My only complaint is I wish there was at least one animatronic on the queue

Thanks for keeping it real! I used to follow so many Disney you tubers/vloggers but you’re the only one I trust anymore. Keep it up and thanks!

Your unbiased reviews are always my go-to! Thanks so much Brayden!

Rode it with the family today for the passholder preview. No technical issues for us. The ride was super smooth, definitely a thrill ride. I walked out exhilarated, wanting to do it again. I didn’t even follow the plot as I was enjoying the ride so much. Definitely felt the G’s. Can’t wait to do it again!

Great review, I appreciate your content always being so honest. I think the joke was simply supposed to be that Star Lord hasn’t been to Epcot in a long time so he has no idea… but still yeah.

This is what Space Mountain wanted to be and what should look like. A much more immersive ride with great visuals. I feel like Tokyo Space Mountain will be transformed into this without the GOTG theme.

The objectivity and non-bias of your reviews and videos is awesome! Thanks for the terrific products you bring all of us!

Nice! The main pre-show scene/transport effect is the same one they used on the "Star Trek: The Experience" ride in Las Vegas (1998-2008). Just like here, you were in a room on a tour, when things suddenly went dark for a second. allowing the walls to rapidly lift into the ceiling. When the lights came back on, presto! you had been beamed to the Enterprise. Considering its use here, I guess that is a sort of homage to the Trek ride on the part of the Imagineers.

Brayden does the best reviews of all the Disney channels. He is so knowledgeable and he always gives an honest critique. Such a handsome, poised, and articulate young man who really knows his stuff.

I'm 60, hubby is 67, we ride every single new coaster in FL. But we do enjoy the boat rides too....LOL This video was extremely well done, thank you.

Practical effect nerd here, the generator disappearance is neat, here's how it's done. It's of course half a generator with a mirror in order to allow it to be 'floating'. There are one way mirrors around it. When the lights go out the generator moves down revealing a regular mirror with nothing. That or it rotates, but this seems the most probable.

Brayden...I feel exactly as you do about the Horizons/Universe of Energy mention. My first thought was "What...you're rubbing it in our faces now?" Thanks so much for the great review.... Take Care.

Hey Brayden, thx for a great review! From my perspective of “an older guy who might prefer a boat ride”- yes, I like The Land, Small World, and People Mover, I’m willing to give it a go. It sounds visual exciting like Rock n Rollercoaster, Galaxy’s Edge, Flight of Avatar, and Dinosaur ride all in one. I might have trouble with the wait times more than the ride itself. Nice review! Looking forward to it.

Great job as always Brayden!! I appreciate your honesty during your vlogs. Keep up the great work. I hope to run into you when I am there over Memorial weekend.

Thanks Brayden :) it’s great to have such a well respected and impartial reviewer on here

Now Brayden - some of us older people (will be 59 this year) still live for the thrill rides! Very well done review as always. You do an awesome job.

Spot on comments about EPCOT becoming Magic Kingdom South. Great insight on the ride itself, which looks like fun! And sage advice on riding this during wine and food festivals, et al. Great Report.

This looks like a great ride from the queue to the ride itself. My worry for Disney imagineering involves the lack of innovation and reliance on IP. Does anyone know the last original park ride they created in WDW? It seemed back in the day you'd have these great concepts like Pirates, Jungle Cruise, and Haunted Mansion -- these rides were such great concepts that they turned into movies. Now it's the opposite. They just take a movie and plop it down as a ride. (Tron, Frozen, Guardians, Avatar) They can be good rides, but am I alone in wanting some original attractions like Spaceship Earth again?

New signage coming soon to EPCOT entrance: Fast Rides with Arrow to the left, Slow Rides with arrow to the right… problem solved!

Thanks as always for your honest take. Good to know about the eating or drinking before hand since we usually come through the International Gateway entrance and grab a bite to eat. I am really excited for this, even if like you, I think its in the wrong park

While I've read other reviews, Brayden's was the one that I was waiting for. Thanks for giving us a complete and honest review.

Thank you, Brayden, for being honest once again! The down time issue concerns me. If it was due to a preshow problem then the should have an alternative solution to bypass the room. I’ve been told by a CM working there that the inside queue can only hold about an hour’s worth of guests. So I expect normal outdoor queues to wrap around that whole side of Epcot. Did this attraction have a sponsor? I wonder if they gutted the old VIP lounge. Your video was probably the clearest I’ve seen of this ride so far. Hope to see a full POV when you get a chance! 😎

Thanks for the awesome info before my preview next weekend!

I love how honest you are about everything

I am even more excited for this now, thank you for this great review ! I am a huge Marvel fan so I’m excited that I finally get to be immersed into it at Disney World!

I love your honesty, Brayden! Thanks for this review!

there is also a super cringy moment in the exhibition part where they try to connect xandar and the original epcot because they both had radial designs(?) and they throw in walt disney too and they call him a great visionary and stuff. overall really cringy and it seems like they were just trying to hang on and REACH for ways to tie it to epcot. the ride is cool tho :)

Awesome review. It’s nice to see someone not paid off by Disney getting an giving an honest opinion. Many people I know stopped watching all those fake Disney reviewer’s.

Thanks for the honest review. As an older fan I will be passing on this one BUT hopefully it drags crowds away from Soarin and Ratatouille...

Fantastic & completely honest review as always Brayden!!!!

A really nice dentist’s office. Hahahaha

This ride looks awesome! I wish my disney trip wasn't literally just before the ride opens lmao

Excellent intro / review, Berayden!! Thank you!!

Thank you maestro! You are one of the best reporters of anything, anywhere in any known universe! Congaloosh!

Unfortunately I’ll never be able to ride this due my chronic illness but it’s pretty cool to see what it’s all about. Thanks Brayden!

So glad you got to ride, been looking forward to your review!

This ride looks awesome. 8:09 reminds me of World of Motion. Actually, it looks like they took a little bit the other rides previous/present and mashed them together. Thanks for taking us along.

Thank you 😊. You are awesome!! Enjoyed watching. And I agree with you. Should be at Hollywood Studio's. Keep up the great work. 👍

Thanks Brayden for the honest review! Concerning about the down time because if l’m in Epcot for just a day, I’d hope to be able to ride and not lose park time due to something like that. Also appreciate the tip about riding basically on an empty stomach 😉 Thanks again for keeping it real!

I rode it this weekend and the only way I can describe it was intense. It's like a mix between, space mountain, Everest, and Alien Swirling Saucers. Definitely need to ride it a few more times before I make my decision on whether or not I like it. HAHA. My 4 year old LOVED it though!!

Awesomeness! Thanks for the video drop!!

I totally overlooked the food/drink aspect of Epcot affecting the ride experience here. That's.... A valid concern

The reflection of the Exit signs on the screens is awesome. A great touch.

after watching this a few times, it hit me. the show buildings title is not Cosmic rewind. but the "Wonders of Xandr." its more like a world showcase pavilion with all the exhibits of Xandar. so in that way it could fit in EPCOT.

XD love your commentary. “Like a fancy dentist office waiting room”.

I got to go on yesterday 3x for the preview! You are spot on. I love rollercoasters and it was WILD. It's Space Mountain to the extreme. My significant other felt queasy and dizzy afterwards, and refused to get back on. Despite its smoothness, it is intense!! But what a blast! I hear what you say about "why is this in EPCOT?" yet we can see they needed something desperately for an adrenaline rush in the park - which is sorely lacking. THIS is going to be the toughest virtual ticket in town to get, and now makes Rise of the Resistance #2. I'm not a huge Marvel fan, so pretty much all of that is for show. This is also far more intricate than Rock "n" Roller coaster, which now seems dated. Finally, there were no issues with the pre-shows or anything during our ride time!

Great, honest review as always!

Great review, Breydon. Thanks for posting.

Thank You Brayden ! Looks Great !

Unique food offerings, alcohol, heat & humidity, sleep deprivation... What's missing...? Oh yeah! Let's spin them around in the dark at varying speeds while forcing them to focus on stationary video monitors. Perfect!

I agree totally after hearing your thoughts on epcot being themed heavily on eating and drinking now to have an extreme ride in the park oh boy!. I'll just say I hope my ride smells and looks clean when I do ride 😁

Braydon why are you so much better in describing a ride and explaining things. I have watched other video's describing this new attraction and OMG you are head and shoulders above the others. Why you don't have a million subs is beyond me. But I thought someone should send a little love your way and let you know you are doing great and keep it up.

The best review I have watched so far!

Agree it’s an amazing ride but it was more intense than I was ready for!

If you tell a castmember that there was a problem with the audio, they'll loop you around to put you back on again. I had this experience last August on Rise of the Resistance when the audio stopped halfway through the ride.

Tech wise (w/o IP) this kind of feels how a Space Mountain in 2022 should be.

Very fun roller coaster, but man am I glad this was the last ride I rode in Epcot for the day. I suggest getting that dramamine ready!

Cmon, those call backs to the prior attractions are funny!

downtime is something that happens to almost every new attraction, especially the inventive ones. Taron used to have some downtime in its first months as well, but after that the downtime was always at a minimum

Great review and we appreciate your honesty! I’m excited for it. I just hope I don’t faint during the backwards part. 😬 I think it looks way better than RotR (but I’m not a big fan of that so…) I’m going to try it at least once. If it’s too much for me, I’m still happy the thrill seekers will have a new ride.

Nice! Can’t wait to experience this.

I think the part where Star Lord references past Epcot rides is making me think of the lyrics from the “friend like me” segment in the “Enchanted Tiki Room under new management” (the version with Iago and Zazu) where one of the tiki birds said that they have “done the same show since 1963”

I feel for the cast who gonna have to clean the vomit off these screens and massive track

3:19 This has to have been inspired by that Disneyland Motorboat ride joke from Freakazoid. RIP Motor Boats, You'll be in our hearts forever.

Thanks for the detailed video. I can't wait until I make it to Disneyworld again! 👍🏽👏🏾🕺🏽😀💜

Brayden you are the best!!! Thanks for covering this! As always, very professional, very objective and right on point! I know you are a true Disney fan and I know you practice and preach Walt’s vision and principles. I so agree with your views regarding Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind and Epcot! I’m still a big fan of Walt’s Epcot and, of course, the Horizons Pavilion, so when I saw you entered the building, it gave me a instant flashback of Horizon’s entrance! It shock and bothered me! Still can’t figure out this administration! It’s a huge mess! Let’s see what happens in the upcoming Quarterly Report! Keep up the great work!

I’m so glad somebody finally mentioned the fact that people go to epcot to eat and drink and a thrill ride to this caliber is asking for trouble!! as an emetaphobe i will have to experience this ride probably first thing in the morning if possible and that’s it…

For those who haven’t tried this ride yet… I get motion sickness when I go sideways and backwards, this definitely made me feel bad afterwards. It ended my evening at Epcot. There was enough guy sat alongside me who appeared in a fair amount of strain, rubbing his head and taking deep breaths. In comparison, I’m fine on Tron, iffy on Everest, fine on Space and Thunder Mountain. Rockin Rollercoaster is probably my limit of being ok. Indiana Jones is also fine for me.

The bizarre EPCOT of the past joke as you note displays exactly what is wrong with the hacks that call themselves imagineers. They don’t get it. Disney now is just another theme park company that relies on other people’s IP, cheap thrills and flashy cheap shiny things that rarely work. And that appeals to the less sophisticated guest that Disney is catering to. Is it Six Flags yet? Not…yet…

Great information, well done. Looking forward to my next trip in December 😎

Cast members look like they're wearing scrubs

About that Horizons reference from Starlord. I don't see it as a jab at the fans in any way. The Imagineers who designed the ride surely weren't the ones who made the decision to axe Horizons, if the decision was made by Imagineering at all. They probably wish it was still in Epcot along with the rest of us!

Love watching your videos! 😀

Thanks! Looking forward to it

The music choices are.. oh boy! They were fitting!

The Pre-show looks very impressive, I feel that the POV videos for this do not do the ride justice. The coaster looks super chaotic, by design, but fun.

Great review as always Brayden. I agree with you about Guardians IN EPCOT...it really doesn't belong and feels more at home in Hollywood Studios. What I do understand is the need to have a real "E" ticket thrill attraction at EPCOT. Test Track still pulls long wait times and isn't even technically a roller coaster. People today crave these extreme thrill rides and EPCOT was lacking in that respect. Plus adding a Marvel IP to the mix is most likely a win-win for Disney.

I like the preshow room where the walls lift up. I wish that they worked in a storyline about energy. Using a 'cosmic generator' is lazy. Otherwise it looks pretty great.

Of all the Disney KZfaqrs I trust your opinion more than ANY of the others. They all seem to cave in, especially with all the perks like hotel visits, cruises, etc. You do not seem available to be wined and dined by Disney and that is why I watch every one of your videos as soon as they are available. Keep up the great work!

I do agree with a LOT of what you said. I will say this though, at least Epcot has a cohesive theme (or they are trying to have a cohesive theme at the very least) people's thoughts may vary, but having a fictionalized planet's pavilion along with all the fictional technology it brings to the world isn't too far a stretch. Like I said opinions vary but I at least like that they are trying to have a theme here. Hollywood studios, on the other hand, is just a random catch all for IP. The classic Hollywood/backstage vibe is basically gone. I'm not thrilled with the new direction of epcot but I'm happy they are trying to have a cohesive theme.

I completely agree with you! This ride does not belong in Epcot! It should of been over in Hollywood Studios!

Really helpful as always! 👏🏻

The preshow is actually identical to the old transporter room in the star trek experience in las vegas!

Great review, this was really well done and balanced. While this ride is unfortunately not one I can do anymore it was good to get that heads up. Do agree with you that it should not have been built in Epcot and completly does not fit with the park. Also agree the throw back stuff in the preshow looked bad, and REALLY forced.

is there a Genie+ for it? What happens if there is no standby and I can't get in the virtual queue?

Thanks for the review

Yeah, Disneyland got a Rocket animatronic. But, now Epcot is more and more like the Amazon Fulfillment center. Utilitarian - gets the job done. It does feel like Magic Kingdom 2.0 or Hollywood Studios adjacent.

Great review and content!👍

I agree with you about it not being appropriate for EPCOT and the references to much beloved long gone attractions.

Do you think that the ending scene was also cut? It’s a very big space for just a hologram

Thank you for the review!

Our family will be there on opening day so I hope they have the bugs worked out by then.....we are staying at the park so hopefully we can get in the virtual cue.

I understand why they chose to play Starlords mixtape for the ride but I kinda wish they played a more cinematic song like something as you climb the first lift hill. Also: animatronics.

Great review 👍🏻 we can’t wait to get out to Epcot and ride this in July 🇬🇧

They should at least put an epic mural on the outside of the building instead of it being stark blue.

I trust your opinion over any one else. Can't wait to ride. I agree, wrong park, should be in a 5th gate. 🤔🤷‍♂️

It was fun hearing you check in with Dave at Fresh Baked on Thursday

I expected more for this ride. I feel like they rushed this attraction and delivered a half baked product. This should've been a rise of the resistance competitor but its a space mountain and Tron love child.

this was the best review! from a GotG fan, thank you!

i got the conga for my song choice CM preview last time... we didn't get any of the preshows... next week i am allowed to bring a guest for another CM preview and my AP preview so i get the preshow!