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EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot
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You only get that effect at Eiffel if you do the champagne tasting at the top.
And one of my kids will want to book a stay at that leaning tower. Thrilldata shows Raging Spirits averages the same wait as Soarin’, so...
Vegas Disney Fan
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Not surprising, roller coasters tend to be the most popular rides at every theme park and amusement park in the world.
Not sure what the so is for since you seem to be acknowledging that Soaring is as popular as roller coasters, the most popular rides worldwide.
No Name
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The fact that it has a castle doesn’t matter when it has lower attendance than Epcot. And it doesn’t matter at all when comparing relative popularity within the park. But you’ll defend your original conclusion to the death for the sake of being correct so I’ll be moving on. You freakin DIZNOID!
You have clearly never been on Raging Spirits.
Lil Copter Cap
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trainplane3
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In the one concept video there's tracer lighting on at least 3 of the wings so this isn't really surprising.
Lil Copter Cap
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There was discourse on this thread about whether or not said lighting would make it in its final form. I was responding to those that had any doubts, as stated in my original comment.
BrianLo
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I agree with you in broad strokes, but there is a certain level of execution that cannot be always surmised ahead of time. Even with every technical spec under the sun in front of you. The same way a great movie concept and script might actually fall apart in the final product.
Sometimes things come together better than they rightfully should (Flight of Passage). Soaring Over the World by no right should be worse than Soaring Over California, but largely people feel a connective thread was off.
There are attractions like Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run that clearly is missing a good mission. Or Escape from Gringotts that by all rights sounds stellar on paper, but on the ride feels like a series of mismatched puzzle pieces with terrible pacing.
We very much know the broad strokes, but whether it comes together or fizzles we can only guess at.
If I'm misreading your post that you are only arguing there aren't AA's sprinkled throughout the ride, then sorry for that!
Casper Gutman
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Nah. You read correctly. And I agree (although I think Gringotts is a better ride then you seem to). Of course the final product - be it a ride or film or some other pop culture product - can sometimes surprise, but that is fairly rare. And as you say, even when a pop-culture product does surprise in its ultimate execution, It does so because the components, known beforehand, come together with a unique alchemy. Right now we have a strong sense of the general shape of the ride and the parameters within which it might succeed or fail, and its possible and very fair to make preliminary judgements based on that. For instance, if you really hate screens and projection effects, its safe to say the ride isn't going to appeal.
If this were a film, we would not only have seen the trailer, but read all the cast and crew interviews and PR materials, read articles and leaks pertaining to the production, seen a large number of both official and unofficial images from filming, and seen the previous works produced by the actors, crew, and studio. That's a LOT more then most people take into account before they form their opinion of an upcoming movie and decide whether its worth their money.
yensidtlaw1969
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You realize that most people in the line for Raging Spirits have not been on Raging Spirits, right? They see a coaster and they queue up.
You're really not making the point you think you're making . . .
BrianLo
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I think I’ve just been around long enough now that even when I feel like I know too much, I don’t really know until I’ve ridden it. YouTube aside I guess, which is not typically how I experience rides the first time.
Gringotts is my personal example of something that was up my alley and didn’t come together for me. Unless we have an outdoor coaster, I just don’t think we ever really know so much to accurately judge the final form. At least I never have as I’m usually more (or less) impressed with most rides than I thought I would be.
Someone is certainly entitled to always hate a specific type of ride I guess. Maybe my personal list of what I like is more varied than just Old Epcot attractions. But *I* typically find I’m still surprised with what we’ve heard and what we get.
We have terrible terrible all AA rides. We have some amazing screen sims. Kong is quite good and F&TF atrocious. Despite being the same ride more or less. Yes I knew F&TF was reusing it’s entire Hollywood conceit, so I had infinitely more preview on that bag of garbage than usual.
Casper Gutman
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Again, I don’t think we really disagree. But I do seem to have conveyed myself poorly - the AA vs screen issue is only a portion of what I and other posters are using to shape their opinion of the future ride. Like you, I believe there are very good screen rides and very good AA rides. But the info we have allows us to discern more about the ride then simply it’s AA/screen balance.
The exact same can be said of Soarin. And no, a looping coaster is not something everyone just queues up for at a Disney park.
UNCgolf
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Thank god the ride vehicles aren't freely spinning like that in the actual attraction. That looks like a vomit factory.