Advertised as "The Ultimate Star Wars Adventure!," Star Tours puts the guest in the role of a space tourist en route to the Forest moon of Endor via the Star Tours travel agency.

Much is made of this throughout the ride queue, and the theming of the inside holding area is convincingly modeled to look like a spaceship boarding terminal. This area is stocked with Audio-Animatroic characters that seem to interact with the ride patrons (including versions of Star Wars favorites C-3PO and R2-D2, delivering a typical Laurel and Hardy-esque routine), as well as a life size mock-up of the StarSpeeder 3000, the spacecraft/simulator ride that guests embark on.

Once at the head of the line, the ride operators escort guests into one of several ride theatres. As the doors close, the bumbling pilot droid of the ship, RX-24 or Rex, chats up the guests about the trip as he sets up.

All goes well until a slight mistake on Rex's part sends the ship down the wrong tunnel and plummeting down into a maintenance yard, just managing to escape to open space before a giant mechanical appendage crushes the ship.

Once in space, Rex puts the ship into light speed, but pulls out too late to catch the ship's intended destination, instead getting caught inside a comet field. The ship gets trapped inside one of the larger comets and has to maze its way out. Just when all the trouble seems to be over, the ship encounters a Star Destroyer. The ship gets caught in its tractor beam, but manages to get loose when a rebel X-wing fighter provides assistance.

Soon the ship accompanies the Rebellion on a massive assault on a Death Star. Rex uses the StarSpeeder's lasers to eliminate TIE fighters while a rebel destroys the Death Star in the same manner as Luke Skywalker did in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

A final light speed jump sends the StarSpeeder back where it started, but not before a near collision with a fuel truck in the spaceport.

To get excited about Star Wars, set your speed to hyperspace and take a spin around the Star Tours attraction!

Anthony Daniels, the voice of C-3P0 in the Star Wars films, not only supplies the voice for C-3PO on the Star Tours attraction, but for all the other aliens found in the preshow, as well..

All of the film work in Star Tours is original footage shot exclusively for the Disney Parks attraction.

The Star Tours attraction first opened on January 9, 1987 in Disneyland Resort in California. The popular attraction came to Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida on December 15, 1989.

The voice of Starspeeder 3000 droid pilot RX–24 belongs to actor Paul "Pee–Wee Herman" Ruebens.

As a tribute to George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars films and franchise, a couple of audio messages can be heard in entrance area. One says, "Paging Mr. Sacul. Mr. Egroeg Sacul. Please meet your party at gate number two." Mr. Egroeg Sacul is George Lucas spelled backwards.