By Tenely Tuschman
Avengers, assemble! Marvel is headed to Disneyland this summer, with an all-new Avengers Campus set to open in Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California. The campus is set to open on July 18, making it the latest addition to Disney’s ever-growing collection of attractions.
Marvel has had a Disneyland presence before, but the Avengers Campus is going to be something far more ambitious than it has been in the past. The goal isn’t just to let you say hi to your favorite heroes; it’s to help you work alongside them and write your own comic-book-worthy origin story. Maybe you’ll help Peter Parker stop a swarm of bank robbers. Maybe you’ll go through the infamous Dora Milaje training program. And maybe you’ll tap into your mystical side and learn some wizardry from Doctor Strange. This isn’t a top-secret, restricted facility like S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ. The Avengers Campus is open to all, and they’re actively looking for new recruits (a.k.a. Disneyland visitors) to join their ranks and prove their heroism.
The plan is for the park to be divided into different areas, each one bringing a new section of the Marvel Universe to life. The first area is the Avengers Headquarters which is where you will be able to meet all of your favorite heros. There will be tons of Marvel characters roaming around like Thor, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther. Villains like Loki and Black Widow’s Taskmaster will even make their rounds through the park.
The second area is the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, aka WEB. This exclusive, Stark-bankrolled club aims to unite some of the world’s brightest young minds and encourage them to invent new technologies. This will also be home to the campus’s main new attraction: a Spiderman ride officially named WEB Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure. The ride lets visitors team up with Peter Parker to sling webs and have an adventure.
Although much of the campus revolves around tech, there is also a place for the magical and unexplained, which brings us to the yet another section of the park: Doctor Strange’s Sanctum. There isn’t much information on this section, all we know is that it is a totally different setting from the rest of the park and that strange things are going to happen there. There are also many locations to eat such as the Pym Test Kitchen, where everything on the menu has been sized up or down using Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tech.
Although it is still several months away from opening, you can’t help but envision a Quinjet perched on top of the processing buildings or Spiderman swinging from the roof just overhead. This is Disney’s attempt to bring the world of Marvel off the screen, out of the comics, and into the real world.
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