Walt Disney Imagineers celebrate the completion of 'Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind'

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Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind Imagineering Team

Posted: Friday May 6, 2022 5:06pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

As general previews get underway this weekend and just twenty days until the grand opening of "Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind," Walt Disney Imagineers are celebrating the completion of the project.

Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind Imagineering Team

This photo shared by Zach Riddley on Instagram shows the team outside the Wonders of Xandar pavilion, and includes Portfolio Creative Executive Tom Fitgerald, Portfolio Creative Executive Marvel Scott Drake, Senior Producer Wyatt Winter and EPCOT lead and Portfolio Creative Executive New Experience Development Zach Riddley.

Cosmic Rewind opens May 27 2022

Zach said, "I am proud of these people, our Imagineers and all of our extended team who believed in this dream for a brand new experience for EPCOT that is truly out of this world. We are very close to this dream being a reality for the world to experience. "

He continued, "Congratulations to all over the years who made Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind possible. Colleagues, our families, our partners and our mentors. This is OUR achievement. And it represents the spirit at the core of this special park "

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montyz8115 days ago

OK. Sorry, didn't have a lot of sleep yesterday, slow on the uptake.

Giss Neric16 days ago

I think he meant odd suppository, like rectal suppository as it is a laxative ;)

montyz8116 days ago

It was a joke: https:///2025/03/guest-defecation-shuts-down-disney-ride-for-third-time-this-month-em1/

larryz16 days ago

That's an odd supposition...

montyz8116 days ago

Maybe someone defecated near it, and the fumes weakened the glass's molecular structure!

JAB19 days ago

That's not true. Tempered glass is very susceptible to focused impacts. That's why those emergency escape tools with a tiny metal point will shatter a car's window with very little force, and why a great many tempered glass PC case side panels have shattered simply by laying them on a tile floor because one of the tiles' corners was sticking up. If something hard and pointed hit it in the right way, it wouldn't have necessarily taken much force at all.

lazyboy97o19 days ago

If someone was wearing something like a metal ring and hit it in the right place, especially near a corner, it is possible to break the glass rather easily.

MisterPenguin20 days ago

The building is just settling on a sink hole.

bmr159120 days ago

Definitely not a punch, but a metal water bottle strapped to a backpack whipping around could generate a lot of power.

Giss Neric20 days ago

Shattering tempered glass requires a huge amount of force so I'm not sure if someone punching the glass is true.

bmr159120 days ago

I’m eager to hear how that happened. Someone lean on it with too much weight? A flying water bottle?

ZachPL20 days ago

Just saw this on reddit

gerararFeb 25, 2025

The VQ system has finally ended today for GOTG: CR! Standby line starts tomorrow Tuesday, February 25, 2025. The VQ system was reportedly supposed to end multiple times during some lull periods, but never came to fruition. It went through 2 hurricane closures, but nearly 3 years later after the ride opened May 27, 2022, the VQ has concluded and standby is finally here. Scatterplot of every single VQ data point collected for the past 1002 days. Here's my final update for it and wrap-up post:

Andrew25Feb 24, 2025

I for one hope that one day they can find a way to add railings within the pre-show spaces to reduce the pain point that is the funnel at the end. Ideally, it would be tiered "rows" within the preshow space where a CM then can release each section one by one instead of the mass release. I also think Disney should really enforce kicking people out of line who exit the preshow early to get a headstart.