Walt Disney Imagineering has pulled again the curtain on Avengers Infinity Protection with a primary have a look at on-ride take a look at footage and attraction automobiles for the upcoming Marvel E-Ticket that’s considered one of two sights being inbuilt Avengers Campus in California Journey at Disneyland. This submit shares every part we all know concerning the new Marvel experience plus our commentary about this information.
The newest replace comes scorching on the heels of South by Southwest (SXSW), throughout which Parks Chairman Josh D’Amaro and Disney Leisure Co-Chairman Alan Bergman took the stage for a function presentation about upcoming sights at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and past.
That culminated in a Marvel section led by Bruce Vaughn, President and Chief Artistic Officer of Walt Disney Imagineering and Kevin Feige, producer and president of Marvel Studios. They had been touched upon a lot of Marvel initiatives in improvement, however the focus was not on Avengers Infinity Protection, however reasonably, the secondary addition: Stark Flight Lab.
Just a few days later, Disney is pulling again the curtain a bit extra on Avengers Infinity Protection, as a part of a wide-ranging new entry into “We Name It Imagineering.” This can be a fan-favorite video sequence that had been dormant for some time, however fortunately, has now been revived with a brand new episode revolving across the Trip Studio at WDI.
This episode takes you behind the scenes to see how rides come to life, and consists of a number of the similar first look footage from SXSW for Stark Flight Lab, one of many Automobiles-themed sights coming to Frontierland at Magic Kingdom, and the suspended Monsters, Inc. Doorways Coaster heading to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. These glimpses into the longer term are enjoyable appetizers, however they’re removed from the principle course.
I extremely suggest watching the Trip Studio episode of “We Name It Imagineering” for your self:
The primary spotlight of the brand new Trip Studio episode of “We Name It Imagineering” episode is all the behind-the-scenes footage showcasing present sights at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and the worldwide parks. There was footage I had by no means seen earlier than from Soarin, Haunted Mansion, Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run, Cosmic Rewind, Shanghai Pirates, and extra.
The larger spotlight was the interview with Disney Legend Bob Gurr, who designed most of the early experience methods for Disneyland. Bob Gurr is a real treasure, and one of many final authentic Imagineers who really labored with Walt Disney. Anybody who has heard him speak is aware of that Gurr is a hoot, sharing humorous anecdotes, candid assessments, and emotion. Disney ought to be doing a full video sequence simply with Bob Gurr. (A bit inappropriate, however in the event you’ve but to take action, I’d extremely suggest attending D23 and third occasion panels sooner reasonably than later if you wish to hear from the OGs like Gurr.)
Anyway, only a fast plug for the brand new “We Name It Imagineering” video as a result of, selfishly, that is the kind of content material that’s proper up my alley and I wish to see it succeed. It helps renew my religion in Disney and is cool to see for geeks like me.
Transferring to the subject at hand, this episode featured a primary have a look at Avengers Infinity Protection that you simply may’ve missed, because it wasn’t referenced by title. Right here’s the section:
NEW: Disney shared a brand new have a look at improvement of Avengers Infinity Protection, the attraction coming to Avengers Campus at Disney California Journey Park. Within the experience you’ll assemble with the Avengers and battle King Thanos throughout a number of worlds. pic.twitter.com/3an1bQKTeb
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) March 10, 2025
The event of Avengers Infinity Protection has been an extended saga, so far involving 4 completely different D23 occasions, and a number of other variants of the Marvel E-Ticket attraction. By the point all is claimed and accomplished, it’ll probably embody 6 completely different D23 occasions, nicely over a decade of improvement, and 10 years because the attraction was first teased across the opening of Mission Breakout.
Formally, the primary announcement got here throughout the 2019 D23 Expo, with Disney revealing plans for section 2 of Avengers Campus. This was to grow to be a brand-new E-Ticket attraction the place company will step on board a Quinjet and fly alongside the Avengers in an epic journey to Wakanda and past.
On this shelved model of the attraction, company had been to workforce up alongside the Avengers in a battle to avoid wasting the world from one of the highly effective villains they’ve ever confronted. Disney indicated that Imagineers had been conceiving an all-new revolutionary experience system to place you in the midst of the motion on this Avengers E-Ticket.
Quick-forward to the 2022 D23 Expo, when dearly departed Disney CEO Bob Chapek personally revealed the King Thanos attraction throughout his opening remarks, earlier than D’Amaro made the announcement a pair days in a while stage. To one of the best of our data, every part revealed concerning the attraction from this level on continues to be official and correct.
Based on Kevin Feige, Avengers Infinity Protection will happen in a model of the Multiverse the place Thanos received. When becoming a member of battle with the Avengers, you by no means know what foes you’ll face from anyplace and eachwhen. Avengers Infinity Protection will function a model new story.
This family-friendly attraction will give company the chance to workforce up with extra of the Avengers and their allies from throughout the Multiverse to battle towards enemies, led by King Thanos.
Expertise that enables the Avengers to leap between worlds has gone lacking, and King Thanos is utilizing it to wreak havoc all over the place. Recruits will journey to iconic areas like Asgard, Wakanda, and New York Metropolis alongside the likes of massive, and small, heroes. You additionally simply may end up face-to-face with King Thanos, too.
Marvel tremendous heroes have created a brand new automobile able to leaping between worlds and even realities – on planet Earth and past.
The design combines parts of Tony Stark’s time-suits with Xandarian soar factors and Wakandan know-how to create a automobile that mixes portal know-how and flight capabilities to maneuver by the skies, transporting heroes to distant worlds in a matter of moments.
The experience automobile was on show within the Imagineering sales space at the newest D23 Expo, and it’s the identical because the one utilized by Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey in Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea. You may learn our assessment, which describes that as Avatar Flight of Passage meets Common’s Spider-Man, for considerably of a “sneak peek” at what to anticipate from this Marvel E-Ticket.
The Trip Studio episode of “We Name It Imagineering” additional corroborates our earlier suspicions that Avengers Infinity Protection will mainly be the Marvel model of Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey. It exhibits some take a look at footage of the experience automobiles, together with media that’s presumably of the attraction itself.
From my perspective, Avengers Infinity Protection being much like Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey is an efficient factor. It’s a fascinating and exhilarating attraction, however not a thrill experience. That’s good, as DCA wants extra family-friendly sights.
Nonetheless, it received’t be appropriate for everybody. Avengers Infinity Protection will virtually actually be in 3D (glasses are featured within the “We Name It Imagineering” video) and can trigger movement illness points for some company. For no matter it’s price, I like Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey–however it makes Sarah nauseated.
I might anticipate the experience profiles to be pretty comparable, with Avengers Infinity Protection being a bit extra intense whereas nonetheless becoming the family-friendly label. I don’t understand how you do a very family-friendly Marvel experience with a battle towards King Thanos, however the Peter Pan experience does the identical with Captain Hook–so who is aware of.
The underside line is that Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey is superb–an extended and meaty E-Ticket that leaves company feeling glad (albeit some feeling sick). I’ll be very happy if Avengers Infinity Protection is a clone of that experience system, profile, and observe structure, and simply swaps out Peter Pan and buddies for Marvel. My guess is that it received’t be fairly as lengthy or immersive…however that’s the distinction between Disney and OLC budgets.
Throughout SXSW, Disney additionally revealed that the groundbreaking for the Avengers Campus occurred just lately and work is now underway on the enlargement. It’s nonetheless secure to say that this undertaking continues to be a number of years away.
Avengers Infinity Protection may, in idea, open as quickly as 2026 if Disneyland so wishes. We suspect that they don’t. Disney has probably realized the onerous approach that bifurcated land openings pack much less of a punch, so we suspect the doubling of Avengers Campus will open in 2027 or 2028.
Given the relative complexity of Avengers Infinity Protection, our greatest guess is that building on that may take for much longer. On the plus facet, the facade is already constructed and the land is essentially cleared backstage already. For essentially the most half, it’s a matter of constructing a present constructing after which walling off a mostly-unused portion of Avengers Campus to attach the enlargement.
Our greatest guess is that Avengers Infinity Protection opens between Christmas 2027 and Summer season 2028. Right here’s hoping that’s flawed, and Disney finds a strategy to condense its building timeline. In all probability, these are the subsequent new sights to opening as a part of Disneyland’s upcoming improvement cycle, so maybe they’ll prioritize the undertaking in an try and get it accomplished by Summer season 2027. Possibly in a distinct multiverse, Disney builds sooner than Common!
Proper now, Avengers Campus at Disney California Journey seems like an incomplete land. Don’t get me flawed–Net Slingers is enjoyable and the best way the realm is inhabited by characters is unbelievable. Likewise, Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout is unbelievable–much better than I ever anticipated. However the latter feels disconnected from the core land, and the precise campus itself wants extra.
It doesn’t assist that the one new experience to debut with the land was a Spider-Man experience that’s far inferior to the one Common constructed some 20 years in the past. Disney’s interactive shooter sport is enjoyable, however no match for that trendy marvel. The excellent news is that Avengers Infinity Protection will make the most of a really comparable experience system as Common’s Spider-Man attraction. The unhealthy information is that it’ll nonetheless be onerous to compete with the standard of that traditional.
Hopefully this E-Ticket addition is what makes the Marvel land really feel full. Avengers Infinity Protection ought to be ok that it makes it simpler to miss the uninteresting industrial design, together with the lackluster and performed out ‘repurposed’ aesthetic of the land itself.
There’s so much to like about the best way characters are leveraged in Avengers Campus, however it’s nonetheless incomplete and underwhelming. Hopefully this blockbuster King Thanos Marvel Multiverse E-ticket sights reside as much as the hype and energy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and makes Disney California Journey a fair higher second gate.
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