Avengers Campus is set to open at Disney California Adventure this summer. At the center of the experience is WEB Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure. This ride will give guests web-slinging powers. They will also team up with Spidey to take on spider-bots who have broken loose.
Here are more details:
“At WEB, young inventors like Peter Parker have been brought together by Tony Stark to help create technologies that allow everyday people like us to have powers just like the Avengers,” Walt Disney Imagineering creative executive director Brent Strong said during a media preview of Avengers Campus. “When we get inside, we find out that they’re not quite as well funded as Stark Enterprises. They’re not quite as militaristic as SHIELD. In fact, they’re not all that organized at all. These are some kids that have some amazing power, right? Vibranium from Wakanda, Pym Particles from Ant-Man. They have arc reactors from Tony Stark. In fact, they probably have a little bit more power than they have responsibility.”
You have to get a tool to get these powers. Here is an example: The Tory Story Midway Mania attraction is similar to WEB Slingers. In this, you are armed with a blaster and you pull the cord to trigger a blaster.
Strong explains how The Walt Disney Imagineering figured out a way to give guests the ability to sling webs without using accessories:
“What you won’t see is people holding onto a blaster, people holding onto an interface. Believe it or not, with nothing in your hands, you get to reach out and you will sling webs on this ride. In order to do that we invented a brand new interface. This is the first time we’ve ever shown this outside [of Imagineering]. This is a gesture recognition system that we have built into every slinger vehicle and sixty times a second, we are able to determine where a guest’s head is, their shoulders, their elbows, and even their wrists. We’re able to track the motion of your body so that when you reach out and sling a web, since we know where your eyes are, and we know where your hands are, we can render a virtual web coming right out of the palm of your hand, right out of your virtual web-shooters and into a virtual world.”
There will be a video that demonstrates how everything works. There is no age or height requirements for the ride, Strong reveals:
“This is something where guests of all ages get to live out that epic action, which is wonderful.”
Strong continued:
“This attraction does use a hybrid of physical sets, practical effects, as well as virtual set extensions to bring this epic universe to life.”
Also expect a pre-show, which will feature Spider-Man himself, voiced by none other than Tom Holland. Considering that this is something that will be prominently featured in the Disney attraction, should we assume that everything is cool between Disney and Sony right now?
Are you excited for this upcoming interactive experience?
Source: Gamespot
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