Disneyland Resort Paris - Attraction Star Tours

Star Tours is a simulator ride located in 4 Disney theme parks around the world. The ride is based on the successful Star Wars franchise and was created by George Lucas, making it the first of the park's attractions that did not use Disney engineers. The ride opened first in Disneyland California in 1987 and we so successful they opened the same ride in Disney's Hollywood Studios in December 1989. Disney approached Lucas with the idea for the Star Wars amusement ride and with Lucas' approval, Disney Imaginers purchased four military-grade flight simulators at a cost of $500,000 each and designed the ride structure. Meanwhile, Lucas completed the ...  Read the complete review

None of us have ever actually seen Star Wars but I recognised the robots from my brothers toys when I was younger! This is a fastpass ride so always worth having a look at the waiting time and then seeing what the fastpass time is. There is not much to do in Discoveryland that you can fit in if the fastpass time is not that long away. All the rides seemed to be busy. The actual ride is like a super motion simulator! You sit in rows of I would guess at least 10 people and it starts off with your "pilot" either getting lost or ignoring the directions on where to go - I was slightly unclear as it was in French and English throughout but the part ...  Read the complete review

If you have read any of my other reviews you will know that I am somewhat of a Disney fan now and for my recent birthday I got to go to Disneyland Paris where Star Tours which I had also been on in the Disneyland California and the MGM Studios Park in Walt Disney World Florida, so it seemed only fair to try it in the Paris park as well....so was it any different to the two American versions?? Well the ride is identical from what I remember and the queing system was too and the main difference had to be the language, afterall I am in Paris so the mixture of English and French Phrases were being bounced about in the queue. You can spot the entrance to ...  Read the complete review

If you like star wars, you will like this ride. As you enter, there is r2d2 sitting in a fighter, c3po on a raised platform, and as you climb the ramps, a mechanic droid is repairing an R3. The waiting area is a great design of a space flight boarding station, and the queue is divided into seperate lines. If you like to be at the front, hope you get in line 1. TV screens above the doors inform you how long before boarding, and have web-cam images of the dock. In the simulator a screen rises and there is the pilot droid. The adventure begins by dropping into a maintenance shaft, and missing the stop then joining in a battle. My favourite part is the simulated jump into ...  Read the complete review