PHOTOS - Guardians of the Galaxy rollercoaster aerial view

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Guardians of the Galaxy construction aerial views - June 2018

Posted: Monday June 25, 2018 10:24am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

We took a detailed look at Epcot's Guardians of the Galaxy coaster construction from ground level recently, and today we have a different perspective.

Guardians of the Galaxy construction aerial views - June 2018

The massive "gravity building" is towering over everything in the area, even when viewed from the air. It remains to be seen how or if the building will be disguised in any way.

Guardians of the Galaxy construction aerial views - June 2018

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.

Photos for WDWMAGIC by Colin Chardavoyne @cchard

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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)