EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[larryz]

Yep, I don't know what happened but I measured it again and the length and width appear to have been doubled somehow the first time I measured it (Google Earth Pro). Glitch, I think. The actual volume is closer to 10 million cubic feet. Still really, really big, but much smaller than I got the first time. Sorry. My bad.

What dimensions did you come up with?

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I’m just Wow’d at yet another ridiculous comment about theming consistency at WDW parks. DHS on Sunset Boulevard has 1940s theming. RNRC with Aerosmith is inconsistent with the overall theme of this area and the park as a whole. Replacing Aerosmith with Guardians is so theming inconsistent that I wonder if you’re having what Steve Tyler is. At DCA, the whole point of Guardians in ToT is a theming change. They will turn Sunset Boulevard into Superheroes Land if they ever decide to add Marvel into DHS.

Try to understand what you’re saying.

Sunset Boulevard is themed to present day - a present day where the building at the end has been abandoned since the 40’s and much of the rest of the street preserved its historic architecture. G-Force Records is a contemporary tenant on a street that’s set in the present day. Like how in big cities new buildings go up next to old ones and don’t necessarily share styles.

It’s not the most glorious and overt example of thematic consistency, but it is an example of it.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Sunset Boulevard is themed to present day - a present day where the building at the end has been abandoned since the 40’s and much of the rest of the street preserved its historic architecture. G-Force Records is a contemporary tenant on a street that’s set in the present day. Like how in big cities new buildings go up next to old ones and don’t necessarily share styles.

It’s not the most glorious and overt example of thematic consistency, but it is an example of it.

Does the existence of a Victory Garden mean we're currently at war?

 

[Goofyque']

Does the existence of a Victory Garden mean we're currently at war?

Almost always! Either way it certainly fits with the 40s...Love going back there.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Sunset Boulevard is themed to present day - a present day where the building at the end has been abandoned since the 40’s and much of the rest of the street preserved its historic architecture. G-Force Records is a contemporary tenant on a street that’s set in the present day. Like how in big cities new buildings go up next to old ones and don’t necessarily share styles.

It’s not the most glorious and overt example of thematic consistency, but it is an example of it.

The park doesn’t have a clear timing. Hollywood Blvd. was 1930s, Sunset 1940s, Echo Lake 1950s as supported by architecture and, especially, Streetmosphere. RnRC and ToT are explicitly set “today”. So I guess the Streetmosphere is supposed to be random actors pretending to be from those decades? It’s long been a “just go with it” theme but I’m fine with it since I love the placemaking at the front of the park.

 

[DanielBB8]

You do know the backstory for the bellhops don’t you?

I will summarize the backstories I just read. 1. Ghosts particularly one that died on Platform D, but this ghost story doesn’t explain the other Bellhops and how they got there in the present. 2. Cast Members playing movie roles. 3. Bellhop that dematerialized into the Twilight Zone and likely roaming the grounds (alluded in attraction narrator in epilogue) and now prepping your room as if it’s you’re actually in the past time.

Ghosts and metaphysic Twilight Zone are not the same thing.

Sunset Boulevard is themed to present day - a present day where the building at the end has been abandoned since the 40’s and much of the rest of the street preserved its historic architecture. G-Force Records is a contemporary tenant on a street that’s set in the present day. Like how in big cities new buildings go up next to old ones and don’t necessarily share styles.

It’s not the most glorious and overt example of thematic consistency, but it is an example of it.

This got me thinking every more about the theming inconsistency. Preshow: Hollywood, 1939. Twilight Zone anthology series was 1959 to 1964 with a Rod Sterling performance designed for that time period. The actual attraction opened on July 1994 and the television show to commemorate it on 1997.

 

[TJJohn12]

I had always taken "The time is now, on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed..." to mean that as we stand in the library, we've already been transitioned to 1961 (judging by Serling's age in the episode on the TV). But that's the Twilight Zone geek in me speaking right there...

 

[marni1971]

I will summarize the backstories I just read. 1. Ghosts particularly one that died on Platform D, but this ghost story doesn’t explain the other Bellhops and how they got there in the present. 2. Cast Members playing movie roles. 3. Bellhop that dematerialized into the Twilight Zone and likely roaming the grounds (alluded in attraction narrator in epilogue) and now prepping your room as if it’s you’re actually in the past time.

You don’t know it then. I’ll write it out when I have more time.

How about the G-Force backstory?

 

[DanielBB8]

You don’t know it then. I’ll write it out when I have more time.

How about the G-Force backstory?

Fine. Then I’ll quote everything I read back to you. I don’t mind another backstory to add. Maybe save yourself some trouble by citing the official link.

 

[marni1971]

FIne. Then I’ll quote everything I read back to you.

There’s no point quoting if it’s wrong now is there?

 

[DanielBB8]

There’s no point quoting if it’s wrong now is there?

Then you can stop right now.

 

[marni1971]

Then you can stop right now.

I’m not the one quoting misinformation.

 

[DanielBB8]

I’m not the one quoting misinformation.

If you quote yourself by writing it yourself, then I cannot verify it, could I?

 

[marni1971]

If you quote yourself by writing it yourself, then I cannot verify it, could I?

I didn’t write the bellhop backstory. TJ W did.

 

[DanielBB8]

I didn’t write the bellhop backstory. TJ W did.

“T.J. Wollard at Tower of Terror is by far the most "in character" of any CM I have ever seen at WDW.”

So a CM invented his own backstory for the Bellhop? That’s certainly new.

 

[MisterPenguin]

You don’t know it then. I’ll write it out when I have more time.

How about the G-Force backstory?

G-Force is a special team of trained secret agent animals, equipped with advanced tools that allow the mammalian members to talk to humans. The primary field team consists of guinea pigs Darwin, Blaster, and Juarez, star-nosed mole Speckles (cyber intelligence), and housefly Mooch (Reconnaissance). The unit's leader Ben, orders an unauthorized infiltration of the residence of home electronics and appliances magnate, Leonard Saber, the owner of Saberling Industries, who has been under FBI investigation and is working for an unseen mastermind named Mr. Yanshu. The team is able to retrieve sensitive information about a sinister scheme that is set to occur in 48 hours. However, when Ben's superior Kip Killian arrives for his evaluation, his astonishment at the team's capabilities and technology is overcome by his indignation at Ben's unauthorized mission and the fact that the downloaded intelligence appears to be useless information about Saber's coffeemakers. As a result, the government agent orders the unit shut down, the equipment seized and the animals to be used as experimental subjects to be killed. With the help of their human compatriots, Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, Mooch and Speckles escape with hopes of stopping Saber's scheme, but find themselves in a pet carrying case bound for a pet shop.

 

[Rich Brownn]

"Peter visited Epcot as a kid" is only the first half of their backstory. Per the Guardians dance party storyline, the second half is that Quill decided to use those childhood memories to pitch Xandar on the idea of introducing Earth to Nova Corps by way of establishing a Xandar Pavilion at Epcot, but in Future World instead of World Showcase.

Too bad Xandar got blown up

 

[FigmentJedi]

Too bad Xandar got blown up

Not in the Marvel Theme Park Universe. Of course, they don't seem to do much to distinguish it from the MCU otherwise.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Too bad Xandar got blown up

Not in the Marvel Theme Park Universe. Of course, they don't seem to do much to distinguish it from the MCU otherwise.

Not blown up in the MCU, either. Nova Corps was destoryed in the battle with Thanos over a power stone, then the population was halved in Thanos' culling. But Xandar and half of its population still exists.

 

[JohnD]

The park doesn’t have a clear timing. Hollywood Blvd. was 1930s, Sunset 1940s, Echo Lake 1950s as supported by architecture and, especially, Streetmosphere. RnRC and ToT are explicitly set “today”. So I guess the Streetmosphere is supposed to be random actors pretending to be from those decades? It’s long been a “just go with it” theme but I’m fine with it since I love the placemaking at the front of the park.

You mean Hollywood has architecture from different eras like just about any other city? Who knew?