Guardians of the Galaxy coming to Energy Pavilion at Epcot

[Haymarket2008]

Maybe they are waiting to drop Marvel park news at the San Diego Comic Con instead. They'll get a much better reaction to destroying Epcot there than at D23.

 

[peter11435]

Sounds marvel-ous...

I'm thinking maybe one of the resort projects

 

[TiggerDad]

Nah. Something else still tied up in legalities and formalities.

Legalities could be DVC, with the rules about when those projects can be announced.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I'm thinking maybe one of the resort projects

Star Wars Resort?

 

[andysol]

Legalities could be DVC, with the rules about when those projects can be announced.

DVC would never be announced this early. They don't announce future resorts while in the thick of selling a current resort. With copper creek/wilderness just now going on sale- it's just not going to Happen.

 

[Rodan75]

I'm assuming it isn't one of the heavy hitter "rumors".

I wonder if there was an exclusivity on Tron that may make that one a problem?

 

[uncle jimmy]

About five foot.

Brazil is exotic... could they be holding off?

 

[philbarr2001]

Nah. Something else still tied up in legalities and formalities.

Sounds Gondola related.

 

[Haymarket2008]

Sounds Gondola related.

I'd highly doubt that. They're already well on their way with the beginning of construction.

 

[chiefs11]

Nah. Something else still tied up in legalities and formalities.

The ride in the UK pavilion would be my guess... or maybe the Brazil expansion.

 

[dreamscometrue]

Or maybe something that (practically) none of us on here know about.

 

[peter11435]

Star Wars Resort?

That was my suspicion. I doubt they were ready to announce the DVC. GOTG is the only attraction project I could see having the issues Marni spoke of, but he implied that wasn't the one. So with no inside information my money would be on the Star Wars resort, or possibly the gondola given its connection to the DVC property they are likely not ready to announce.

 

[bclane]

That was my suspicion. I doubt they were ready to announce the DVC. GOTH is the only attraction project I could see having the issues Marni spoke of, but he implied that wasn't the one. So with no inside information my money would be on the Star Wars resort, or possibly the gondola given its connection to the DVC property they are likely not ready to announce.

Say it isn't so!!!

 

[MisterPenguin]

GOTH is the only attraction project I could see having the issues Marni spoke of

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Guardian Of The Hellmouth confirmed!!!

 

[Dave Z]

Got to love all the guesses, can't wait.

 

[Captain Neo]

I was doing some thinking and assuming this guardians rumor is true (doubt it) they could turn that whole chunk of Epcot from Universe of Energy to Mission:Space into a giant Space Exploration Pavillion/land which would at least be thematically appropriate to Epcot. But instead the'll probably just make it into Guardians of the Galaxy land.

 

[HMF]

I was doing some thinking and assuming this guardians rumor is true (doubt it) they could turn that whole chunk of Epcot from Universe of Energy to Mission:Space into a giant Space Exploration Pavillion/land which would at least be thematically appropriate to Epcot. But instead the'll probably just make it into Guardians of the Galaxy land.

I like it.

 

[Captain Neo]

As an industrial designer for a large medical device company I can confirm that I have been tasked almost every time before we go to a trade show or any sort of public function to create/update/change any conceptual designs within days of the event. In the world of product design its a gimme, there is simply no way around changes in the 12th hour. changes can be driven by almost anything too, positive and negative, in this case im sure its for the positive.

But don't you think with something like this that would impact peoples travel plans, fan interest, and press attention that it has to be planned out well in advance. They even have to have art and information ready to go up on their sites and inform their social media and marketing teams so that they are ready to roll out the information post-announcement. It's not a matter of 1 slide and a brief mention. Just look at the D23 2015 presentation you can clearly tell it was planned out in advanced. The Star Wars announcement alone was a good 15 minutes long and they even went into detail about Soarin/Toy Story Land/and Frozen. Eliminating just one of those things would cause a pretty decent size gap in the show.

 

[Captain Neo]

I like it.

You would then have two anchor points to the land on one side you have the sci-fi fantasy pop culture view of space exploration (Guardians) and the updated Mission Space with new ride film represents the real world view of space exploration.

 

[SCOTLORR]

But don't you think with something like this that would impact peoples travel plans, fan interest, and press attention that it has to be planned out well in advance. They even have to have art and information ready to go up on their sites and inform their social media and marketing teams so that they are ready to roll out the information post-announcement. It's not a matter of 1 slide and a brief mention. Just look at the D23 2015 presentation you can clearly tell it was planned out in advanced. The Star Wars announcement alone was a good 15 minutes long and they even went into detail about Soarin/Toy Story Land/and Frozen. Eliminating just one of those things would cause a pretty decent size gap in the show.

I think they have art and press releases prepared for each possible announcement prior to the conference. Then they dole out the proper information depending on what was actually announced. Concept art is common for even a blue sky stage idea. For example, were experiencing this now with Super Nintendo land at Uní. There was a whole map leaked that included the best of Nintendo's properties in one land, but it is inferred that this was just an unrealistic concept used to show the potential in the project.