Star Tours Original Version Closes at Disneyland Paris : Special Evening For The Last Flight to the Moon of Endor !

Hi everyone, yesterday was the last flight to the Moon of Endor at DLP Star Tours attraction and Max, D&M contributor and DLPWelcome webmaster was there for us !

Yesterday, March 16, 2016 took place the last trip of Star Tours in its original version, not only at Disneyland Paris, but in all Disney parks. The opportunity for Disneyland Paris to make a big  event with the park privatized for the last trip to Endor with Rex. In the program, Darth Vader and R2D2 meetings at the Spaceport, a conference on the attraction, the closure protocol and, finally, unlimited access to the Endor Express.

Star Tours, Thanks and have a good trip!

The conference, was hosted by Laurent Cayuela who talked about the participation of George Lucas at the attraction project, the ride references and details. The surprise of this meeting was the arrival of the actor Luq Hamett, who did the voice of REX in the Starspeeder in 3000, but alo the voice of the Roger Rabbit character in the movie! It’s ultimately between moments of humor and a quizz and images that the conference took place. We enjoyed these stories about the attraction.

You must know it : Star Tours at DLP had more than 3.25 million "first flights" to the moon of Endor, and travelled  9.75 billion km in hyperspace in 8739 days!

The attraction had this last day a small crowd compared to the previous weekend. A smooth ending, so.

In recent days, the attraction was only a shadow of itself.

We must not hide the fact that Star Tours in its original version was outdated. Maintenance struggled to keep Starspeeders in good condition, and each of the five Starspeeders had its own dysfunctions. For one Rex head was stuck looking at the ceiling, in another Rex was almost inaudible, in another the film was poorly projected on the screen. And finally, the film worthy of a VHS videotape would deserve a switchover in a  4K digital version. In the queue, too, some elements were no longer operational. Starting with the giant screen absent since several months, or R2D2 head which didn’t rotated anymore, or also C3PO  AA suffering to be fluid. Moreover, the X-Wing at the entrance of the attraction was in a state of decomposition, peeling paint, seal protruding and apparent moisture.

Finally, no photo and video have been authorized in the simulators and controls were increased during this special evening.

In short you’ll understand, that this is certainly a farewell, but a welcome farewell. Version two of the attraction is currently under construction and will provide modernity to the ride and to the park, using current technologies.

Closure protocol at the Spaceport

Disney has offered to us here a good surprise, animation between tributes and humor. Although we hoped more pyrotechnics, the power cut procedures of sector 2 with droid G2-9T sad to be disconnected and sector 1 with the stopping of the main antenna, and finally the curtain drop of the spaceport by the power…. of gravity!

This protocol was a tribute to Cast Members and this mythical original version of Star Tours.

A page is turning for the better at Disneyland Paris. But it remains unclear how visitors will accept this new closure in park with that is currently offering less due to the others massive but necessary rehabs, bring inevitably negative feedbacks from visitors. More characters in the parks are not enough to satisfy the guests who come for the atmosphere, Disney is usually a World Champion to create a universe with attractions, but at DLP we never had so few operationnals. Time will tell how DLP will do to handle these feedbacks.

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