The animatronic is very nice, but man - Disney continues to underwhelm at making theme park attractions based on the most successful IP in film history. It's genuinely worrying - Disney parks have gone all in on IPs AND have the greatest IP in the world to work with, yet have produced NOTHING innovative or spectacular. In fact, with Avengers Campus, they managed to turn that IP into perhaps the worst land Disney ever built. At some point, its not just a failure of management or corporate structure, its also a fundamental failure of Imagineering.
I think they’ve been particularly bad once Scot Drake took over as lead (same guy who led the Tron coaster design). They all seem to overlook details, lack a compelling story, and come off as cold. Not sure how much I should blame the person at the top but it’s hard to ignore the similar flaws a lot of these attractions have.
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The alien text at the bottom says:Dedication plaque added to the Wonders of Xandar Pavilion at EPCOT
Dedication plaque added to the Wonders of Xandar Pavilion at EPCOT
Finishing touches are still be added to EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind.
Pretty rich from a culture that has arrested and imprisoned all Earthlings they meet!
Problem is, that you lack understanding.
To be fair: we didn't send our best to Xandar.
It was in the concept art. That's all I think we've heard on the subject.
But so were Groot and Rocket AAs and a much more elaborate preshow, so concept art is worth next to nothing, unfortunately.
Concept art is nothing more than than that- it’s just a concept of what they’re thinking of at the time the image was created. Then the reality of actually building something comes into the mix and you get quotes from fabricators and you realize the project budget can’t afford what was in the concept art so you go back to the drawing board to ‘simplify’ the design to keep it within the budget. It happens on every single park and attraction ever built by every single operator and fabricator in the industry. I’ll never understand why people get so fixated on every detail of ‘concept art’ and obsess about everything in the image that didn’t arrive in the final attraction. Projects have budgets, no matter who is building it.
Concept art is not just concept art. It is made through all phases of design, well beyond the actual concept design phase. The idea that a few animatronics were too much for the world’s most expensive attraction, especially when one had already been designed for a project with less than ¼ of the budget, is laughable. This project was the closest thing any team has ever had to there being no budget.
I really wonder where the money went. It's fun and neat but it doesn't make sense it's half billion. Preshow has the lifting walls, entrance has a pointy thing and projector, ride has screens everywhere. The warehouse wasn't that much for sure. Was it the price of demo and updating of the UoE building?
