Avengers Campus: E-Watch! (Waiting on the new ride)

[Disney Analyst]

Wait wait wait, are we all just going to let this slide? Spill the beans! Be the insider this forum desperately needs. Ascend!

I certainly missed this also.

Please, may we have some more?

 

[wityblack]

Wait wait wait, are we all just going to let this slide? Spill the beans! Be the insider this forum desperately needs. Ascend!

 

[DCBaker]

Walt Disney Imagineering has shared a behind-the-scenes look at the Avengers Campus expansion site:

 

[mickEblu]

Not one piece of rollercoaster track in sight.

 

[SSG]

Not one piece of rollercoaster track in sight.

Like Alanna, one day you too may have the superpower of structural engineering.

 

[mickEblu]

Like Alanna, one day you too may have the superpower of structural engineering.

I’m sorry I don’t know who/ what that is.

 

[Disney Irish]

I’m sorry I don’t know who/ what that is.

Lol, you didn't watch the video did you? Alanna is the Imagineer giving the tour in the video.

 

[mickEblu]

Lol, you didn't watch the video did you? Alanna is the Imagineer giving the tour in the video.

LOL. Oh I kind of tuned out when I saw another beam signing.

 

[NobodyElse]

LOL. Oh I kind of tuned out when I saw another beam signing.

Her name is also in the description on the post above.

I just question the judgement of showing that angle of a person and labeling it "Behind" the scenes.

 

[Professortango1]

Her name is also in the description on the post above.

I just question the judgement of showing that angle of a person and labeling it "Behind" the scenes.

I thought the same until I clicked and watched the 30 second video and saw that yes, she does walk through the expansion and show the building's internal design.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

@Drew the Disney Dude - do you mind providing a little clarity for us? Did the comment get muddled in that it’s a new ride system and new ride domestically / for Disneyland?

Sorry for the delayed response, I'm rarely on here. Disneyland's President, Thomas Mazloum, specifically mentioned Infinity Defense as the next prototype ride, something that hasn't been done before at Disney Parks. I wrote that article because of how he described it as a new ride system. It's possible that he misspoke, but on my end, I know what I heard.

 

[mickEblu]

Is it time to start talking about this ride potentially not opening in Summer 2027? Or perhaps not opening in 2027 at all. T Minus 16 months from mid Summer 2027.

 

[britain]

Is it time to start talking about this ride potentially not opening in Summer 2027? Or perhaps not opening in 2027 at all. T Minus 16 months from mid Summer 2027.

The more screens, the less sets & animatronics, the quicker it opens. What would you like?

 

[mickEblu]

The more screens, the less sets & animatronics, the quicker it opens. What would you like?

Haha unfortunately as evidenced by the last 10 years they don’t really care about what I like. But if my choices are Screen-a-palooza 2027 or Screen-a-palooza 2028 I’d prefer the former.

 

[DrStarlander]

Is it time to start talking about this ride potentially not opening in Summer 2027? Or perhaps not opening in 2027 at all. T Minus 16 months from mid Summer 2027.

Yeah, the dirt floor in there still surprised me. But with a trackless ride, that's probably a finicky thing done later once the shell is complete. But what really confused me was the ceiling: it looks like random wood boards up there.

Would love a construction person to explain how that's part of a new-build (are they pouring concrete up there? Is the truss a scaffolding platform?). But anyway, when they're done with this wood, hopefully they'll send it over to the Madame Leota gift shop and replace the cheap cement fiber board with these sufficiently ramshackle boards.

Between Avengers, Coco, and Avatar, it’s amazing how much Disney is investing in DCA just for the park to still suck. Arguably, even making the park worse. Just a braindead corporation, frankly.

You made this comment in the Coco thread but I thought I'd drag it over here to criticize talk about Avengers Campus specifically.

The construction walls in AC should be everywhere in that land. Thematic details should be added in every corner -- especially props and vignettes explaining the yet-totally-unsubstantiated Stark Industries backstory and why the place is a jumble of Irvine office park buildings and old brick buildings. It's non-sensical with the scant information provided. An adaptive reuse industrial park is a neat thing...in the deepest world of commercial development, architecture and city planning. It is not something on normies' radars.

The value it has as an approach for Disney is that is allows them to create a modern Avengers adventure for guests and provide backstory that is endearing to old fans and could intrigue new potential Marvel fans with the characters, world, and heritage. A thematic two-for. And yet so far, they have astoundingly not bothered to do that. Not a Stark flying car or rocket or old vibranium metal lab or prototype Captain America shield anywhere. And not only is it therefore missing the IP's specific history, it's missing the fantasy!

Why have the old brick buildings if not to harken to history?

 

[Disney Irish]

Yeah, the dirt floor in there still surprised me. But with a trackless ride, that's probably a finicky thing done later once the shell is complete. But what really confused me was the ceiling: it looks like random wood boards up there.
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Would love a construction person to explain how that's part of a new-build (are they pouring concrete up there? Is the truss a scaffolding platform?). But anyway, when they're done with this wood, hopefully they'll send it over to the Madame Leota gift shop and replace the cheap cement fiber board with these sufficiently ramshackle boards.

To be fair that video was filmed about 3 weeks before it was released, you can tell because they show the beam signing which happened between Feb 2nd-9th (according to Google), so over a month ago at this point. Much of what was shown that you bring up is probably addressed already as they are ready to finish up filling in the shell. For example those wood boards on the roof are so they can walk up there until they fill it in with the roof material (likely concrete). And while I'm not in the construction biz, it makes sense that its the last thing to be completed of the shell because as Google says it creates the sealing cap, ie it seals the entire structure to create a rigid structure. Also you wouldn't want it installed too early because you don't want it damaged while they are still trying to build out the side walls.

 

[DrStarlander]

To be fair that video was filmed about 3 weeks before it was released, you can tell because they show the beam signing which happened between Feb 2nd-9th (according to Google), so over a month ago at this point. Much of what was shown that you bring up is probably addressed already as they are ready to finish up filling in the shell. For example those wood boards on the roof are so they can walk up there until they fill it in with the roof material (likely concrete). And while I'm not in the construction biz, it makes sense that its the last thing to be completed of the shell because as Google says it creates the sealing cap, ie it seals the entire structure to create a rigid structure. Also you wouldn't want it installed too early because you don't want it damaged while they are still trying to build out the side walls.

I'm actually not particularly critical of the progress, just more curious, especially about that wood. But I don't think it would be a concrete roof, seems like the roof is already up there from FreshBaked's coverage. I think based on the elevation it's at (see image below where its height can be seen relative to the structural steel...it's not at the top of the building), I'd guess it's for a floor deck (whether for a second floor of attraction or offices, who knows). Maybe on top of the scrappy wood is a corrugated metal onto which concrete is poured, something like this:

Here's a non-Disney image as an example...

 

[Disney Irish]

I'm actually not particularly critical of the progress, just more curious, especially about that wood. But I don't think it would be a concrete roof, seems like the roof is already up there from FreshBaked's coverage. I think based on the elevation it's at (see image below where its height can be seen relative to the structural steel...it's not at the top of the building), I'd guess it's for a floor deck (whether for a second floor of attraction or offices, who knows). Maybe on top of the scrappy wood is a corrugated metal onto which concrete is poured, something like this:
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Here's a non-Disney image as an example...
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Again I’m not part of the construction biz, but wood I don’t think would be used for anything but forms if pouring concrete, especially since it looks like plywood and wouldn’t hold up under the weight. In this case it makes more sense for it to be wood to step on prior to pouring the concrete roof. As it would make more sense that they would use metal sheets with rebar attached for a more rigid surface for pouring the concrete onto for the final surface for the roof.

 

[DrStarlander]

Again I’m not part of the construction biz, but wood I don’t think would be used for anything but forms if pouring concrete, especially since it looks like plywood and wouldn’t hold up under the weight. In this case it makes more sense for it to be wood to step on prior to pouring the concrete roof. As it would make more sense that they would use metal sheets with rebar attached for a more rigid surface for pouring the concrete onto for the final surface for the roof.

Yes, I meant the wood was temporary during the pouring of that floor

 

[Misted Compass]

Is it time to start talking about this ride potentially not opening in Summer 2027? Or perhaps not opening in 2027 at all. T Minus 16 months from mid Summer 2027.

Definitely seems like it. I know pandemic-era delays were a thing but wasn't the MMRR building fully enclosed well over a year before it opened?