Rendering of Disney California Journey’s upcoming Marvel-themed land named Avengers Campus throughout a media preview on the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019.
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New superhero recruits will be capable to expertise Disneyland’s Avenger Campus on June 4, Disney stated throughout a theme park webcast Thursday.
The brand new space is an extension to Disney’s California Journey theme park in Anaheim, California and options Marvel’s mightiest heroes from Earth and the celebrities.
“What I can let you know is, it is superior,” Josh D’Amaro informed CNBC forward of the webcast. “I believe it’ll be an unbelievable addition to California Journey. If you consider the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] and what’s occurring on that entrance, as not too long ago as ‘WandaVision,’ it is sizzling. It is a sizzling franchise. And we now have the flexibility to open this factor as much as the world.”
The park was initially set to open in July of final yr, nevertheless, because of the coronavirus pandemic, theme parks in California have been shuttered since March 2020.
Disney’s two parks in Anaheim will reopen April 30 and can function at round 15% capability to start out.
The brand new land has taken the place of A Bug’s Land and consists of the preexisting Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission: Breakout trip on the fringe of Hollywood Land. It’s going to additionally function a brand new Spider-Man attraction, a eating location referred to as Pym Particles Take a look at Kitchen and an space based mostly on Dr. Unusual.
“We have got the final word playground for Marvel,” D’Amaro stated. “As rapidly as Kevin [Feige] and that Marvel group can create characters and create tales, we are able to combine them.”
Disney has already teased that the Spider-Man trip can be based mostly on the Worldwide Engineering Brigade aka WEB, an organization that helps give common folks tremendous powers. The attraction offers company the prospect to check out their webslinger automobile. Whereas driving the automobile little spider bots are let free and you will need to snatch them up along with your new web-slinging powers.
Character meet-and-greets can be an enormous a part of Avengers Campus. Thor, Black Panther, Black Widow, and extra can be strolling across the land — guests may additionally catch of a glimpse of the trickster Loki.
D’Amaro teased “over-the-top” leisure and technological innovation, together with the potential for the corporate’s stuntronics tech to be showcased within the land. Stuntronics is a undertaking that Disney pulled the curtain again on in 2018. In essence, Disney’s Imagineering group and improvement lab has created a robotic that may swing and flip by the air like an actual stunt particular person.
On this case, the robotic could seem like Marvel’s pleasant neighborhood Spider-Man.
“There are simply going to be some spectacles,” D’Amaro stated. “There’s simply going to be stuff that you would be able to’t imagine is going on in entrance of your eyes.”
