Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind SPOILER Thread

[britain]

You’d think with all the concern about bean counters in executive roles, we would feel confident that inefficient spending would get criticized internally.

 

[marni1971]

You’d think with all the concern about bean counters in executive roles, we would feel confident that inefficient spending would get criticized internally.

They’ve tried / are trying.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[Rockishcoco]

If we ignore for just one moment those who object to specific things such as the colour of the bad guy or how many references to Epcot there are (valid as those points are to those individuals), was the general consensus that this will be an exciting and fun ride for the vast majority of guests? In other words if an average guest with no preconceived ideas of what they hope it's not goes in, do you think they'll ride and come out satisfied that they had a great time and feel it's a great addition to the park?

I think general audiences will love this ride and see it as the must do for EPCOT. Now wether you agree with the average tourist or not on that will, I think, wildly vary for people on this board

Is Rocket voiced by Bradley Cooper could you tell?

EDIT:

If not, how was the soundalike?

I honestly couldn’t tell one way or the other so if it was a soundalike they did a good enough job for me.

 

[Surferboy567]

Their is our confirmation of the tracklist.

 

[flynnibus]

I'm a huge fan of randomization and wish more rides used it as an element. Seems to me that it would be one of the major upsides to using digital projections on rides over physical elements - it's one of the reasons I love Star Tours. I have felt like it was unfortunate that something like FoP (which I love anyway) doesn't use some randomizing with scenes.

given MB and how music is used in the GotG movies, I would have been disappointed to not have a variety of songs in this ride.

Too bad Rip Rocket did this ages ago with a better model - let people control/influence what they get.

 

[Surferboy567]

Too bad Rip Rocket did this ages ago with a better model - let people control/influence what they get.

In this case, I kinda think randomization works the best. Since music is so crucial to the guardians experience. Not as many songs to work with here.

 

[flynnibus]

Why are people so obsessed with the cost?

Because it relates to how willing the company is able/willing to do things next time or again.

If you blow your wad on a big meal and then have to eat ramen noodles for the next 3 weeks... the cost of the meal has consequences to future activities.

 

[flynnibus]

I don’t believe they spent it in the first place.

My guess is they spent $100-150 million but are claiming $400 million so they can have the “appearance” of bigger investment in the parks and move theoretical money on the books at the same time.

Gotta claim the executive salaries and other non revenue generating expenses on the books somewhere, accounting tricks and marketing tricks make it look like they spent money in one place but the reality is a lot of that money never came near this project.

You're confusing accounting with outright fraud. Did you see other expenses suddenly dip a few hundred million? They can't take credit for the money in multiple places.

 

[mergatroid]

I think general audiences will love this ride and see it as the must do for EPCOT. Now whether you agree with the average tourist or not on that will, I think, wildly vary for people on this board

Thanks for the reply, I'm really pleased it's a good attraction even though it's going to be about 18 months before I can ride it myself. GOTG seems a fun franchise and it would appear that's been captured and immersed into this addition. Whilst it's placement is questionable, surely it's better that what's there and can't be changed is at least a great ride.

 

[flynnibus]

You’d think with all the concern about bean counters in executive roles, we would feel confident that inefficient spending would get criticized internally.

OpEx vs Cap-Ex... very different colors of money, scrutinized very differently as well. Money they can amortize over decades they care far less about than money they have to worry about hitting their bottom line each month and each quarter.

The person trying to make a name for themselves in impact isn't going to get credit at his annual review for money saved 20yrs from now... the biggest credit is gonna come from things they can show impact 'now' or in the near-term. That's why you see erratic and flip flop kind of movements... short-timers.

 

[totchos]

Too bad Rip Rocket did this ages ago with a better model - let people control/influence what they get.

I kind of like how everyone on the train will be listening to the same song. Makes it more communal than everyone listening to something different idk

 

[totchos]

Roll-back (or rollforward technically) reported.

 

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

Let's be honest, the variety of these songs kind of sucks. Everybody Wants to Rule the World seems too slow, Conga drags in parts, and I Flew (So Far Away) just isn't really a Guardians vibe. I feel like September is the only one I LOVE. Not me being negative, just an honest critique.

 

[Rockishcoco]

Let's be honest, the variety of these songs kind of sucks. Everybody Wants to Rule the World seems too slow, Conga drags in parts, and I Flew (So Far Away) just isn't really a Guardians vibe. I feel like September is the only one I LOVE. Not me being negative, just an honest critique.

For what it’s worth I thought that I ran (so far away) went really well with the ride. I know it’s not a typical Guardians song but it works well imo.

 

[wdwmagic]

Let's be honest, the variety of these songs kind of sucks. Everybody Wants to Rule the World seems too slow, Conga drags in parts, and I Flew (So Far Away) just isn't really a Guardians vibe. I feel like September is the only one I LOVE. Not me being negative, just an honest critique.

Well that one is Zach favorite! Apparently it fits really well.

 

[Tha Realest]

Roll-back (or rollforward technically) reported.

Explain for the uninitiated (me) - is this a planned thing? Or an error

 

[Unbanshee]

Explain for the uninitiated (me) - is this a planned thing? Or an error

An error. Not enough speed to go over a hill

 

[doctornick]

Their is our confirmation of the tracklist.

It's a great list. I'm still a little unconvinced about Everybody Wants to Rule the World - it is interesting that Zack specifically calls that out to talk about because it seems to stick out as too mellow - but the others are all great and fit in well with what we have seen in the GotG movies.

As has been asked, I wonder if there are any differences in the ride corresponding to the particular songs (like how in MB you get different scenes with each song). Seems like that would be possible but probably isn't the case.

 

[doctornick]

Explain for the uninitiated (me) - is this a planned thing? Or an error

That would be a ride mishap. But it is part of the reason they do soft openings and testing so they can tinker with the ride to avoid those problems once it opens officially. IIRC rollback is when a coaster fails to clear a hill and "rolls back" to where it started (in this case, back to the launch point I would assume).

Earlier in the thread someone mentioned that they allowed CMs to re-ride if there was a problem during their ride so hopefully that happened here.