It doesn’t matter what we’d discover at Galaxy’s Edge, Star Excursions will at all times be the ultimate crossover between Disney’s parks and Star Wars. Smugglers Run and Rise of the Resistance might provide higher-tech glitz and glamor, however there’s one thing concerning the limitless evolution of Disney and Lucasfilm’s first main collaboration on the parks that also has it enduring all these years later. And now, that endurance is being celebrated with perhaps one of many coolest toys Disney’s ever made out of its parks choices.
Introduced for next weekend’s D23 event (by way of Jedi News), at the moment Disney revealed a limited-edition playset of the Starspeeder 3000–in its authentic colours earlier than it bought a makeover for Star Excursions: The Adventures Proceed. Full with two 3.75″ scaled figures of R2-D2 and RX-24 (aka Captain Rex earlier than the different Captain Rex) from the “Droid Manufacturing facility” line Disney sells on the parks, the huge car can really seat 25 figures inside when you take away the highest part of the speeder, in seats that really embrace elasticated, clip-in seat belts.
However that’s not all! The Starspeeder 3000 additionally comes with a wild host of digital options, together with opening doorways on both facet that play the Star Excursions chime, a light-up show stand, in addition to gentle options for the headlights, thrusters, and cannons on the outside of the ship. Inside in the meantime, the entrance of the speeder has a 4.75″ LCD display that may be activated by buttons to play genuine footage from numerous sequences of the trip itself, in addition to phrases from Captain Rex.
At $300, it’s bought fairly a price ticket on it, however actually, the quantity of options and capabilities the playset has is sufficient to justify the value, rivaling the scope and scale of among the lavish automobiles from Hasbro’s HasLab crowdfunding campaigns. Plus, with precise Star Excursions footage in it, it’s cheaper than a trip to a Disney park to seize one and simply expertise the very best Star Wars trip from the consolation of your individual house!
Simply 3,000 (you see what they did there) Starspeeders will probably be accessible when it releases first at D23 on August 9, after which on-line on the Disney Retailer beginning August 12.
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