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

[TrainsOfDisney]

No reason to feel sorry for me, my life is full and have had many life changing experiences that don’t involve a theme park.

Why do you visit Disney if it doesn’t provide joy or fulfillment to you?

 

[Disney Irish]

Why do you visit Disney if it doesn’t provide joy or fulfillment to you?

Did I said it didn’t? One can experience joy and fulfillment without having a “life changing experience”.

 

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

I never quite mentioned that I finally tried Pym's Test Kitchen the last time I was at the resort. I stayed away for a long time because of the gimmick and what seemed to be-at the time, anyway-a lot of mixed reviews. That said, I was in the right place at the right time, so I had a late dinner there following a ride on MAD. I was shocked to find that the humongous taco salad was surprisingly solid. Not the best at staying together, mind, but very good all the same.

The choco smash bar is one dessert that Disneyland definitely hasn't skimped on. It's one that bordered on too dense for me, and I typically have a high tolerance for such things. So even though it wasn't my favorite, it was shocking at 2025 Disneyland in a good way.

I'll have to try back in December to see how the chicken sandwich stacks up to the others I've tried at the resort (Lucky Fortune, RBT, etc).

The Chicken Sandwich imo is really good. PYM is my favorite restaurant at DCA and is pretty underrated.

 

[coffeefan]

I'd honesty love to see some X-Men take over the tired and not too great parts of Avengers Campus. Heck, I'd take anything to replace WEB Slingers and Pym's (not the food, just the vibe). That and the Avengers HQ Jet Hangar looks cool as an idea, but it's so poorly designed for a theme park. Especially with Red Trolly being gone. There should be a stage area to elevate the performers, the designated photo meet and greet should be somewhere better than an awkward corner of the building. That could be a great complex that blends free public space, guided public space (meet and greet) and performance space making all of it feel immersive and integrated.

In a perfect world, for me, we get a weird 60's era Dr. Strange darkride where it's just weird projections and prism effects and optical illusions while Cumberbatch's voice bounces around unseen and they redo the Sanctum/Hangar, and add more giant stuff to Pym's. Give me the vibe of the campus cafeteria filled with inside jokes and mementos.

Those are all great ideas. Yeah, I wish they would go all out with Marvel at DCA. Give us a Doctor Strange ride, a Spider-Man coaster, X-Men, Wakanda, and a stage for shows. There's so much potential there.

 

[ToEarthandback]

I'm sorry but if you're going to a theme park to have a life changing experience then you need to get out more. Go to a national park, go to a beach and see a sunset, go do anything outside and see the miracle of the world.

This is an interesting statement and one I’ve thought about often. When it comes to the beauty of the natural world sure I agree. However - How many great works of art throughout history were funded / built for all of the wrong reasons - like a king or religious institution that wanted to be remembered / glorified on the backs of human suffering. I would argue Disneyland is a great work of art regardless of its motivation to still exist.

 

[Disney Irish]

This is an interesting statement and one I’ve thought about often. When it comes to the beauty of the natural world sure I agree. However - How many great works of art throughout history were funded / built for all of the wrong reasons - like a king or religious institution that wanted to be remembered / glorified on the backs of human suffering. I would argue Disneyland is a great work of art regardless of its motivation to still exist.

Look I've never claimed that Disneyland isn't art, in many ways it is. But that wasn't the comment. Its that some here believe that it should be some life changing experience when you step into the Park. And I'm sorry but that is too high of a bar for Disneyland to ever hit in my opinion. That is like holding up to the same level as the birth of a child or some deeply religious experience. And while Disneyland is great, I'm sorry but it won't compare to such an experience in my opinion. If someone feels moved enough to claim its a life changing experience, more power to them. But that to me means they haven't really experience enough life yet. And given the ages of some that are making those claims, its not surprising. Because maybe that is currently the pinnacle of their life so far. But that isn't the pinnacle of mine, I've experienced other things in my life that were greater experiences that were life changing to me, none of which I'll go into here because they are very personal.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

That is like holding up to the same level as the birth of a child or some deeply religious experience. And while Disneyland is great, I'm sorry but it won't compare to such an experience in my opinion.

Nobody has compared it to the birth of a child.

If someone feels moved enough to claim it’s a life changing experience, more power to them. But that to me means they haven't really experience enough life yet.

i think if you’re going to make this claim you need to define “life changing experience”

 

[Distorian]

Art should seek to elevate the soul. Are theme parks not a form of art? Were Walt Disney, Marc Davis, and Tony Baxter not artists? Did their work not elevate the soul? Did they not seek to grasp the unobtainable, something better than what this world can offer? Is Disneyland itself not an escape from this world? Why, then, should vulgarities and crudities of this world be found in that place?

 

[Disney Irish]

Nobody has compared it to the birth of a child.

Except that is what a life changing experience is to me, something on that level. Sorry if it doesn't fit your definition, but that is mine.

i think if you’re going to make this claim you need to define “life changing experience”

Um, you guys are the ones making the claim that going to a Disney Park should be some life changing experience, so its you who should define it.

Plus I've already given examples of what I feel a life changing experience should be.

 

[Distorian]

Except that is what a life changing experience is to me, something on that level. Sorry if it doesn't fit your definition, but that is mine.


Um, you guys are the ones making the claim that going to a Disney Park should be some life changing experience, so its you who should define it.

Plus I've already given examples of what I feel a life changing experience should be.

Is this what I have claimed? Where?

 

[Disney Irish]

Is this what I have claimed? Where?

Oh you mean like this one, a post that you liked.

If you don’t find any life changing moments at Disney I feel sorry for you.

Plus more that were deleted by the mods.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Oh you mean like this one, a post that you liked.

Our definitions of “life changing experience” are different- I would not compare it to the birth of a child. If that’s the definition - then no, we are talking about different things.

 

[Distorian]

Oh you mean like this one, a post that you liked.



Plus more that were deleted by the mods.

Are those my words?

 

[Disney Irish]

Our definitions of “life changing experience” are different- I would not compare it to the birth of a child. If that’s the definition - then no, we are talking about different things.

That is the whole problem here with this exchange.

A life changing experience is unique to every individual, it’s not a universal truth that everyone accepts. It is literally in the words, it is something that changes someone’s life, and that is individualized. What may be life changing to YOU isn’t the same as the next person.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The Chicken Sandwich imo is really good. PYM is my favorite restaurant at DCA and is pretty underrated.

It doesn’t have that great of competition anymore sadly. I used to love the food at Flos and Cocina but the new menus are not as good.

PYM is better than the current menus elsewhere in the park, I agree with that.

 

[Disney Irish]

Are those my words?

Socrates, your words were deleted by the Mods. And it’s clear they want us to move on from this, which is why they deleted them.

So let’s do them a favor and just move on.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

That is the whole problem here with this exchange.

There isn’t a problem, I didn’t know your definition was the birth of a child or similar event. I just said, I wouldn’t compare it with that. So we agree.

 

[Disney Irish]

There isn’t a problem, I didn’t know your definition was the birth of a child or similar event. I just said, I wouldn’t compare it with that. So we agree.

I agree that our definitions are different. And as time goes on maybe your definition will change too. Which as I said before is why you shouldn’t feel sorry for me because I don’t find going to a Disney Park the same life changing experience as you do.

Now as I also said before, let’s do the mods a favor and move on from this.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I agree that our definitions are different. And as time goes on maybe your definition will change too.

I feel like I’m probably around the same age as you…. so I’m not sure what this is about.

My definition is a deeply emotional experience that changes my view on the world. That can be reading a book, watching a theatrical performance, visiting a museum, etc.

That definition won’t change for me.

Obviously the birth and death of loved ones are a different level of life changing experiences.

 

[Disney Irish]

I feel like I’m probably around the same age as you…. so I’m not sure what this is about.

My definition is a deeply emotional experience that changes my view on the world. That can be reading a book, watching a theatrical performance, visiting a museum, etc.

That definition won’t change for me.

Obviously the birth and death of loved ones are a different level of life changing experiences.

Nope, you’re at least a decade younger than me, you’re an 80s baby, I’m not.

As time goes on and we experience new things our definitions and priorities change, that is just life.