Taking its cues from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge,
which debuted across the resort at Disneyland
Park 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.
“We’ve been trying to figure out how do we
bring this land to life not just where you get to
see your favorite heroes or meet your favorite
heroes, but where you actually get to become
a hero,” Brent Strong, the executive creative
director behind the new land for Walt Disney
Imagineering, said at a media preview that
revealed new details and provided a first look at
the project that was first announced last year.
“It’s about living out your superhero fantasies.”
Central to that aim is “WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-
Man Adventure,” 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. 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 four-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.
“With nothing in your hands, you get to reach out
and you will sling webs on this ride,” Strong said.