Disneyland's Star Tours Has Been Updated To Take You To "The Rise Of Skywalker" Locations — Here's What It's Like

Nothing like a leisurely tour through a major space battle, amirite?

FYI, this post contains mild spoilers for The Rise of Skywalker. So if you want to go into the movie knowing nothing...turn away now!

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And just bookmark this for later.

OK, now that we've got that out of the way, let me walk you through Star Tours and its new The Rise of Skywalker update!

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After buckling in to the Starspeeder 1000, you'll find yourself on the usual ~accidental~ adventure with C-3PO to a galaxy far, far away...but this time you're being thrown right into the events and locations from The Rise of Skywalker!

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The first stop is the ocean moon of Kef Bir — where the Death Star II crash landed after the battle of Endor. This is also where Rey and Kylo have an epic lightsaber duel in the new movie (although your Star Tours visit to Kef Bir takes places at a different time than the movie).

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I should warn you that if you're prone to seasickness, this'll probably be a rough part of the ride for you, sorry!

Now, inside the Death Star II you'll actually have a surprise encounter with a dianoga (the one-eyed monster inside the trash compactor from A New Hope).

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This'll also give you a look at what a dianoga's body looks like underwater, in case you were curious?! And, spoiler alert, it's not cute!

After a narrow escape from the dianoga, and a jump to lightspeed, there's a transmission from everyone's favorite smooth-talkin' scoundrel Lando Calrissian.

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Billy Dee Williams actually filmed new, original footage just for this ride while simultaneously working on The Rise of Skywalker! What a gem.

Lando basically recruits your tour shuttle to help The Resistance and you'll make the next lightspeed jump right into the middle of the battle on Exegol from The Rise of Skywalker, which is IN-TENSE (but fun!).

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(The scene above is from the movie, not the ride, but you get the idea!!!)

C-3PO also gives us a heartfelt message at this point saying, "In the event we don't make it, I want you to know that you have been the most wonderful passengers." It's a sweet callback to a similar sentiment he makes in Rise of Skywalker and I guarantee it'll make everyone on your flight go, "Awww!"

One final jump to lightspeed crash lands you back to the Star Tours docking bay, where Ace (who was supposed to be piloting your tour) marches over and says, "Hey! That's my ship!" LOL.

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Star Tours will exclusively use The Rise of Skywalker locations of Kef Bir and Exegol ONLY for the near future. But, eventually, those two locations will be worked into the full "jukebox" random rotation of planets you can visit on the ride.

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According to Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald — who has been with Star Tours for over 35 years — the addition of Kef Bir and Exegol means there will be over 100 different story combinations! Fitzgerald also said that in the future, when the ride goes back into rotation mode, "Rey will join us in Jakku."

And you can experience The Rise of Skywalker with Star Tours yourself at Disney Parks worldwide now! Just visit Disney Parks to get your theme park tickets.

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And, if you haven't seen it, be sure to catch The Rise of Skywalker in theaters.