Construction on Disneyland's Avengers project goes vertical

I am really looking forward to this expansion. It will really make Avengers Campus feel more complete.

Exciting news for Marvel fans! Seeing vertical construction start on the Avengers Campus expansion is a big milestone. Can’t wait to experience Stark Flight Lab and Avengers Infinity Defense in action!

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Part of it is probably because I live thousands of miles away from Disneyland, but these new projects at DCA just don't excite me that much. I think the Avatar land could be interesting, especially if it includes a version of PotC from Shanghai as its e-ticket, but I also worry that the area will be significantly smaller than PotWA at DAK and the simple fact that the Avatar IP has such little connection to this area or the overarching theming of DCA as a whole.

I do like the concept of a Coco ride, but again, it looks like they're wedging it into such a tiny spot that it will either be an extremely short experience or will not have the necessary placemaking as you approach the new attraction.

The Avengers stuff is fine, but this e-ticket has been in development for almost a decade, and it seems like WDI has changed course on the platform for the main ride as least once so far. If the Avatar e-ticket is indeed based on Shanghai PotC, which I consider a motion-base (just with water), that will mean if this new Avengers e-ticket is a motion-base, it will bring just DCA's total of motion-base attractions up to 4 (TSMM, Spiderman, Avatar, and Avengers) with a total of 6 at the Disneyland Resort as a whole (adding RotR and MMRR). That's a lot of attractions in one place that all relying on similar movements and concepts. I really think the original Wakanda/Quinnjet concept based on the FoP ride system would have been perfect for DCA and Avengers CAMPUS, especially since there are only 2 other simulator-style attractions at the Disneyland Resort (Star Tours and Soarin'). The Stark attraction for me is just a throw-away that allows Disney to repurpose the Kuka arms that were removed during the EPCOT renovation. I have ZERO expectations for this c/d-ticket attraction, and I'm significantly concerned about the throughput of an attraction like this in a park that draws crowds like DCA.

Overall, it's great to see Disney finally moving forward on work that should have started years ago, but there's very little that I've seen of these additions that will make me want to hop on a flight and visit Disneyland the second these attractions open.

Don't ask me how I know this, but the original concept was not a flyinf theater attraction... it was a suspended rollercoaster mixed with large screens and other effects... with a great openning sequence that actually made you feel like you were being droped out of the Quinnjet. With Iger and Chapek mismanageing everything having to do with the CA Covid response, combined with cold feet after the very expensive Star Wars land didn't have the response they wanted Marvel land budget got slashed and people got layed off. It was new tech, with lots of things being combined that hadn't been before and it was going to be expensive. So now you have what equates to a Marvel version of the transformers ride being dropped in there instead. I can't imagine hardly anyone is excited for this. A decade ago when the tech was newish and Marvel was still cranking out blockbusters, sure.

There are way too many negative nancys here.

Unlike everyone else who posted in this comments section, I was actually attendance at the D23 Honda center parks showcase last year, and the excitement was electric. Many people are indeed excited for the new additions to DCA.

In regards to the Avengers e-ticket; The idea of a change in concept is nothing new to WDI. In the history of Disney parks, concepts change all the time. The creative process is not linear. Let me repeat; THE CREATIVE PROCESS IS NOT LINEAR.

Pro tip: any random person on social media who *claims* to have inside sources is usually lying (or sometimes just exaggerating) in order to stir the pot and get attention. Especially if all they are doing is spewing negativity. If people actually do have inside sources, then their source is usually just a very low-level employee who does not have the whole story and is only spouting hearsay. Bottom line; if someone on social media is making negative statements because they claim to have inside sources, that does *not* mean that their information is the gospel truth.

Hey FredS, that's a bit rude calling me a liar. You don't have to believe what I wrote. That's wonderful to hear that the crowd of people who attended D23 were excited for this version of the Avengers attraction. I use an anonymous profile and avatar here because I occassionally enjoy commenting on subjects related to companies that I have had employment at, and I would rather not have any comments that would be considered negative lessen my chances of future employment at said companies. Robert runs a great site with generally unbiased reporting, and some of the most in depth coverage of the industry out of any of the sites on the net. I started reading his columns back when he was covering some projects that I worked on and was really impressed with how he covered them. Again, you don't have to believe what I wrote in my comment, and if you're excited for the Avengers attraction then more power to you.