List of Secrets and Easter Eggs in Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

A compendium of trivia and easter eggs related to the attraction Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!.

Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

• The attraction pre-dates the construction of Avengers Campus.

Exterior queue

• Mission: BREAKOUT replaced fan-favourite attraction The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The general shape of the building remains the same albeit with architecture and artwork inspired by the work of comic book legend Jack Kirby (1917- 1994).
• Surrounding the fortress is an alien goop made to resemble, "Kirby Crackle", an iconic design feature used by Jack Kirby.
• Some of the Kirby Crackle forms a, "Hidden Mickey".
• A flipped metal attachment on the side of the fortress makes a, "Hidden Mickey".
• Totem poles outside the entrance have the designs of the Guardians of the Galaxy hidden on their base.
  • Also at the base of the pole are designs of the Abilisk, and Ronan the Accuser's Cosmi-Rod.
  • The two frogs reference the brass King Solomon's Frogs time-machines from Black Panther comics. The ankh shaped item depicts the Zodiac Key, a weapon used by Nick Fury's enemy Zodiac. The box represents the Casket of Ancient Winters from Thor comics. Also depicted is the Wand of Watoomb associated with Doctor Strange.
  • A Chinese Dragon-like design at the top of the totem may depict Fin Fang Foom, a super-villain enemy of Iron Man who is an ancient alien warlord resembling a Chinese dragon.
• The Collector's statue shows him stroking an Orloni.
• There is a hole in the side of the building where it appears Rocket Raccoon attempted to escape.
• The Collector's garden is called, "Gardens of the Galaxy".
  • The plants listed are actually real plants.
• One of the Collector's audio artifacts played in the garden is Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
  • This may be in tribute to how Abraham Lincoln was Disney's first human audio-animatronic figure.
  • Lincoln was also Walt Disney's favourite president.
• Another one of the Collector's audio artifacts is audio from the Voyager space shuttle launch.
• Garden gnomes appear in the garden. One was an Asgardian Garden Gnome made by imagineer Joe Rohde.

Interior queue

Museum

• Alien writing near the entrance reads, "The Tivan Group is not responsible for guests accidentally consumed by any rare creature or beast, or for any guests who might inadvertently wander into an empty cage and find themselves inexplicably trapped. Although you are guaranteed a visit to see the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Tivan Group is not responsible if the Guardians are unresponsive or asleep. By reading this, you grant approval for the Tivan Group to own your biosigns and do with them as they wish forever and ever in perpetuity throughout this and any other galaxy both known and unknown. Enjoy your tour.".
• Several of the Collector's acquisitions are repurposed props from Innoventions. Those relating to Thor came from an area themed around being an exhibit curated by Dr. Jane Foster.
• The, "Cocoon of Unknown Origin" is implied to be the cocoon of superhero Adam Warlock. A similar cocoon appeared in both Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2.
• The, "Asgardian War Hammer" is Beta Ray Bill's hammer, "Stormbreaker" from the comics. The hammer was later brought into the MCU as a hammer of Thor.
• In one of the tanks along the roof is Figment, a Disney character from the defunct EPCOT attraction Journey Into Imagination.
• The tank containing Vyloo originally contained Rocket Raccoon's blaster.
• Ultron can be heard saying quotes from the film Avengers: Age of Ultron, implying him to still be active.
• The metal skull in a tank hung from the ceiling is the head of Transformers/Marvel character Death's Head.
• The, "Mysterious Artifacts" are implied to come from Atlantis. In the comics, Atlantis is ruled over by the golden-age anti-hero Namor the Submariner.
  • The symbols on the Atlantean ruins in Mission: BREAKOUT! somewhat resemble Kree writing.
  • According to imagineer Joe Rohde, the design of the ruins was inspired by an Antikythera mechanism shown in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) implied to be used for harnessing the Infinity Stones. Rohde described the ruins as a mechanism which has yet to be activated.
• The book in the Dark Elf display is the Book of Yggdrasil from Thor: The Dark World. The dark-matter dagger belonged to the Thor villain Malekith the Accursed.
• The crystals in the Kree display are Terrigen Crystals, a crystal which is used to awaken the dormant superpowers of Inhumans. Also in the display are an orb used for communication, and a bladed Kree Diviner/Obelisk. These props are taken from the TV show, Agents of SHIELD.
• The Asgardian War Hammer, Warlock's Eye and Dark Elf artifacts come from Thor comics. The Brazier of Bom'Galiath and Crystal of Conquest come from Doctor Strange comics.
• There is a portrait showing the Collector alongside the Grandmaster as he appeared in Thor: Ragnarok. This is as in the comics, the two are, "Brothers" and both Elders of the Universe.
• The masks on the wall depict various Celestials. This includes Eson the Searcher, Arishem The Judge, Gammenon the Gatherer, Jemiah the Analyzer and Ziran the Tester.
  • Eson the Searcher is the main-antagonist of Mission: BREAKOUT!'s spiritual prequel, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.
• The weapons on the wall belong to the Warriors Three and Lady Sif.

Pre-Show Video

• In the background are tanks containing Howard the Duck and a Kronan.
• On the Collector's desk is a maquette of the Hellhound from the Haunted Mansion.
• The old man in the tank asking for parking is Stan Lee, a historic American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer who made cameos in various Marvel properties up until his death in 2018, a year after Mission: BREAKOUT! opened.
• Drax's species is listed as, "Unknown" as in the comics, Drax is not actually an alien but is rather a human with superpowers.

Collector's Office

• There is a back-up pre-show video which will play if the Rocket Raccoon audio-animatronic is non-functional.
• On the wall are the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak as they appeared in the movie Doctor Strange.
  • In the comics, Cyttorak is most commonly affiliated with the X-Men villain the Juggernaut.
• Mounted on the wall is a famous, "Living Fossil" fish known as a coelacanth.
• There are various props within the Collector's shelves:
  • The head of a doll from It's a Small World.
  • The Golden Apples of Idunn.
  • A vintage map of Disneyland.
  • Vintage toys of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
  • The severed head of a Sakaaran.
  • An emblem for HYDRA.
  • A world-war II HYDRA solider helmet.
  • Books from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
  • A gun with the logo for HYDRA.
  • Loki's shackles.
  • Loki's eyeball extracting device.
  • A book with a Hollywood Tower Hotel bookmark inside.
  • The hat of a bellhop from the Hollywood Tower Hotel.
  • Vials of Bruce Banner's green Super Soldier Serum.
  • A vita-ray counter used by Abraham Erskine and Howard Stark to create Captain America.
  • The Destroyer Armour Prototype Gun used by Phil Coulson in the Avengers.
  • The head of Tom Morrow, a robotic character from the attractions Rocket to the Moon and Innoventions.
  • The Asgardian skiff toy which Thor and Loki played with as children.
• Several of the Collector's books contain references:
  • The book, "Migration Patterns of Earth's Avifauna" by Rohde is a tribute to celebrated imagineer Joe Rohde who assisted in developing Mission: BREAKOUT! as his final attraction for Disney. The title of the book may reference Rohde's work for Disney's Animal Kingdom.
  • The book A Far Cry From the Top Floor is a tribute to The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The title of the book references how in the attraction, elevators headed for the top floor of the Hollywood Tower Hotel found themselves in the 5th Dimension while the book's font imitates the title of the ride.
  • The book, "A Children's Guide to the North American Raccoon" references the Collector's treatment of Rocket Raccoon.
• On the Collector's desk is an invoice from X-S Tech, signed by company chairman L.C. Clench. Both of these are villainous characters from the defunct Tomorrowland horror attraction ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. The services which X-S provides on the invoice are those which were listed in said attraction.
• Overtop of the X-S invoice is a letter from Taneleer Tivan to a alien bounty-hunter named Jeutar Mörat, an enemy of the Guardians of the Galaxy from the comics. The letter identifies Tivan as travelling to Earth due to Jeutar following a mysterious figure there. It is currently believed that this references the plot of Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind where Eson the Searcher travels to Earth in pursuit of the Nova Corps' Cosmic Generator.
• In 2024's Pixar Fest, a miniature Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story was added to the Collector's Office with a dark palette, lightning paint, "E=MC2" written on its side and "HTH Do Not Disturb" tag as a tribute to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Storage

• An elevated platform has several repurposed Disney Parks props including a portrait of Napoleon III from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, "Harold" the yeti animatronic from Matterhorn Bobsleds, and Dolores the Octopus from The Country Bear Vacation Hoedown.
• A dragon statue has a tag identifying it as coming from Kamar-Taj, one of the bases for the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
• The pain Rocket uses is identified as coming from the planet Xandar.
• The feeder has food for the Jotunn Beast, Terrans (humans), the Chitauri the Abilisk, and the Orloni.
• The F'Saki food is made from Orloni.
• There are various messages in an alien substitution cipher.

Ride experience

• The Abilisk originates from Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 and the Jotunn Beast originates from the film Thor.
• Drax jumps out of the Jotunn beast's mouth in a way similar to him jumping into the Abilisk's mouth in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2.

Exit

• When the attraction first opened, there was a hatch with the Avengers logo on it, foreshadowing the creation of Avengers Campus.

Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark

Queue/Pre-Show

• Cosmo the Spacedog's tank is often covered due to Cosmo escaping at the end of Mission: BREAKOUT!.
• In the pre-show video, the ghost of Yondu Udonta is seen wandering the fortress.

Ride

• The Fire Dragon originates from the film Thor: Ragnarok.

Mission BREAKOUT! references in other properties

Attractions

• Avengers Campus (DCA):
  • PYM Test Kitchen: The giant cellphones will receive spam texts from the Tivan Group, texts regarding the Guardians of the Galaxy's abduction, and a text from Ant-Man saying the Collector invited him over to the fortress.
  • Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure: Guests enter the Collector's Fortress for one of the levels where they fight off Spider-Bots. In a tank is Stormbreaker, closer resembling its film counterpart rather than its comic-book incarnation as depicted in Mission: BREAKOUT!. The fortress is also visible on the Quinjet bay level.
• Avengers Campus (WDSP):
  • Avengers Assemble: Flight Force: In the queue, Iron Man has a video-call with Rocket Raccoon during the events of Mission: BREAKOUT!.
• Hollywood Land: In the window of the 15th Precinct were warning posters for the Abilisk and Cosmo the Spacedog, referencing their escape in Mission: BREAKOUT!. One of the possible Daily Bugle newspapers featured in the Marvel area has a photo of the Collector's Fortress taken by Peter Parker with the headline, "Alien Invasion? Is Spider-Man to Blame?" by J. Jonah Jameson. Also on this newspaper were references to the Vulture's crimes from Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), and Wilson Fisk's release from the third season of Daredevil

Film

• Thor: Ragnarok: The Collector's Fortress makes a cameo on Sakaar in the film Thor: Ragnarok (2017).