Review: We Rode Star Tours With New Scenes Featuring Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Andor

Season of the Force officially begins at Disneyland today, and with the celebration comes some exciting special offerings, including the return of Hyperspace Mountain, specialty foods, and a new perspective on the fireworks from Galaxy's Edge during “Fire of the Rising Moons.”

One of the most exciting new offerings for the Star Wars-themed celebration is the addition of new scenes that debuted today on Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! The new Star Tours scenes are inspired by the popular Disney+ series “Ahsoka,” “Andor” and “The Mandalorian.” There is a new destination, the planet Seatos from the “Ahsoka” series, that is featured. These new scenes also debuted at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris.

We got the opportunity to experience the additions to the attraction today and talk with Tom Fitzgerald, Senior Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, to get some details on the making of these new scenes. Keep reading for details and our review of the new scenes we saw!

For everything you need to know about the Season of the Force celebration at Disneyland, see our full guide. Also, be sure to see the cute new droids that will be at the park as part of Season of the Force as well!

New Scenes on Star Tours Review

When we rode Star Tours this morning, we experienced two of the new additions to the attraction. We did not see the transmission from Cassian Andor during the flight, but we did see Ahsoka and Din Djarin and Grogu as well as the new destination on the planet Seatos. Note that spoilers for the new scenes of the attraction are ahead!

The new elements of Star Tours – The Adventures Continue that we saw as part of a media event for the launch of Season of the Force included an urgent transmission from Din Djarin and Grogu, with Din Djarin sending over coordinates to jump to. Din was very much straight down to business, but Grogu was levitating a frog that grew closer and closer to the audience thanks to the effect of the 3D glasses. This was such a funny moment and very well executed. It was almost impossible to pay close attention to what Din was saying with Grogu's mischief, but that was the exact intent of the humorous moment and captured their dynamic perfectly. Everyone was giggling during this moment!

I had the opportunity to speak with Tom Fitzgerald, Senior Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, who spoke to how they wanted to mix up the more serious transmissions with this cute moment having Grogu “be playful and steal the show” and expecting that everyone is going to be engrossed in watching him levitating the frog while Din is talking.

As the Starspeeder jumped to the new location, it maneuvered through some gray clouds before clearing to this stunning moment over Seatos with a group of purrgil. We enjoy a great moment with them before we receive a transmission from Ahsoka and plunge into the action of the scene. This scene includes some fun new movements, including the attraction's first “barrel roll” which was very well executed. In a sweet moment at the end of the scene bound to be emotional for any Star Wars fan, Ahsoka smiles and tells R2-D2 that it's good to see him again.

Tom spoke to this moment as well, saying that “we kind of look and read the scripts and go, what's different from what we've done before?” The purrgil stood out as a great choice to add to the attraction as they have become, according to Tom, “hopefully iconic, you know, in the Star Wars saga.” Tom also shared that in the process of deciding what specific moment should be featured in the attraction, the thought was, “what if we could have a moment of wonder with them, rather than always racing, racing, racing, how can we mix it up and let you have a moment of wow, look at these beautiful things, and then get sucked into—you know, which we have to—into the battle.”

As a “Star Wars: Rebels” fan, seeing the purrgil in live action for the first time in the third season of “The Mandalorian” was a big moment, and being able to experience and now fly alongside them in this beloved attraction was truly special. I thought the moment of admiration was well executed, and this was a great addition to the ride!

I also asked Tom about the thought process behind adding new movement to the attraction, and he shared that it was important to ask the question “what can we do with the motion base that we haven't done” and the idea of a barrel roll came up, as they had never done that before. “We're obviously not flipping you over 360, but can we make you believe we did?” My first thought upon experiencing this moment was that it was incredibly well executed!

We really enjoyed these new additions and are excited to see Star Tours continue to evolve as guests now have the opportunity to experience one of more than 250 storyline variations aboard the attraction!

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