Avengers Campus - Reactions / Reviews

[mccgavin]

Is “Spider-Man Slingshot” relally gonna be the name of the ride?

I don't believe so, "slingshot" is just the attraction's internal codename. Rise of The Resistance was referred to as "alcatraz" and Smugglers Run was called "big bird" before the final name of the attractions were decided on.

 

[Phroobar]

I don't believe so, "slingshot" is just the attraction's internal codename. Rise of The Resistance was referred to as "alcatraz" and Smugglers Run was called "big bird" before the final name of the attractions were decided on.

Slingshot was the ride where you are suspended from the ceiling and swinging left and right in actual sets shooting bad guys. This one is just rethemed Midway Mania.

 

[mccgavin]

Slingshot was the ride where you are suspended from the ceiling and swinging left and right in actual sets shooting bad guys. This one is just rethemed Midway Mania.

I understand that the current attraction being built is similar to the one used in Midway Mania. Based on construction information released to the public by DLP in May the attraction's codename is still "slingshot" despite not resembling the originally planned attraction.

 

[MK-fan]

The Spider-Man bldg is finally finished:

The name makes sense since it has spiders with circuits, “Spider-Man: Circuit City”

 

[D.Silentu]

The sign on that building is wrong. It's supposed to be a shabby banner that reads, "Halloween Store."

 

[Deleted member 107043]

I am sure that more trees will end up being placed between the maters ride and the campus. since they got rid of all the large planters in front of the bugslife building they seemed to have re-aligned the walking path. This gives them more room between the mater ride and the new walking path. I am sure that they will have a new wider area for trees that will not completely hide the avengers area but will help it blend.

This is the thing with Disney's California parks, right? With precious little space lands typically have little to no buffer between them, and transitions from one to another are often abrupt. It's not ideal if you're the sort who expects complete immersion at all times, however this won't be the first time competing stories and themes have been been deliberately juxtaposed in DCA or DL.

 

[TP2000]

This is the thing with Disney's California parks, right? With precious little space lands typically have little to no buffer between them, and transitions from one to another are often abrupt. It's not ideal if you're the sort who expects complete immersion at all times, however this won't be the first time competing stories and themes have been been deliberately juxtaposed in DCA or DL.

Walt Disney agrees with you! But he's not actually going to do anything about it.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Walt Disney agrees with you! But he's not actually going to do anything about it.

yeah but that all flows and looks like they belong together. they are not an eyesore like the guardians tower.

 

[TP2000]

yeah but that all flows and looks like they belong together. they are not an eyesore like the guardians tower.

It looks like it flows because it's been there for 60 years. We are just used to it.

But a Swiss mountain next to a tropical lagoon with atomic submarines named after the famous fleet that traversed the North Pole (not the tropics) with a Nixon-approved Monorail zipping over the water while sky buckets go right through the mountain is not exactly a cohesive plotline.

We are used to it and don't question it. Just like we don't question an 1840's Oregon Trail log fort sitting right next to African elephant tusks framing a Polynesian singing bird show.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

It looks like it flows because it's been there for 60 years. We are just used to it.

But a Swiss mountain next to a tropical lagoon with atomic submarines named after the famous fleet that traversed the North Pole (not the tropics) with a Nixon-approved Monorail zipping over the water while sky buckets go right through the mountain is not exactly a cohesive plotline.

We are used to it and don't question it. Just like we don't question an 1840's Oregon Trail log fort sitting right next to African elephant tusks framing a Polynesian singing bird show.

fair enough. but to me, it is more than i am "used to it". To me the way they are designed and flow all look beautiful. thought was put into it. unlike guardians.

 

[solidyne]

fair enough. but to me, it is more than i am "used to it". To me the way they are designed and flow all look beautiful. thought was put into it. unlike guardians.

You're both right.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Walt Disney agrees with you! But he's not actually going to do anything about it.

That's an alpine sub!!

 

[Deleted member 107043]

Walt Disney agrees with you! But he's not actually going to do anything about it.

Yeah, the company was looking to build some kind of toboggan style coaster ride on Holiday Hill/Lookout Mountain between TL and FL. While shooting a film in Switzerland Walt saw the Matterhorn and sent a photo of the peak from the Swiss Alps to Glendale with a note to "build this", or so the legend goes. So basically not a ton of thought went into the plan, just an inexplicable directive to build a Swiss mountain containing a bobsled coaster between TL and FL that had zero thematic connections to either area.

 

[mickEblu]

Walt Disney agrees with you! But he's not actually going to do anything about it.

For all the praise we give the old Disneyland and it’s more tolerable crowds, it sure is more beautiful now. Amazing what trees do.

 

[TP2000]

For all the praise we give the old Disneyland and it’s more tolerable crowds, it sure is more beautiful now. Amazing what trees do.

Agreed. And that photo is taken several years after all those things were built, somewhere in the 1961 to 1964 timeframe, so the trees have had a few years to fill in. It's at least 1961 because in the summer of '61 they added the fourth car to the Monorail trains when they extended the track to the Disneyland Hotel, but no later than early 1964 because the original Skyway two-seater buckets were replaced with the square four-seater buckets in the spring of '64.

The original Patrick Henry submarine, one of America's first atomic powered ballistic missile submarines, spent the early 1960's cruising around the North Sea on NATO patrol and was often resupplied from NATO bases in Scotland. So we can add the Cuban Missile Crisis Era Cold War North Sea as one of the themes presented here, alongside Swiss Alps, Tropical Lagoon, Space Age Monorail, and Wacky Skybuckets. Also add the Richfield Oil eagle logo poking out above the Fantasyland Autopia in the distance. Because Walt said so!

 

[lazyboy97o]

There are never mountains near water now?
The Matterhorn connects to Tomorrowland because it represents leisure travel, a common theme in mid-century futurism.

 

[ToTBellHop]

There are never mountains near water now?
The Matterhorn connects to Tomorrowland because it represents leisure travel, a common theme in mid-century futurism.

There are no snowy mountains next to lagoons with clownfish and tang fish.

 

[TP2000]

There are no snowy mountains next to lagoons with clownfish and tang fish.

And while the landscaping grew in nicely over the last 60 years, it got even more cartoony looking in the 21st century with the Finding Nemo overlay and the tropical vegetation planted around the lagoon.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

It looks like it flows because it's been there for 60 years. We are just used to it.

But a Swiss mountain next to a tropical lagoon with atomic submarines named after the famous fleet that traversed the North Pole (not the tropics) with a Nixon-approved Monorail zipping over the water while sky buckets go right through the mountain is not exactly a cohesive plotline.

We are used to it and don't question it. Just like we don't question an 1840's Oregon Trail log fort sitting right next to African elephant tusks framing a Polynesian singing bird show.

Let's not forget that the thing Walt Disney aspired to in creating the environs of Disneyland was not necessarily "immersion".

It's not like he placed Sleeping Beauty Castle at the end of Main Street for lack of a better place to put it - the juxtaposition was part of the point.

 

[Phroobar]

The sign on that building is wrong. It's supposed to be a shabby banner that reads, "Halloween Store."

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