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EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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gorillaball said:
No one is doing that? It's a regular occurrence on the boards and part of what makes it fun, to see people proven right or to backtrack on their years of proclamations.

One of the most easily cherry picked examples I can come up with is - Remember the Skyliner was going to have people dying almost daily because it had no air conditioning... The fact it had no air conditioning was "released in a trailer". The message boards ran with that accurate trailer information and made inaccurate conclusions.

We do the same things with rides. No AA, crap ride, mind made up.
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You call that a "complete review"? I call that exactly what I called it before - discussion of News and Rumors.

No one's publishing their final review of the unfinished Cosmic Rewind in this week's issue of the Times. If you want to pretend that engaging in this sort of discussion is tantamount to developing unfixable stances on an incomplete attraction then I guess you can you can do that all you want, but the rest of us will be living in the real world where we can engage with nuance. We know, as we've seen time and time again - from even the very examples you cite - that people are often willing to change their opinions when they actually ride the thing. I don't see why you're bothered so much by minds you only imagine are fully made up.

Similar to what I said before to another poster, your issue seems less to be with people having an opinion during the process and more with people having negative opinions. Which is a meaningful distinction.
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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mergatroid said:
It's really more about forming an opinion before experiencing it. You get far less people insisting it's going to be the best attraction ever without experiencing it than you do those insisting it's going to be terrible. And those that do rarely make posts repeatedly, unlike a minority of those who are overly negative.

And I have never said they can't have an opinion of an attraction until it's 100% done, just that their opinion isn't necessarily correct at that point be it negative or positive.
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You've just proved again that your issue is people forming negative opinions before experiencing it, not people forming any opinion before experiencing it. You're complaining that people who think it will be "the best attraction ever" aren't heard from enough - so they're allowed to have their opinion, but anyone who thinks negatively of it we hear from too much? Hmm.

Keep in mind that this is the nature of empirical evidence - there are parts of this attraction that people have experienced. I've been to EPCOT and experienced the impact of the giant unthemed Gravity Building on the park's skyline, which I feel is negative rather than positive. I've experienced the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and don't particularly care for those characters or feel they are a good fit for EPCOT. I've ridden Disney's other "roller coasters in the dark" and do not feel that sort of attraction as Disney has historically built them is what EPCOT needs. I've heard how much this attraction costs and know that it's the single most expensive ride ever built at Walt Disney World, which sours me a little futher because that's a lot of money to spend on one ride that, to me, is already having a negative impact based on the things I just listed. We haven't seen many of the elements that are meant to outweigh these negative impacts, and maybe the scale will be balanced out when we do. Maybe all of my early opinions will be reversed on my first ride and I'll want my ashes scattered in this attraction when I'm gone. But until then I can't just magically decide that this will probably be the best ride ever when I've yet to see anything that would convince me I should feel that way, and seen several things that inspire me to feel the opposite.

This does not mean I've already fully decided that Cosmic Rewind will be awful and that there's no hope of saving it - and any rational person knows that. Obviously. It's so silly that this even needs to be said. Are we not adults?

If the negative opinions of others are weighing down your time of these forums, the ignore button is free to use and often very helpful in curating your experience. But people are allowed to have and share negative opinions of how it's going so far, and often those opinions have validity.
 
ChrisFL

ChrisFL

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Animaniac93-98 said:
I should also be noted that Raging Spirits is one of only two coasters at Tokyo DisneySea and the only one not geared towards very young children. The lack of comparable rides in the park makes it stand out.

I don't know why DisneySea doesn't have more roller coasters. They could add 3 right now and it really wouldn't be overkill.
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Although Journey to the Center of the Earth isn't a rollercoaster, it does have a 20-30 second coaster like element to it, which is about the same length as the TRON coaster overall (j/k)
 
TikibirdLand

TikibirdLand

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WDWFREAK53 said:
Let’s just wait and see what it looks like when it’s complete. I will be shocked and disappointed if that structure is that prominent. It looks completely unfinished and very “un-Disney.”

My hunch is that the structure will be an additional fin and won’t be seen like it is here…as a “damn stand” that the concept art just omitted. So yes, I completely understand that it’s concept art and things will obviously not be exactly as shown but the focal point of the art is not going to be that much different where they omit a structure of exposed tube steel.
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When I was a kid, several of my models had display stands like that. Maybe that's the vibe they're going for. I agree with you; not my vibe but a vibe...
 
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gorillaball

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
You call that a "complete review"? I call that exactly what I called it before - discussion of News and Rumors.

No one's publishing their final review of the unfinished Cosmic Rewind in this week's issue of the Times. If you want to pretend that engaging in this sort of discussion is tantamount to developing unfixable stances on an incomplete attraction then I guess you can you can do that all you want, but the rest of us will be living in the real world where we can engage with nuance. We know, as we've seen time and time again - from even the very examples you cite - that people are often willing to change their opinions when they actually ride the thing. I don't see why you're bothered so much by minds you only imagine are fully made up.

Similar to what I said before to another poster, your issue seems less to be with people having an opinion during the process and more with people having negative opinions. Which is a meaningful distinction.
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You are probably right that the negatives bother me more than the positives, they are usually louder you have to admit, and seem to repeat their view ad nauseum. I generally don’t like grumpy people that hate everything and people that think everything used to be better. This doesn’t come from me being a young pup either, I’ll be 50 this year. Don’t mistake this with me thinking the board should only be sunshine and rainbows. Not the case, but for those that hate absolutely everything they are adding no value to the discussion.

But I will also say the person that comes on here saying this is going to be the best ride in Orlando for sure, that is just as flawed as the opposite. And they seem to usually be a newbie and get ran off petty quickly.

But generally speaking, yes I prefer a nice puffy cloud over a dark cloud to rain on my parade.
 
TheEPCOTHistorian

TheEPCOTHistorian

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Ok so in a break from all the back and forth, they finished most of the ribs on the west side of the building, even applying those little beige designs near the light bars underneath. It was too dark to take a picture last night but only the rear two had a crane by them, presumably to do them sometime overnight.
 
wdwmagic

wdwmagic

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Lighting systems are being installed in the Nova Corps Starblaster at Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind​

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Lighting systems are being installed in the Nova Corps Starblaster at Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind

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larryz

larryz

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Bocabear

Bocabear

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When you look amount of bolts used to attach the ship body to the stand, it would seem that it is a permanent part of the display...not that they couldn't bolt other things to dress it, I feel like that stand is there to stay...
I know people were hoping it would be removed once the rest of the pieces were in place...
 
ImperfectPixie

ImperfectPixie

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Bocabear said:
When you look amount of bolts used to attach the ship body to the stand, it would seem that it is a permanent part of the display...not that they couldn't bolt other things to dress it, I feel like that stand is there to stay...
I know people were hoping it would be removed once the rest of the pieces were in place...
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My thoughts exactly. They wouldn't have gone to the trouble of using so many bolts if it were temporary.
 
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lewisc

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larryz said:
AP previews would run counter to WDW's current policy of discouraging AP purchases.
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Disney recently released AP hotel discounts and still offers shopping and dining AP discounts.

I have no idea what that means relative to AP previews.

I'll rephrase. Sounds like CM are being recruited. What does that suggest regarding any previews including CM and DVC?
 

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