Spider-Man ride where guests get to sling webs will be the star attraction at Disneyland’s new Avengers Campus, which is set to open this summer
- The campus, which will be an immersive experience, is set to open on July 18 at the California Adventure Park
- The brand new area will also feature live-action fights between Avengers members and Marvel supervillains
- Spider-Man ride, called ‘Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure’, will feature onscreen Spidey Tom Holland
A new Spider-Man ride that allows guests to sling webs with their bare hands will be one of the star attractions at the brand new Avengers Campus at Disneyland Resort in California.
The campus is set to open on July 18 at the California Adventure Park in Anaheim and will also feature live-action fights between Avengers members and Marvel supervillains.
Taking its cues from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, which debuted last year, the Avengers Campus will be an immersive experience that seeks to tell super-heroic stories across a series of rides, shows and eateries.
An artist’s impression of the new ‘Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure’ ride, which will allow guests to sling webs with their bare hands
The Spider-Man ride uses a combination of physical and digital imagery to allow riders to play Peter Parker along with onscreen Spidey Tom Holland
Walt Disney Imagineering’s Brent Strong, the executive creative director behind the new land, said: ‘We’ve been trying to figure out how do we bring this land to life not just where you get to see your favourite heroes or meet your favourite heroes, but where you actually get to become a hero.
‘It’s about living out your superhero fantasies.’
Central to that aim is the ‘Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure’ ride, which uses a combination of physical and digital imagery to allow riders to play Peter Parker along with onscreen Spidey Tom Holland.
The ride begins as an open house where Spider-Man, played by Holland, shows off small but smart-and-powerful Spider-bots that he and a team of other inventive teens known as the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, or Web, have developed in an old building donated by Tony Stark.
The land will feature an Avengers Headquarters, pictured, where Black Widow and Black Panther will do battle on top of the ramparts
Avengers Campus will be an immersive experience that seeks to tell super-heroic stories across a series of rides, shows and eateries
Of course, the self-replicating bots spiral out of control and start to overrun the place, and guests are summoned to help round them up.
The eight-seat cars that have been set up to begin test runs through the facility look like many other people-moving vehicles on Disneyland attractions, but its creators say the experience will be something entirely new.
Stong added: ‘With nothing in your hands, you get to reach out and you will sling webs on this ride.
‘While there’s a ton of technology to make that happen, it just feels like magic, it feels like being Spider-Man.’
The imaginary magic comes from a new gesture recognition system two years in the making that can recognize the faces and hands of riders.
The Web suppliers, where Disney says visitors will be able to ‘gear up with the latest Worldwide Engineering Brigade inventions’
The Sanctum where Doctor Strange will weave guests into his mystical magic contains generations of ruins
Dan Fields, the executive creative director behind the live entertainment for the project, said: ‘The Avengers Campus is literally going to be teeming with heroes’
Strong says the all-ages, all-sizes attraction can play simple or sophisticated, and those who get a knack for the slinging can experience ‘layers and layers of game play’ and uncover ‘a million Easter eggs’.
Spidey will also be seen soaring over the structures as one of 15 different costumed Avengers – all of them are still alive in this timeline – who will roam the land.
Dan Fields, the executive creative director behind the live entertainment for the project, said: ‘The Avengers Campus is literally going to be teeming with heroes.
‘It´s a hero-rich environment.’
Visitors can get down in a dance-off with members of the Guardians of the Galaxy; Black Widow and Black Panther will do battle atop the ramparts of Avengers headquarters with Marvel’s Taskmaster, the villain from the forthcoming Black Widow movie, and wannabe warriors will get to train in the fighting arts of Wakanda with Okoye from Black Panther.
Thor will walk the campus looking for people worthy enough to wield his hammer. His brother Loki will be lurking, looking to help or harm depending on his mood.
The storytelling even extends to the food via Pym’s Test Kitchen, which will feature culinary ‘experiments’ from Ant-Man Scott Lang and his scientist benefactor Hank Pym
Inside Pym’s Kitchen where food on offer includes a ‘Not So Little Chicken Sandwich’ and huge pretzels
Built mostly over the park’s former A Bug’s Life Land and incorporating the Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout attraction that opened in 2017, the campus structures, entering their final phases of construction, are being built in layers to look like they’ve existed for ages.
The Webslingers building is a crumbling warehouse that is overlaid with the modern tech created by Web and a sanctum where Doctor Strange will weave guests into his mystical magic contains generations of ruins.
The storytelling even extends to the food via Pym’s Test Kitchen, which will feature culinary ‘experiments’ from Ant-Man Scott Lang and his scientist benefactor Hank Pym.
They include a ‘Not So Little Chicken Sandwich’, a tiny, shrunken brioche bun that is dwarfed by an enlarged hunk of breaded chicken.
Several sizes of pretzel, including one as big as a pizza, will circulate on an overhead conveyor belt and will seem to change size when sent through shrink and growth rays.
The Avenger’s Campus is being built mostly over the park’s former A Bug’s Life Land and incorporates the Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout attraction that opened in 2017
And there will be subtle winks to the Avengers films, including an outlet of the Shawarma joint that Iron Man suggests his allies hit up after the Battle of New York depicted in 2012’s The Avengers, where the heroes can be seen quietly eating in the post-credits scene.
The announcement of the new land comes amid the coronavirus crisis that has led to diminished crowds and cancellations of large gatherings around the world.
Disneyland has said it is committed to the health of its workers and guests and has imposed strict sanitation regulations.
Disney executive chairman Bob Iger told shareholders on Wednesday that company leadership is ‘sobered’ by the crisis, but Disney has been ‘incredibly resilient’ through its history.
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