NOTE: Closed 2010-09-08 to 2011-05-16

Description And Comments

Based on the Star Wars movie series, this was Disney's first modern simulator ride. Guests ride in a flight simulator modeled after those used for training pilots and astronauts. Star Tours will complete its first major overhaul in decades in 2011, with a new story based on the "pod racing" scene from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Expect lots of dips, turns, twists, and climbs as your vehicle goes through an intergalactic version of the chariot race in Ben-Hur. We hear that the ride will have three possible opening scenes and five possible endings, for a total of 15 different ride experiences.

An interactive show titled "Jedi Training Academy" is staged several times daily to the left of the Star Tours building entrance, opposite Backlot Express. Young Skywalkers-in-training are selected from the audience to train in the ways of The Force, and do battle against Darth Vader. If all that sounds too intense, it's not-Storm Troopers provide comic relief and just as in the movies, the Jedi always win. Check the daily entertainment schedule for showtimes.