Monday, 23 August 2010

A long time ago in a queue line not far away.

This week we are carrying on with our Star Tours blog post and looking at the queue of Star Tours.
The attraction closes in just over 2 weeks so there's still time to go see all these great details a final time before they (maybe) disappear forever.



So let's have a look at the Star Tours queue!

As you enter the queue building make sure you look up straight in front of you as you can see Admiral Ackbar and other Mon Calamaris in the control room watching over R2-D2 and C-3PO working on the Starspeeder.

You then enter the next room which is the place where the droids are repairing bits of the ships. If you get time to stay in that area long enough you can listen to the droids interacting with each other and even singing as they work.





There are some great trivia and details about this area, lets have a look.

The G2 repair droids in the queue line are actually the skeletons of two goose animatronics from America Sings. They were removed from the show for this attraction during the last 2 years of its run.

On one of the workbenches you can see the bottom half of C-3PO




When you get to the overhead conveyor belt you can see a model of Kermit the Frog made out of spare parts.




A number of inside jokes can be heard over the public address system in the rides queue and I'm sure you have all heard them but lets go over them one more time.

The announcer calls out for an illegally parked speeder license number "THX-1138", which is the name of the first studio film made by George Lucas.

A "Mr. Egroeg Sacul" is paged by the announcer. The name is "George Lucas" spelled backwards.

A voice says there is a message for "Mr. Tom Morrow," who was a character in Disney World's now-defunct Flight to the Moon attraction and later became a separate character for Innoventions at Epcot in 1998.

Well That's it for this week, make sure you go check out Star Tours before it closes for the rehab.

And remember....Use the force!

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