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Disney’s Star Tours To Launch Last Tour To Endor
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Last September, Disney announced that the Star Tours attraction at their Disney World and Disneyland theme parks would close for refurbishments, which would include integrating Disney Real-D 3D, high definition, and improved simulations and special effects, with a reopening set for 2011.

But before the popular Stars Wars-themed attraction shuts down later this year, Disney World in Orlando, FL, will host the Last Tour to Endor, a decommissioning party on August 14, 2010 from 8:00pm – 1:00am at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The Last Tour to Endor is a ticketed event at the park, which costs $75 per person, and will include specially themed intergalactic party zones, Star Wars shows, and a Death Star Disco, with the evening ending with Symphony in the Stars – a Star Wars fireworks spectacular. Last Tour ticket-holders will be able to gain early entrance to Disney’s Hollywood Studios at 4:00pm that day, four hours before the event begins.

For tickets, visit starwarscelebration.com/disney. The full press release with more information is here below.

Press Release

Honestly, I feel I need to get to this event! When I first went to Disney World in 1996, I practically ran to Disney’s Hollywood Studios (known then simply as MGM Studios) to get on Star Tours. Elated is not the word to describe how I felt standing in front of the attraction’s AT-AT replica, taking my picture with the heavily breathing Darth Vader prop situated along the ride’s queue. And the simulator experience itself was just amazing. To be enveloped like that in the Star Wars universe — and at Disney no less — II was in all my glory!!! Many a souvenir was purchased at the Endor Vendors (renamed years later as Tatooine Traders), including a Star Tours stein, Rebel Alliance lapel pin, and tons of postcards. While I’m exciting to see what the reimagined attraction will be like, I know I’ll miss how it used to be.

BE THE FIRST TO BE THE LAST,
AS STAR TOURS PREPARES TO LAUNCH ITS”¦
LAST TOUR TO ENDOR

On August 14, Fan-Favorite Disney Theme Park Attraction
Gets the Ultimate, Out-of-this-World Send-Off

Exclusive Festivities Coincide with the Biggest Party
This Side of the Galaxy – Star Wars Celebration V

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – After more than two decades of interstellar travel, Disney Parks’ Star Tours attraction is powering down to make way for its reimagining in 2011 – but Last Tour to Endor offers fans the opportunity to attend an out of-this-world, first-of-its-kind decommissioning party before Star Tours launches its final flights. Taking place on August 14 from 8:00pm – 1:00am at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista , Fla. , Last Tour to Endor is a special event on the Saturday night of Star Wars Celebration V – THE official Lucasfilm fan convention and the biggest Star Warsâ„¢ party in the galaxy!

Fans and families attending Last Tour to Endor at the Walt Disney World Resort can enjoy a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience – including specially-themed intergalactic party zones, Star Wars shows, a Death Star Disco and much more. The evening will culminate with Symphony in the Stars – a Star Wars fireworks spectacular as only Disney Parks can create. Though the party begins at 8:00pm, Last Tour ticket-holders will also be allowed early entrance to Disney’s Hollywood Studios at 4:00pm – where they can be sure to secure a seat one of the StarSpeeder 3000’s final voyages!

Disney Parks will also have a prominent presence on the Celebration V show floor at the Orange County Convention Center – including Jedi Training Academy for younglings and Padawans and a Disney merchandise booth featuring a host of exclusive items as well as Star Wars items only previously available at Disney park stores. CV attendees will also enjoy special room rates at Walt Disney World Resort Hotels, specially-priced tickets with pre-arrival purchase savings for Walt Disney World parks and an exclusive, reserved room block at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – which will include complimentary round-trip transfers to and from the convention center.

To purchase tickets – and to take advantage of Last Tour to Endor special offers – visit www.starwarscelebration.com/Disney. For more information on Star Wars Celebration V visit www.starwarscelebration.com for the latest updates.

Featuring celebrities, costumes, live entertainment, screenings, autographs, collectibles, panels and much, much more, Star Wars Celebration V allows fans, friends and families to share their love of the Saga. There have been four Star Wars Celebrations in America to date, as well as a Star Wars Celebration Europe (2007) and Star Wars Celebration Japan (2008). Taking place in Orlando , FL from August 12-15, Star Wars Celebration V will commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and the ongoing, weekly adventures of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. For more information about Celebration V and to purchase tickets, visit www.starwarscelebration.com.

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