Star Tours theme

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.
==Use==
Commercials and video segments advertising the Star Tours travel agency played in the Star Tours ride queue included this theme, with some variations.Star Tours 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. That version was first played over the credits of George Lucas' Star Tours, the short film promoting the ride on ABC, aired December 28 1986 just days before the ride first opened at Disneyland.
The song included variations of the announcement chime heard over the public address system in the ride's queue. 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.Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
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. The series' sound designer, David W. Collins, later confirmed that the sound was an homage to the ride.
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Category:Musical pieces
Category:Star Tours