EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[Professortango1]

Even all these years later it is insane to me that they spent an unfathomable amount of money on this ride and it just does not show. The queue is mostly bare walls, some screens, and RGB lights. The ride itself is some kind of cross breed between Aerosmith and Space Mountain for theming. Did the box and gut/rebuild of UoE really eat THAT much money? Agree with others that it seems like one of their goals was to design it not for Guardians but for whatever the next theme ends up being.

Agreed. It is a souped up Ghost Galaxy. Same giant monster attacking us via screens as we go through a coaster in a star-lit warehouse.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The queue is mostly bare walls, some screens, and RGB lights.

My opinion of the queue is pretty much the opposite of yours.

 

[plutofan15]

Yup. Or else in 20-30 years from now, people in the ride queue will laughing about how young Chris Pratt looks.

So pretty much like the current Rock-n-Roller Coaster preshow.

 

[dmc493]

best ride experience but one of the worst storylines

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

My opinion of the queue is pretty much the opposite of yours.

I'll give you that preshow 2 and the load area are nice. Everything else (including the exit, almost forgot about that one!) is bare walls, screens, and lights. A couple glass display cases in 10% of the queue don't make up for the unthemed 90% to me

 

[UNCgolf]

And of course The Suits feel vindicated as it’s currently the most popular ride at WDW.

Is it the most popular? It's definitely among the most popular, so probably irrelevant if it's the most or not, but I think Rise of the Resistance and Flight of Passage both still draw longer waits on average.

 

[Basil of Baker Street]

I always have to remind myself. The ride system is for the masses. The theming is for the fans.
Remove all theming from RnRC and hang random pictures of tater tots and it would still have a 90 minute wait.
You couldn't do that with Peter Pan.

 

[Purduevian]

I have wondered about this.

In Disney’s movie business there is seemingly no budgets, they spend as they need to shoot, reshoot, post produce and market a given film.

The film either loses money or makes money and folks forget about the film in a few months.

In Disney’s theme park business, scope is cut to fit within the budget to build it and I suspect the spreadsheet folks limit the scope to keep the ongoing maintenance down.

The result is a lesser experience for decades and decades and decades.

 

[BrianLo]

Is it the most popular? It's definitely among the most popular, so probably irrelevant if it's the most or not, but I think Rise of the Resistance and Flight of Passage both still draw longer waits on average.

Looking at thrill data, Cosmic Rewind has the edge in the last year by about 5-10 minutes. Which honestly surprises me, I would have for sure assumed Rise.

But all very close and Rewind has the edge of being newest.

 

[Purduevian]

Looking at thrill data, Cosmic Rewind has the edge in the last year by about 5-10 minutes. Which honestly surprises me, I would have for sure assumed Rise.

I assume Cosmic wins for 2 reasons.

1) EPCOT gets ~2million extra guests a year
2) EPCOT only has 1 thrilling ride (Test track is a moderate thrill, but not at the level of ROTR, ToT, or RNRC)

 

[BrianLo]

I assume Cosmic wins for 2 reasons.

1) EPCOT gets ~2million extra guests a year
2) EPCOT only has 1 thrilling ride (Test track is a moderate thrill, but not at the level of ROTR, ToT, or RNRC)

For sure, the second DAK attendance rebounds, Passage will surge. Though particularly since it does have meaningfully lower capacity than the other two.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Did the box and gut/rebuild of UoE really eat THAT much money?

I genuinely think keeping the old building probably DID eat up a lot of money, along with the superstructure needing to be build next to it.

Probably would have been cheaper to demolish and start from scratch.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Well the same thing is gonna happen to the attraction that happened to the Universe of Energy. We had 90s Bill Nye and Ellen, which made the attraction seem so outdated.

Same thing is gonna happen with Chris Pratt and the rest of them. But yes, it is clearly obvious they made that attraction very easy to retheme.

Are you telling me this will soon be Ellen’s Guardians Adventure?

~shivers~

 

[TheRealSkull]

Looking at thrill data, Cosmic Rewind has the edge in the last year by about 5-10 minutes. Which honestly surprises me, I would have for sure assumed Rise.

But all very close and Rewind has the edge of being newest.

I think the trackless technology hype has really died down for a number of reasons, but I think the primary reason being it's too unreliable.

 

[Purduevian]

I think the trackless technology hype has really died down for a number of reasons, but I think the primary reason being it's too unreliable.

I like the trackless ride vehicles... but it really has 3 major flaws.
1) reliability
2) If you want to use the trackless features... its a big open floor
3) If you don't want a open floor, you can't use the full extent of the trackless features (like the elevator/escape pods on ROTR).

I still think Universal got the best dark ride tech in the kuka arm... does anyone know when Disney is allowed to use it? I think Disneyland is using it for the smaller Marvel ride.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

So pretty much like the current Rock-n-Roller Coaster preshow.

The only difference is Steven Tyler didn’t look that much younger in the pre show…

 

[HauntedPirate]

I assume Cosmic wins for 2 reasons.

1) EPCOT gets ~2million extra guests a year

Ehhh… not really.

Epcot attendance in 2019: 12.444 million

GotG opened in 2022

Epcot is still at a lower number than 2019 attendance figures. It’s roughly at 2017 attendance figures. Roughly.

 

[Purduevian]

Ehhh… not really.

Epcot attendance in 2019: 12.444 million
GotG opened in 2022
Epcot is still at a lower number than 2019 attendance figures.

Sorry, let me clarify EPCOT gets ~2 million more guests in a year than DHS (TEA 2024 has EPCOT at 12.133 million and DHS at 10.333 million), which might be a factor in why GOTG on average has a higher wait time that ROTR. It averages out to about an extra 5000 people per day in EPCOT vs DHS.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Sorry, let me clarify EPCOT gets ~2 million more guests in a year than DHS (TEA 2024 has EPCOT at 12.133 million and DHS at 10.333 million), which might be a factor in why GOTG on average has a higher wait time that ROTR. It averages out to about an extra 5000 people per day in EPCOT vs DHS.

Hey, that’s 4x more people per day than FEA drew!!

 

[TheRealSkull]

I like the trackless ride vehicles... but it really has 3 major flaws.
1) reliability
2) If you want to use the trackless features... its a big open floor
3) If you don't want a open floor, you can't use the full extent of the trackless features (like the elevator/escape pods on ROTR).

I still think Universal got the best dark ride tech in the kuka arm... does anyone know when Disney is allowed to use it? I think Disneyland is using it for the smaller Marvel ride.

I like them too. But they only work for certain rides. I think people would have much better preferred a speederbike coaster than ROTR.