the original Star Tours? No worries Kit Molaison has recreated it in flash animation glory for everyone to enjoy. The queue area includes pictures of the original attraction along with links to some of the source material. Then you board the Starspeeder 3000 and… Read More »Amazing Flash Animation Recreates Original Star Tours Ride
click to embiggen Looking for a way to enjoy the new Star Tours attraction but can’t make it back to Disneyland or Disney’s Hollywood Studios anytime soon? Well, faster than it takes to fly a parsec, Disney.com has whipped up a new Star Tours intergalactic… Read More »Disney.com Launches New Star Tours Mini-Website
Star Tours 3-D has now opened at both Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the crowds keep coming to see the 3-D attraction with over 50 possible ride combinations. Disney has just released this special promotional video that highlights the different destinations Star Tours guests could visit. They’ve even added a special cameo appearance by yours truly. Keep an eye out around the 1:04 minute mark:
Join me below the jump for the secrets of how this video was made:
The crowds were out in full force at Disneyland this weekend. Of course this is to be expected. School is out and two new rides have just opened.
Tomorrowland could be best described as very very crowded. If you do not need to approach Tomorrowland from Main Street at the moment just don’t even go there. Access Space Mountain from the other side of the park and avoid the Jedi crowds.
I had a plan of action to get the most possible rides on Star Tours. I booked a room in one of the Disneyland Resort hotels so that we could get the Soundsational Summer Package. Not only does this give you early entry into the parks on certain days it will give you something even more valuable. 2 Fast Passes per guest. This is a huge deal if you want to avoid standing in the line for Star Tours.
The early entry hours this Sunday meant that Disney resort guests could enter Disneyland at 7am which is one hour ahead of the rest of the park guests. This should have got us a head start but of course after leaving the park at midnight the night before things didn’t quite work out as planned. So we were a little late reaching the Fast Pass kiosk at 8:15am.
It was a very busy week last week as far as Disney news goes. But five new stories from the past seven days rose clearly to the top. Vintage Photos of the old Golden Horseshoe Revue and people paying their respects for deaths of Wally… Read More »Top Posts from Week of June 13
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 explore some of the history of the original Star Tours attraction, including tidbits I’ve never heard before.
You can listen to it here, or I’ve included some of my notes below the jump:
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I hope everyone had a Magical Disney weekend. If you were too busy to catch all posts on The Disney Blog last week, here are the top five post in terms of direct visitors. Noise is being made across the sea in Norway about the… Read More »Top Posts from Week of June 6