PHOTOS - Steel rises from the Guardians of the Galaxy roller coaster site

Jun 12, 2018 in "Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind"

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Guardians of the Galaxy coaster construction - June 2018

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Posted: Tuesday June 12, 2018 11:33am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Guardians of the Galaxy is now very much under construction in Epcot's Future World, with the building's steel structure now visible throughout the park and surrounding areas.

Guardians of the Galaxy coaster construction - June 2018

It is always difficult to hide a rollercoaster, and Disney have a lot of experience of doing so, but this one looks like it will present a unique challenge of how to make the huge show building visually acceptable from all areas the park.

As you can see from the images in this gallery, the building is very visible from both Future World and World Showcase.

Guardians of the Galaxy viewed from Future World area

Guardians of the Galaxy viewed from World Showcase

Click the gallery to see the latest Guardians of the Galaxy coaster construction from throughout the park.

Disney has not yet announced an opening date for Guardians of the Galaxy at Epcot, but current estimates put the ride at a Spring 2021 opening. The ride will feature a new coaster ride system and promises to be one of the longest enclosed coasters in the world.

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JohnDSep 22, 2025

Watching E, W, & F special on CBS right now. Its ending with September, naturally.

hopemaxSep 22, 2025

I was there today! In the parking lot, the wait time said 195. It dropped to 120 by the time we got into the park, and since it was my mission for the day we just got in line ~10:30. It dropped to 105 while we were in line. Our actual wait time to reach the holding room before the pre-show was 80 minutes. Saw several Earth, Wind and Fire concert shirts. They mentioned the day on the parking lot tram. I watched the app the rest of the day, and I think we timed it well.

networkproSep 22, 2025

IMHO it shows the audience is greater for that track than Tears for Fears which to me is the same as one deflating tire on a speeding race car.

SplashJacketSep 22, 2025

High demand for the 21st night of September

TrainsOfDisneySep 09, 2025

The pre-launch video and audio has to be Ellen and bill nye discussing the Big Bang - the the song starts at the launch!

Epcot82GuySep 09, 2025

@michmousefan - Yes, definitely! I thought that video was great.

michmousefanSep 09, 2025

I've posted this before... it *does* kinda work:

TouchdownSep 09, 2025

Or use that Christmas song from the Guardians special.

TheMaxReboSep 09, 2025

No, but that was like an original song/remake If they didn't with some actual retro holiday songs (Merry Christmas Baby by Otis Redding, etc) I think it would be fun

MisterPenguinSep 09, 2025

The Christmas music overlay wasn't too good.

TheMaxReboSep 09, 2025

Always think they should do a retro after hours event at Epcot - play retro songs on Cosmic Rewind, have some retro food, have the characters meet in the rainbow space outfits, perform Illuminations using the Luminous infrastructure, etc They could charge a ton and people would flock to it

TrainsOfDisneySep 09, 2025

I realize programming is way more complex than I can imagine for something like this - but if they could do a for real universe of energy overlay with music and video - I’d pay so much!!!

TheMaxReboSep 09, 2025

(in all seriousness though they should do stuff like that for after hours event, DVC events, etc - mix it up fir situations outside of normal park hours)