You may not know it but Walt Disney Imagineering has offices at each of the Walt Disney World theme parks, so seeing WDI vehicles and license plates backstage is not unusual. My spies at EPCOT report that they are now seeing some WDI marked cars parked frequently over by the old Wonders Of Life pavilion, which is unusual.
What could they be doing there? Hmmm.
Well it turns out that the "Body Wars" motion-simulator vehicles are near clones of the ones used for Star Tours. Since Body Wars is no longer open to guests, it makes sense for WDI to be testing their Star Tours 2.0 ideas there.
This is my strongest evidence yet that we'll soon be seeing a new Star Wars Universe destination (or two or three or four) appear at a Disney theme park near you. Excited?
Tags: star+tours, star+wars, disney, wdi, imagineering, epcot, themepark, wdw, disney+world, testing, attractions
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Star Tours 2.0 Testing Underway?
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Epcot,
Walt Disney Imagineering,
Walt Disney World
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WDI's Epcot offices are directly behind Wonders of Life, so I'm not really seeing the connection...
Interesting and exciting!
While Star Tours 2.0 makes the sense for the reason they are over near Wonders of Life, one because of the simulators and two because of the vow never to try to retrofit a new attraction, I can't help but want to play devil's advocate a little. Is it possible that they could be planning another use for the old WoL space, or that they could be testing out ideas for the festival center since International Food and Wine is about 2 months away?
Seems like I remember reading about them doing this as early as last year.
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