Disneyland’s Best Star Wars Ride Is Now a Very Cool Toy

No substance what we mightiness find astatine Galaxy’s Edge, Star Tours volition ever beryllium the eventual crossover betwixt Disney’s parks and Star Wars. Smugglers Run and Rise of the Resistance whitethorn connection higher-tech glitz and glamor, but there’s thing astir the endless improvement of Disney and Lucasfilm’s archetypal large collaboration astatine the parks that inactive has it enduring all these years later. And now, that endurance is being celebrated with possibly 1 of the coolest toys Disney’s ever made retired of its parks offerings.

Announced for next weekend’s D23 event (via Jedi News), contiguous Disney revealed a limited-edition playset of the Starspeeder 3000–in its archetypal colors earlier it got a makeover for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. Complete with 2 3.75″ scaled figures of R2-D2 and RX-24 (aka Captain Rex earlier the other Captain Rex) from the “Droid Factory” enactment Disney sells astatine the parks, the monolithic conveyance tin really seat 25 figures wrong erstwhile you region the apical conception of the speeder, successful seats that really see elasticated, clip-in spot belts.

But that’s not all! The Starspeeder 3000 besides comes with a chaotic big of physics features, including opening doors connected either broadside that play the Star Tours chime, a light-up show stand, arsenic good arsenic airy features for the headlights, thrusters, and cannons connected the exterior of the ship. Inside meanwhile, the beforehand of the speeder has a 4.75″ LCD surface that tin beryllium activated by buttons to play authentic footage from assorted sequences of the thrust itself, arsenic good arsenic phrases from Captain Rex.

At $300, it’s got rather a terms tag connected it, but honestly, the magnitude of features and functions the playset has is capable to warrant the price, rivaling the scope and standard of immoderate of the lavish vehicles from Hasbro’s HasLab crowdfunding campaigns. Plus, with existent Star Tours footage successful it, it’s cheaper than a abrogation to a Disney parkland to drawback 1 and conscionable acquisition the best Star Wars thrust from the comfortableness of your ain home!

Just 3,000 (you spot what they did there) Starspeeders volition beryllium disposable erstwhile it releases archetypal astatine D23 connected August 9, and past online astatine the Disney Store starting August 12.

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