Avengers Campus: Food, Entertainment, M&G, Environment Updates

[PiratesMansion]

Well, since it seems we’re going to keep talking about it, putting hyperbole aside it is about as underwhelming as you can get. The timing is funny, because Disney is trying to change perception of Avengers Campus with new rides on the way. I feel like this addition would’ve gotten a shrug from most of us two years ago. For all the criticism of Mission Breakout’s theming, they’ve managed to go under that bar. The sitting area didn’t have to rival Epic Universe, but it wouldn’t take much aesthetic effort to surpass our expectations for the land.

I feel like anything short of a complete do-over is unlikely to change many opinions about the overall quality of AC as a land, but that could well just be me.

 

[D.Silentu]

I agree that they would have to take the land back to stud to impress most people. It very much is what it is, and will remain that way unless they’re planning some overall touchups for the opening of Infinity Defense. However, when they add anything, even a dining area, I would hope it would be reflective of the improved version of the land currently under construction.

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

It's a temp filler area. Once they figure out if they are going to expand the land out toward the Hyperion or Animation Building, or do something else with that space, they can deal with it then.

In the meantime - covered seating is a win.

 

[Disney Vault]

It's a temp filler area. Once they figure out if they are going to expand the land out toward the Hyperion or Animation Building, or do something else with that space, they can deal with it then.

In the meantime - covered seating is a win.

They better not expand this land. 4 marvel attractions is enough for one park. And it's one of the ugliest lands so no thank you.

 

[mickEblu]

They better not expand this land. 4 marvel attractions is enough for one park. And it's one of the ugliest lands so no thank you.

Yeah the all encompassing Avengers ride should really put a nail in that coffin. Keep the Hyperion or give us something that either fits with Hollywoodland/ BVS or whatever they put in the backlot.

 

[DrStarlander]

They better not expand this land. 4 marvel attractions is enough for one park. And it's one of the ugliest lands so no thank you.

But...part of capturing the Irvine office park theme is that sprawling scale, right?

 

[Disney Vault]

But...part of capturing the Irvine office park theme is that sprawling scale, right?
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Unfortunately I think it looks worse than an Irvine office park. Ive been to nicer office parks.
So many disney lands i could just walk around and enjoy being in the space. The direction they took with avengers Campus will unfortunately never be one of these lands.

 

[coffeefan]

They better not expand this land. 4 marvel attractions is enough for one park. And it's one of the ugliest lands so no thank you.

AC's look is not because of Marvel. There are so many Marvel locations that would have made for much cooler theme park settings.

 

[Disney Vault]

AC's look is not because of Marvel. There are so many Marvel locations that would have made for much cooler theme park settings.

I agree but if it is an expansion of avengers Campus it would be the more of the same.

Now that little glimpse of a Wakanda land would have been exactly what marvel deserved for a theme park land

 

[Professortango1]

I agree but if it is an expansion of avengers Campus it would be the more of the same.

Now that little glimpse of a Wakanda land would have been exactly what marvel deserved for a theme park land

I have a feeling Wakanda would be a slightly nicer Batu.

You'd have one decent Black Panther attraction where we would board a trackless ride vehicles and see characters on screens. Then maybe another mediocre simulator to flesh out the land and a whole lotta faux doorways with nothing to see.

The problem with Marvel as a theme park land is that the iconic stuff from the films are action scenes and characters, not locations. Nobody is dying to visit Avengers Tower or their upstate concrete compound surrounded by lawns. So then you're stuck doing a weird niche location land like Wakanda or a Guardian's spaceport from the holiday special, which doesn't sell all of Marvel.

I guess that is their ultimate problem, trying to get a land to personify an entire universe of multiple franchises all with different tones and characters and locations. It was the issue the parks ran into when trying to implement animated Disney films in the parks that didn't fit the storybook European Fantasyland concept.

In the end, I wish they had themed the Hollywood Backlot area to a seedier are of Los Angeles in the 40's and had a SHIELD-themed attraction where we play with some time travel tech, having our 1940's LA SHIELD mix with modern day MCU characters, fighting across time and locations. Marvel doesn't need a land, it needs an area of a larger land.

 

[Distorian]

Even as a DCA shill, I would have preferred Marvel land if they had just made it Manhattan. It’d be a far more interesting land. Maybe then they could have turned Disney California Adventure into Disney American Adventure and just have the whole park be USA themed. Route 66, National Parks, and the boardwalk all already are general American concepts anyway and not necessarily tied to California, even though they’re prevalent there.

 

[coffeefan]

Even as a DCA shill, I would have preferred Marvel land if they had just made it Manhattan. It’d be a far more interesting land. Maybe then they could have turned Disney California Adventure into Disney American Adventure and just have the whole park be USA themed. Route 66, National Parks, and the boardwalk all already are general American concepts anyway and not necessarily tied to California, even though they’re prevalent there.

That's a great idea! If they were going for a full park retheme, this blows 'Disney California Adventure World' out of the water. I’d just lean harder into a seaside harbor/tropical coast vibe around PP/PG.

 

[coffeefan]

I have a feeling Wakanda would be a slightly nicer Batu.

Avengers Campus is already Marvel's Batuu 1.0.

You'd have one decent Black Panther attraction where we would board a trackless ride vehicles and see characters on screens. Then maybe another mediocre simulator to flesh out the land and a whole lotta faux doorways with nothing to see.

I just need Black Panther: Vibranium Velocity (a la Cosmic Rewind) with a West Coast awesome mix.

For a D-ticket, they could do something like Aquatopia.

The problem with Marvel as a theme park land is that the iconic stuff from the films are action scenes and characters, not locations. Nobody is dying to visit Avengers Tower or their upstate concrete compound surrounded by lawns. So then you're stuck doing a weird niche location land like Wakanda or a Guardian's spaceport from the holiday special, which doesn't sell all of Marvel.

Wakanda is not niche. It's the setting of several billion-dollar movies. If Latveria is featured in Doomsday that would be another option. Manhattan is the most iconic though, but there are others.

In the end, I wish they had themed the Hollywood Backlot area to a seedier are of Los Angeles in the 40's and had a SHIELD-themed attraction where we play with some time travel tech, having our 1940's LA SHIELD mix with modern day MCU characters, fighting across time and locations. Marvel doesn't need a land, it needs an area of a larger land.

That would be a great setting. It could even include 'Timely' in the name as a nod to Marvel's history - 'Timely City', if you will. It would've been a lot better than AC.