DisneyTransport
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Hey! This is a dangerous warehouse where's your PPE?!
Anyways, the coaches look great and they seem to be making good progress!
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EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot
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Anyways, the coaches look great and they seem to be making good progress!
Disney Analyst
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While it doesn't confirm anything, the GotG poster has 5 car trains. I doubt they'd go with 2 car on a coaster this large built in the modern day. I also believe they were testing a 5 car train (one rotating car, 4 empty/dummy/weight cars) on the temporary shuttle coaster over at Vekoma (well over) a year ago.
Okay so 20 per car. Pretty good.
Does anyone know if this will have an ADA car?
Chip Chipperson
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I'm a fan of the individual lap bars instead of a shared bar for both passengers. I'm pretty much a twig so I like my lap bar tight. I still haven't seen the movies, but I'm looking forward to this ride. The rotating cars seem interesting.
lazyboy97o
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What do you mean? An "ADA car" is not a defined thing. There is almost no chance that a car will accommodate a wheelchair but at least one seat must allow transfers from a wheelchair.
PostScott
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Unless Vekoma has changed their new track design, the coaster looks to be on a maintenance track.
I also wonder what the hourly capacity will be like. I remember a disney official saying that they were not impressed with the recent e-tickets having a lower than average Disney standard hourly capacity. I hope Disney has taken into account this problem before construction began. Rockin roller coaster has an operational capacity of about 1700 per hour, however RRC has 24 riders per vehicle while Guardians has 20 (if the attraction poster is correct). I would assume that then there would be, hopefully, multiple block brakes within the main show building.
If this layout of the showbuilding is correct, then I would assume that the huge space for loading and unloading may mean that there could be two load areas, like Space mountain at WDW, then they could use a switch track to combine the two to one track? Maybe they are implementing the omnimover system like hagrids. It is really interesting as to why the load and unload area is so big. So if there are two loading stations, then thats a additional vehicle. RRC has two block brakes within the show building so I'd assume that Guardians would have 2-3. Hopefully the attraction will have a higher capacity than RRC. Guardians will overthrone Test Track as the main e-ticket in Epcot; everyone will run to it first in the morning. So I really hope Disney knows what they're doing with the capacity of the attraction.
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It will be more accessible than RNR with lower height requirements and likely seen as less thrill more theming as well, so here is hoping it has a healthy capacity.
trainplane3
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I doubt that's even maintenance. Looks like temp track (not even bolted to the ground) until they can get it onto maintenance. It's only one car long. If it were in the maintenance shed, I'd expect it to be up in the air or have a pit underneath to make it easier to look over things.
It's probably "shipping" track.
lazyboy97o
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The original Instagram post says the photo was taken in a warehouse.
JEANYLASER
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I'm so excited for this ride!!!!
trainplane3
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And this is why I should read things and not just start trying to rip images out of them at first glance.
DisneyTransport
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We called them WAV cars (wheelchair accessible vehicles) … technically you can call some TAV (transfer access vehicle) but we used WAV for both to keep it simple. I'm pretty sure it will have a couple trains that has a TAV at the end
lazyboy97o
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It definitely will. New rides are required to have at least one accessible seat per section 234.3 of the 2020 ADA Standards for Accessible Design. That seat can either accommodate a wheelchair directly (can't really secure the rider this way on a roller coaster), allow for transfers or there can be a device that enables transfers.
Giss Neric
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I like how the seats are spacious and could definitely accommodate larger sizes. Also are those speakers in the middle?
aliceismad
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I hope the ride has good capacity but I also hope that in striving for that capacity, the ride isn't so complicated design-wise that it experiences a lot of downtime. *cough, cough Hagrids, cough*
PostScott
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Looks to be so. I wonder if it'll play 80s music that's similar to the movies (and in the DCA Guardians), or if it'll be the Guardians theme with some more orchestral music, or if it'll be a mix of both.
I do think that the music will definitely make the ride. It's what sets the tone and overall setting of the attraction. The DCA Guardians has a very fun and exciting tone, so the 80s music fits it perfectly, but if Disney wants a more serious tone, then probably a mashup of the two would work better.
UNCgolf
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I don't think the ride will be long enough to play 80s music. Maybe they could play part of one song. Playing it in the queue seems possible, although I don't know if they'd want to pay to license that music. Orchestral would be cheaper.
Also the movies have really been 70s music (with a bit from the 60s) rather than 80s but I get your point.
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999th Happy Haunt
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They really do look like omnimover cars. Very cool.
BubbaisSleep
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Covid?