{"id":247998,"date":"2020-03-12T00:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=247998"},"modified":"2020-03-12T22:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T02:09:01","slug":"avengers-campus-to-let-disneyland-visitors-sling-like-spidey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/12\/avengers-campus-to-let-disneyland-visitors-sling-like-spidey\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers Campus to let Disneyland visitors sling like Spidey"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9mUe2XBfQq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9mUe2XBfQq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9mUe2XBfQq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Introducing Avengers Campus, an all-new land opening July 18. A Super Hero training complex for the next generation of heroes&#8230;just like you. #LetsGoBeHeroes #DisneyCaliforniaAdventure<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/disneyland\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Disneyland<\/a> (@disneyland) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2020-03-11T15:41:24+00:00\">Mar 11, 2020 at 8:41am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Some assembling is still required, but the Avengers are gathering in a big way at Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p>A new Spider-Man attraction that allows riders to sling webs with their bare hands and live-action fights between Avengers members and Marvel supervillains are among the highlights of the new Avengers Campus that arrives July 18 at Disney&#8217;s California Adventure in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>Taking its cues from Star Wars: Galaxy&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;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,\u201d 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. \u201cIt&#8217;s about living out your superhero fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Central to that aim is \u201cWEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith nothing in your hands, you get to reach out and you will sling webs on this ride,\u201d Strong said. \u201cWhile there&#8217;s a ton of technology to make that happen, it just feels like magic, it feels like being Spider-Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The imaginary magic comes from a new gesture recognition system two years in the making that can recognize the faces and hands of riders.<\/p>\n<p>Strong says the all-ages, all-sizes attraction can play simple or sophisticated, and those who get a knack for the slinging can experience \u201clayers and layers of game play\u201d and uncover \u201ca million Easter eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spidey will also be seen soaring over the structures as one of 15 different costumed Avengers \u2014 all of them are still alive in this timeline \u2014 who will roam the land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Avengers Campus is literally going to be teeming with heroes,\u201d said Dan Fields, the executive creative director behind the live entertainment for the project. \u201cIt&#8217;s a hero-rich environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Taskmaster, the villain from the forthcoming \u201cBlack Widow\u201d movie; and wannabe warriors will get to train in the fighting arts of Wakanda with Okoye from \u201cBlack Panther.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The campus is in its final phases of construction as fears of the new coronavirus have 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 Wednesday that company leadership is \u201csobered\u201d by the crisis, but Disney has been \u201cincredibly resilient\u201d through its history.<\/p>\n<p>Built mostly over the park&#8217;s former A Bug&#8217;s 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&#8217;ve existed for ages. The Webslingers building is a crumbling warehouse that is overlaid with the modern tech created by WEB. The Sanctum where Doctor Strange will weave guests into his mystical magic contains generations of ruins.<\/p>\n<p>The storytelling even extends to the food via Pym&#8217;s Test Kitchen, which will feature culinary \u201cexperiments\u201d from Ant-Man Scott Lang and his scientist benefactor Hank Pym. They include a \u201cNot So Little Chicken Sandwich,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>And subtle winks to the Avengers films abound, including an outlet of the Shawarma joint that Iron Man suggests his allies hit up after the Battle of New York depicted in 2012&#8217;s \u201cThe Avengers,\u201d where the heroes can be seen quietly eating in the post-credits scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to show the cars on the Spider-Man attraction hold eight riders, not four.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram Introducing Avengers Campus, an all-new land opening July 18. 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