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Star Tours reboot coming to Disneyland and Disney World in 2011
By Brady MacDonald
Los Angeles Times
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9/14/2009

The 1980s-era Star Tours attractions at Disneyland in California and Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida will get a complete overhaul by 2011, Disney announced today. In the new 3-D version of the venerable simulator ride, visitors board a Starspeeder and join a high-speed pod race through the desert canyons of Tatooine in a scene from the "Star Wars" movie series. A complete reboot of the Star Tours attraction, which debuted at the Anaheim theme park in 1987, has been one of the longest-running rumors on the Internet. "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, who announced in 2005 that Star Tours would be "getting an overhaul soon," will work with the Disney Imagineering creative department on Star Tours 2.0. Over the years, Anthony Daniels (C-3P0) and Frank Oz (Yoda) fueled speculation about a new attraction by letting slip in news interviews that they'd lent their voices to an updated Star Tours. Star Tours rides in Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris won't be part of the initial upgrade.