STAR WARS Disneyland Rides May Include Speeder Bike Ride and Millennium Falcon
Ever since Disney bought Star Wars a lot of people have been wondering when we would see some new Star Wars themed rides and attractions at Disneyland and what they would be. Well, we've got some potential new details on what we might see, and it includes a Speeder Bike ride and a Millennium Falcon walkthrough experience, either of which would be insanely awesome!
The following information comes from MiceAge, and it talks about how some of the attractions in Tomorrowland could be transformed into Star Wars rides.
The old Rocket Jets spinner and PeopleMover platform gets an extreme makeover, as a landing pad in the Star Wars spaceport that forms the loose theme for the new land. And what’s a landing pad without a spaceship, right? The craft that will have landed there won’t be any old spaceship however, but will be the famous Millennium Falcon that will act as an elaborate walk-through attraction and meet ‘n greet location for your favorite Wookie co-pilot. In the shadow of the landing pad is the old Tomorrowland Terrace dining facility, made over into the rowdy Cantina on Tattooine where we’d told you previously that those tests in the Golden Horseshoe last month were for an interactive dining/entertainment concept using the Star Wars universe.
The back of the land is where the big new headliner attraction sits, in the place of the existing Innoventions and Autopia. After abandoning previous attempts to utilize the existing PeopleMover track and loading area, the Innoventions building gets gutted and in its place is the pre-show and boarding area for the new Speeder Bike thrill ride. The majority of the track heads outdoors and to the north, demolishing the Autopia freeways and taking over most of that area for the new ride. The outdoor Speeder Bike course is set on the forest moon of Endor where the Ewoks live, and an Ewok village and walk-through attraction will house dining and shops as the Speeder Bike ride zooms nearby. Imagineering has had dueling proposals for this area; one that retains the 1959 looping course of the Monorail and disguises it amongst the forest, and one that cuts out much of that track and shortens the Monorail route to open up more of the Ewok forest visuals. It should be noted here that Tokyo Disneyland’s Tomorrowland has an aging aesthetic with a sprawling and underutilized Autopia attraction taking up space.
That sounds like it would be a lot of fun! Unfortunately, it's not going to happen anytime soon. In fact, the soonest it would happen is in the year 2016. So I hope all you Star Wars and Disneyland fans are patient.
Via: /Film