News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

No Name

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I was just reminded that this “other-world showcase” pavilion is dedicated to a civilization that was, canonically, violently destroyed and it’s population massacred. Sort of like if SWL had been based on Alderaan. Seems like some wires got crossed between the studios and the parks.
Well Xandar is never shown after 2014… We hear that it was “decimated” by Thanos but don’t know the extent of the damage, and the population presumably came back in 2023. So I imagine they pick themselves back up. It’s probably not at all like Alderaan.

Nevermind the fact that the theme park stuff isn’t bound to MCU canon. Specifically there was no snap. So presumably Xander is completely fine.
 

999th Happy Haunt

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Well Xandar is never shown after 2014… We hear that it was “decimated” by Thanos but don’t know the extent of the damage, and the population presumably came back in 2023. So I imagine they’ve picked themselves back up. It’s probably not at all like Alderaan.
Pretty sure Disney said somewhere the MCU and the Marvel theme park rides don’t take place in the same timeline. Not a Galaxy’s Edge type situation.
 

Casper Gutman

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Well Xandar is never shown after 2014… We hear that it was “decimated” by Thanos but don’t know the extent of the damage, and the population presumably came back in 2023. So I imagine they pick themselves back up. It’s probably not at all like Alderaan.

Nevermind the fact that the theme park stuff isn’t bound to MCU canon. Specifically there was no snap. So presumably Xander is completely fine.
Yes, but he didn’t snap Xander. They had the power stone and an elite military force, so there was a devastating battle, and then he slaughtered half the population the old fashioned way, as he was doing before getting all the stones - think of Gamora’s world. So presumably, there was no post-snap undoing.

And Disney can say the theme park stuff takes place outside of canon, and thus technically it does, but they’re sort of having their cake and eating it too - they went out of their way to bring Batuu into canon in Solo, and Cosmic is directed by the director of every Guardians movie with the full film cast. It’s canon in all but the most technical sense.

This isn’t a criticism, by the way, just a conversation. It probably would have been more visually interesting and narratively simple to theme the ride to Knowwhere - then we could get Cosmo the space dog, who is on the Skyway gondola anyway.
 

Giss Neric

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It has at least two lift hills and at least one launch, and several block sections (from the parts that are visible)

It's neither a top hat launch coaster nor a fully dark nothing else happens coaster.

A better comparison would be Gringotts which is only 2000ft and one thing I consider a downside of gringotts is it's so short lived, so for me Cosmic Rewind being 6000ft or more is a metric I would consider a good thing not something to be ignored
Interesting. Gringotts has actual show scenes where they stop and watch though and I don't think Cosmic will have that or will they or are you just talking about the coaster part and the rotating vehicles? I feel like it's all effects where you can still see it while speeding through and not necessarily have to stop.
 

tommyhawkins

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Interesting. Gringotts has actual show scenes where they stop and watch though and I don't think Cosmic will have that or will they or are you just talking about the coaster part and the rotating vehicles? I feel like it's all effects where you can still see it while speeding through and not necessarily have to stop.
There is a lot of unknowns but it's likely at least one show scene occurs before the lunch tunnel, the projection "dome"/helix. Are they stop and talk scenes, throughout exactly like gringotts? Maybe .. maybe not, I guess the point is the trains are directive to get you to look at particular places. I would guess that some parts are more than fly through like Aerosmith but less than full scenes like gringotts.
I’m bad with measurements - how many of those feet are spent getting to the gravity building?
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DreamfinderGuy

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There is a lot of unknowns but it's likely at least one show scene occurs before the lunch tunnel, the projection "dome"/helix. Are they stop and talk scenes, throughout exactly like gringotts? Maybe .. maybe not, I guess the point is the trains are directive to get you to look at particular places. I would guess that some parts are more than fly through like Aerosmith but less than full scenes like gringotts.

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I believe it was confirmed (or at least mentioned by insiders) that there will be no Gringott’s-like full stops, but there will be some slowdowns for scenes.
 

No Name

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Yes, but he didn’t snap Xander. They had the power stone and an elite military force, so there was a devastating battle, and then he slaughtered half the population the old fashioned way, as he was doing before getting all the stones - think of Gamora’s world. So presumably, there was no post-snap undoing.

And Disney can say the theme park stuff takes place outside of canon, and thus technically it does, but they’re sort of having their cake and eating it too - they went out of their way to bring Batuu into canon in Solo, and Cosmic is directed by the director of every Guardians movie with the full film cast. It’s canon in all but the most technical sense.

This isn’t a criticism, by the way, just a conversation. It probably would have been more visually interesting and narratively simple to theme the ride to Knowwhere - then we could get Cosmo the space dog, who is on the Skyway gondola anyway.
I mean at the end of the day they’re just handling the Star Wars and Marvel explanations completely differently and I don’t think that’s an issue in the slightest bit. Half of us on earth aren’t dead right now either. But yeah you may be right about there being no undoing there.
 

DCLcruiser

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Well Xandar is never shown after 2014… We hear that it was “decimated” by Thanos but don’t know the extent of the damage, and the population presumably came back in 2023. So I imagine they pick themselves back up. It’s probably not at all like Alderaan.

Nevermind the fact that the theme park stuff isn’t bound to MCU canon. Specifically there was no snap. So presumably Xander is completely fine.
Decimated…That would mean every 10 people were killed. So they could repopulate.
 

celluloid

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I mean at the end of the day they’re just handling the Star Wars and Marvel explanations completely differently and I don’t think that’s an issue in the slightest bit. Half of us on earth aren’t dead right now either. But yeah you may be right about there being no undoing there.

I think it will be ok. No one complains about how they handle Beauty and The Beast in the parks, which is incredibly confusing. ;-p
 

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
I just meant it still has that use in specific situations as opposed to being a completely lost meaning.

It definitely didn't have that meaning in the way he was using it, of course.
The original meaning is long gone. I can't think of an instance in my life when anyone used it to mean "one out of ten" rather than "most."

Usage specialists have long gave up and acknowledge that decimated is just a synonym for devastated.

It now works better to mean one out of ten survived!! ;)
 

UNCgolf

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The original meaning is long gone. I can't think of an instance in my life when anyone used it to mean "one out of ten" rather than "most."

Usage specialists have long gave up and acknowledge that decimated is just a synonym for devastated.

It now works better to mean one out of ten survived!! ;)

I can think of a ton! But that's because my undergrad degree was in ancient history and I still do a lot of non-fiction history reading. "Decimation" is still used to refer to killing a tenth there, mostly in reference to ancient Rome but not exclusively (because other militaries have done it more recently).

It's a bit different than a word where the original meaning no longer exists at all in any contemporary usage -- something like naughty, which originally meant that a person had nothing.

I am admittedly being technical, if not outright pedantic! What you're saying is definitely correct for common usage.
 
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