SXSW: Robert Downey Jr. Crashes Disney Experiences Panel with Avengers Campus Updates

Make approach, as a result of a genius, billionaire philanthropist is establishing store in Avengers Campus at Disney California Journey park. 

Introduced ultimately 12 months’s D23: The Final Disney Fan Occasion, two new thrilling points of interest might be becoming a member of the rising campus at Disneyland Resort.  Right now, throughout The Way forward for World-Constructing at Disney panel at SXSW, President of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, and President and Chief Artistic Officer for Walt Disney Imagineering Bruce Vaughn let the group in on extra of the storytelling and intensive new expertise that may carry these points of interest to life. 

With the one attraction, Avengers Infinity Protection, you’ll assemble with the Avengers and battle King Thanos throughout a number of worlds. Be a part of alongside the likes of Black Panther, Ant-Man, Hulk, and so many different favorites to save lots of the universe – once more.

However you’ll be able to’t simply get up at some point and know the ins and outs of battling like an Avenger, you realize? You’ve received to coach. The second attraction going into Avengers Campus, Stark Flight Lab, will put you inside Tony Stark’s workshop to take a look at a number of the new tech he’s engaged on and assist you to check it out your self. And who higher to indicate off his tech than Tony Stark himself?

With thunderous applause, Robert Downey Jr. made a shock look at SXSW, calling the Imagineers engaged on these new experiences, “the dwelling embodiment of the Stark Enterprises mission assertion.”

“The curiosity, the eagerness, the inventiveness, the occasional aptitude for the dramatic, most of all a drive to place one thing good out into the world to make life higher, on the minimal extra enjoyable by a mile, ” Downey informed the group. “It’s the privilege of a lifetime to be invited to take part.”

Downey was additionally fairly excited simply to be invited into the Imagineering world, joking concerning the stealth of WDI headquarters. “You wannna discuss a closed set? It’s the Space 51 of enjoyable!”

In Stark Flight Lab, visitors will sit in “gyro-kinetic pods” and roll alongside a monitor earlier than stopping in entrance of a large robotic arm. This robotic arm will hoist you into the air the place you’ll make a number of high-speed maneuvers impressed by Iron Man and another Avengers. (“That I’ll choose based mostly on benefit and whomever picks up my FaceTime calls on the primary ring,” Downey joked.)

“Transferring from a monitor to a robotic arm after which again once more – nothing like this has ever been carried out earlier than in a theme park, and we’re so enthusiastic about it,” Bruce defined. “Often, we disguise all of the tech behind the scenes so you’ll be able to concentrate on the story. Right here, the tech IS the story, so we’re placing it entrance and heart.”

One piece of tech that has turn out to be essential to Tony Stark’s lore is his beloved little robotic good friend, DUM-E. When Downey first visited Imagineering, he commented how a lot the robotic arm for Stark Flight Lab seemed like DUM-E, and that shortly labored its approach into the attraction. 

Utilizing dancers and movement seize, the staff made a “digital mirror” to include a few of these actions into early experience mockups. The Imagineers need to make sure that the robots in Stark Flight Lab really feel as lifelike as potential, similar to DUM-E. 

And that is solely just the start of what visitors will quickly see in Avengers Campus. “Even after we end with the Flight Lab, I need to stick with you all for the lengthy haul,” Downey informed Feige and Vaughn amid screams from the group, “This isn’t a one-time deal. You want extra me.”