News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[jt04]

Now that I think about it the Imagination building would be big enough with a few modifications.

 

[Pi on my Cake]

Sounds like Escape from Gringott's in execution, so maybe not that unique, the ride system used may be different though.

I've heard it described as "Escape from Gringott's if it wasn't ashamed of being a rollercoaster"

Essentially meaning that similar basic concept, but Gringott's has very small coaster like sections and they use the coaster aspect mostly as a way to briskly take you from screen to screen. Guardians should actually work as a good rollercoaster aside from cool/high tech show scenes whereas Gringott's works almost entirely because of the showscenes and without them the ride would be incredibly boring. The trade off here is that despite Guardians being a more thrilling ride, it may have shorter/less show scenes on the ride itself compared to Gringott's.

This comes from a friend who, while not high up the food chain enough yet to know everything going on, is definitely more than a "bus driver"

 

[Lensman]

Some posts by bioreconstruct that are mostly similar to what's already been posted, but some better pictures as well:

 

[tparris]

Lol the last one

 

[Thelazer]

Its my imagination or the track system"holders" and base looks a lot like the Kuka arm system of Forbidden Journey?

Not really.. and no there will be no Kuka on a track on this ride..

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

The site that shall not be named is claiming that the solar cells are being repaired and will be put back into place later

 

[Andrew C]

The site that shall not be named is claiming that the solar cells are being repaired and will be put back into place later

Repaired? How old are they? Seems like if they wanted to keep the panels, they would just get new ones that already meet current standards/expectations.

 

[HauntedPirate]

The site that shall not be named is claiming that the solar cells are being repaired and will be put back into place later

... except solar cells cannot really be "repaired", but let's not let facts get in the way of Clickbait's posts. Replacing the solar panels would be a smart move.

Repaired? How old are they? Seems like if they wanted to keep the panels, they would just get new ones that already meet current standards/expectations.

20 years is what I recall seeing earlier in the thread, so basically at the end of their useful life. Replacing seems more sensible.

 

[MisterPenguin]

... except solar cells cannot really be "repaired"

You just replace the old electrons with new ones.

 

[HauntedPirate]

You just replace the old electrons with new ones.

But can they reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

 

[larryz]

You just replace the old electrons with new ones.

That's what carbon offsets are for.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

Yeah uh, I don't get it either. Solar cells can't really be repaired per say.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

But hey, new cells? Cool! I mean... Hot. Er, Hotley Cool, or Cooley Hot!

 

[marni1971]

Repaired? How old are they?.

20 years is what I recall seeing earlier in the thread.

 

[MagicJack78]

It's hard to believe this project is 2.5 years away still, especially with the building going vertical already.
Can we expect installation of the coaster track soon or will it be installed once the building is enclosed?
Would be cool to see what the layout looks like.
Things appear to be going very slowly! I guess this should be anticipated.

 

[tparris]

It's hard to believe this project is 2.5 years away still, especially with the building going vertical already.
Can we expect installation of the coaster track soon or will it be installed once the building is enclosed?
Would be cool to see what the layout looks like.
Things appear to be going very slowly! I guess this should be anticipated.

Last I heard, WDI wanted to enclose the building for the most part before track installation begins, as to not allow people to see the ride system and such. They've already put up track supports in the connector to the old building though. Expect to see enclosure of the gravity building soon.

 

[eddie104]

It's hard to believe this project is 2.5 years away still, especially with the building going vertical already.
Can we expect installation of the coaster track soon or will it be installed once the building is enclosed?
Would be cool to see what the layout looks like.
Things appear to be going very slowly! I guess this should be anticipated.

Yea a coaster usually doesn’t take long to build however they did have to gut UOE which is probably going to take another year to get updated to today’s standards.

 

[ChuckElias]

Taken in July 2018

 

[ChrisFL]

so James Gunn is apparently going to DC and Dave Bautista may join him. I wonder if we won't see Drax at all in this attraction (cue the jokes about him being there but being so still we can't see him)

 

[danlb_2000]

I noticed in the photo update for the space restaurant that you can see what looks like some of the Guardians track pieced stages in that construction area...