Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
— — the ride that turns to face the music.
Not only on a wall.
“Inside the silver geodesic pavilion at the back of EPCOT's old future-world plaza, a coaster runs in the dark to a rotating soundtrack of seventies and eighties hits. The ride cars themselves spin on their bases to face whatever the story is doing next, so the world keeps reorienting around you. It opened in 2022 and is the longest enclosed coaster anywhere. — from the studio
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, on ceramic.
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is an indoor steel roller coaster at EPCOT, the second of Walt Disney World's four theme parks, in Bay Lake, Florida. It opened on May 27, 2022 in the former Universe of Energy pavilion at the back of what was then called Future World, now reorganised as World Discovery. The ride sits inside a queue and show building styled as the Wonders of Xandar pavilion, presented as a cultural exchange between Earth and the Marvel home world of the Nova Corps.
The attraction runs on a virtual queue and individual Lightning Lane purchase rather than a standby line, so guests join from inside the My Disney Experience app at 7:00 am or at 1:00 pm park time. The ride itself runs about three minutes, with a 42-inch height requirement. Each train uses a Vekoma omnicoaster vehicle whose cars rotate 360 degrees independently of the track, so the rider always faces the story beat — the first time the Walt Disney Company has used this vehicle.
Each ride cycle pulls a song from a small rotating set of seventies and early-eighties hits: a Wham! cut, Earth Wind and Fire, Blondie, the Pat Benatar track, and others tied to the Awesome Mix lineage of the films. Which song you get is randomised at dispatch, so repeat riders pull different soundtracks. The ride is the longest fully enclosed roller coaster in the world by track length, at 1,427 metres (4,683 feet), and one of the longest indoor coasters of any kind.