News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[Stripes]

 

[mergatroid]

Oh, perfect... leaving the track outside in the elements for who-knows-how-long for it to start internal rusting and corroding and falling apart before they even get it installed...

You do realise that most coasters are based outdoors?

 

[MisterPenguin]

An Avengers' "A", or the fact that the lot was tapered?

 

[larryz]

You do realize track sits outside the factory it's made for days, weeks, or months at a time right? The B&M factory in Ohio usually has a mess of finished track pieces waiting to be delivered.


Or was this a joke I missed?

You do realise that most coasters are based outdoors?

 

[Thelazer]

Nah, clearly that's the Contempoary's Logo, not the Avengers "A"

 

[trainplane3]

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Ya...I'll take that one. I assumed you were going after the fact they were all "laid out" not the whole "coasters are outside 99% of the time".

Hard to believe though but people do really question having coaster parts in fields. It's seen differently when they're built vs separated out like that. Something about water corroding from the inside out....ya I don't get it either.

Truly a brain fart to the n'th degree on my part.

 

[larryz]

Ya...I'll take that one. I assumed you were going after the fact they were all "laid out" not the whole "coasters are outside 99% of the time".

Hard to believe though but people do really question having coaster parts in fields. It's seen differently when they're built vs separated out like that. Something about water corroding from the inside out....ya I don't get it either.

Truly a brain fart to the n'th degree on my part.

I can only assume that the ride will be air conditioned, and all the alligators will be escorted out of the gravity building prior to soft opening...

 

[danlb_2000]

Oh, perfect... leaving the track outside in the elements for who-knows-how-long for it to start internal rusting and corroding and falling apart before they even get it installed...

… or for some urbexer to come and steal.

 

[DisneyCane]

That’s actually not a bad idea, put a camera on the back and project the sky on the front in real-time conditions. It may not work well at night or during sunrise/sunset (because of the layers of light colors appearing differently at different vantage points), but I would guess that would dramatically improve its camouflage during most daytime conditions!

You could only do it during the day with an LED display that would cost 10s of millions of dollars. No projector is bright enough to overcome the sun on a surface more than a few square feet in size.

 

[Almac97]

Oh, perfect... leaving the track outside in the elements for who-knows-how-long for it to start internal rusting and corroding and falling apart before they even get it installed...

Yeah. They're probably going to have to tear down and retrack SDD every 3 years!

 

[GlacierGlacier]

I still giggle a bit whenever someone says "Oh, just stick a camera and a projector on it."

Ignoring the technical challenges, like projection brightness, camera resolution, weather, etc, there's one big conceptual issue: perspective. Sure, it may look like you can see right through it from the right perspective. But pretty much everywhere else would make Hyperion theater look realistic.

Try it for yourself. Open the camera app on your phone. Rotate your phone 20-45° away from your face. Does the perspective still match?

There's dozens of other challenges associated with that approach. You're talking about digital stealth, something that exists pretty much only in sci-fi at a scale like that.

Would it be cool? Hell yeah. Is it feasible for this project? Not one bit.

 

[Lensman]

I still giggle a bit whenever someone says "Oh, just stick a camera and a projector on it."

Ignoring the technical challenges, like projection brightness, camera resolution, weather, etc, there's one big conceptual issue: perspective. Sure, it may look like you can see right through it from the right perspective. But pretty much everywhere else would make Hyperion theater look realistic.

Try it for yourself. Open the camera app on your phone. Rotate your phone 20-45° away from your face. Does the perspective still match?

There's dozens of other challenges associated with that approach. You're talking about digital stealth, something that exists pretty much only in sci-fi at a scale like that.

Would it be cool? Hell yeah. Is it feasible for this project? Not one bit.

I still like the idea I presented a couple of hundred pages back - mirrors.

But then they'd risk blinding people or inadvertently creating a death ray...

 

[GlacierGlacier]

I still like the idea I presented a couple of hundred pages back - mirrors.

But then they'd risk blinding people or inadvertently creating a death ray...

Or just turn into the WoM building, with bendy panels and tacky inconsistencies

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

Other than it being the beast of a warehouse that it is, it slightly blends in. View attachment 340603

Ya know, I’m not gonna lie, it took me a second to spot it there.

 

[Incomudro]

Ya know, I’m not gonna lie, it took me a second to spot it there.

Plant some of those very tall palm trees in front of it to break up the outline and it'd help more.

 

[Missing20K]

Or just turn into the WoM building, with bendy panels and tacky inconsistencies

In fairness, the tacky inconsistencies only happened when it became TT.

 

[Incomudro]

I still like the idea I presented a couple of hundred pages back - mirrors.

But then they'd risk blinding people or inadvertently creating a death ray...

Mirrors would have given the building a modern tech look and brought it out more in competition with Spaceship Earth.
We would have had a giant mirrored cube competing for attention with a giant white sphere.
Much as I've got reservations about how they went about doing this, I think it is best that they decided to try to draw attention away from this monstrosity.

 

[trainplane3]

In fairness, the tacky inconsistencies only happened when it became TT.

Seriously...just tear down the ugly scaffolding and build a lower, smaller, more thematically fitting roof from the front of the building. You can still have a small area for queue overflow while making it look cleaner. At least it won't look bad from a distance then.

 

[GlacierGlacier]

I like the test track scaffolding

 

[Missing20K]

I like the test track scaffolding

What, then, do you feel are the tacky inconsistencies you referenced?