• thanks for giving me another reason why i will NEVER visit a Disney park.

• Why would anyone want to go to Endor, those nasty little furballs fuckin eat people..

• 30 people already said basically this same thing... but did you actually RIDE Star Tours?!? The first thing you see when you walk into the building, besides the starspeeder, is a 120" screen playing 'travelogue' videos about vacationing on hoth, tatooine and endor. None of which actually occur on the ride. That's where this video is going and I for one like the update, although it breaks canon, what with the whole Alderaan thing.

• what u talkin about WILLIS. 20 years ago when Star Tours first arrived me and my sis wondered when the would change it. Unfortunately the had these EXACT same promo BS videos playing throughout the last 2 decades. they could have changed them 5 or 6 times but chose not to.

• ...or else this is just something to make the Waiting In Line Ride more tolerable. Disney is good, but they aren't perfect, they don't serve beer in line like Universal does.

• Endor exists, but it isn't well known. The Battle of Endor is what makes it known and, as such, a tourist attraction. One of the reasons the Empire chose to build the second Death Star there was because it was out-of-the-way (hard to keep this a secret if they building it at a tourist destination).

• I agree with the time being after ROTJ, but I don't think that's an actual Death Star that's destroyed. Didn't the X-Wing pilot say that it was a training area? I'm guessing this "Death Star" is somehow simulated

• As luck would have it, I went to Tokyo Disneyland last week, and they had Dagobah posters.

• Just in case anyone has not heard, the new Star Tours ride will be set in-between episodes 3 and 4. And yes, as others have mentioned, the Disney Parks blog states that this will be one of the videos in the queue. So it makes sense for them to say "we cannot confirm that you will travel to any of the destinations shown in this video" Because its just like the original Star Tours queue videos, they advertised trips to places such as Hoth and Tatooine, places that people never actually saw in the ride.

• The woman was also a front-line Cast Member who are often the lowest tier on the information ladder. When I worked there, we used to fuel all the rumors that we had heard about, like them adding a loop in Space Mountain when it was rebuilt out here in Disneyland.

• No Dagobah or Alderaan posters.

• obvious comment is obvious.

• I think its safe to say that this may be an inline video. Disney LOVES to immerse the ride in the culture. It could be simply a video played in line or in a waiting area as an "advertisement" for Star Tours. The current version has posters for other travel trips and the safety video features all manner of Star Wars creatures and aliens entering the "ship" for the "tour." I know there's Jawas, a Wookie, and ewok, and a couple others getting on with people in various regular clothes and costumes that fit the Star Wars motif. Probably just set piecing as its movie footage with the Star Tours ship inserted.

• .. safest planet in the galaxy... right...

• I spoke to one of the women at the Star Wars ride when I went to Orlando a couple of weeks ago, and they said that each there will be multiple destinations, and each ride could take you to a different planet. I think that's what they mean when they say "we cannot confirm that you will travel to any of the destinations in this video." The woman also said the whole ride would be in 3D. Speaking of 3D, Disney pioneered Digital 3D in their rides *way* back before Cameron made Avatar.

• Star Tours is definitely after ROTJ. It's a third Death Star that gets destroyed.

• The rumour is that this ride will be different every time. They filmed 27 different beginning, middle and end segments and swaps it around randomly. That's why I think they said you might not visit there as I think they've filmed a lot of different planets.

• Well, Star Tours is closing in three weeks for a "complete overhaul" according to cast members and Disney Line. There is going to be a new Star Wars themed ride but it's yet to be determined... rumors are to be a Pod Racing type ride. Who knows with Disney!

• That was my first thought when i read that

• This is a video to watch during the queue (minus the "Adventures Continue" part). Star Tours II will have more than one ride sequence, where you may have up to three different ride experiences and either be able to choose before you get on or they will be presented at random. That is why they talk about various locations, why the trailer at D23 had Tattooine, and what they had originally planned for the attraction when it opened. That's why they had all of those posters after the ride, they were going to have those ride sequences created, but weren't able to. Now they will finish them all before re-opening. I am excited about being able to ride to different "locations" each time, but I'm more excited about the holographic Yoda who shows up on the comm in the shuttle! And did anyone else notice that all the "travel footage" came from the movies?

• I always thought the Star Tours ride took place AFTER ROTJ....I assumed that Endor became quite the tourist destination after the fall of the empire. I also assumed that the Ewoks became fat and lazy and set up roadside stands selling beads and trinkets and Endor weed to all the stupid galactic tourists that soon infested their homeworld....and Teek became the richest pickpocket EVER. The expanded universe is a lot more fun in my head.....

• oops meant to tag on that I never saw Alderaan though. (makes sense as it's supposed to be blown up at the time of star tours 1.)

• They used to to have Hoth, Endor, Bespin, Tatooine, and Yavin if memory serves me right. Maybe Dagobah as well. Somewhere in the house we have one of the old Endor posters when they used to sell them, wonder what happened to it...

• Aren't these the 3 destinations in the 'travel posters' at the end of the current Star Tours ride? I'd imagine they're just going to make it a choose your own adventure type thing when they refurbish it (as opposed to one set track/film). They've been big on interactive experience type things in the past few years as anyone who's ridden they newer Spaceship Earth can tell you.

• If you go to the main Disney blog page and scroll down a bit there is bigger news .sci fi academy!!!!! With Tron stuff!!!!!!

• The Disney Parks Blog where the video originated explained that this is the Queue video for it.

• Nothing says Disney more than planetary genocide

• That's what I assume they meant. Of course, if that's the case, how will the new Star Tours be any different from the original? I'm wondering if we'll get to escape Alderaan as it's blowing up in the first movie, since it won't be part of the Death Star destruction anymore.

• In the post it tells us that the ride takes place between the two trilogies...meaning Alderaan is still a planet, and Endor and Bespin are around too.

• seconding that it might be one of the planned videos to be played in the themed wait area. The preview video released at D23 last year had a segment on tatooine so that doesn't quite match up with the video above. Also personally I'm looking forward to see Boba Fett in this as he's been confirmed to at least be in a segment of the new ride. Also, why didn't they have the jedi training academy there when I was a kid? I wanna fight darth vader with my lightsaber ;_;. (watching the little girls hit him in the crotch with their lightsabers is lols though.)

• If it's between two trilogies Alderaan would still be there. That's why they made the 'safest planet' joke. Yes, I know jokes are way funnier after being explained.

• Maybe they mean "we cannot confirm that you will ACTUALLY travel to any of the destinations shown in this video . . ."

• If only they would incorporate Chewies kids from the Christmas special. Or perhaps Wilfred brimley.

• Alderaan....Hello Tarkin took care of that dump. Of corse it is the "safest" it's not there.

• Yeah this makes sense, been on the orginal ride many times. What I picture is this the the trip your going to be on, then you get mixed up in some crazy imperial dogfight involving the newly formed rebel forces...also endor and a non destoryed alderaan do exist at the same time...as well so does Bespin...

• The trip to Endor always bothered me (and it has, since I was a kid). In ROTJ no one's really heard of Endor. It's a little backwoods planet that has little to offer except good space to hide a Death Star. So why are you taking a tour there? It's as if they said, "STAR TOURS! Now with trips to Atlantic City, Las Vegas, New York City, and Shartlesville, PA!"

• Another vote for "makes sense to me." You wait in line for an hour watching all sorts of nonsense that isn't actually part of the ride. A promo video to set the stage, including places the ride doesn't go to, isn't at all odd to me. What the video does for me (and might for others) is prove that a) they really are making a new Star Tours ride and b) someone missed the continuity update regarding trips to Endor mixed with a non-destroyed Alderaan. I already feel my nerd rage building.

• Yeah this looks more like the promos they run while you're in line at the attraction than an actual trailer for the ride itself. Remember, the "classic" ride is supposedly a trip to Endor but you barely catch the slightest glimpse of the teddy-infested moon, let alone actually "visit" there. I expect this will take the place of the Hoth ski package promos.

• Could it just mean that while enroute to those destinations something may go wrong and you go on a mad cap adventure somewhere else

• Yeah but this looks more like the promos they run while you're in line at the attraction than an actual trailer for the ride itself. Remember, the "classic" ride is supposedly a trip to Endor but you barely catch the slightest glimpse of the teddy-infested moon, let alone actually "visit" there. I expect this will take the place of the Hoth ski package promos.

• The original star tours features a trip to Endor that never materealises due to the wacky antics of the rookie droid at the helm. We can only assume that this new version will be similar.

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