Avengers Campus to let Disneyland visitors sling like Spidey

Some assembling is still required, but Avengers are garing in a big way at Disneyland.

A new Spider-Man attraction that allows riders to sling webs with ir bare hands and live-action fights between Avengers members and Marvel supervillains are among highlights of new Avengers Campus that arrives July 18 at Disney’s California venture in Anaheim.

Taking its cues from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, which debuted across resort at Disneyland Park last year, 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 t 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, executive creative director behind new land for Walt Disney Imagineering, said at a media preview that revealed new details and provided a first look at project that was first anunced last year. “It’s about living out your superhero fantasies.”

Central to that aim is “WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man venture,” which uses a combination of physical and digital imry to allow riders to play Peter Parker along with onscreen Spidey Tom Holland. 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 or inventive teens kwn as Worldwide Engineering Brige, or WEB, have developed in an old building donated by Tony Stark. Of course, self-replicating bots spiral out of control and start to overrun place, and guests are summoned to help round m up.

four-seat cars that have been set up to begin test runs through facility look like many or people-moving vehicles on Disneyland attractions, but its creators say experience will be something entirely new.

"With thing in your hands, you get to reach out and you will sling webs on this ride," Strong said. “While re's a ton of techlogy to make that happen, it just feels like magic, it feels like being Spider-Man.”

imaginary magic comes from a new gesture recognition system two years in making that can recognize faces and hands of riders.

Strong says all-s, all-sizes attraction can play simple or sophisticated, and those who get a knack for slinging can experience “layers and layers of game play” and uncover “a million Easter eggs.”

Spidey will also be seen soaring over structures as one of 15 different costumed Avengers — all of m are still alive in this timeline — who will roam land.

“ Avengers Campus is literally going to be teeming with heroes,” said Dan Fields, executive creative director behind live entertainment for project. “It’s a hero-rich environment.”

Visitors can get down in a dance-off with members of Guardians of Galaxy; Black Widow and Black Panr will do battle atop ramparts of Avengers hequarters with Marvel's Taskmaster, villain from forthcoming “Black Widow” movie; and wannabe warriors will get to train in fighting arts of Wakanda with Okoye from “Black Panr.”

Thor will walk campus looking for people worthy eugh to wield his hammer. His bror Loki will be lurking, looking to help or harm depending on his mood.

campus is in its final phases of construction as fears of new coronavirus have led to diminished crowds and cancellations of large garings around world. Disneyland has said it is committed to health of its workers and guests and has imposed strict sanitation regulations. Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger told shareholders Wednesday that company leership is “sobered” by crisis, but Disney has been “incredibly resilient” through its history.

Built mostly over park's former A Bug’s Land and incorporating Guardians of Galaxy: Mission Breakout attraction that opened in 2017, campus structures, entering ir final phases of construction, are being built in layers to look like y've existed for s. Webslingers building is a crumbling warehouse that is overlaid with modern tech created by WEB. Sanctum where Doctor Strange will weave guests into his mystical magic contains generations of ruins.

storytelling even extends to food via Pym's Test Kitchen, which will feature culinary “experiments” from Ant-Man Scott Lang and his scientist benefactor Hank Pym. y include a “t So Little Chicken Sandwich,” a tiny, shrunken brioche bun that is dwarfed by an enlarged hunk of breed chicken. Several sizes of pretzel, including one as big as a pizza, will circulate on an overhe conveyor belt and will seem to change size when sent through shrink and growth rays.

And subtle winks to Avengers films abound, including an outlet of Shawarma joint that Iron Man suggests his allies hit up after Battle of New York depicted in 2012's “ Avengers,” where heroes can be seen quietly eating in post-credits scene.