Originally published at: Take a trip to Endor on Disneyland's original 1987 "Star Tours" | Boing Boing
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It still blows my mind that the original version was, quite literally, a continuous loop of film that was run through an elaborate film cabinet mounted to the rear of the simulator and fed to a projector mounted under the nose. Hats off to the Imagineers who figured out how to make that Rube Goldberg device work (reasonably) reliability for decades without shaking itself apart.
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This is my very favorite ride, from the day it opened. I’ll make whoever I’m with ride it at least twice.
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featuring Paul Reubens as RX-24
(Whispers) It’s just Conky 2000 without the stutter. 
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I made a point of taking the ride on my last visit, even though most of the Star Wars action has moved away from Tomorrowland. It still holds up.
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My daughter wants to ride Star Tours as often as she can get away with in a day. I believe she has seen all the random segments, but she is always looking for something new. I love the line, so I’m happy to wait with her so long as we aren’t spending too much time in that barn outside the actual ride building.
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Which was, itself the final evolution of the Trimaxion system.
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I finally got back to Epcot Center a few years for the first time in decades and made my way to Star Tours as soon as the park opened. I rode it a good five times before the lines started getting long. The new, varied experiences were nice, but the original is still my favorite.
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Star Tours was installed in the building that had previously held Adventure Through Innerspace. If you look in the lower right corner of the frame starting at about 0:54 in this video, you can see the Mighty Microscope that was featured in the older attraction.
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