I don't think it should be just UoE easter eggs, it should be Epcot pre-1996 easter eggs.
Wouldn't that be jarring though to see, for example, an easter egg about Kitchen Kabaret? Or Maelstrom? It would all have to be down to context.
Maelstrom wouldn't make sense actually. IIRC Peter Quill is taken in 1988. But I could see Rocket taking the engine out of Dreamfinders vehicle, repurposing the Horizons butler, or integrating the progress city model. There are a lot of possibilities here.
That would also be a lot to accomplish on a roller coaster.
Easter Eggs is one thing, but a lot of people are predicting/hoping for direct references, or that the entire attraction will be built around this premise. I'm (sadly) skeptical of that.
I'd be skeptical of a whole build-around...but maybe the references will be more obvious.
Especially since classic Epcot has been gone for decade(s) whereas TOT directly preceded MB as an immensely popular attraction (wich UoE was NOT). But yes, one can only hope! And I do hope I'm wrong.
I'm just hoping its not a ghastly abomination of an attraction and adheres even slightly to Epcot's actual vision and not just the made up vision the current management has in its head, aka IPcot.
I agree with this entirely, but my concern is that just because Peter Quill remembers '80s Epcot doesn't mean Joe Schmoe who visits the park in 2021 is going to remember (heck, even be aware of) '80s Epcot. Which would leave the ride as a head-scratcher to most (even if people like us would love it).
So...Disney wants to cannibalize an original attraction to fit in an IP whose premise would be that the main character is disgruntled Epcot isn't as great as it once was, so let's go back in time and bring it back to how it used to be?
Is it really a roller coaster?
It has never been denied by an insider that it would be a coaster...clearly its still too far out to tell. but that seems to be the overriding sentiment.
Agreed.
A lot of the references could be more thoroughly presented in the queue and then pop up occasionally on the ride itself.
True. That has worked out well for MB.
It's a rollercoaster.
A roller coaster with dark ride elements?
^^There you have it!
