Patcheslee
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Personally my eye was drawn to the gate, Harmonious, then the blue box. Haven't been since 2019 though.
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EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot
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tommyhawkins
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Oh we doing a photos show and tell are we? Cute. Here's mine:
mikejs78
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And that's been that way since the 90s.
ToTBellHop
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That was built during the Disney Decade and is, therefore, flawless.
tommyhawkins
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Don't worry its a lot more than 2 mins, and its not just LSM, theres a LOT of track in there: this is the back half of the show building, notice how the supports are everywhere ive included my mock up of the first half
lazyboy97o
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So original… Two wrongs don’t make a right. Not a warehouse and there was regret about their placement.
Incomudro
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Going to have to disagree with you on that one.
Certainly people who know of the build, and know what's going on at Disney will know.
But the average family going on rides? No.
Telephoto shots are a deception. They do not show what it's like in real life. And posting them and saying "SEE??!!" is, in fact, a deception. Notice how anyone wanting to make the point of how horrible they are almost never posts a regular shot. Instead, they show an exaggerated view.
I've been to Epcot with the BBB. It is indeed towering from the parking lot. But, once inside the parks, the buildings and landscaping surrounding one in Future World quickly makes it mostly obscured. And looking from across the lagoon, it easy to miss unless you look for it.
That said, I'm not defending an unthemed visible building. It definitely should have had a facade or architectural elements to make it 'fit.'
But telephoto shots and claims of it towering over SSE are just hyperbolic, and what's truly risible.
Casper Gutman
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Yes, and as accustomed as we’ve become to those, a lot of people found them an ugly mistake at the time. EPCOT fared horribly in the Disney decade, as great as it was elsewhere. And the presence of one (old) mistake does not justify making a bunch of new ones.
You are trying so hard to deny and distract from something that is obvious to anyone who visits the park - that the gravity building is unavoidably huge and very obvious.
If this ride was particularly unique, a lot more could be forgiven, but this is Disney’s third sci-if coaster in the dark with occasional show scenes (4th if you count TT) and one of two very similar rides opening over the next year and a half. Other then the specific IP, what have we seen of this ride that makes it look particularly innovative or exciting, more then a mash-up of Crush, RnR, Space, and Gringotts?
vikescaper
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What they should just do is cover the exterior of the gravity building with LED’s and make the building into another Beacon of Magic…..
Casper Gutman
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It really is not obscured at all from Future World East.
If you don’t think the “average guest” can’t figure out what’s in the big blue box, you must think they are idiots. It’s not as if you only see that thing inside the park. Coming into Epcot from the north it’s blatantly obvious it’s there, and anyone with half a brain cell will figure out quickly, “Oh, that’s that new Marvel ride”.
Patcheslee
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Are there any concept photos that actually show the building? I've noticed the general Epcot D23 photos don't include the area it would be.
PolynesianPrincess
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sigh..... people complain when they don't add new attractions and people complain when they DO build new attractions, that they didn't do it up to their standards
ImperfectPixie
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People are complaining because Disney didn't build it to DISNEY's own standards.
tommyhawkins
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Whats the first thing you are greeted with when you turn off Osceola Parkway and do the 180 loop into the DAK lot?
Nobody is calling average guests idiots, everyone is saying they just dont care as much as people like yourself who post on Epcot forums do about it. And the above example, may be jarring to many but so much happens between seeing the show building.....parking....going through security/entrance then being immersed into the park that it many wont give it a second thought. The same is true of Epcot
Giss Neric
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On the pov vid, it seems there is a bit of a coaster portion before the actual backwards launch. So the backwards launch is not really the beginning of the ride? The queue building has a coaster portion before the tunnel launch?
This is someone's guess of what it will be like. So, there are enough grains of salt here to fill the Dead Sea.
Everything that Disney has put out kept emphasizing a backward launch, which presumes, right at the start. Tho, it wouldn't be the first time Disney used sloppy language and there is a second launch which is backwards.
Then again, with the RVs turning around throughout the ride, probably doesn't matter.
Jones14
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Most coasters have a short section of track between the station and the first lift/launch to clear the station for the next train to come in (Big Thunder, Everest, Rock’n’Rollercoaster, Space, etc all have one).
This looks to be similar, but will likely have some exposition and/or visuals to set up the backwards launch.
This was my thought as well.