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

[BrianLo]

Do you think that platform has the opportunity to deliver something that would rise to the level of a resort defining “F/Super E+ ticket” like RSR? Excited by the possibilities

Luigi’s Roasters was turned into an F ticket. So I guess anything is possible? But it would need to be a kitchen sink Rise experience and I’m not entirely certain that’s what is occurring here.

Maybe if it’s multiple levels, as long as Pan, more practically derived and has a multi stage preshow.

The Avatar Boat ride always struck me as the more easy contender.

 

[DL-fan]

View attachment 913304this did not need a ribbon cutting ceremony

I’m looking forward to the ribbon cutting for the new Avengers Campus bathrooms

 

[Purduevian]

Just an FYI for those that think this will be grander or bigger than pan... here is the pan show building on that plot. I think the main show building will be a similar size (they also have to fit in the second ride)

 

[Distorian]

Why are show buildings so much larger now than they used to be? Is it simply because of state regulations? I liked the compact feeling of Mansion, Pirates, Indiana Jones, and obviously the Fantasyland rides. Rides like Rise have so much more open space and it ends up feeling sterile. That works fine for Rise, but hurts rides like MMRR.

 

[DrStarlander]

I’m looking forward to the ribbon cutting for the new Avengers Campus bathrooms

Assuming they use toilet paper with perforations, they won't even have to rustle up giant scissors

 

[NobodyElse]

Assuming they use toilet paper with perforations, they won't even have to rustle up giant scissors

Another sponsorship opportunity for Cottonelle.

 

[DL-fan]

Another sponsorship opportunity for Cottonelle.

Charmin is already lined up to sponsor Grizzly River Run, those bears need their toilet paper

 

[Nirya]

Just to chime in, Pan at TDS was one of the two rides (the other being Journey to the Center of the Earth) that I wish we had done more than twice when we visited in December. The ride is just so damn cool, everything feels immersive in a way that Transformers at the very least never did. The people who said it feels like you're flying or swimming nailed it; I have no idea how they managed to give a ride vehicle on a ground track a feeling of weightlessness at times, but they did.

The one thing I will be interested in is how the whole ride system/film/experience will work with the more realistic characters of Marvel. Part of why Pan (and Spider-Man) work is because they are so cartoonish that your mind accepts the new reality and doesn't nit-pick certain things, but with Transformers, because it is going for a more heightened realism (as opposed to like the style of Transformers One), you notice the flaws more. Avengers is going to sit in that latter space with all of the face characters, so I'll be interested to see how they combat that.

 

[MistaDee]

Just to chime in, Pan at TDS was one of the two rides (the other being Journey to the Center of the Earth) that I wish we had done more than twice when we visited in December. The ride is just so damn cool, everything feels immersive in a way that Transformers at the very least never did. The people who said it feels like you're flying or swimming nailed it; I have no idea how they managed to give a ride vehicle on a ground track a feeling of weightlessness at times, but they did.

The one thing I will be interested in is how the whole ride system/film/experience will work with the more realistic characters of Marvel. Part of why Pan (and Spider-Man) work is because they are so cartoonish that your mind accepts the new reality and doesn't nit-pick certain things, but with Transformers, because it is going for a more heightened realism (as opposed to like the style of Transformers One), you notice the flaws more. Avengers is going to sit in that latter space with all of the face characters, so I'll be interested to see how they combat that.

Great points about suspension of disbelief with the cartoon look. Should be interesting to see how the change in IP also translates to the ride profile's feeling/sensation - presumably a lot more aggressive/thrilling than the floaty feeling of Pan.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Standing ovation!

 

[Disney Irish]

Standing ovation!

And people were worried they'd still be visible after the building was complete.

 

[DrStarlander]

And people were worried they'd still be visible after the building was complete.

 

[Disney Irish]

It’s still not done yet, there will be a roof that covers that section too. Be patient.

 

[Professortango1]

Do you think that platform has the opportunity to deliver something that would rise to the level of a resort defining “F/Super E+ ticket” like RSR? Excited by the possibilities

RSR is a "super E+ ticket?" I thought it was just a solid modern E Ticket. The best attraction at DCA, to be sure, but I wouldn't say its more impressive or better than POTC, HM, or IJA.

If they give us POTC level design and application with some new exciting ride system, then maybe, but I highly doubt that we'd get that much investment/commitment, especially with a Marvel-based attraction. Disney hasn't been too great about designing Marvel attractions or lands in their theme parks, so I don't foresee them somehow cracking the code with this one.

I foresee a lot of large industrial rooms like Rise/MMRR, plenty of projections at atmospheric effects (wind, heat, etc), and a few strategic dance-bots (the new wacky arm AA's from Rise and TBA) combined with face cameo voiceovers saying things like "over there!" "look out" and "great job recruits!"

 

[DrStarlander]

I foresee a lot of large industrial rooms like Rise/MMRR, plenty of projections at atmospheric effects (wind, heat, etc), and a few strategic dance-bots (the new wacky arm AA's from Rise and TBA) combined with face cameo voiceovers saying things like "over there!" "look out" and "great job recruits!"

We can debate many details about what this ride will include but there is no doubt: the Avengers need our help!

(Though I would love it if they actually didn't need our help, and treated us like we were nosing into a situation unhelpfully. I can imagine Tony Stark saying: "Hey, so, you guys again? Appreciate the enthusiasm but we've got this." I think at the end of the attraction, it's funnier and more MCU/Avengers-ish if Stark has to acknowledge we were helpful despite his expectation as opposed to them saying how much they need us the moment we enter the queue, even though they've never met us.)

 

[Professortango1]

We can debate many details about what this ride will include but there is no doubt: the Avengers need our help!

(Though I would love it if they actually didn't need our help, and treated us like we were nosing into a situation unhelpfully. I can imagine Tony Stark saying: "Hey, so, you guys again? Appreciate the enthusiasm but we've got this." I think at the end of the attraction, it's funnier and more MCU/Avengers-ish if Stark has to acknowledge we were helpful despite his expectation as opposed to them saying how much they need us the moment we enter the queue, even though they've never met us.)

I'd rather have a Doctor Strange-themed fun house where we ride through a variety of trippy visual optical illusions like a modern ATIS. I don't need to visit a purposefully vague tech warehouse/facility/industrial center to help generic superheroes with a generic McGuffin. The concept art for AID looks like a step above being themed to a hospital parking structure or TSA at LAX.

I wonder if the idea of going to war with soldiers will age poorly when US cities are being attacked and having bomb drills and seeing Military Industrial Complexes pop up in our everyday life. Need to escape the war? Join up to fight King Thanos and watch as everything around you gets blown up!

 

[GravityFalls]

I'd rather have a Doctor Strange-themed fun house where we ride through a variety of trippy visual optical illusions like a modern ATIS. I don't need to visit a purposefully vague tech warehouse/facility/industrial center to help generic superheroes with a generic McGuffin. The concept art for AID looks like a step above being themed to a hospital parking structure or TSA at LAX.

I wonder if the idea of going to war with soldiers will age poorly when US cities are being attacked and having bomb drills and seeing Military Industrial Complexes pop up in our everyday life. Need to escape the war? Join up to fight King Thanos and watch as everything around you gets blown up!

Doctor Strange is one of the only heroes available to Disney for use in the Florida parks, I'm sure we will get an attraction over there one day

 

[britain]

RSR is a "super E+ ticket?" I thought it was just a solid modern E Ticket. The best attraction at DCA, to be sure, but I wouldn't say its more impressive or better than POTC, HM, or IJA.

At the time it opened, it was the only attraction in the U.S. with an S-Tier, DisneySea level exterior, and a like-Test-Track-but-better-than-Test-Track interior. Those three that you mentioned...

POTC: Funnily enough, I only think of Pirates as an interior. It has no exterior at all! New Orleans Square just happens to be on top of it! I personally think the ride itself, while a classic, is not aging very well. But that's another story.

HM: Excellent Interior and Exterior. This is peak WED. The only possible demerit is that the exterior is so good at being unassuming, that it sort of excuses itself from the competition with other fantastical theme park buildings.

IJA: I think this has the edge on RSR because the interior ride is better, but that's the extra benefit of having a story that takes place in a strange building (like HM does too). You don't have to worry about "no, you're in a field" or "no, you're at sea" scenarios. The Indy exterior is excellent too, but I concede, it's not trying to pull off the "you're in the middle of a Southwestern U.S. valley" like RSR is.

 

[DrStarlander]

I'd rather have a Doctor Strange-themed fun house where we ride through a variety of trippy visual optical illusions like a modern ATIS. I don't need to visit a purposefully vague tech warehouse/facility/industrial center to help generic superheroes with a generic McGuffin. The concept art for AID looks like a step above being themed to a hospital parking structure or TSA at LAX.

I agree. I'd like a Doctor Strange / Mystic Manor-style dark ride to replace the awful Web Slingers. If they can't do a Spider-Man ride where we are swinging through a city seemingly hundreds of feet above the ground (i.e, suspended coaster), why bother? They ought to just walk away from Spidey if they can't do him justice. Let Universal handle that character.

And, no, I am not excited about the new Anaheim Costco. Though if they have $1.50 hotdogs that would soften the blow.

 

[MistaDee]

RSR is a "super E+ ticket?" I thought it was just a solid modern E Ticket. The best attraction at DCA, to be sure, but I wouldn't say its more impressive or better than POTC, HM, or IJA.

I would consider all of those to be “super E+” tickets, nowhere did I claim RSR is superior to any specific ride.

The ticket system is obviously very subjective and dubious, but for me I’m describing a tier of attractions that are truly park defining showstoppers on a grand scale not just something that modern Disney call an E ticket like MMRR, or Tron, but don’t rise to the level of RSR or Rise

This is all in the context of trying to project my expectations for how AID will stack up, not litigate the pecking order of existing attractions