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Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising

412: Unlocking Star Tours - Out of This World Facts about Star Tours’ Over 30 Years of Continued Adventures

Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising

Konstantina Irving

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Out of This World Facts about Star Tours’ Over 30 Years of Continued Adventures.

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0:00.0

Please stand clear of the doors, for Pavar Mantenga se alihado de las puertas.

0:19.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Unlocking the Magic, you're listening to episode number 412.

0:26.0

I am your host Connie, and my awesome co-host next to me, my husband Bruce, and I hope to just give you some magic wherever you may be.

0:36.0

We're unlocking Star Tours, the legendary Star Wars original attraction in Disneyland and Disney World.

0:44.0

We're going to talk about today, we're going to share a little clip from the press conference where George Lucas does not look excited whatsoever.

0:49.0

No, he's very monotone, but that's okay.

0:51.0

Low expectations.

0:52.0

That's true, Marty Sklar is there, Dick Eunes, Michael Eisner, it's a pretty interesting press conference and there's some nuggets that we're going to share with you as well as some history of how it all started.

1:01.0

Star Tours really captures the spirit of adventure and imaginations, I'm really excited to share today's episode.

1:08.0

And just unlock this really fun ride that began at Disneyland and of course travel to Walt Disney World.

1:16.0

When I first went on Star Tours, I thought it was way newer than it is.

1:21.0

Yeah, me too.

1:22.0

I remember the first time I went on, I was thinking to myself, this is a pretty great new attraction.

1:26.0

I was not as experienced in the world of Disney and the history at that point.

1:31.0

I did not realize it was out for quite a long time.

1:34.0

That's funny that you mentioned that, because I guess we both had the same feelings, but I just never voiced it.

1:39.0

Because when we, I remember the exact trip that when we rode for the very first time back in Walt Disney World in Hollywood studios, I was telling one of my siblings.

1:47.0

I was like, he was asking me like, what's attraction?

1:50.0

Was the best and what, you know, how, if we had fun?

1:53.0

And I said, oh, it was the blast. I said, oh my gosh, we rode Star Tours back to back several times.

1:59.0

And I was going on and on and he was just looking at me like kind of like the way George Lucas looks in this YouTube clip that we're going to share the audio too.

2:06.0

Just very monotone kind of like, now I realize it was because it wasn't, it was not new.

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