News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[Mac Tonight]

Hard to judge this early on. Many don't feel like it will be, but the comics have been out for 50 years and the movie is 5 years old has has spun 2 sequels. The movie will be 7 when the ride it is based on comes out. For reference:

Attraction	Movie	How old was the IP
Sleeping Beauty Castle (1955)*	Sleeping Beauty (1959)	-4
Mr. Toads Wild Ride (1955)*	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)	6
Alice in Wonderland (1958)*	Alice in Wonderland (1951)	7
Peter Pan's Flight (1955)*	Peter Pan (1953)	2
Mad Tea Party (1955)*	Alice in Wonderland (1951)	4
Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin (1994)*	Roger Rabbit (1988)	6
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1999)*	Bought the IP in 2001	-2
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin (1998)	Toy Story 2 (1999)	-1
Magic Carpets of Aladdin (2001)	Aladdin (1992)	9
Stitch's Great Escape! (2004)	Lilo and Stitch (2002)	2

*Denotes outside IP bought or used by Disney

And yet the supposedly "not timeless" Twilight Zone came out in 1959 and has been and continues to be more influential on pop culture as a whole.

 

[peter11435]

And yet the supposedly "not timeless" Twilight Zone came out in 1959 and has been and continues to be more influential on pop culture as a whole.

I think that’s highly debatable.

 

[Mac Tonight]

I think that’s highly debatable.

Twilight Zone is less influential on pop culture than Guardians of the Galaxy???

OK. That's a new one.

 

[RSoxNo1]

It’s certainly thrilling, but this would’ve been more fun.

Can we use that design for when we move Space Mountain to Epcot?

 

[Mike S]

Can we use that design for when we move Space Mountain to Epcot?

No. Space isn’t moving.

 

[ToTBellHop]

No. Space isn’t moving.

Here’s the 20-year plan:
1. Space moves to Epcot, replacing Mission Space
2. Mission Space moves to MK
3. Small world moves to Epcot, replacing Soarin but connecting to World Showcase
4. Soarin moves to Animal Kingdom, replacing Pandora
5. Pandora moves to DHS, replacing Toy Story Land
6. Toy Story Land moves to MK where small world was
7. Mission Space falls into sinkhole at MK
8. Space Mountain moves back to MK, leaving Epcot with Space 220 in front of 6 “out of this world!” food booths

A mere $7.6 billion allows four parks to get 8 new E tickets!

 

[Mike S]

Here’s the 20-year plan:
1. Space moves to Epcot, replacing Mission Space
2. Mission Space moves to MK
3. Small world moves to Epcot, replacing Soarin but connecting to World Showcase
4. Soarin moves to Animal Kingdom, replacing Pandora
5. Pandora moves to DHS, replacing Toy Story Land
6. Toy Story Land moves to MK where small world was
7. Mission Space falls into sinkhole at MK
8. Space Mountain moves back to MK, leaving Epcot with Space 220 in front of 6 “out of this world!” food booths

A mere $7.6 billion allows four parks to get 8 new E tickets!

The only attraction move I’d think made any sense would be CoP to Epcot with an updated show. That’s it.

 

[RSoxNo1]

No. Space isn’t moving.

Here’s the 20-year plan:
1. Space moves to Epcot, replacing Mission Space
2. Mission Space moves to MK
3. Small world moves to Epcot, replacing Soarin but connecting to World Showcase
4. Soarin moves to Animal Kingdom, replacing Pandora
5. Pandora moves to DHS, replacing Toy Story Land
6. Toy Story Land moves to MK where small world was
7. Mission Space falls into sinkhole at MK
8. Space Mountain moves back to MK, leaving Epcot with Space 220 in front of 6 “out of this world!” food booths

A mere $7.6 billion allows four parks to get 8 new E tickets!

The only attraction move I’d think made any sense would be CoP to Epcot with an updated show. That’s it.

Space Mountain needs a top to bottom rebuild, in a perfect world I would have done that concurrently with the Tron and Guardians builds and put Tron and Guardians in MK with Space going to Epcot.

it's a small world absolutely belongs in Showcase Plaza. Since we're playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and moving stuff around, might as well change the entrance to Soarin' so that it's also coming out of Showcase Plaza.

Mission: SPACE can be replaced by Space Mountain.

The it's a small world area in Fantasyland as well as Pinocchio's Village Haus and Enchanted Tales with Belle gets replaced with a Beauty and the Beast, Frozen and Tangled section.

Frozen in Norway gets replaced with something that actually fits in Norway.

This will require a time machine, but I have faith Imagineering can do it.

 

[MisterPenguin]

It's a Small World belongs in Spaceship Earth. It makes so much sense.

More sense then having a building represent Earth, but the ride be a history of communication or story-telling.

 

[No Name]

It’s odd that the sign in front of the pavilion continued to say Universe of Energy instead of Ellen’s Energy Adventure. Hey folks, do we think that when Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opens, the sign will still just say Universe of Energy?

Because the rides were mostly designed to be easily updated. The majority of them had long "history" sections - the future segments were either film (UoE, Land), simple displays (Motion,Seas, Life, Spaceship) or ignored completely (imagination). Communicore was designed for displays to be ever changing. The only one that really went hard into the future was Horizons.

It was more the style of ride rather than the content that became dated. Not to say the replacements have been timeless by any means.

 

[FigmentJedi]

Hard to judge this early on. Many don't feel like it will be, but the comics have been out for 50 years and the movie is 5 years old has has spun 2 sequels. The movie will be 7 when the ride based on it comes out.

The Guardians of the Galaxy lineup as we now know it has only existed for about 11 years and is far removed from that original generation that had Yondu. The characters in the roster everyone now associates with Guardians are plucked from across Marvel's history, but that 2008 run re-invented quite a few of its cast members, especially Groot.

 

[PorterRedkey]

Fair enough. But it's always UoE that we miss, not Ellen.

UoE was an artistic kinetic movie preshow(with a divine song), followed by an original animated movie, next a 6 minute ride (short by EPCOT standards, but grand in scale. When did you last see a t-rex fight a stegosaurus above on a cliff above your head?), followed by a 12? minute live-action movie (the only normal movie! But on massive semi-surround screens), concluded by a laser mirror finale to rousing music.* Quite the succession of different media. Unlike Ellen, which four times in a row projects tv show quality segments.

*To which one can add the Energy Exchange in CC, an awesome exhibit that wouldn't be misplaced in any science museum.

I couldn’t agree more!! Well said.

 

[PorterRedkey]

To be honest, I was mostly talking about the Rocket pre-show.

Outside the stretching room and Star Tours, that’s as cool as a DLR queue gets.

Justified or not, I can tell most posters bristle at having to say anything complimentary. But the Rocket pre-show is really impressive.

Uhhh... The Indiana Jones queue is one of the best in the world.

 

[tparris]

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

When did you last see a t-rex fight a stegosaurus above on a cliff above your head?

About 2 & 1/3 years ago, give or take a day.

 

[tparris]

About 2 & 1/3 years ago, give or take a day.

Absolutely brilliant

 

[Mike S]

About 2 & 1/3 years ago, give or take a day.

Actually the answer is never because that wasn’t a T-Rex. It was an Allosaurus

 

[Rteetz]

 

[Touchdown]

About 2 & 1/3 years ago, give or take a day.

October 6, 2019: aboard the one and only Disneyland Railroad

 

[Incomudro]

Actually the answer is never because that wasn’t a T-Rex. It was an Allosaurus

What if it was a three fingered T-Rex sent back from the Cretaceous?