So, uh, Star Tours.

[innerSpaceman]

No, I think you miss my point. If there had been a space fantasy motion simulator ride with worlds created by the Imagineers, I'd have no problem with it. But when I ride Star Tours, I think of Star Wars. Star Wars that's a movie series in the real world outside the berm. It's a little too famous not to have that effect on me.


(No one thinks of Third Man on the Mountain when riding the Matterhorn - but in any event, that's a Disney film).

Don't get me started on how even the most inept robot animals with constant rim-shot jokes told by boat guides are ten thousand times more realistic than two-dimensional images on a movie screen - whether or not it's more possible for me to go on safari than into imaginary realms of outer space.



The point is that the Jungle Cruise does NOT make me think of The African Queen, and the Haunted Mansion does not remind me of a movie I've seen, and Big Thunder Mountain doesn't bring up thoughts of some movie I own, and the only movies I was reminded of inside Disneyland before Star Tours broke down that beautiful wall were Disney movies - and even those brought up equal memories of real fairytales and children's stories.


Of course, YMMV, but that's how it is for me. I wouldn't be sorry if Star Tours disappeared from the Park forever. And it comforts me to know that, if the new version is based on the prequels, it will ultimately shake out to be one of those rides that no one ever goes on.