A full-scale X-Wing guards the entrance to Star Tours in Disneyland Paris. Photo by occhietto on Flickr

In 1987, the original version of Star Tours opened in Disneyland's Tomorrowland. The motion simulator ride based on the Star Wars franchise featured Captain Rex, a droid that attempted to fly guests to the planet Endor.

In 2011, Disney debuted an updated version of this ride: Star Tours – The Adventures Continue. The new ride uses advanced 3D technology, randomly chosen alternate scenes, and frequent updates with new characters and locations as new Star Wars films come out.

The new version also exists at other Disney Parks around the world: Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disneyland Park and Tokyo Disneyland.

Queue Details

  • Captain Rex can still be found in the new version – the droid is near the entrance to the queue's cargo bay, ready to be shipped far, far away as DEFECTIVE stickers are now stuck to him.

Captain Rex as seen in the queue of the Hollywood Studios version of the ride

  • The droid found during the boarding pre-show is Aly San San. She is inspired byAttack of the Clones' waitress droid, WA-7. In the US versions of the ride, this character is voiced by actress Allison Janney which has a "glitch" to provide safety information in Spanish. In this version of the ride, the droid is voiced by a French actress with her "glitch" being part of Janney's English spiel. You may recognize Janney as the voice of Peach in Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003) as well as Doofenshmirtz's ex-wife Charlene in Disney's Phineas and Ferb.

Better listen up, Aly San San means business. Photo from the US version of the ride.

The waitress droid, as seen in Episode II. Image ©Disney/Lucasfilm

Ride Details

  • The original French version of the ride featured Luq Hamet as the voice of Captain Rex. Hamet has a few Disney roles under his belt as the French voice-over actor for Milo in Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) as well as the titular character in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). In the new version, our pilot is C-3PO, voiced by the film's original English voice actor/performer Anthony Daniels, who although doesn't provide the voice-overs for the French dubs of the Star Wars films, does speak fluent French.
  • The ride doesn't have an original score, but rather a compilation of music from the Star Wars films by John Williams. Composer Richard Bellis was in charge of arranging and orchestrating the melody including some original elements such as the infamous chime. Bellis played a similar role in Disneyland's Indiana Jones And The Temple Of The Forbidden Eye as well as a number of original projects for Disney including The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter and Dinosaur.
  • One of the sequences takes riders to Crait, the mineral planet seen duringStar Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017). Crait was inspired by and filmed on Bolivia's Uyuni Salt Flat. The portions used during the ride are likely to be completely CGI.
  • Another sequence takes riders to Hoth, the ice planet seen duringStar Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Hoth's battle scenes were filmed on and near Norway's Hardangerjøkulen (Hardanger Glacier) , although the ride footage appears to all be CGI.

Be sure to take a look at the other versions of Star Tours on our site:

  • Star Tours – The Adventures Continue (Disney's Hollywood Studios)
  • Star Tours – The Adventures Continue (Disneyland Park)
  • Star Tours – The Adventures Continue (Tokyo Disneyland)

Official Information: DisneylandParis.com

Address

Our Address:

Disneyland Paris

Plan My Route

This is fix for colorbox for small devices, This is fix for colorbox for small devices

Your browser does not support geolocation

Could not determine your location, check if geolocation is enabled for this site

Start address is missing, please fill in a start address

Destination address is missing, please fill in a destination address

No route to this destination, try using another start address or changing the travel mode

Can't find the address you entered

There was an error during the request. Try again later or contact administrator