No, this news is not for STAR TOURS: The Adventures Continue, which opens a week from Friday in Orlando. This is a video news kit for the original from way back in 1986, featuring interviews with George Lucas, C-3PO, Warren Franklin (ILM), Dennis Muren (ILM), David Felten (Disney), Tony Baxter (Disney) and Tom Fitzgerald (Disney).

Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald unveiled the Star Tours: The Adventures Continue attraction poster on Disney Parks Blog.

Disney unveiled Friday details about the upcoming Mickey’s Soundsational Parade during a State of the Resort presentation. Disneyland‘s new musical parade will feature floats and performers from films ranging from “Mary Poppins” to “Tangled” when it debuts on May 20, according to the OC Register. Star Tours: The Adventures Continue is set to take its [...]

At last month’s Toy Fair in New York, Hasbro unveiled its line up of toys that will launch May 20th when Star Tours: The Adventures Continue opens at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Inside The Magic has the scoop — “According to StarWars.com, the figures will be available in two Disney-exclusive sets called the “Star Tours Ambush [...]

AC-34, or ACE, and “Aly San San” have been officially revealed by Disney at their “Destination D” event today. Remember, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue is actually a prequel to the Star Tours we all knew, which took place after Episode VI. Since ACE would be flying between the events of Episode III and IV, [...]

Star Tours as we know it closed forever on Sept. 7, 2010 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. D23 held a final flight event so members and their guests could be the last ones to ride. Stormtroopers escorted the guests from the front gates to the Star Tours attraction and rode along with us during the final [...]

LaughingPlace reports that once again John Williams has declined the opportunity to provide any original music for a Disney attraction, this time declining to score Star Tours II: The Adventures Continue (Williams was not involved in the original Star Tours or any of the Indiana Jones attractions). Instead, the awesome Michael Giacchino has been tapped [...]

More new details surrounding the upcoming “reimagining” of Disney’s Star Tours attraction were revealed this weekend duringStar Wars Celebration V. Disney blew everyone away by unveiling an actual queue video that will be part of Star Tours 2! The Disney Collector Panel offered a further look at the new Starspeeder 1000, the vehicle that pre-dates [...]

One of the longest-running Disneyland rumors got another boost this week when news resurfaced of an impending upgrade to the dated Star Tours ride, which debuted at the Anaheim theme park in 1987. A look back at the many hints dropped in recent years of the imminent arrival of Star Tours 2.0: April 2005 – [...]

As Star Tours prepares to close down for it’s long-planned major upgrade, there are two events being planned. Walt Disney World is hosting their “Last Tour To Endor” event on Saturday, August 14th. This event occurs during Star Wares Celebration V and is a separate, ticketed event. Tickets are $75 and are available HERE. Technically [...]

This is a step in the right direction but I personally sill need two things: REX to return as our pilot as well as an option to travel on the “classic” journey to Endor. Kathy Rogers, Senior Show Producer at Walt Disney Imagineering, gave a huge update on the reimagining of Star Tours today. The [...]

Looks like we all have to make a trek to Disneyland right after comic-con this year. July 27th will be the last day we can pretend it’s 1987 and take a ride with Rex. But on the bright side, at least we can still deliver “the gift” with The Captain!….. Disneyland’s Star Tours will shut [...]

Yep, it’s official. A new Star Tours ride is coming to Disneyland as soon as 2011. In addition to being presented in 3D, this new Star Tours will reportedly “include other immersive new elements that will take guests to many familiar places in the Star Wars galaxy.” The Star Tours 2 video debuted at D23 [...]

Awesome & scary at the same time… From Screamscape — Could Star Tours 2 be announced at the Anaheim D23 Expo? A hint posted to D23 site leads some to think so as they announce that “Imperial dignitaries” will be attending the Expo and as a result a legion of the 501st Battalion Stormtroopers will [...]