By the time 1987 had rolled-around, the battle of Endor was an event, by then nearly five years in the contemporary past, that had changed the very face of intergalactic travel. It was more difficult in those days, to transport everyday people with their luggage, to and from an ecosystem that was mainly forest.
But consumers are who they are, and so most American tourists wanted to be able to travel space; they weren't concerned about intergalactic turbulence! Some inventions of the aircraft and automotive markets proved that, but by this part of the 1980s, Syrinx's temples were in full-swing, and even Disney had been looking toward space as a possible business venture.
Where me and my dad came from, no one had a Maserati or a 911 Turbo; it was a desert planet. Skip ahead to the 1990s; my father had already established our family's land speeder garage on Tatooine, but my parents' business could never meet the demand for Endor travel.
Intergalactic transit was always a hobby of mine, but my parents could only give me so much money toward a craft of my own. After school, the Pizza Pod was my favorite franchise; greasy food, singing animals...Pod's had it all! But then I realized something, if my parents are unable to drive me places, if there's just no way that they can provide me, 24/7 with transportation, then I'll have to learn HoverRail.
Truth be told, HoverRail was Tatooine's transit hub long before Star Tours was even a thought. In fact, HoverRail established a light rail system, from Tatooine to Dagobah, nearly 25 years before the Metro Orange Line.
In a large way, this is how systems like HoverRail were the innovators, because in space, they invented public transit long before the earth!
But then Mr. George Lucas and the Tatooine Tech Committee devised a plan: pressure-test the Star Tours Transit Hub from Disneyland. Of all locations, we thought...Tomorrowland USA, but it worked! By the summer of 1987, Tatooine Tech and Disney made sure that Star Tours was in function. In fact, it became not only George Lucas' contribution to the Magic Kingdom, but it became the first transit hub to repair the Starspeeder 3000, on earth, while housing the "People Mover" transit way.
People Mover soon became HoverRail's "love child," but it was one that served Disneyland commuters, literally till around 1995. After I dropped-out of Jedi Tech, I applied to Disney; that's where I made a couple of unique friends.
C3P0 and R2D2 were a droid team, but they were very fussy together! Even so, they worked well, and when it came to going "Captain EO" on my father and others, these two were always on deck! Like Ziggy Stardust and his spiders, me and my droid friends would build that business, the one that would become Tomorrowland Performance Division.
My dad, a business man from the desert planet, helped me and Mike Eisner to construct the entire, Star Tours Transit Center, along with that Autotopia variant that very few know: Tomorrowland Performance Division.
Actually, my dad helped me to brainstorm my first project car, but I had to go behind his back to build it. That's where the droids came in. C3P0 and R2 helped me to find a pre-existent body, because even space people knew what American muscle was. Oh yes, people from Tatooine were very familiar, even then, with Van Halen, Grand Nationals...and the like!
But who needed those?! I had droids behind me, real ones, and when the old man wasn't looking, they were the ones who helped me, both from Tomorrowland and Tatooine, to construct the galaxy's greatest road car!
Collectively, the droids and I called the car the "CSX500," because Carroll Shelby was a motoring legend in space, as he was on earth in America. The car became "Spanish Castle Magic" at the galaxy's best in pod racing, and truth be told, Buick and GM sold the "Stellar" prototype to Tomorrowland, long before ASC-McLaren even got clearance to build the GNX.
I'm not saying that American muscle failed; it's just that I'm from space, I live and I breathe it, and so while Shelby became the "Ferrari" of America, Stellar--the turbo Buick's predecessor--became the muscle car of the future, and our GM-based, "500" road car became an automotive masterpiece, one that earth just wasn't ready for!
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