Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind - General Discussion

[Eckert]

Mission Breakout is a great ride with no animatronics. The most important thing about a Guardians of the Galaxy ride is the music!

 

[Nick]

I wasn’t really expecting any AAs , except maybe in the queue. If the ride is “fun” or “thrilling” it will be forgiven. Epcot desperately needs rides that are either.

A full-bodied/movement Groot AA in the queue (as seemed to be shown in the original concept art) would've been great. Still holding out a sliver of hope that there will be an AA in the queue.

 

[Alicia]

Mission Breakout is a great ride with no animatronics. The most important thing about a Guardians of the Galaxy ride is the music!

Mission Breakout has the awesome cute Rocket AA for a preshow. I was hoping for at least something like that for this one.

 

[belloq87]

To spend half a billion dollars on a ride that will be primarily in a giant, (mostly) empty, dark box seems like a shocking misuse of funds to me. If you're spending that amount, this should be the most extraordinarily-themed coaster in existence.

So we'll see how it turns out!

 

[rhino4evr]

Is this on par with Hagrid in term of budget ?

 

[Scott W.]

Is this on par with Hagrid in term of budget ?

I don't know what the budget is but I'd expect it to be way more.

I'd say they were on par in terms of much the theme park operator is prepared to spend.

 

[SkiBum]

To spend half a billion dollars on a ride that will be primarily in a giant, (mostly) empty, dark box seems like a shocking misuse of funds to me. If you're spending that amount, this should be the most extraordinarily-themed coaster in existence.

So we'll see how it turns out!

It's Disney. The coaster probably cost $40-50M, the building similar or more (no clue on building costs), and the remaining $400M was Imagineering's expenses and some cheap lights. Okay, that is an exaggeration. The lights probably cost a little bit.

 

[Nick]

Is this on par with Hagrid in term of budget ?

Rumors have always been somewhere around $500M. But how much of that is actually for the attraction I’d be interested in knowing since we know Disney loves to bundle costs when they have a big overarching park refresh going on.

 

[belloq87]

Supposedly the Universe of Energy building was in slightly worse shape for their purposes than they expected once they got in there and gutted it, which necessitated some infrastructure work that wasn't planned for.

But even so, it's a ludicrous amount of money for a single ride with (as far as we've heard up to this point) not a ton going on during the actual ride experience.

 

[Nick]

Updated Look at Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Entrance, New Paint Scheme

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[shiekra38]

Updated Look at Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Entrance, New Paint Scheme

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They should install a live cam so we can watch the paint dry next time

 

[Nick]

Disney World Begins Recruiting Cast Members for Cosmic Rewind Opening Team

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[Evan]

Zach Riddley on Instagram: "A new year brings continued progress at EPCOT. Today I’m excited to share our team has started the installation of the Nova Corps Starblaster ship that will mark the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind entrance at EPCOT

6,580 likes, 90 comments - thezachriddley on January 24, 2022: "A new year brings continued progress at EPCOT. Today I’m excited to share our team has started the installation of the Nova Corps Starblaster ship that will mark the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind entrance at EPCOT. Over the...

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[Nick]

Cosmic Progress! Wings Installed on Nova Corps Starblaster Ship at EPCOT

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[Frank Drackman]

couple of pics from earlier today

 

[UNIrd]

I can't wait for this to open just for the sole purpose of some of these walls coming down. That current Epcot entrance pathway. Woof.

 

[BigHouseFootball]

Ok, that looks so cool!

 

[Evan]

 

[Tobias]

The ship itself looks pretty nice!...though it looks like they weren't able to make the concept art a reality with that big grey support to hold it up. At first I thought it was something temporary to hold the cockpit in place while they build it, but then I noticed the permanent looking connection plates along the bottom fin/wing to bolt to the support. Oh well.

 

[Rhian]

The ship itself looks pretty nice!...though it looks like they weren't able to make the concept art a reality with that big grey support to hold it up. At first I thought it was something temporary to hold the cockpit in place while they build it, but then I noticed the permanent looking connection plates along the bottom fin/wing to bolt to the support. Oh well.

If you look closely at the concept art there's an additional wider fin on the bottom.



Under the ship in the second and fourth pictures of tweet you can see a flat black surface right next to where the ship is secured to the support. I assume that last fin will be attached there.