EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[splashtest]

Are most ships visibly bolted to their docking stations?

Looks awful! The base is completely blocking one fin!

 

[Incomudro]

Looks awful! The base is completely blocking one fin!

Change your viewing angle, and it's not blocked.
This ship has that central lower fin, and the whole thing is heavy.
It's not a real aircraft (which are light) shored up and mounted, and there was likely no graceful way to display it.
I'm sure Imaginears, and engineers went over a variety of solutions, and probably considered a couple of ships.
It's a fictional craft that most likely couldn't exist as an all weather, prop that's supposed to last for perhaps decades.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Very minor thing (or major) depending on how you look at it. I know this is in a different universe to the MCU, but are the Guardians going to be in the Benatar ship or the Milano?

The Benatar ship is the Guardians new craft starting in Infinity War going into Thor Love and Thunder as well as Guardians 3. The Milano was half destroyed in a crash landing during Guardians Volume 2. We have seen both ships represented in the concept art. In the main preshow room with Rocket and Groot (who may or may not be animatronic) the ship appears to be the Milano. In the ride key graphic though with the guests jumping into the jump point the ship then reverts back to the Benatar. The Milano was then shown again in that new queue art as a model. In the attraction poster (which I really like) the ship appears to be the Milano once again.

If they are going for maximum relatability in the attraction the Benatar is probably the one they will use in the attraction. It was probably the one they filmed on. Of course, I don’t know if the Milano is in Guardians 3 but going off what we have seen the Benatar is the most recent ship.

Worth noting that the Milano is commonly the Guardians ship. I’m well aware I just wrote multiple paragraphs about which made up ship will show up in a attraction but just generally curious.

The secret code name for this project was 'Sausalito.'

Which happens to be a Pepperidge Farm cookie.

Just like 'Milano.'

 

[dreday3]

The secret code name for this project was 'Sausalito.'

Which happens to be a Pepperidge Farm cookie.

Just like 'Milano.'

And now it all makes sense.

 

[TikibirdLand]

The secret code name for this project was 'Sausalito.'

Which happens to be a Pepperidge Farm cookie.

Just like 'Milano.'

The one is named Pat. I hear it's heavily armored. I heard the pilot say, Hit Me With Your Best Shot.

But, it was noisy. So, might of been, Who bolted this ship down? How do I get out of here?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Change your viewing angle, and it's not blocked.
This ship has that central lower fin, and the whole thing is heavy.
It's not a real aircraft (which are light) shored up and mounted, and there was likely no graceful way to display it.
I'm sure Imaginears, and engineers went over a variety of solutions, and probably considered a couple of ships.
It's a fictional craft that most likely couldn't exist as an all weather, prop that's supposed to last for perhaps decades.

This thing doesn’t weigh that much. It’s a prop with a tube steel support structure. There’s no reason it needs to be anything more than a shell. Dropping it onto a too large pedestal is just bad design.

 

[J4546]

I bet that prop is pretty heavy.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[durangojim]

My question is why couldn’t they have made the stand go behind the wings? Then you’d be able to see all the wings from the front and they could have decorated it with something to make it look like a background. Doesn’t seem that difficult to me.

 

[jaxonp]

Installation of the Nova Corps Starblaster wrapping up at EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind​

Installation of the Nova Corps Starblaster wrapping up at EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind

See the latest pictures of the Starblaster installation at EPCOT's World Discovery.

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Why aren’t we talking about the guy in the cockpit

 

[dreday3]

Poor guy, he has no idea the wrath heading his way about the support structure.

 

[durangojim]

Poor guy, he has no idea the wrath heading his way about the support structure.

If they had shown the support structure in the concept are this would be a non issue. Maybe they’ll have a Genie+ photo filter to edit out the support.

 

[No Name]

Well I don't know. I haven't encountered many spacecraft in my lifetime.
But this one is, isn't it?

You don’t need to have encountered any spacecraft to know that they wouldn’t connect it to a metal truss stand with 50+ bolts when it parks. Even with the very meta premise of the pavilion it hardly makes sense and also looks ugly.

 

[lazyboy97o]

If they had shown the support structure in the concept are this would be a non issue. Maybe they’ll have a Genie+ photo filter to edit out the support.

They do show the support in the art. It’s just not a big box.

 

[dreday3]

If they had shown the support structure in the concept are this would be a non issue. Maybe they’ll have a Genie+ photo filter to edit out the support.

Maybe Disney should just stop releasing concept art. Seems to be the root cause of a lot of discontent!

 

[wdwmagic]

If they had shown the support structure in the concept are this would be a non issue. Maybe they’ll have a Genie+ photo filter to edit out the support.

I think it all boils to expectation that Disney being Disney would make this thing appear to float and not sit on a stand, especially given the concept art. It seems like this would be one of those challenges that given the time and money could have been done. Although perhaps having already spent $450m on this thing the money just wasn't there to do it. Yet it then begs the question, isn't the reason it cost $450 because of things like floating ships?!?

 

[Mickeyboof]

If they had shown the support structure in the concept are this would be a non issue. Maybe they’ll have a Genie+ photo filter to edit out the support.

For only $15.99 per person per day you can use our augmented reality filters to block out all our cost-cutting decisions!! A consumer driven service.

 

[Mac Tonight]

Maybe Disney should just stop releasing concept art. Seems to be the root cause of a lot of discontent!

Eh, people would still complain. It's required activity for being on a message board.

 

[TikibirdLand]

I think it all boils to expectation that Disney being Disney would make this thing appear to float and not sit on a stand, especially given the concept art. It seems like this would be one of those challenges that given the time and money could have been done. Although perhaps having already spent $450m on this thing the money just wasn't there to do it. Yet it then begs the question, isn't the reason it cost $450 because of things like floating ships?!?

Just wait... The floating ships are INSIDE the building. Remember to duck before the Romulan warship shoots you down!

 

[No Name]

The original concept art did show the support… it had an extra fin at the bottom connected to a small thing at the bottom which looks like it would’ve provided a more discreet form of support. They clearly cheaped out at some point during the process.