A few days before the launch on July 20, 2022 of the Avengers Campus land, let’s have a look at the experience offered by this land!
Avengers Campus Paris
The Parisian version of Avengers Campus differs from its comrades in California and Hong Kong but you are going to find the same essence, the campus spirit to the desire to make each of us a new everyday heroes.
In Paris, we are between old industrial and modern buildings created by stark company. What is amazing when you arrive is the quality of execution and the attention to the detail given to this part of the completely transformed park!
Say goodbye to tar, steel pillars in the middle of the road to give a false air of studio and especially to flat facades. Here, the Armageddon attraction has been demolished and a brand-new building, twice as large, was built to house the Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure.
The arrival of vegetation is also a highlight in a park that is sorely lacking in it and whose years will help to make the land even more immersive, because it is more fulfilling.
If the mix of art deco facades and sheet metal sheds has been replaced by last century industrial buildings of the Star Motors company modernized by the Avengers installations. The arrival of the PYM laboratories or the Avengers HQ, everything is connected by artificial intelligence developed by IronMan managing the reception and security of the campus.
Interesting thing, the characters are easily visible on their vehicle, but also and especially on the roofs of the campus. It may be nothing for many, but many of the visitors are not necessarily interested in meeting the characters, but seeing them and taking a photo on the fly, they never say no. Everyone sees the characters and everyone is satisfied to see them posed in a setting specific to their universe.
The only downside may be the funnel land design. It’s going to be disastrous for the opening. Regulated admission into the land will be essential. But once the land will be connected to the future lake and with less appeal thanks to the opening of the Arendelle land in 2025, it will be much more breathable and traversable.
Training Center
For people who want to meet the characters, it is possible! Go to the Training Center after making your appointment, you will have the choice between 2 super heroes. If you have a photopass, ask to have the character with the “multi-angle photo” and let yourself be guided by the experience! The interaction is top and the sets are made with quality. What more ?
Happening
Vous voulez saluer Spider-man testant sa combinaison ?
And for visitors looking for events in this Marvel universe, you will be served! It’s very simple, every 15 minutes an event occurs, between a character popping out, a mini-show (happening) or a participative animation with the public!
Want to say hello to Spider-man testing his suit?
Want to see Wakanda Warriors? The “Dora Milaje” initiating young recruits are there for you! It is one of the best animations in the land.
But also, the FRIDAY campus AI who calls on Black Widow and Black Panther to stop Taskmaster wishing to steal the Vibranium!
Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure
This attraction is THE novelty of the land and tourist destination. Indeed, unlike American parks, Disneyland Paris does not have the Toy Story Mania attraction. This addition is therefore welcome as this ride is modern and offers something totally new!
This attraction taking place in a former Stark Motors factory, renovated as a talent institute, is a magnificent setting for this open day. But of course, everything goes wrong and the Spider-bots who should assist our young talents duplicate themselves and attack the campus.
This is not an E-Ticket (Disney attraction rating ranging from “A” a carousel-type attraction to “E” a must-see attraction, a must, such as “Space Mountian”). We could classify it in C, see in D ticket. But who cares, with more than 1800 people per hour and a ride that will be constantly interactive and different from a game to another, it’s great! Because each Spider-Bot to be stopped has a different animation, each object hits by your web behaves differently. And that’s not to mention that there are Different Spider-bots, the classic red and blue, the shiny red, blue, green and gold that attacks the campus and whose capture can make different explosions in the decor…
But be reassured – apart from the attraction, the sets are numerous and detailed. And the pre-show is the climax of these sets.
Mission Equipment
Welcome to the land shop, also accessible from the exit of the Spider-Man attraction.
You will find everything about Marvel Land. Buy Spider-Bot? web shooters? t shirt? helmet ? bag ? suits? and above all, you have products that are very specific to our land, such as the ship stationary in the land or the car transporting the heroes. And for all the interactive objects, they can all interact with each other and the web launcher in the attraction such as the IronMan blast launch, launch 3 webs at the same time or electric webs! Enough to maximize your points and gain interaction.
Avengers Assemble : Flight Force
Welcome to Avengers HQ! Here, you will be called upon to become bait to prevent Kree missiles from blowing up the earth, giving time for IronMan and Captain Marvel to come and destroy them in space. While the exterior and interior queue is well designed and beautiful, for a HQ there are no offices, no meeting rooms to give the impression that it is a place to live. This place has HQ in name only
The brand new pre-show is therefore a magnificent animatronic audio from IronMan which is the very first in the park (if we forget the two seagulls from Crush’s Coaster). Hoping that with no face animation, it can be well maintained over time.
For now, everything, absolutely everything is done to enthrone this coaster as a “must have” but, that was not without counting the attraction itself. Boarding is beautiful, the room is detached from the queue, allowing noise pollution to be avoided. The sets of lights to illuminate the stationary train are top notch.
But, the disappointment begins immediately. The trains have not been changed as for our HyperSpace Mountain (MK 1212). The impression of boarding into an old train is there, except for the front and the back of the redone train, there is only a color touch-up. Farewell to globalized maintenance for cost reductions and gains in efficiency and reliability, farewell to the impression of being in a fluid attraction with the MK 1212, the machine is 20 years old and it feel as it! Because yes, train and route, absolutely nothing has changed. And the audio bugs are still numerous, which is a problem in this new version. Problem because the projections are not very bright all the way and too few. During the second third, you see nothing and only the audio should guide you. The audio is like for the movies, the characters say what they are doing, considering that you have 5 IQ and that without that, you will not understand anything! And when you’re doing a coaster in a black box where there’s nothing to see (while you’re in space) and the audio isn’t working, that’s a problem, because unlike Rock’ n’ Roller Coaster, there was plenty to see to be entertained!
Everything, absolutely everything suggests that this new version of the roller coaster was made by American teams, who do not know the reality on the ground and the expectations of visitors in view of the overall experience at the destination. But the result is there and goes beyond all logic. An attraction that presents an uninteresting route (too little animation in deep black) making the experience useless, due to the repeated audio bugs of old trains that have not been fixed. When we remember HyperSpace Mountain or Crush’s Coaster present on the Resort, it is impossible for French teams to offer this version. Everything is done to induct the attraction with its queue and its pre-show, but the ride part is extremely uninteresting.
Given Disney’s silence on this attraction, it seems inevitable that in the weeks and months to come the attraction will be updated with minor changes to the course so that it can be more dynamic.
Another point, the waiting time is displayed after 75m of walking. In the event of heavy traffic, visitors wishing to turn around risk creating a bottleneck on this route from the “Flight Force” sign to “Avengers HQ”. A sign hidden behind the “Flight Force” sign to support employees and prevent visitors from turning around in the queue. This is an adjustment that will be essential over time.
For the world’s first Avengers attraction, it’s a shame!
RESTAURANTS
PYM Kitchen
If you know the Californian Fast Food version of this all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant in France, then pass your way! The room is unremarkable, the decorations are limited to the entrance and the top of the main counter. The room is white and sterile, nothing crazy. The room has taken over the outdoor terrace of the former Nescafé counter. The number of seats has therefore increased where the buffet, badly sized at the base, has not been updated. The dishes offered are good, but not unique, not original. €42 for this buffet, while the others in the parks and hotels are all cheaper and offer a more varied menu and a prettier room. We will not talk about cocktails without alcohol at €10 and with alcohol at €15. They are expensive and tasteless due to too many ice cubes filling the glasses 3/4 full. Only blue chardonay can be worth the extra drink.
Stark Industry
Finally, this Fast Food offers a menu other than cold sandwiches and crisps. Now you will find pasta prepared on site and homemade pizzas. The pizzas are simply excellent! It is even surprising to discover a quality fast food offer in this park. But, and there is a big “but”, €14 per slice! Either you go to a fast food park in the parks to have a full menu with dessert at €14, or you buy 1 slice of pizza here. The pasta are €13 and the most outrageous is the €8.5 for the salad. It’s painful as a price. But you might as well eat here as at the PYM Kitchen if you have to eat in a restaurant in the land.
The dining room is also more interesting and beautiful than PYM Kitchen with in particular Peggy Carter’s office that you can visit and eat in.
By Night
The land like the park is magnificent at night. It is simply pleasant to have only soft atmospheres with the absence of direct lighting. The elements are well highlighted and above all, we can clearly see FRIDAY on the facade of the Avengers HQ. All is beautiful
Conclusion
The reopening of this part of the park by transforming Backlot into the Avengers Campus is a success both in terms of the entertainment, nonstop all day long, as well as in terms of interesting attractions, and especially the quality of execution of the sets. Everything is made with materials that are resistant over time and with finesse. We are at the opposite from the rest of the park (except for the Ratatouille district). That’s a big yes. We see something that the destination has not offered since 1995 with the opening of Space Mountain, a coherent whole and built with quality materials. The only shadow on the board, the “Flight Force” coaster, which the American team should be ashamed of and proving while they should let the French teams collaborate more in the projects.
To conclude this article, we have noticed that since the opening of the public tests of the land, the popin of the cranes at the site of the land of the Snow Queen. This is quite worrying, because it proves that there is only one team managing development sites. Which means that this land would open at best for 2025 (one land = 3 years of construction) and that the third land (star Wars?) will be for 2028, being optimistic…. That is 10 years after the announcement of the extensions. It’s just too much! Never in the United States, the parks would wait at least 3 years to have the slightest novelty, land or attraction extension.
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