Walt Disney Imagineering has pulled again the curtain on Avengers Infinity Protection with a primary take a look at on-ride take a look at footage and attraction autos for the upcoming Marvel E-Ticket that’s one in every of two sights being inbuilt Avengers Campus in California Journey at Disneyland. This submit shares every thing we all know in regards to the new Marvel journey plus our commentary about this information.
The most recent 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 have been touched upon various Marvel tasks in growth, 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.” It is a fan-favorite video collection that had been dormant for some time, however fortunately, has now been revived with a brand new episode revolving across the Journey Studio at WDI.
This episode takes you behind the scenes to see how rides come to life, and contains a number of the identical 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 primary course.
I extremely suggest watching the Journey Studio episode of “We Name It Imagineering” for your self:
The primary spotlight of the brand new Journey Studio episode of “We Name It Imagineering” episode is all the behind-the-scenes footage showcasing current 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 lots of the early journey techniques 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 needs to be doing a full video collection simply with Bob Gurr. (A bit irrelevant, however when 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.
Shifting to the subject at hand, this episode featured a primary take a look at Avengers Infinity Protection that you just would possibly’ve missed, because it wasn’t referenced by title. Right here’s the section:
NEW: Disney shared a brand new take a look at growth of Avengers Infinity Protection, the attraction coming to Avengers Campus at Disney California Journey Park. Within the journey 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 a protracted saga, up to now involving 4 totally different D23 occasions, and several other variants of the Marvel E-Ticket attraction. By the point all is alleged and accomplished, it’ll doubtless embody 6 totally different D23 occasions, nicely over a decade of growth, and 10 years for the reason that 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 part 2 of Avengers Campus. This was to change into a brand-new E-Ticket attraction the place friends 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, friends have been to workforce up alongside the Avengers in a battle to avoid wasting the world from one of the vital highly effective villains they’ve ever confronted. Disney indicated that Imagineers have been conceiving an all-new revolutionary journey system to place you in the course 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 information, every thing revealed in regards to the attraction from this level on remains to be official and correct.
In line with Kevin Feige, Avengers Infinity Protection will happen in a model of the Multiverse the place Thanos gained. 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 friends 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.
Know-how that enables the Avengers to leap between worlds has gone lacking, and King Thanos is utilizing it to wreak havoc in all places. Recruits will journey to iconic areas like Asgard, Wakanda, and New York Metropolis alongside the likes of huge, and small, heroes. You additionally simply would possibly 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 components of Tony Stark’s time-suits with Xandarian leap factors and Wakandan expertise to create a automobile that mixes portal expertise and flight capabilities to maneuver by way of the skies, transporting heroes to distant worlds in a matter of moments.
The journey automobile was on show within the Imagineering sales space at the latest 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’ll be able to learn our evaluation, 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 Journey 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 reveals some take a look at footage of the journey autos, 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 an enticing and exhilarating attraction, however not a thrill journey. That’s good, as DCA wants extra family-friendly sights.
Nonetheless, it gained’t be appropriate for everybody. Avengers Infinity Protection will virtually definitely be in 3D (glasses are featured within the “We Name It Imagineering” video) and can trigger movement illness points for some friends. For no matter it’s price, I like Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey–nevertheless it makes Sarah nauseated.
I’d anticipate the journey profiles to be pretty comparable, with Avengers Infinity Protection being a bit extra intense whereas nonetheless becoming the family-friendly label. I don’t know the way you do a totally family-friendly Marvel journey with a battle towards King Thanos, however the Peter Pan journey 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–a protracted and meaty E-Ticket that leaves friends feeling happy (albeit some feeling sick). I’ll be more than happy if Avengers Infinity Protection is a clone of that journey system, profile, and monitor format, and simply swaps out Peter Pan and friends for Marvel. My guess is that it gained’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 not too long ago and work is now underway on the enlargement. It’s however secure to say that this undertaking remains 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 doubtless realized the arduous means that bifurcated land openings pack much less of a punch, so we suspect the doubling of Avengers Campus will open all of sudden in 2027 or 2028.
Given the relative complexity of Avengers Infinity Protection, our greatest guess is that development on that can take for much longer. On the plus aspect, 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 time 2028. Right here’s hoping that’s flawed, and Disney finds a approach to condense its development timeline. In all probability, these are the subsequent new sights to opening as a part of Disneyland’s upcoming growth cycle, so maybe they’ll prioritize the undertaking in an try to get it accomplished by Summer time 2027. Perhaps in a special 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 world is inhabited by characters is implausible. Likewise, Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout is implausible–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 journey to debut with the land was a Spider-Man journey that’s far inferior to the one Common constructed some 20 years in the past. Disney’s interactive shooter recreation 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 journey system as Common’s Spider-Man attraction. The unhealthy information is that it’ll nonetheless be arduous 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 needs to be adequate that it makes it simpler to miss the boring 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, nevertheless 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 an excellent higher second gate.
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