More information about the relaunch of the new Star Tours ride. Today they announced the pilot of your next voyage on a Star Speeder.
Many fans were disappointed that Rex wouldn’t be returning, but I think they’ve picked another, even better-liked character to take on piloting duties.
From their blog:
As explained earlier, all Star Tours Starspeeder 1000s are flown using the latest AC-series Tour Droids. And in fact, our initial plans were for our flight to be piloted by AC-38 better known as “Ace.” However, in discussions with George Lucas during the course of our production, we decided to take the story in a very different direction.
So…while AC-38 is supposed to be our pilot, by the time we actually take off, the droid sitting in the pilot’s seat will be none other than…C-3PO!
That’s right. C-3P0 will be handling the piloting duties for our next trip on a Star Tours vessel. This sounds like it’s going to be trouble. Threepio has never been one for starships and I can’t imagine him doing well in any of the situations like we’ve seen in the original iteration of Star Tours.
Since this is post Episode II, perhaps we’ll see him programming binary load-lifters and interacting with Captain Antilles…?