Avengers Campus - Reactions / Reviews

[No Name]

Joe Rohde led the teams that designed two of the highest-rated attractions, which both opened on the same exact day. But while Flight of Passage makes an effort to fit the land and the park it’s in surprisingly well, the approach to Mission: BREAKOUT!, to quote the man himself, is best described as “KABOOM!” It‘s “coming out of nowhere,” fits “like a square peg in a round hole, and is “almost an intrusion.” Still a fan of Joe Rohde, but those are very different approaches. I’d be inclined to believe Bob Chapek gave him some powerful drugs. That’s the same year he got Lassester drunk at D23.

For likely unrelated reasons, Joe no longer heads Marvel in the parks, and the ideas for the land were altered. Scot Drake is the new head. He’s done a number of things, but most recently and most significantly led the design of Tomorrowland in Shanghai, which was very expensive and riddled with design issues. I’m not a huge fan and not exactly confident he will do well with Avengers Campus.

 

[mickEblu]

That must be it because the design of the building doesn't match anything else in the park or even remotely relate to California. Not Hollywood Land, not Avengers Campus, not anything. It looks more like Tomorrowland 1998, which was already dead by 2016.

Maybe in the future they'll redesign the exterior to better match the Campus. One can hope.

I think Joe wanted to do something bold and make his mark on the park, but given his experience he should have known better than to decorate the Resort's largest building in the way they did.

I agree. I think he was doubling down on the whole kaboom thing. He knew it would be out of place so by doubling down with the design it can be viewed as more eccentric or bold.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

The Castle on Main Street makes a lot of sense. Traditional Main Streets are often anchored by important building that represent the origin and values of the community. In older towns this is usually a church as a show of religious piety, in later towns it is often a train station and courthouse as symbols of commerce and republicanism. Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom has a romantic castle. The scale and architecture of the Castle are also sympathetic to Main Street, USA which means the visual is not one of dissonance.

While true, my point was simply that all of this is “as big a reach” as the train around a mountain/Monorail around a Matterhorn comparison made earlier. Which is to say, not as especially big reach by the rules of Disneyland.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

What a stupid place Disneyland is. I don't know why anyone would want to go there much less work there.

No one goes there anymore. It's too busy.

 

[BubbaQuest]

So what’s the Marvel Land Weenie? The brick building?

Is it not this?

So *now* I finally understand this building. It's one of those giant machines that cooks hot dogs. You put the bun in on one side and the hot dog in the other, and then presto heated lunch.

 

[Phroobar]

So *now* I finally understand this building. It's one of those giant machines that cooks hot dogs. You put the bun in on one side and the hot dog in the other, and then presto heated lunch.

Exactly! It was originally built for Hot Dog days.

 

[chadwpalm]

So *now* I finally understand this building. It's one of those giant machines that cooks hot dogs. You put the bun in on one side and the hot dog in the other, and then presto heated lunch.

 

[mickEblu]

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Need to get me one of these

 

[Mac Tonight]

Clearly they should have rethemed ToT to Stark Tower.

You join a tour group waiting to visit Tony Stark up on the rooftop overlook. As you enter the elevator you start to get a look a each floor, but then a fragment of Ulton's memory comes back and hi-jacks your ride. It takes Tony and Jarvis a hot second to work him out of the system, but not before you're bouncing up and down from floor to floor.

Spoiler alert: you survive.

I mean, c'mon.

 

[SSG]

I've beat this drum many times, but if ToT had to be Marvelized, then Dr. Strange would have been a better choice. We could have had a West Coast Sanctum Sanctorum where the exterior was only a bit different from from the Hollywood Tower--both are creepy, old style buildings after all-- thereby eliminating the hideous and out of place look of the Collector's Warehouse. Inside, you swap out the Collector's junk for mystic artifacts-there are tons in the comics to draw from. For the ride, you have a 'falling through the dimensions' storyline, with Doc and the villain of the piece battling it out.

I honestly believe this would be a better story and serve Disney's need for Marvel in the park.

 

[Mac Tonight]

I've beat this drum many times, but if ToT had to be Marvelized, then Dr. Strange would have been a better choice. We could have had a West Coast Sanctum Sanctorum where the exterior was only a bit different from from the Hollywood Tower--both are creepy, old style buildings after all-- thereby eliminating the hideous and out of place look of the Collector's Warehouse. Inside, you swap out the Collector's junk for mystic artifacts-there are tons in the comics to draw from. For the ride, you have a 'falling through the dimensions' storyline, with Doc and the villain of the piece battling it out.

I honestly believe this would be a better story and serve Disney's need for Marvel in the park.

I feel like you could throw a dart at a Marvel Superheroes dartboard and hit a better fit for the tower than Guardians.

 

[MK-fan]

Clearly they should have rethemed ToT to Stark Tower.

You join a tour group waiting to visit Tony Stark up on the rooftop overlook. As you enter the elevator you start to get a look a each floor, but then a fragment of Ulton's memory comes back and hi-jacks your ride. It takes Tony and Jarvis a hot second to work him out of the system, but not before you're bouncing up and down from floor to floor.

Spoiler alert: you survive.

I mean, c'mon.

Not a bad idea, definitely makes more sense than the current product.

 

[Suspirian]

I've beat this drum many times, but if ToT had to be Marvelized, then Dr. Strange would have been a better choice. We could have had a West Coast Sanctum Sanctorum where the exterior was only a bit different from from the Hollywood Tower--both are creepy, old style buildings after all-- thereby eliminating the hideous and out of place look of the Collector's Warehouse. Inside, you swap out the Collector's junk for mystic artifacts-there are tons in the comics to draw from. For the ride, you have a 'falling through the dimensions' storyline, with Doc and the villain of the piece battling it out.

I honestly believe this would be a better story and serve Disney's need for Marvel in the park.

theres an alternate universe where this exists and I’m upset that I’m in the Gaurdians one.

 

[Phroobar]

I've beat this drum many times, but if ToT had to be Marvelized, then Dr. Strange would have been a better choice. We could have had a West Coast Sanctum Sanctorum where the exterior was only a bit different from from the Hollywood Tower--both are creepy, old style buildings after all-- thereby eliminating the hideous and out of place look of the Collector's Warehouse. Inside, you swap out the Collector's junk for mystic artifacts-there are tons in the comics to draw from. For the ride, you have a 'falling through the dimensions' storyline, with Doc and the villain of the piece battling it out.

I honestly believe this would be a better story and serve Disney's need for Marvel in the park.

That would have been the best overlay solution if they had to Marvelize it. It's funny they were destroying the ToT when Doctor Strange was doing great business in the theater. Disney execs are so short sighted.

 

[TROR]

Tower of Terror shouldn't have been changed for any IP.

 

[mickEblu]

The bigger issue for me is that it’s Marvel but it doesn’t look like anything else in the Avengers Campus. The old ToT look would’ve worked a bit better if they removed all the damage and otherwise only changed the ride itself. One wonders if Rohde designed it before they committed to the rest of the land...

The biggest issue for me is that I have to go to Florida to ride TOT now.

 

[ToTBellHop]

The biggest issue for me is that I have to go to Florida to ride TOT now.

There’s always Paris...

 

[Animaniac93-98]

There’s always Paris...

Imagine...ToT AND Avengers Campus in the same park!

 

[Deleted member 107043]

There’s always Paris...

So I was in France over Christmas and while in Paris I decided to go to Disneyland Resort one day by RER (train). I didn't make it to Disneyland. Never visit Paris during a government trade union strike.

 

[ToTBellHop]

So I was in France over Christmas and while in Paris I decided to go to Disneyland Resort one day by RER (train). I didn't make it Disneyland. Never visit Paris during a government trade union strike.

Yeah that stinks. Crossing my fingers for no issue.

Imagine...ToT AND Avengers Campus in the same park!

If they actually get the Avengers E ticket along with Rock n Starker Coaster and Spidey, they’ll certainly have the better Avengers land. And it won’t make the park worse. Imagine that—a win for WDSP?