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New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:29 am
by Disneyguy85
From the DisneyParks blog. This was also announced at Destination D today;

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/

"Our design team created a new Tour Droid for the show, an AC Series pilot we dubbed “Ace,” with a personality as different from Rex as you can imagine.

We also created a new “spokesbot” for Star Tours, modeled after the WA-7 “Waitress Droid” from the Attack of the Clones. George Lucas suggested the name “Aly San San,” in reference to Allison Janney, the wonderful actress who provides the voice for this new character. We had a terrific time with Allison in the recording sessions for the show – she brought a lot of warmth and humor to the part."

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:23 pm
by Freak
I'm working on a custom action figure of "Ace" or AC-38, as we speak.

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:50 pm
by Disneyguy85
Freak wrote:I'm working on a custom action figure of "Ace" or AC-38, as we speak.
Very cool! :)

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:13 pm
by Disneyguy85
Sorry, the link that I posted above is no longer relevant,

For anyone who is interested, here is the correct link;
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2 ... oking-for/

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:59 pm
by Disneyguy85
By the way, in case some have not heard;

At Destination D, Disneyland president George Kalogridis revealed that the new Star Tours will have 54 different experiences.

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:08 pm
by Freak
Wow, what's up re-rideablility? 54 huh? That's quite awesome.

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:57 am
by CujoSR
You know what? Give me one good ride and I'll keep comin' back for the next 20 years.

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 1:00 pm
by PatchOBlack
CujoSR wrote:You know what? Give me one good ride and I'll keep comin' back for the next 20 years.
So, if they give you 54 good rides, you'll come back for the next 1080 years!

Seriously, yes, one good ride is better than a bunch of variations of a mediocre ride. However, I will reserve making any sort of disparaging comments unless I have reason to believe the end result will be sub-par.

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:01 am
by Disneyguy85
I think that as long as Jar Jar is not featured, then most people will be happy. ;)

One of the reasons they chose to set the new ride in-between episodes 3 and 4 is so they could use fan favorite characters and locales.

I've heard that Frank Oz recorded some lines for Yoda to be used in the new ride.

Re: New droids in Star Tours

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:16 am
by ktulu
Disneyguy85 wrote:I think that as long as Jar Jar is not featured, then most people will be happy. ;)
I can do one better, AND feature Jar Jar. He gets hit by the speeder, squished up on the windshield and wiped off with windshield wipers to the cheers of everyone on board...