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The irksome tale of how Disney passed up an opportunity to revamp their aging Star Tours ride — and how it may yet happen<\/a> in time for the ride’s 20th Anniversary..<\/p>\n

Which would be none too soon, as the queues for ST at Disneyland have gone from being out-the-door to walk-too-fast-by-the-cool-stuff-to-see-it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The irksome tale of how Disney passed up an opportunity to revamp their aging Star Tours ride — and how it may yet happen in time for the ride’s 20th…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,15,372,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-media","category-star-wars-media-movies","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/star_tours_it_isnt_just_f.html","url_meta":{"origin":7240,"position":0},"title":"Star Tours — it isn’t just for Endor any more","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-May-08 7:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"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...","rel":"","context":"In "Disney\/Pixar"","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4948,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/29\/all_hail_the_mi.html","url_meta":{"origin":7240,"position":1},"title":"All Hail the Mighty Microscope!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Nov-03 11:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time, there was no \"Star Tours\" at Disneyland. 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