{"id":21736,"date":"2019-04-09T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=21736"},"modified":"2019-04-08T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:43:26","slug":"paul-reubens-talks-about-voicing-captain-rex-on-disneylands-star-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2019\/04\/09\/paul-reubens-talks-about-voicing-captain-rex-on-disneylands-star-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Reubens talks about voicing RX-24 aka Captain Rex on Disney&#8217;s Star Tours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Were you aware that my pal Paul Reubens &#8212; in a galaxy far, far away (we&#8217;re talkin&#8217; the 1980s!) &#8212; voiced a pilot droid for the Disney Parks&#8217; Star Tours attraction?? Yep, it&#8217;s true! After being discovered through voiceover work he did for <em>Flight of the Navigator<\/em>, he was hired to voice RX-24 (aka Captain Rex) on Star Tours!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21739\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Captain-Rex-Star-Wars-Tours.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Captain-Rex-Star-Wars-Tours.jpg 800w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Captain-Rex-Star-Wars-Tours-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Captain-Rex-Star-Wars-Tours-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Now you can listen to Paul talk about that experience on the podcast <em>Forcecast<\/em>! <\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21737\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-wars-star-tours.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-wars-star-tours.png 999w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-wars-star-tours-453x640.png 453w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-wars-star-tours-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-wars-star-tours-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Listen to <em>Next Stop: Endor &#8211; The Story of Star Tours<\/em> now (he comes in at around the 34:00 mark):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/9301325\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/1855b5\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>While you&#8217;re here, take a look at this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[Disneyland] Original Star Tours Ride POV at Disneyland California Star Wars\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nED36n2lVO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were you aware that my pal Paul Reubens &#8212; in a galaxy far, far away (we&#8217;re talkin&#8217; the 1980s!) &#8212; voiced a pilot droid for the Disney Parks&#8217; Star Tours attraction?? Yep, it&#8217;s true! After being discovered through voiceover work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21748,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736\/revisions\/21748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}