Disney Is Giving Its Awesome Star Tours Toy a Fresh Coat of Paint for Star Wars Day

Last year, D23 wowed collectors with 1 of the coolest Star Wars toys we’d seen successful a precise agelong time: a massive, 3.75″-figure-scaled replica of the archetypal thrust conveyance from Star Tours, the StarSpeeder 3000, that could spot 25 figures and adjacent included a video surface playing backmost parts of the iconic Disney ride. But if your representation of Star Tours leans a small towards its modern rejuvenation (itself astir a decade-and-a-half aged now!), past this play you’re going to beryllium successful luck.

io9 has got your exclusive archetypal look astatine the instrumentality of the excellent Star Tours Starspeeder artifact arsenic portion of the Disney Store’s Star Wars Day offerings for May 4 this year. Except, this clip the electronically-enhanced conveyance has a marque caller orange-hued overgarment job, reflecting it arsenic a replica of the StarSpeeder 1000, the cosmetic update fixed to the thrust conveyance erstwhile Star Tours evolved into The Adventures Continue successful 2011, updating the thrust acquisition to incorporated caller footage inspired by locations from the prequel trilogy arsenic good arsenic the archetypal saga.

Aside from the caller overgarment job–and a matching caller portion of container creation inspired by The Adventures Continue–the artifact remains mostly the aforesaid arsenic the 1 that debuted astatine D23 past twelvemonth with immoderate insignificant changes. The vessel inactive features a show stand, arsenic good arsenic seats to clasp up to 25 3.75″-scaled figures (complete with those all-important seatbelts!), and a suite of physics enhancements, including opening doors that play the classical chime from the ride, lights successful the show basal arsenic good arsenic the headlights, thrusters, and cannons connected the vessel itself, and a 4.75″ LCD surface housed astatine the beforehand of the StarSpeeder’s interior that plays authentic Star Tours thrust series footage (although arsenic of writing, whether this has been updated to see Adventures Continue footage, compared to the classical Star Tours footage recovered successful the StarSpeeder 3000 toy, remains to beryllium seen).

One cardinal quality is that portion the StarSpeeder 3000 playset featured a suite of dependable phrases from the beloved archetypal Star Tours droid pilot, Captain Rex, the 1000 volition further reflect Adventures Continue by featuring lines from C-3PO, who took implicit successful the refresh arsenic Star Tours’ latest unwitting pilot. This is besides reflected successful the included figures, which volition diagnostic an R2-D2 and C-3PO from the ‘Droid Factory’ 3.75″ fig enactment Disney sells successful the parks, replacing the Captain Rex included successful the D23 StarSpeeder 3000 release.

At slightest this clip you won’t person to marque the trek to an lawsuit similar D23 to get your hands connected the conveyance this time. The Star Tours: The Adventures Continue StarSpeeder 1000 play acceptable volition beryllium disposable from nonstop from the Disney Store at this link starting from 11am ET/8am PT this Sunday, May 4.

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