News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[ToTBellHop]

Giant Ball... glorious
Over-sized triangles... lovely.
One massive cylinder... divine.
Big fat wedge... be still my heart.
Dome... dayum.
Half-glass, half stucco shape meant to evoke a volcano... why not.

Giant cube... blasphemy!

If it had an appropriate design aesthetic, I’d agree with you.

 

[MisterPenguin]

If it had an appropriate design aesthetic, I’d agree with you.

If we painted some happy little clouds on it, would that help?

 

[maxairmike]

If we painted some happy little clouds on it, would that help?

Don't forget about a group of happy little trees, because you can't just have a lonely old tree, we have to give him some friends. And don't worry about making a mistake. There's no mistakes, just happy little accidents.

 

[justintheharris]

I took this on Monday but it’s a good angle from the monorail

 

[larryz]

All in all, it looks like another piece of the wall.

 

[J. D.]

All in all, it looks like another piece of the wall.

If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.

 

[No Name]

Wow this seems almost as bad as Tron. Two of the biggest sightline blunders in WDW history.

 

[monothingie]

Wow this seems almost as bad as Tron. Two of the biggest sightline blunders in WDW history.

They've already sold-out the spirit of EPCOT, so what does it matter at this point.

I'm sure they will hid it by having it covered in billboards advertising things like the official cheese and time piece of Walt Disney World.

 

[Spash007]

Do we know for sure that it's going to be a giant box? I know that's been the trend, but maybe they'll add more interesting elements to have it fit in once the box is done, like the mountains in SW:GE?

At the same time, I wonder if the hotel on the other side of Spaceship Earth is going to be used to balance this out. This way the hotel and the gravity building end up framing Spaceship Earth in a way, somewhat like some of the earlier rumors of when the hotel was expected over the entrance.

 

[Kman101]

Wow this seems almost as bad as Tron. Two of the biggest sightline blunders in WDW history.

Seems worse than TRON but TRON hasn't gone vertical yet. I don't really care if I see the TRON building outside of the park. Inside, we'll see.

 

[CrescentLake]

Seems worse than TRON but TRON hasn't gone vertical yet. I don't really care if I see the TRON building outside of the park. Inside, we'll see.

Other than Storybook Circus, how are we going to see the Tron show building from inside the park? Who cares if you can see it from the outside?

And this is coming from someone who HATES visible show buildings.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Other than Storybook Circus, how are we going to see the Tron show building from inside the park? Who cares if you can see it from the outside?

And this is coming from someone who HATES visible show buildings.

It’s just a box with the canopy in front.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Interesting to see them working so much on the walls with no visible work on the actual track or supports. Traditionally, for indoor coasters, the track work is (essentially) completed before any building framework goes up... here are just a few recent examples proving my point...

Tron: Rock N Rollercoaster (Orlando): Space Mountain (Hong Kong):
Rock N Rollercoaster (Paris): Verboltin (Busch Gardens Williamsburg): Crush's Coaster (Paris):

Makes me wonder why the change for this one... Are they just building the walls first on the park/parking lot sides to hide the track layout/construction from prying eyes? Is the actual track delayed from the manufacturer and they are just doing what they can to limit delays? Or is it possible that the side of the building facing the park will have some elaborate themeing (possibly rock work?) which will take longer to complete, thus why they are constructing these walls first? I'm not sure...

 

[marni1971]

Interesting to see them working so much on the walls with no visible work on the actual track or supports. Traditionally, for indoor coasters, the track work is (essentially) completed before any building framework goes up... here are just a few recent examples proving my point...

Tron: View attachment 286954 Rock N Rollercoaster (Orlando): View attachment 286955 Space Mountain (Hong Kong): View attachment 286956
Rock N Rollercoaster (Paris): View attachment 286957 Verboltin (Busch Gardens Williamsburg): View attachment 286958 Crush's Coaster (Paris): View attachment 286959

Makes me wonder why the change for this one... Are they just building the walls first on the park/parking lot sides to hide the track layout/construction from prying eyes? Is the actual track delayed from the manufacturer and they are just doing what they can to limit delays? Or is it possible that the side of the building facing the park will have some elaborate themeing (possibly rock work?) which will take longer to complete, thus why they are constructing these walls first? I'm not sure...

Given the location it’s likely the park facing walls would be difficult to construct if they can’t use the foundation to work from.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Given the location it’s likely the park facing walls would be difficult to construct if they can’t use the foundation to work from.

That would certainly be a logical explanation.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Do we know for sure that it's going to be a giant box?

Well, the footpring is rectangular for sure. What they might do the sides and top of the building for theming/blending... no one has said.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Well, the footpring is rectangular for sure. What they might do the sides and top of the building for theming/blending... no one has said.

It would be kinda neat if it had a stepped/angled roof kinda like the main building...

 

[Winter]

Isn't the tall structure apprantantly just a big contrusction crane or something anyway? I wouldn't really consider it a major sightline problem when it will be there like 2 and a half years at most.

 

[danlb_2000]

Isn't the tall structure apprantantly just a big contrusction crane or something anyway? I wouldn't really consider it a major sightline problem when it will be there like 2 and a half years at most.

There has been a lot of debate about that, but I am leaning towards it not being a crane.

 

[RobotWolf]

Maybe an elevator shaft? Aren't they built early?