After being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we now know Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will be opening at EPCOT on Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day in the US is Monday, May 30 with the holiday weekend beginning May 27. An exact date has yet to be announced. This will be Disney’s first … Read more
Signs that will later list warnings, height restrictions, and more have been erected at the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind entrance in EPCOT. The signs can be seen on either side of the “greeter structure” at the front of the building. They are silvery grey and purple, to match the rest of the theming. … Read more
Following the complete installation, theming for the Xandarian starship support stand has begun outside Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. Extra details have been added to the ship structure, and now the steel stand is beginning to blend in. Repainting of the show building columns is seemingly complete. Some panels remain to be … Read more
Following the complete installation of the Xandarian starship in front of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT, crew members are once again working on repainting the pillars on the sides of the building. Painting has begun on the final pillar on the left, closest to the entrance. The edges of the other pillars … Read more
This morning, the cockpit of the Xandarian starship was installed outside Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. In the hours since, a wing has been installed on the side of the ship. The final starship will be star-shaped, so several more pointed wings will be added. The ship will welcome guests to the … Read more
More of the Xandarian starship is being installed outside Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. Yesterday, we saw the first piece installed against a steel support structure. Now the center cockpit of the ship has been installed atop the support structure. More pieces were sitting on a truck nearby, waiting for installation. The … Read more
The left side of the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind show building has a completely new paint job to match the other side. The walls of the building are painted with sharp angles of grey and off-white The columns are now mostly black instead of red-orange. The sides of some of the columns have … Read more
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is set to open this summer at EPCOT, and Walt Disney World is now hiring Cast Members for the new attraction. But there’s still a lot of work to be done before the attraction is ready for guests to blast off. Today, we saw crew members working on the … Read more
Painting seems to be completed on one side of the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind entrance building in EPCOT, while the other side continues to be repainted. The back left corner of the building has several squares of light blue. One (and a half) square is still white. This column has a line of … Read more
The exterior of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is coming together as panels are installed behind the greeter structure and Disney finally settles on a paint color. The columns on the left (when facing the building) are still orange and red with some white spots. Crew members have been installing grey panels on the … Read more
Crew members were installing paneling on the front of the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind building today. The façade has been exposed blue sheeting for months now. Some silver paneling with the Nova Corps logo was recently installed behind the greeter structure. Alpolic-branded panels were being installed around the automatic doors today. Alpolic is … Read more
Crew members continue to repaint and patch up the columns on either side of the “Wonders of Xandar” pavilion, a.k.a. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Last week, the crew picked up on painting the righthand columns black, which seemed to confirm that is the final color choice. The columns on the right are now … Read more
Entertainment Weekly has removed the reference to audio-animatronics on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind that was previously included in their interview with Walt Disney Imagineer Wyatt Winter. We reported on the interview last night. At the time, the article text stated Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind would include “animatronics, digital media, and the … Read more
The design of the columns on what was once the Universe of Energy pavilion has changed once again. To recap, the columns were painted orange early on in the construction of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. In July, crews began to repaint pillars on the east side of the building black with some alien-like … Read more
We now know Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will be opening next summer. While we can’t be sure how far along interior construction is, exterior construction has been close to completion for a while now. But the paint on the sides of the “Wonders of Xandar” pavilion still seems to be an issue. While … Read more
Construction walls have been removed from around the World Discovery walkways in front of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. The Cosmic Rewind courtyard is still blocked by walls, but there is more space for guests to walk through the area near Mission: SPACE. New trees and grass have been planted throughout the … Read more