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Avengers Campus - Reactions / Reviews
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el_super
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I just skimmed through half this thread and just ... wow. It's so disappointing that people can dedicate so much time to talking about Disney parks and miss the concept entirely.
Yeah.... It's an interactive ride. If you're not interacting with it, you are missing most of the experience. People judging it off YouTube videos were already jumping at the chance to knock it before it opened, so really what do their opinions matter anyway?
This LA Times article also adds some new perspective: this new land/experience/campus is really geared toward character interactions. These have already proven to be immensely popular at the parks, with the whole corner of Hollywoodland basically exhibiting this concept for years.
As someone who doesn't really "get" the whole character and entertainment thing, I can accept and respect that this isn't an area really geared toward me, but I am not going to be foolish enough to think it won't be successful.
Yeah, me too. I always found the 5th Dimension room awkward and clunky. It breaks up the attraction in the worst possible way. Having the lateral movement at the end and beginning was a much better design.
Yeah.... It's an interactive ride. If you're not interacting with it, you are missing most of the experience. People judging it off YouTube videos were already jumping at the chance to knock it before it opened, so really what do their opinions matter anyway?
Interesting take:
At Disney's Avengers Campus, a moving Black Panther moment of silence and Spider-Man webs
Disney's Spider-Man ride continues the park's shift toward interactive, game-like experiences. Black Panther warriors inspire.www.latimes.com
This LA Times article also adds some new perspective: this new land/experience/campus is really geared toward character interactions. These have already proven to be immensely popular at the parks, with the whole corner of Hollywoodland basically exhibiting this concept for years.
As someone who doesn't really "get" the whole character and entertainment thing, I can accept and respect that this isn't an area really geared toward me, but I am not going to be foolish enough to think it won't be successful.
Yeah, me too. I always found the 5th Dimension room awkward and clunky. It breaks up the attraction in the worst possible way. Having the lateral movement at the end and beginning was a much better design.
britain
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And yet the Sony music appears in the preshow?
el_super
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There are a couple videos out there (I think one was posted here) where you can *barely* hear the narration and music. If these are being played through the small speakers embedded in the seat, they would be really hard to pick up on video without holding the phone to your face.
But it's also possible they turned off the music so that reporters/youtubers could narrate their experience for video.
Burgower1994
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This land just doesn’t feel complete. Spider man would be great if there another attraction in the land. We need a phase two ASAP!! The avengers building looks sad without a attraction.
lazyboy97o
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Success though won’t prevent these character interactions from always having a target on their backs.
Rich Brownn
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the California version has no real build up in the ride. *boom* you're in the drop shaft. Everything in Florida was designed to keep building a sense of unease ,, from the pre-show, to the red lights and low throbbing bass in the boiler room, to the "rickety" elevators and then the whole 5th dimension sequence (even if it was unfinished) leading to that spectacular wash of "stars" opening up into blackness and then a pause in total darkness.... and then the drop
SoCalDisneyLover
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It's going to be 2 or 3 years before there's another attraction. Probably 3, since the next attraction at the Resort they plan to open is M&M's Runaway Railroad, and that's not until 2023. I realize that's at DL, but Disney would not open 2 Major attractions in the same year.
My prediction is Summer 2024 before another ride at Avenger's Campus.
britain
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YES DING DING 🛎 - This is the only answer that makes sense. The desire for clean vlogger reaction audio.
Not that there’s been a lot of “WOW! This is fantastic! You guys have got to try this!!!” reactions in the vlogs so far…
That's what I said when I got the note last night. Cause what I saw on the POVs made absolutely no sense re: soundtrack
AEfx
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If I were Disney I would be embarrassed to put this product out there when Universal did it so much better more than two decades ago now. It comes off as a cheap knock-off. If you had told me this was at some regional Six Flags park, I would have believed you.
el_super
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Oh definitely. Like I said, I don't get the enjoyment out of waiting an hour to have my picture taken with a guy who kinda looks like a guy I saw in a movie once. I don't get the same satisfaction of posting the picture on social media to prove to all my friends that I am somehow superior to them, because I was able to go to Disneyland.
But some people do. And since Disneyland is the most instagram'd place on earth, there's probably a lot more people wanting that experience than the one I normally go for. I am OK accepting that not everyone has to experience the park the same way I do, or get the same enjoyment out of it, and the last thing I want to do is be the typical internet gatekeeper.
Yeah but the transition into the "5th Dimension" destroys the value of the actual effect. It's like a magician stopping midway through a trick to try to explain why it's so cool.
britain
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I disagree. It comes off as a high-quality version of a more modest, more commonly attempted-at-amusement-parks attraction.
Welcome to Paris’s Temple of Peril. What, you wanted DL’s Jeep ride? Sorry, they weren’t going for that. It doesn’t mean they failed.
(And it definitely doesn’t mean they should be embarrassed. How on earth are we going to get our children to not fear failure if we keep equating failure with embarrassment?)
lazyboy97o
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Even worse, the WDI Park Creative Executive for Disney’s California Adventure is Scott Trowbridge who worked on The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man.
999th Happy Haunt
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britain
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I never look back, dahling, it distracts from the now.
lazyboy97o
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Failure from genuine effort shouldn’t be embarrassing. Phoning it in should be.
britain
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Sure, and the only thing that looks debatably phoned in is the decision over ticket level, or poor choice about music (can’t really be determined by these videos at this time). I can’t get over how high-quality the set dressings all over the queue look. I’ve seen “industrial” and “techy” at Six Flags, and it looks like non-designed puke. The Imagineers tasked with carrying out these orders did a very admirable, beautiful job!
(For contrast, I think the Imagineers tasked with making Pixar Pier did not.)
It simply might not have been made with people like you in mind. And that’s okay
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Disney Analyst
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Okay so lots of people confirming there is onboard audio that was turned off for all the b-roll filming.