EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind SPOILER Thread

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

-MINOR SPOILERS-

So, I just got off. I preface this with the fact that I am an EPCOT purist, which you may have already known. This. Ride. Is. Insane. The queue is very EPCOT centric offering an edutainment value that the park has been sorely lacking. Preshow-wise, the "wow moment" here vastly blows away the shuttle on Rise of the Resistance. Absolutely insanity. The ride seats are incredibly comfortable and padded well, offering a comfortable ride. During the experience, there is a lot of movement, but no direct spinning. It almost feels like a waterside with really high walls. Super slippery and fun. The physical setpieces are simple yet effective, and offer a much needed tangible element. My only main concern is that the hex jump points are done in the exact method of the street signs in Rockin Roller Coaster, and are visible before they're lit up to the keen eye. The star field effect is a definite "plus" to Space Mountain, and offers a 3D effect on the ride vehicles. All in all, this is a 10/10 experience, which could only be tarnished slightly by bad luck with a soundtrack. I don't mind losing Ellen's for this, and appreciate the numerous references to the attraction.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

-MINOR SPOILERS-

So, I just got off. I preface this with the fact that I am an EPCOT purist, which you may have already known. This. Ride. Is. Insane. The queue is very EPCOT centric offering an edutainment value that the park has been sorely lacking. Preshow-wise, the "wow moment" here vastly blows away the shuttle on Rise of the Resistance. Absolutely insanity. The ride seats are incredibly comfortable and padded well, offering a comfortable ride. During the experience, there is a lot of movement, but no direct spinning. It almost feels like a waterside with really high walls. Super slippery and fun. The physical setpieces are simple yet effective, and offer a much needed tangible element. My only main concern is that the hex jump points are done in the exact method of the street signs in Rockin Roller Coaster, and are visible before they're lit up to the keen eye. The star field effect is a definite "plus" to Space Mountain, and offers a 3D effect on the ride vehicles. All in all, this is a 10/10 experience, which could only be tarnished slightly by bad luck with a soundtrack. I don't mind losing Ellen's for this, and appreciate the numerous references to the attraction.

What song did you have?

 

[DCBaker]

During the experience, there is a lot of movement, but no direct spinning. It almost feels like a waterside with really high walls. Super slippery and fun.

This is a really good description of how it felt! My spouse did feel queasy, but not enough that they couldn’t ride again. I was a little surprised how intense some areas were. So smooth!

 

[flynnibus]

Preshow-wise, the "wow moment" here vastly blows away the shuttle on Rise of the Resistance. Absolutely insanity

Star Trek The Experience 1998 would like a word with you

 

[Royal Purple Pigment]

Just rode this.... amazing ride!

 

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

What song did you have?

Blink and you miss it. Surely Imagineering didn't construct some mammoth Eson rig only for us to not see it!?

Ive done it 5 times and haven't seen what you're talking about. Maybe you're mistaking the physical stars you pass by right after the launch... I got Conga, One Way or Another, Rule the World (twice), and September. September and Conga were the winners, by far.

 

[flyerjab]

-MINOR SPOILERS-

So, I just got off. I preface this with the fact that I am an EPCOT purist, which you may have already known. This. Ride. Is. Insane. The queue is very EPCOT centric offering an edutainment value that the park has been sorely lacking. Preshow-wise, the "wow moment" here vastly blows away the shuttle on Rise of the Resistance. Absolutely insanity. The ride seats are incredibly comfortable and padded well, offering a comfortable ride. During the experience, there is a lot of movement, but no direct spinning. It almost feels like a waterside with really high walls. Super slippery and fun. The physical setpieces are simple yet effective, and offer a much needed tangible element. My only main concern is that the hex jump points are done in the exact method of the street signs in Rockin Roller Coaster, and are visible before they're lit up to the keen eye. The star field effect is a definite "plus" to Space Mountain, and offers a 3D effect on the ride vehicles. All in all, this is a 10/10 experience, which could only be tarnished slightly by bad luck with a soundtrack. I don't mind losing Ellen's for this, and appreciate the numerous references to the attraction.

I haven’t posted on this site in years but still check in at times. I just got off this ride and it is an 11/10. The queue is incredibly well done, with a lot of different things to look at and keep you edutained. And I truly mean that. They sneak it in throughout the queue for this ride. And there is a really cool wow moment in one of the pre-show rooms that is pulled off perfectly. I ride several times and there are audible gasps when it happens.

The ride is pure insanity. It is so smooth and fluid with some quick helixes throughout. What makes this unique is the turning of the individual cars. You get this feeling of hurtling and turning through the stars at a pretty good speed. And we were lucky enough to get Tears for Fears on our second ride so we were singing during the entirety of the ride.

The screens were actually very good and fit this type of ride effectively. The way the story in the queue is written having Rocket or Groot as animatronics would not have made sense. Rides don’t need animatronics to be impressive. And with the speed that the omnicoaster moves, animatronics during the ride would have been a waste. You may give your impressions based off of on ride videos and be completely not picking this ride apart and that is your right. But in this instance, they do justice to nothing pertaining to this ride. You have to have ridden to know what people are talking about. They outdid themselves with this attraction. Bravo Disney!

 

[Casper Gutman]

Star Trek The Experience 1998 would like a word with you

Yeah, this is one area where I know I am being exceedingly and somewhat unfairly critical, but its a little grating to see so much praise for an effect a non-Disney attraction did better 25 years ago. GotG takes you into a room where it is clear something is going to happen, draws your attention to the stationary ceiling, and reveals a room that is very aesthetically similar. Star Trek placed guests into a very standard "theme-park attraction" loading room, lining them up in front of numbered doors and playing a standard theme park safety video - and then yanked up the walls and slid in a new ceiling to transport guests to a dramatically different environment that also happened to be one of the most iconic locations in all of sci-fi. It honestly makes the GotG effect look amateur. And yes, this is me being excessively grumpy.

 

[Casper Gutman]

I've asked this before but I think its kind of a big deal - WHY is this a time travel attraction? How does that alter the ride in any significant way?

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Ive done it 5 times and haven't seen what you're talking about. Maybe you're mistaking the physical stars you pass by right after the launch... I got Conga, One Way or Another, Rule the World (twice), and September. September and Conga were the winners, by far.

You're likely correct I just can't tell what I'm seeing in the YouTube videos. Particularly this one at the 11:00 mark.

Looks like Eson but can't tell if it's projection or a just a very brief physical set piece. Still blink and you miss it.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

You're likely correct I just can't tell what I'm seeing in the YouTube videos. Particularly this one at the 11:00 mark.

Looks like Eson but can't tell if it's projection or a just a very brief physical set piece. Still blink and you miss it.

That doesn't appear to be a physical prop, it looks to be another projection.

EDITED To Add: The WDWMagic Video seems to confirm it's a projection

 

[wdwmagic]

I haven’t posted on this site in years but still check in at times. I just got off this ride and it is an 11/10. The queue is incredibly well done, with a lot of different things to look at and keep you edutained. And I truly mean that. They sneak it in throughout the queue for this ride. And there is a really cool wow moment in one of the pre-show rooms that is pulled off perfectly. I ride several times and there are audible gasps when it happens.

The ride is pure insanity. It is so smooth and fluid with some quick helixes throughout. What makes this unique is the turning of the individual cars. You get this feeling of hurtling and turning through the stars at a pretty good speed. And we were lucky enough to get Tears for Fears on our second ride so we were singing during the entirety of the ride.

The screens were actually very good and fit this type of ride effectively. The way the story in the queue is written having Rocket or Groot as animatronics would not have made sense. Rides don’t need animatronics to be impressive. And with the speed that the omnicoaster moves, animatronics during the ride would have been a waste. You may give your impressions based off of on ride videos and be completely not picking this ride apart and that is your right. But in this instance, they do justice to nothing pertaining to this ride. You have to have ridden to know what people are talking about. They outdid themselves with this attraction. Bravo Disney!

I think the place for AAs would have been the pre show and the final scene of the ride.

 

[flynnibus]

I think the place for AAs would have been the pre show and the final scene of the ride.

maybe WDI has the attraction on a christmas club plan and will get to collect a new AA to add to the finale each year

 

[mergatroid]

Unless I'm somehow imagining things; I realized after having viewed a half-dozen Youtube videos that there is a point during the ride's duration where we come face to face with Eson as he stares us down with his headlamp eyes and yet the entire encounter doesn't register. There's no emotional connection, no fear, no threat no nothing because it's so brief an encounter that the presumed physical prop and lighting dynamics of the scene are not visible long enough to make an impact. It's like Disco-Yeti all over again. Blink and you miss it. Surely Imagineering didn't construct some mammoth Eson rig only for us to not see it!?

Interesting. Do you often get strong emotional reactions to rides you've not ridden and only watched on youtube? I've never felt fear or threat watching a dark ride video on youtube but there we go.

 

[mergatroid]

Absolutely love the fact that when there's an unscheduled stop on the lift hill, that they've got a pre-recorded audio and video shot of Terry Crews explaining that there's a pause because an airlock isn't closed properly and they're trying to figure it out. I'm sure somebody from the 'Coaster in a box society' will quip "Half a billion dollars for a message like that" but that's ok?

 

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

I've asked this before but I think its kind of a big deal - WHY is this a time travel attraction? How does that alter the ride in any significant way?

So they justify the unification of Terrans and Xandar by explaining our planets were both created by the Big Bang. We are invited to travel to their world through hex jumps, powered by the Cosmic Generator. In the preshow, a celestial named Eson steals the generator, looking to erase the Earth from existence. He believes we as a race have made the galaxy impure, and uses the quantum generator to create a portal in time, back to the big bang, to erase the earth from existence. Rocket notices our evacuation shuttles are the only thing small enough to fit through the remaining piece of the portal to the big bang, and reprograms them to take us in, with the Guardians in tow.

 

[TalkingHead]

Interesting. Do you often get strong emotional reactions to rides you've not ridden and only watched on youtube? I've never felt fear or threat watching a dark ride video on youtube but there we go.

Do you always take things so literally? On second thought, don’t answer that.

 

[mergatroid]

Do you always take things so literally? On second thought, don’t answer that.

 

[kalel8145]

So they justify the unification of Terrans and Xandar by explaining our planets were both created by the Big Bang. We are invited to travel to their world through hex jumps, powered by the Cosmic Generator. In the preshow, a celestial named Eson steals the generator, looking to erase the Earth from existence. He believes we as a race have made the galaxy impure, and uses the quantum generator to create a portal in time, back to the big bang, to erase the earth from existence. Rocket notices our evacuation shuttles are the only thing small enough to fit through the remaining piece of the portal to the big bang, and reprograms them to take us in, with the Guardians in tow.

So you travel back in time to follow the Celestial and stop him with the help of the Guardians?

 

[MisterPenguin]

So you travel back in time to follow the Celestial and stop him with the help of the Guardians?

Yes, as Eson goes back in time to erase Earth (he has no Power Stone to just one-punch it, so, he steals the power maguffin), the Xandarian ships don't have the power to follow him, but the escape pods do with their emergency power. So, the escape pods are sent after him as a way for the Xandarians from their home world to track where Eson is and stop him.

Boy, are we lucky the Xandarians set up a cultural pavilion in EPCOT!