When I first heard about a new version of Star Tours I was excited. I thought it was a great idea. I stayed excited until I saw the short clip that was released. The clip had pod racing in it. Out of all of the things in the Star Wars universe someone had to pick pod racing.
I understand that it’s just one scene and that the rest of the film will be other stuff. That doesn’t really help. Episode one was such a mess of a movie it almost killed Star Wars. Episode two is the fifth best move coming in only slightly better than the episode one. Episode three was decent but after the first two it was hard to enjoy. Now we are going to do a whole ride based on the first two movies. That’s not easy. You’ll have to replace / overhaul the ride vehicle. Why? Don’t forget the original Star Tours takes place about 20 to 40 years after the proposed replacement. Are you going to tell me that the ship in Star Tours was at least twenty years old?
Now you see the big problem with doing a prequel when it comes to a ride. You want it to be big and flashy but you can’t make it more impressive than the first one without blowing the story line. That means no windows. Why would windows have been removed over time? You’ll also need to look out and not use any other impressive technology or you face the problem of blowing the story.
There is one way out. Make the ship time travel. They you can have all of the fancy stuff you want without blowing the story. The problem with time travel is it’s already been done. How many time traveling rides do you want? Dinosaur is still running and the Time Keeper didn’t disappear all that long ago.
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