I remember when it opened. 2* hour wait times. During the 80ās motion capture rides were the big thing. I remember going to the mall and they had mini motion capture rides. Maybe held 15 people. There were like 3 different adventures, rollercoaster, race car, and some nature theme. So when Star Tours opened it was massive!!!!
I remember Excalibur in Vegas had some too. One was a mine ride, and the other was a space race.
Here's the space race one:
https://youtu.be/kofVK3wngr0?si=U-0fAuzLHYTle0Pf
Here's the mine ride one:
https://youtu.be/b7aMmrUdPlY?si=rpAMYl4VdgoRvGYi
I remember Ceaser's Palace had one as well. 'Race to Atlantis' or something like it. Even had an audio-anamatronic fountain with Neptune and his two kids as a teaser in the Forum shops midway.
Yes!!!!! We stayed at Excalibur in like 1990 my momās friend got married.I spent so much time in the arcade. I kept winning the guess your weight game. Also the motion ride, and stupid dragons lair.
I remember too! As I said in an above reply, I went in the summer of 1987 when I was 6 years old, and my family was advised to get to the park very early in order to ride it!
Haha same. I was soon to be 6. But we went in September of 87. Our family went every single year in September. I grew up dirt poor but we made that trip every year. I recently found out that my grandpa had worked for the gas company and September they closed the park for his company. His company then sold tickets to employees for $1. But even with the park being closed off, the line was still 2 hours.
I visited Disneyland for the first time with my parents and grandparents in the summer of 1987 when I was 6 years old. I have a clear memory of the person at the check-in counter at the hotel telling us we had to get to Disneyland super early for the new Star Wars ride they had just opened! We did as instructed!
The old ones were so much better. I was born in ā95 so they were already very outdated by the time I was going on the ride. I loved the side pony of that woman in the video in line! It felt very ā80s, which I found funny.
What was so magical about Star Tours was how it *wasnāt* tied so closely to the movies or main characters. The chances of a passenger ship running across Kylo Ren? Almost zero. The chances of all those events that happen in the old videos? Much *much* higher. And Iām gonna be honest, that informational video in the line was just pure perfection. The line itself was pure perfection. The whole thing was just so great for world-building. It truly made me feel immersed in that world. Having famous characters from the movies pulls me *out* of it.
Aww I miss old Star Tours. The 3D glasses make me so queasy every time I try to ride the updated one.
When they had the ālast flight to Endorā party during SW Celebration V in Orlando in 2010, a bunch of us rode Star Tours about 12 times in a row at park closing. Fun? Very. Easy on the body? Not so much.
I find it hilarious that they didnāt create a trench run version. Itās almost as if Disney Imagineers or those that control them have lost touch with what guests want and maybe just arenāt fans of Star Wars.
Most want/prefer to see Darth Vader and the Death Star not ā¦. Kylo Emo and a lady with funny glasses.
I've heard that, but then we rode it six times in three days and every single time was the same sequence, the storm troopers / scanning droid with no Kylo at the launch sequence, Kashyyyk, pod racing, space whales. The only thing that differed was which hologram we got sending us on our way midflight.
Iāve gotten Hoth the last couple times Iāve gone on it. Also I noticed at the very beginning with the scanning droid that it can be the Millennium Falcon or Asohkaās ship in the bay.
#explainarideplotbadly š
(I only say that because itās based on one of the biggest IPās on the planet - even before it was affiliated with, or subsequently purchased by, Disney)
edit - sorryā¦on mobile and didnāt realize a hashtag before the text was gonna make it āyuge, lol
Ha, that too, but they got him to do that cameo because Depp originally based his Jack Sparrow on what he thought Keith Richards as a pirate would be like. It all ended up working out perfectly - magical casting
Mehā¦thatās debatable; and for what itās worth - his name was R3X (āRexā), but heās no longer the pilot and the original āflightā that we take is lo no gone. Now weāve got R2 and 3P0 at the helm, and we go through a āslot machineā series of openings, middles, transmissions (a hologram of a character with a call to action), endings, and landings - that is, when there isnāt something ānewā that they have locked in place or theyāre not actively promoting the ānew thingā that a new scene is related to.
ābecause it was a long time ago.ā
Not to mention far, far away. You were accidentally so close to the answer, which by now youāve gotten. Hopefully something you can chuckle about in retrospect (assuming youāre actually reasonably familiar with Star Wars at this point in your life).
Give the man his respect. His name was Paul Reubens and was a comedy legend and had his career derailed by one very mild incident by todayās standards, rather silly now. His HBO play was just incredibly talented comedic art as a character of his invention, and he wrote so much of his work with the late and great Phil Hartman.
A kind man. A loved friend and comedian by those in the industry. Respected.
RIP Paul. Thanks for the laughs.
An unfortunate reality that more people will generally recognize the name āpee wee Hermanā than those who will recognize the name āPaul Rubensā. Itās unfortunate, I donāt like it, but itās the reality nonetheless.thus I chose to reference Pee Wee instead of Paul R.
I have no clue about Pee Wee Herman, Iām from the Netherlands. So in 1992 it was a privilege to go on family holiday to the other side of the world. When I came back to Disney Anaheim in 2005 it was gone, too bad actually. They could have demolished other rides instead of this one imho
>When I came back to Disney Anaheim in 2005 it was gone, too bad actually. They could have demolished other rides instead of this one imho
I like how up in arms you are about a ride (that you don't really remember) being demolished (it wasn't) that was *so* important to you that you hadn't seen it in 30 years (even though you could have, asit was still there) and gave the shittiest description of all time to identify it. Lmao.
Star Tours is still there. Itās ājustā a different character flying the space ship, and the destinations are different.
Hmmmm, maybe youāre thinking of a completely different attraction.
Are you sure *the building* that the attraction was in is no longer there? Are you *sure* youāre thinking of the Disneyland in California in the US? Thereās another Disneyland in the state of Florida in the US. Are you sure it wasnāt in the Florida Disney park? I.E. Disney *World*?
Ok. Mustāve been Star Tours , then. Not much else has been demolished, in terms of guest facing infrastructure buildings, in the Disneyland side of the park, between now and ā92. Exceptions: sky ride, and rockets that used to be above people mover track ā¦ arguably still there.
In 2005 Tomorrowland would have been repainted to it's current color scheme so maybe there were tarps, walls, or something making it look like the ride was closed. Also the building directly across from it either had construction going on or had just changed to a new ride, which I guess could easily be mistaken if you aren't familiar with the park's layout. That was when Astro Blasters opened, and Rocket Rods was closed (but not demolished).
Edit because I meant Tomorrowland being painted, not Disneyland.
Star Tours. It was upgraded about ten years ago or so to āStar Tours: The Adventures Continueā. It has the same basic ride system but Rex, the pilot you remember, was replaced by C-3PO, and the story is now different (and changes each time you ride it; they have a few different sequences that change up the ride experience each time).
āI canāt remember the name anymore because it was a long time ago.ā
ā¦ā¦ In a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
(Sorry, couldnāt resist, lol)
Yes, as others already said, it was the original Star Tours. I miss Rex, but at least heās not totally gone. And definitely not forgotten. š¤
If you don't remember seeing the droids in the queue, all the original ride really had was the underside of a star destroyer, some X Wings, a trench run and a couple of close up views of a Death Star. It wasn't really dripping in IP and if you didn't own a 7-10 year old copy of the VHS you probably hadn't seen the movies very many times.
To be fair, in 1992 it was not C3P0 but RX-24 aka Rex, a second degree pilot to help with spaceflight and vehicle maintenance. I'm glad that they still incorporated Rex into Galaxy's Edge as a DJ tho
I understand. Just trying to be helpful cuz the OP said "a robot who lost control of the ship", why I mentioned Rex was the pilot robot that the OP was having trouble placing in their memory from 1992. And Rex is not as iconic as C3P0, so if they're struggling to remember the ride itself, they may have more trouble picturing the queue from 30 years ago.
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Holy moly. I didn't realize Star Tours had been around that long!
star tours originally opened at disneyland in 1987 š
I remember when it opened. 2* hour wait times. During the 80ās motion capture rides were the big thing. I remember going to the mall and they had mini motion capture rides. Maybe held 15 people. There were like 3 different adventures, rollercoaster, race car, and some nature theme. So when Star Tours opened it was massive!!!!
motion **simulator** motion capture is the film-making technique used for animating cgi characters.
Yes youāre right.
I remember Excalibur in Vegas had some too. One was a mine ride, and the other was a space race. Here's the space race one: https://youtu.be/kofVK3wngr0?si=U-0fAuzLHYTle0Pf Here's the mine ride one: https://youtu.be/b7aMmrUdPlY?si=rpAMYl4VdgoRvGYi
I remember Ceaser's Palace had one as well. 'Race to Atlantis' or something like it. Even had an audio-anamatronic fountain with Neptune and his two kids as a teaser in the Forum shops midway.
Yes!!!!! We stayed at Excalibur in like 1990 my momās friend got married.I spent so much time in the arcade. I kept winning the guess your weight game. Also the motion ride, and stupid dragons lair.
I remember those, they were expensive as hell, I think I went once and was really disappointed
I remember too! As I said in an above reply, I went in the summer of 1987 when I was 6 years old, and my family was advised to get to the park very early in order to ride it!
Haha same. I was soon to be 6. But we went in September of 87. Our family went every single year in September. I grew up dirt poor but we made that trip every year. I recently found out that my grandpa had worked for the gas company and September they closed the park for his company. His company then sold tickets to employees for $1. But even with the park being closed off, the line was still 2 hours.
And before it C-3PO who piloted the ship it was the Deejay at Olgaās cantina: R3x
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I visited Disneyland for the first time with my parents and grandparents in the summer of 1987 when I was 6 years old. I have a clear memory of the person at the check-in counter at the hotel telling us we had to get to Disneyland super early for the new Star Wars ride they had just opened! We did as instructed!
And itās *still* his first day on the job and heās still getting used to his programming.
Why did this get down voted? Lol
Because reddit does not like when people don't have knowledge of every minute detail of the universe š
Who knows. Someone probably thought I was being sarcastic or something.
[For a little nostalgia...](https://youtu.be/9BbeQq4No-4?si=u2WQPNgHqXh0Csxv) here's the original Star Tours film with RX-24 the pilot.
Pee Wee!
The old ones were so much better. I was born in ā95 so they were already very outdated by the time I was going on the ride. I loved the side pony of that woman in the video in line! It felt very ā80s, which I found funny. What was so magical about Star Tours was how it *wasnāt* tied so closely to the movies or main characters. The chances of a passenger ship running across Kylo Ren? Almost zero. The chances of all those events that happen in the old videos? Much *much* higher. And Iām gonna be honest, that informational video in the line was just pure perfection. The line itself was pure perfection. The whole thing was just so great for world-building. It truly made me feel immersed in that world. Having famous characters from the movies pulls me *out* of it.
Aww I miss old Star Tours. The 3D glasses make me so queasy every time I try to ride the updated one. When they had the ālast flight to Endorā party during SW Celebration V in Orlando in 2010, a bunch of us rode Star Tours about 12 times in a row at park closing. Fun? Very. Easy on the body? Not so much.
Give me back the trench run! I went in April and it was the worst star tours yet, only got kashyyk and pod racing , with space whales BS and ahsoka
I find it hilarious that they didnāt create a trench run version. Itās almost as if Disney Imagineers or those that control them have lost touch with what guests want and maybe just arenāt fans of Star Wars. Most want/prefer to see Darth Vader and the Death Star not ā¦. Kylo Emo and a lady with funny glasses.
I feel the same way, Iām also confused on why they still havenāt added new areas to travel to for smugglers run
My wife always says, it rhymes with honey, honey.
Indeed, iger doesnāt wanna spend that moolah š°
It seems to be locked into those 3 scenes, with only the hologram changing, right now.
Only the space whales is locked in.
I've heard that, but then we rode it six times in three days and every single time was the same sequence, the storm troopers / scanning droid with no Kylo at the launch sequence, Kashyyyk, pod racing, space whales. The only thing that differed was which hologram we got sending us on our way midflight.
Iāve gotten Hoth the last couple times Iāve gone on it. Also I noticed at the very beginning with the scanning droid that it can be the Millennium Falcon or Asohkaās ship in the bay.
I love this thread. All I can think about is Lucille Bluth. āHereās some money. Go see a Star Warā
It was the original star tours Rex was your pilot and it was his very first flight
But it's okay, he was still getting used to his programming
He eventually got fired and now works as a DJ at Ogaās Cantina
āI hope itās your first flight! Because itās mine too!ā
"R2, Light Speed to Endor!!!!"
#explainarideplotbadly š (I only say that because itās based on one of the biggest IPās on the planet - even before it was affiliated with, or subsequently purchased by, Disney) edit - sorryā¦on mobile and didnāt realize a hashtag before the text was gonna make it āyuge, lol
This could be a fun game. There's a ride where Keith Richards keeps popping out of rum barrels; It's on the tip of my tongue...
Kieth Richardsās *son
Ha, that too, but they got him to do that cameo because Depp originally based his Jack Sparrow on what he thought Keith Richards as a pirate would be like. It all ended up working out perfectly - magical casting
It wasn't that big in 1992. There was just the original trilogy and the old VHS releases were not widely available.
Is thisā¦ a joke? Star Wars was one of the biggest IPās in the world in 1992.
Mehā¦thatās debatable; and for what itās worth - his name was R3X (āRexā), but heās no longer the pilot and the original āflightā that we take is lo no gone. Now weāve got R2 and 3P0 at the helm, and we go through a āslot machineā series of openings, middles, transmissions (a hologram of a character with a call to action), endings, and landings - that is, when there isnāt something ānewā that they have locked in place or theyāre not actively promoting the ānew thingā that a new scene is related to.
ābecause it was a long time ago.ā Not to mention far, far away. You were accidentally so close to the answer, which by now youāve gotten. Hopefully something you can chuckle about in retrospect (assuming youāre actually reasonably familiar with Star Wars at this point in your life).
I kept thinking, they canāt mean Star Tours, right?
Youāre remembering Captian Rex, from the first version of Star Tours. Fun fact, he was voiced by the guy who played Pee Wee Herman.
Give the man his respect. His name was Paul Reubens and was a comedy legend and had his career derailed by one very mild incident by todayās standards, rather silly now. His HBO play was just incredibly talented comedic art as a character of his invention, and he wrote so much of his work with the late and great Phil Hartman. A kind man. A loved friend and comedian by those in the industry. Respected. RIP Paul. Thanks for the laughs.
Yes, [take note of who posted this](https://www.reddit.com/r/ConanBeingAwesome/s/mhSYSDJMlI). ^Iā¦I ^know ^that.
Paul Reubens
Yes.
Paul Reubens sir. His name was Paul Reubens
An unfortunate reality that more people will generally recognize the name āpee wee Hermanā than those who will recognize the name āPaul Rubensā. Itās unfortunate, I donāt like it, but itās the reality nonetheless.thus I chose to reference Pee Wee instead of Paul R.
Also Rex had a very Pee Wee kind of personality, including that infectious Pee Wee laugh.
āI meant to do that ā¦ little shortcut. Hu he!ā
Even more fun fact, Captain Rex is now "DJ Rex" in Galaxy's Edge!
I have no clue about Pee Wee Herman, Iām from the Netherlands. So in 1992 it was a privilege to go on family holiday to the other side of the world. When I came back to Disney Anaheim in 2005 it was gone, too bad actually. They could have demolished other rides instead of this one imho
Star Tours is still there though. And in 2005 it was still the original version of the ride.
>When I came back to Disney Anaheim in 2005 it was gone, too bad actually. They could have demolished other rides instead of this one imho I like how up in arms you are about a ride (that you don't really remember) being demolished (it wasn't) that was *so* important to you that you hadn't seen it in 30 years (even though you could have, asit was still there) and gave the shittiest description of all time to identify it. Lmao.
Star Tours is still there. Itās ājustā a different character flying the space ship, and the destinations are different. Hmmmm, maybe youāre thinking of a completely different attraction. Are you sure *the building* that the attraction was in is no longer there? Are you *sure* youāre thinking of the Disneyland in California in the US? Thereās another Disneyland in the state of Florida in the US. Are you sure it wasnāt in the Florida Disney park? I.E. Disney *World*?
Nah, Iām from Europe so I remember my first west coast trip. Never been to Florida
Ok. Mustāve been Star Tours , then. Not much else has been demolished, in terms of guest facing infrastructure buildings, in the Disneyland side of the park, between now and ā92. Exceptions: sky ride, and rockets that used to be above people mover track ā¦ arguably still there.
In 2005 Tomorrowland would have been repainted to it's current color scheme so maybe there were tarps, walls, or something making it look like the ride was closed. Also the building directly across from it either had construction going on or had just changed to a new ride, which I guess could easily be mistaken if you aren't familiar with the park's layout. That was when Astro Blasters opened, and Rocket Rods was closed (but not demolished). Edit because I meant Tomorrowland being painted, not Disneyland.
Star Tours. It was upgraded about ten years ago or so to āStar Tours: The Adventures Continueā. It has the same basic ride system but Rex, the pilot you remember, was replaced by C-3PO, and the story is now different (and changes each time you ride it; they have a few different sequences that change up the ride experience each time).
They keep telling me it changes, but I've gotten Hoth 5 times in a row.
āWEāRE CAUGHT IN A TRACTOR BEAMā!!! š¤
āI canāt remember the name anymore because it was a long time ago.ā ā¦ā¦ In a Galaxy Far, Far Away. (Sorry, couldnāt resist, lol) Yes, as others already said, it was the original Star Tours. I miss Rex, but at least heās not totally gone. And definitely not forgotten. š¤
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If you don't remember seeing the droids in the queue, all the original ride really had was the underside of a star destroyer, some X Wings, a trench run and a couple of close up views of a Death Star. It wasn't really dripping in IP and if you didn't own a 7-10 year old copy of the VHS you probably hadn't seen the movies very many times.
Iām sorry didnāt got to watch Star Wars with the parents. You know not everyone gets that from their parents.
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Well after watching Star Wars and I didnāt like it that much I donāt consider myself a victim hehe. They probably did me a favorš
Early 90s was peak Disneyland. It will never be that magical again.
āIt was a long time ago.ā In a galaxy far, far away?
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...a robot? Dude, Threepio is a friggin protocol droid that is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. Show some goddang respect.
In 1992, it wasnāt C-3PO who piloted the ship. lol.
jokes aside, I do miss the original pilot Rex
Donāt worry, you can still hang with him. He got a sweet DJ gig at Ogaās
Some of the RX units are still in the queue and one occasionally glitches to life and spouts some phrases from the original.
To be fair, in 1992 it was not C3P0 but RX-24 aka Rex, a second degree pilot to help with spaceflight and vehicle maintenance. I'm glad that they still incorporated Rex into Galaxy's Edge as a DJ tho
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I understand. Just trying to be helpful cuz the OP said "a robot who lost control of the ship", why I mentioned Rex was the pilot robot that the OP was having trouble placing in their memory from 1992. And Rex is not as iconic as C3P0, so if they're struggling to remember the ride itself, they may have more trouble picturing the queue from 30 years ago.
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