Star Tours theme

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"The idea for me was that while this was the future, somewhere along the way, an ad agency guy (probably in New York) was involved in putting together an ad campaign for the Star Tours Company, complete with their own 'jingle' or theme song."
―Richard Bellis[1]

The Star Tours theme is a musical theme composed for the first of Disney's Star Tours theme park attractions by Richard Bellis. According to Bellis, he saw the music as the work of an in-universe advertising agent creating a commercial jingle for the travel agency.[1]

Use

Commercials and video segments advertising the Star Tours travel agency played in the Star Tours ride queue included this theme, with some variations.[3] The commercial for the Trek to Tatooine for example included a brief, new arrangement of the Cantina Band song from Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.[4] That version was first played over the credits of George Lucas' Star Tours, the short film promoting the ride on ABC,[2] aired December 28 1986[5] just days before the ride first opened at Disneyland.[6]

The song included variations of the announcement chime heard over the public address system in the ride's queue.[1] The Trek to Tatooine version of the theme was released on several Disney theme park soundtrack albums as part of a longer Star Tours track featuring music from the entire attraction. New variations of the theme later appeared in the revamped Star Tours: The Adventures Continue attraction, opened in 2011.[7]

In the 2024 premiere episode of the television series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, a sound resembling the Star Tours chime can be heard as students exit a tram on At Attin. The tram is piloted by a RX-series pilot droid, the same model of the original ride's pilot, RX-24.[8] The series' sound designer, David W. Collins, later confirmed that the sound was an homage to the ride.[9]

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Globe Interview - Richard Bellis on EndorExpress (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 George Lucas' Star Tours
  3. ↑ Star Tours
  4. ↑ YouTube Trek To Tatooine on the WDWScottsmitty YouTube channel (backup link)
  5. ↑ Premium-Era-real The Star Tours Christmas Special on Progress City, U.S.A. (backup link archived on May 20, 2019)
  6. ↑ SWInsider "Star Tours: Taking Off on a Star Tour" — Star Wars Insider 104
  7. ↑ Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
  8. ↑ SkeletonCrew-FinalLogo Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — "This Could Be a Real Adventure"
  9. ↑ SWYT-Logo Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Sound Designer David W. Collins - Star Tours | Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)

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