Another remake: George Lucas's new Star Wars Disneyland ride

The new 3-D version of the Disney theme park ride Star Tours is a quantum leap above the original.

Riders will face the unexpected - thousands of different permutations in the story line.

The ride's repeat business should be superb.

The original 1987 Star Tours ride "was relatively simplistic," says Star Wars creator George Lucas. "It went through basically an asteroid field and then we got into a battle, sort of above the Death Star kind of thing but it was very simplistic."

Now "it's much cleverer, in the fact that we now have like 50 places to go. You never get the same ride twice." Lucas says there are a lot of secret cookies and other events as well. "You'd have to ride the ride for at least 100 times in order to get to see it all."

On the way to the ride's spaceship, the line winds through a spaceport complete with heat imaging panels and animated 'droids, including the films' C-3PO. The five minute ride starts when you're buckled into the Starspeeder 1000.

A Rebel spy is alleged to be on board, and the Imperial forces chase the ships through different worlds from the Star Wars saga - swampy Dagobah, icy Hoth, sophisticated Naboo, Kashyyyk, the Wookiee home world or the interior of the Death Star - as it attempts to deliver the spy to the Rebel Alliance.

Characters from all six movies might appear including the bounty hunter, Boba Fett, R2-D2, Yoda, Princess Leia and Jar Jar Binks, or a new set of stormtroopers created for Star Tours called Skytroopers.

Back in the real world, the 3-D glasses make the trip look stomach-twistingly realistic as the animatronics in your seat buck and weave in time with the digital film. Once you've landed, you exit via the gift shop complete with miniature Yoda dolls, diecast Racers cars and a make-your-own lightsaber booth.