{"id":257977,"date":"2026-05-04T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:42:07","slug":"orlando-international-airport-parodies-star-tours-for-may-the-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257977\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando International Airport Parodies Star Tours for May the 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando International Airport (MCO) posted a parody video of Star Tours in honor of Star Wars Day, a.k.a. May the 4th. The video is a POV of \u201cMCO Tours\u201d resembling the interior of a Star Tours StarSpeeder looking out into the airport.<\/p>\n<p>MCO Tours<\/p>\n<p>The tour ship encounters Darth Vader and Stormtroopers (represented by action figures). They\u2019re searching for the rebel spy \u2014\u00a0the airport\u2019s famous <a href=\"https:\/\/flymco.com\/non-travelers\/public-art-terminal-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">The Traveler sculpture<\/a>. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer even makes a cameo as a Jedi hologram, inspired by his narration aboard the airport\u2019s tram. The tour encounters other action figure characters, a dog dressed as Chewbacca, and a TIE Fighter before Vader is finally defeated by a wayward suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time MCO has added its own spin to Walt Disney World attractions. In February, the airport posted a farewell tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/02\/last-look-at-dinosaur-ride-in-disneys-animal-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Animal Kingdom\u2019s DINOSAU<\/a>R with <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/02\/mco-posts-farewell-video-to-dinosaur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">DINOSAUR (MCO Edition)<\/a>, featuring a toy Time Rover racing through the airport. <\/p>\n<p>Watch our video of some Star Tours scenes below.<\/p>\n<p>How are you celebrating May the 4th? Let us know on social media.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest Disney Parks news and info, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">WDW News Today<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdwnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WDWNewsToday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wdwnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando International Airport (MCO) posted a parody video of Star Tours in honor of Star Wars Day, a.k.a.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[111879,6205,139,141,3847,140,111880,110669],"class_list":["post-257977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-may-the-4th","tag-mco","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-star-tours","tag-star-wars-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}