Continuing confirmation that there’s a revamp in the works for Disneyland and Walt Disney World’s Star Tours ride — twenty years after their opening with a promise of regular changes to allow riders to visit other locales in the Star Wars universe.
Revolutionary for its time — combining faboo show for the waiting queue with moving shuttle capsules timed with displayed film — Star Tours has fallen on hard times. There’s rarely much of a line whenever I visit, the ride itself has been running for long enough that people can say the lines along with it, the whole place needs a good dusting and cleaning, and the promise of multiple rides in one has never been fulfilled.
Hopefully the new rapprochement between Lucas and Disney will revitalize what was once an exciting destination ride.