Official : Star Tours 2 : The Adventure Continues Will Debut At Disneyland Paris for DLP 25th Anniversary !

A great news to start the week as it's official, Star Tours 2 3D : The Adventure Continues, is coming to Disneyland Paris for DLP 25th Anniversary! In an interview to France Info radio Mark Stead, DLP Chief Financial Officer said explicitly that DLP Star Tours will have an upgrade for the 25th Anniversary and we all know what it means. You've read about this three weeks ago on Disney and more in the article about DLP future - translation of ED92 post - and ED92 was right.

Now, as we know Star Tours 2 has multiple movies which are played randomly in the simulator shuttle but so far they're all referring to the first Star Wars trilogy. As DLP 25th Anniversary will be in 2017, i.e two years after the release in theaters of Star Wars Episode 7, it'll be interesting to see if the 3D movies that guests will enjoy at DLP in the Starspeeders will be new ones based on the new trilogy or the ones which currently exist in the U.S version of the ride. I remind you that a strong rumor keep saying that WDI might introduce new movies when the first episode of the new trilogy will be released, which will make sense at least on a synergy point of view. So, we'll see which one we will have in DLP Star Tours 2.

Also note that Mark Stead didn't talked about a Star Wars land which, according to ED92, will come later. You have below the video of Mark Stead interview on France Info, where he was invited to explain the bad DLP financial results announced this week. But of course he speaks in french so if you don't understand french i suppose that you'll have to trust me about what he says. Anyway, in the video the part about Star Tours is at 3'54".



Mark Stead (Euro Disney) : "Nous allons rénover... par FranceInfo

Talking about ED92 and DLP 25th Ann, ED92 did a short post this week-end on the ED92 Facebook page saying that, although not yet official, Toy Story Mania will be also part of the package of new attractions for DLP 25th in 2017 and will open at the Walt Disney Studios, but not before December 2017. Let's hope they will be as right with this one as they were with Star Tours 2!

Pictures: copyright Disney

Disneyland Paris Star Tours

Hopefully in the future the new Star Tours 2 will come to Disneyland Paris. In the meantime, let's have a special tribute to the current version that guests can ride at Discoveryland.

The picture on the top is a Star Tours entrance concept by Eric Robison, never realised. We know that a big X Wing fighter stands at the entrance, but did you know that Imagineers once envisioned to have instead a big AT & AT snow walker?



Or even a Millenium Falcon as you can see on this painting by Tim Delaney who did also the one above. Was it Space Mountain behind, with a Death Star design?



These two rare pictures show the making at a WDI facility of the X Wing fighter, standing now at the entrance of the attraction.





This next painting by Tim Delaney is famous, but you'll find it here in a very good quality.



Talking about pre-show, here is a great picture of C3PO...



...and of Admiral Ackbar...



..and of the little robots located in the Droids room.



Two others elements of the decor, including the Starspeeder 3000 plan.





The next picture is a high-res version of a well known image showing the Starspeeder in the final battle of the ride movie.



Let's end with a gift with this high-res pic of the Starspeeder Service poster!



All pictures and artwork: copyright Disney

Star Wars week-ends Posters

Here is a topic about the great Star Wars Week-ends posters. As in the previous years WDW did posters for the Star Wars week-ends i had the idea to find all of them for this article. The new one are just as fun as the old one - done on an "airport" theme - as you will see.











While we are talking about posters here are others done by free-lance artists, not related to the week-ends but interesting, graphically speaking.




I am sure you will instantly recognize where the artist who did the next one took his inspiration...



I like also the simplicity of that one, done for Episode 1.



Star Wars Week-ends posters: copyright Disney and Lucas Film Inc