Just before this video ended, it hit me: Disney management is *not* making mistakes -- they've making cold, calculated decisions. As long as they're able to draw enough people in, "just good enough" will always be their target. In the original parks, even details like line-of-sight intrusions to maintain the specific atmosphere of each land were pre-planned and important. Now, it's just a case of "this is an amusement park." They really don't give a hoot about the magic, or about setting the bar higher than the competition; they just care about making sure they have something to draw people onto the properties and leave their money behind when they leave. i know a lot of *former* Disney fans who aren't doing that anymore, it'll be interesting to see how long this chapter lasts... and if there's going to be anything left for a next (hopefully better) chapter in the history of the company.

It feels like Disney is so disconnected from its audience

I find it so bizarre that when I think of a Marvel attraction, the first thing that pops into my head is Hulk, not one of the high tech themed rides made by the company that owns Marvel, but a green rollercoaster at a different companies park Really shows how a fun ride is a lot more impactful than an overly ip based one

When epic universe opens I hope Disney has a wake up call.

I appreciate you calling out Iger for a lot of this. Most Disney fansites want to lay the blame at Chapek's feet, but Iger called the shots for a lot of what's wrong with Disney. Endless budget-cutting happened throughout Iger's tenure while prices skyrocketed. I'd really like to see you do a deep dive into the pros and cons of Iger's decisions.

Said this before, but Disney took every wrong lesson from Universal's success with Potter, figuring it could be mimicked with any popular property. It can't: Potter is a "lived in" world with literary DNA and the ability to appeal to all five senses. Meantime, who wants to visit "Avengers Campus"? Same with Galaxy's Edge: Star Wars is not really about physical locations, given each world in it is just "the ice planet", "the forest moon", etc. The only other property you could make this work with is probably Tolkien's Middle-Earth...and it seems Universal might've gotten the rights to that, too! Beyond that, all the talk of "now you can live what you watched in the movies"...man, if I want to take part in a movie, I'll *watch the movie*. Theme parks are a different medium than films; if you're going to adapt a film property for a theme park, it has to be done in the "language" of themed entertainment, while most of this comes off as slapping a brand on a relatively generic experience, like putting a movie character's likeness on a juice box so more kids will ask their parents to buy it.

One possibility for why Disney is doing this is that the current Marvel popularity might not last all that much longer and that the attractions might not age well as tastes and interests change. It’s possible that Disney is anticipating this by creating attractions that can be more easily “reimagined” into the next big thing.

The iron man ride took everything from rock n rollercoaster and made it dull and boring. They could’ve added music from AC/DC and more lights on the ride itself but Disney just doesn’t know how to make good rides anymore I guess

Walt Disney had something current management doesn't have; he was a filmmaker. He knew it was important to put on a good show and capture your audience right from the opening credits. When you arrive at Disneyland's Magic Kingdom, even before you enter the gates, you can see and hear the Disneyland Railroad. When you walk through the tunnels, you're greeted to Street Cars, Horse Draw Carriages, and Double Decker buses. Main Street is alive with motion and energy. You can see the energy of Fantasyland and Tomorrowland from the Hub. The Carrousel is spinning and peeking through the Castle, while the Astro Orbiter is spinning right out front. Emerging from Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, you can see Dumbo spinning, Peter Pan flying, and Casey Jr. thinking he can. Deeper in, Teacups are moving, Alice's caterpillar is crawling down leaves, canal boats are floating by, and bobsleds are careening down the Matterhorn. The point is; the land has energy, and you can see and feel this in every land Walt Disney, the film maker, had a hand in. The old Tomorrowland had the People Mover out front creating energy. Then the Astro Orbiter further in. On the water, Submarines were floating by. On the ground, Autopia cars were motoring by. In the sky, Monorails were whizzing by, as were the Skyway buckets. Galaxy’s Edge and the new Marvel lands lack energy. From the moment you enter them, you can see and hear that they are dead lands. There’s no energy. Nothing is moving. Everything that moves in these lands is hidden in show buildings. Can this be what Imagineers are proposing to Disney management? Seem unlikely. Disney’s current management doesn’t understand how to put on a show and get their guests excited from the moment they enter the park or land within the park. Even Michael Eisner, also a filmmaker, knew how to do this before the failure of Euro Disney scared him off from taking any more chances. Bring back Eisner? No. Of course not, but it’s too bad that Disney lost John Lasseter because he managed to put some movement and energy into Cars Land before he was ousted.

It hurts especially knowing that there are so many people in this company that DO care and DO want to create fantastic rides, experiences and immersions but are consistently kneecapped by a management that seems to be more and more risk adverse and focusing on the bottom line. Of all the big entertainment companies Disney of all things can afford to go big or go home and take the occasional loss. But at least they would have TRIED.

Here's a way to "fix" an Avengers Training Facility themed queue that I literally thought of just now, sitting on my ass, watching this video: Have the queue move through different rooms in the Avengers compound, with a TON of small props and visual narrative elements. An extremely high tech kitchen with cookbooks left out by Vision as he learns about human food. Maybe a cabinet is open and each avenger has their own shelf, we can see how each of them organizes their food and what food they have, a wine fridge full of Asguardian wine with a label "too strong for mortals", maybe even a dog bowl in the corner labeled "Rocket" but it just has like a regular sandwich or unopened can of beans because no one knows what Rocket eats anyway. Grocery lists! Hand towels! Personalized mugs! Maybe it's a smart kitchen attached to Friday and she interacts with small props on a 10 minute loop, a kettle boils over and she turns off the burner, a light bulb goes out and she orders a new one. She could get a call from Captain America that he'll be back soon and could she please start brewing his coffee etc! ALL THAT they could pack into one fake kitchen. A queue hallway that's just a long hall full of bedroom doors slightly ajar. In the movies/shows we see Wanda has a nice bedroom with all sorts of detail, recreate that and other avengers bedrooms and just leave the doors slightly open so guests and peek into each room as they pass by! Those rooms can be fully static and would still be interesting. Heck even having all the doors open except one would be interesting and build in some character! Who's room is that? Why do they have it closed? Have guests walk through a garage/workshop that has all of Tony Starks fancy cars, maybe a beat up bike for Peter Parker, mounts for the Falcons different wings! Black Widows motorcycle! Bags of fertilizer in the corner for Groot! They could literally just make room after room of the compound jam packed with details and easter eggs, I know fans have all sorts of headcanons about the Avengers living and training together at the compound sitcom style. This would be such an easy way to play into that aspect of the universe, which could also remain pretty timeless. Christ they could have a trophy room that's just full of all the random junk the avengers have collected over the years, props can be removed and added as new movies come out. Black Widow died? Redecorate her room for Miss Marvel! It seems so easy to pull fun ideas and inspiration from the MCU, there is SO much there that the movies barely scratch the surface of. Detailed theming is such a good way to build out the world and teach us completely new things about characters we'd never know otherwise, like what kind of tea Thor drinks or what bedspread Hawkeye has. Ugh. So much wasted potential. Great video as always.

I feel like the trap Disney fell into when creating Avengers "Campus" is just that--trying to stick so strongly to a storyline that it seems underwhelming. How exciting could basically a military training facility be? Avengers is based in the real world so the only thing exciting they could make in "their style" that could look interesting would be creating Asgard or Wakanda etc and then it limits them to one specific part of a massive IP. I think it was always intended as a meet and greet land to showcase screen accurate costumes, that are pretty great when compared to the cheap-costume esthetic found in Marvel Island in IOA. I'm not sure any one attraction could make it much better.

Honestly I feel like all the Marvel stuff just isn’t meant to stay.. it feels like it’s a purposeful jump on a trend, not an investment, and something that can be easily torn down and replaced once it’s no longer popular. A worrying trend compared to attractions that are build remain relevant for generations.

The really crazy thing is that Six Flags has specifically come out and stated that they're looking to significantly improve the quality of the park experience. Now, I'm fairly certain that they simply have Cedar Fair in their sights, not Disney, but it would be amusing if Six Flags (of all chains) ends up delivering a better guest experience than the House of Mouse does.

Removing the Pym’s Kitchen pretzel element is a perfect metaphor for the degradation of Disney’s creativity. I’m just in utter shock at how bland and sanitized this land looks, especially compared to “lower-end” parks. AND THIS IS WITH THE NUMBER ONE FILM FRANCHISE OF ALL TIME! The idiocy is UNBELIEVABLE! How did Chapek get his contract extended again?! #SaveDisney

Something that fascinates is that Disney has stopped caring what their buildings look like. This is the company that left a major legacy in Googie Architecture (Space Mountain, Contemporary), hired post-Modernist starchitects, and mastered vernacular architecture (Grand Floridian/ Californian). Yet the biggest franchise is history is in bland buildings.

The most frustrating thing about this Embarassment of a park is... that it worked. After it opened visitor numbers spiked and overall...Disney is making a profit and is most likely getting away with lazy uninspired attractions and making tons of money by selling cheap plastic garbage at a high price.

I think the main problem is that unlike with Marvel Superhero Island at Universal, which was based off the comics, and therefore can have more style and personality, Avengers Campus is based off the MCU movies, which outside of Guardians of the Galaxy and maybe Thor, all look dull, sterile, and boring. So needless to say, any attraction you make is also going to look dull, sterile, and boring. Which is why the two best rides Disney has made so far are both based on Guardians of the Galaxy

As a former Disney CM I have no plans to visit another Disney park in the next few years. When I go to Orlando next year I plan to visit Universal. Those parks are just better now. Now I’ll admit Universal had a few duds recently too, but between Kong, Fast and Furious, Bourne, Hagrid’s, and Velocicoaster you have way more hits than misses. Even the themed lands you’re starting to see at Cedar Fair parks is starting to rival anything new Disney is coming out with recently. It’s bad when the County Fair section at Carowinds and Area 72 at Kings Island has more theming than Avengers Campus.

The Disney Company is purely in the profit harvesting mode with the parks division. The market has told them that demand is inelastic due to the pull of their IP and the nostalgia/goodwill they have built up pre 2007. The parks division will continue to drag its feet with uninspiring and slow additions until the market tells them otherwise which likely won't happen in this decade to any significant degree. They will continue to focus on profit centers like new DVC resorts and even those are thematically bland and will ruin former imagineers efforts that were done with sight lines, etc. Thanks for another great video

The details I found in Universal's comic book area was fun, goofy, and kind of campy, but still so much more interesting than what Disney can offer. Why not give this land a beautiful color pallet so that there is something that pops and catches your eye everywhere? How did they expect this land to appear on Instagram, which is one of the best free marketing tools they have?

Your comment on "generic sci-fi" aesthetics reminded me of how much "generic, sci-fi" stuff Disney's been doing as of late. Aside from a few exceptions, most of their major attractions lately has been sci-fi themed with very similar aesthetics. I assume it would be easier to put in some blank "themed" backdrops rather than putting the effort to attention-to-detail that they've been renowned for.

Thank God Universal kept Marvel, they helped us Floridians dodge a major bullet like Avengers Campus. Now we keep Hulk and Spider-Man :)

I want to say your KZfaq channel is honestly criminally underrated! Your videos are well thought out and are very entertaining and educational! I love theme park videos and your channel has been one of my favorites that I keep coming back to. Keep up the good work!

As a X WDI employee.. from 1995-2013 ... I agree 100% how horrible this new attractions have been.. the New Universal theme park is going to dominate Walt Disney World ... All creating team from that park are X WDI employees and 50% worked on Mount Everest..

You nailed it. Imagine if the Japanese were managing these parks. They needed to add 10 attractions years ago to attract the crowds. The smaller reginional parks are far more creative.

I’ve always liked to imagine how the concept of an MCU themed land would be at it’s fullest potential. I imagine something grandeur and enticing as the Avengers Helicarrier, a working Headquarters or practically anything at its fullest scale that captures the excitement of the MCU…besides just a campus with no e-tickets. I like how Universal’s Hulk coaster is brilliantly used as a way for guest to easily spot and identify the grand scale of Marvel and its characters, which reels them into that section of the park. So why is it so hard for Disney to apply that same level of ambition for arguably its biggest money maker? Why settle for a re-theme instead of an original? It’s destined to make them $$$, why not go all out?

Disney bludgeoning us to death with IP that will almost instantly become dated is exhausting and boring.

Considering the next project is likely the Splash Mountain retheme. This makes me worry that they'll butcher that ride as well since Splash is considered one of the best rides imagineering has made.

Love your video, but have to disagree with Paris’ RNRC theming. The exterior is a joke, but the interior is 100 times better than the US version. Instead of silly cardboard cutouts, you have a lightshow that is perfectly setup in synchronized with the music and the ride. Each ride is a unique « soindtracker » (i.e. unique music and lightshow). Videos really don’t do it justice. The launch by itself with the light effects is itself way more intense here. Finally, it’s also more expensive to maintain a full lightshow running some 12hrs a day than just to have the theming the Florida ride has. Whether you prefer one or the other is a question of taste, but the Paris one is still really high quality. One of my all-time favorite rides. Even the music mix on it is different and more thrilling imo

I love the cynacism coming from this channel tbh, cuz it’s all true and well deserved. I still love visiting Disney parks but some attractions and shows are so lazy it hurts, ie. the Doctor Strange show in California Adventure. Waiting 30 min in line in the glaring heat for a show where there were corny one liners and like 2 interesting magic tricks sucked! My cousin from out of the country enjoyed the other lands much more than the Marvel land, and she was a fan of all the movies :(

The footage shown of Ms. Marvel and Captain America is from the Marvel restaurant on the Disney Wish, when the battle shown is supposedly taking place with you onboard. So they just used the same footage to save money 🤦‍♀️ ridiculous. For a company who claims they can’t have the legacy Star Wars characters in Galaxy’s Edge because of continuity they sure don’t seem to care about continuity here!!

you should talk about how the concept art for the iron man coaster was actually very cool yet they decided in go ultra low budget afterwards, and they even market it with the original concept art. I think the pandemic made chepec and opening to go even more cheap

I think some of the problem here, is not just laziness but also an issue with source material. The Marvel movies are VERY drab and grey - and the main location of them has been set on Marvel's version of America - so its not appropriate to go for outer space as a setting, because that's just guardians aesthetic, rather than generally marvel, and the same goes for settings like Wakanda. Pandora and Galaxy's Edge work more because their source material has more clearly defined aesthetic, architecture and flora - Marvel movies ARE mostly grey buildings - so how was the attraction going to be anything but that - if they were basing them generally of the MCU as a brand? It seems an ill advised idea from an artistic standpoint to begin with - if they'd gone with marvel COMICS like universal studios did - thats a different matter.

Perhaps the issue is Marvel itself. Translating a homogenized cinematic universe into a static land naturally obfuscates any details these parks previously achieved

The Avengers Campuses just feel like a vehicle to hock Marvel merch, just like Galaxy's Edge is with Star Wars merch. I was a huge Marvel comic book fan in high school, so my family took me to Universal's Islands of Adventure for the Superhero Island. I thought it was a really quaint celebration of the Marvel IP, and had a lot of merch I was interested in as a comic book fan. Compared to that Avengers Campus is deeply disappointing, because it only celebrates the MCU (which itself is a gutted version of the comics) and not the company's history like Super Hero Island. The MCU version of Marvel is just too bland and devoid of intrigue, it feels so homogenized. So of course a theme park land based around it would be lifeless. And the merch only appeals to MCU fans, there's nothing that ties back into the source material from what I've seen (Universal actually sold comic books, and I don't believe Campus does despite Disney OWNING MARVEL COMICS).

The thing that's important to point out that a lot of expense in making attractions is design, prototyping and iteration. So when an attraction is cloned Its actually often much cheaper to make and so when they cheap out, it's them cutting corners on something that's already cheaper

It is quite sad just how far Disney has fallen with new attractions….I was originally interested in taking a trip to California to visit Avengers Campus, but after seeing reviews and videos, I’ve had no interest.

It's just depressing seeing Disney put little effort into IP based attractions, instead of making new fun and unique ones,

I love how Tony Stark is still alive, when Sam Wilson and Ms. Marvel are battling 'generic video game robots'. Seems like Disney Paris doesn't even know the Marvel Continuity.

When the Marvel land in DCA was being conceptualized, Joe Rohde was the project lead and we’re led to believe that he was going to bring a Marvel New York park with the level of detail he is known for, based on a few interviews he has had on the topic. Instead, he was quietly released from the project and the Marvel lead became imagineer Scott Drake, known for his refurb of Test Track. Drake specializes in futuristic, Apple-esque aesthetics and scrapped the gritty New York concept for a sterile Avengers Campus, and that design aesthetic has been consistent with all the Marvel attractions to date, other than Guardians Breakout, which was Rohde’s last Marvel project, and has become a stepchild. This provides some context on why the Marvel attractions are what they are today, however it’s also worth pointing out that Marvel Studios does approve these designs as well, so they have some explaining to do on why they think this is a good way to portray their brand. There is another reality with a Marvel park designed with Rohde’s insane attention to details and Tom Staggs as the CEO, but unfortunately you will need a trip through the multiverse to see it.

Thank you for not pulling any punches and for speaking honestly about where Disney is failing.

Went to Disney last Christmas and was so underwhelmed with the merchandise. Every store was the same and nothing special or seemingly different regardless of park, store, ride. Plus the major plug of 50th gear again all the same was very annoying. Left with little, bought the stuff we couldn’t get on Amazon. It shouldn’t be so hard to find a tigger doll.

I visited Disneyland Paris twice and will go this year. The MagicKingdom has some great rides there and done even some classics better. But the Studio is a mess. I once had a discussion with a friend, that while I enjoyed Rise of the Resistance and Galaxys Edge, I am of the opinion that the Wizarding world is doing a much better job at immersion. It allows cosplay, it allows the wands to be used (in WDW you pay 200 dollar and can't use the lightsaber), it gets it story across and you know exactly where in the story you are. Disney rarely does a great job communicating the story of a land/ride. But most of the "New Gen Attractions" lack the effort.....

Did... did anyone else notice that the video of Rocket in the queue is literally recycled from the B version of Mission Breakout's pre-show? They didn't even bother to animate another video of Rocket for this ride!

When you point out the difference in the Pym's Kitchen practical effect, it's really obvious where they cut corners.

It really does look like Six Flags. That Iron Man costume looks like it came off the rack at Party City!

I think it would be really cool if disney invested in an entirely marvel themed theme park, so they could depict wakanda, earth, space, asgard etc all in one.

We were just in Disneyland and DCA last week (visiting DCA on 7/12). Avengers campus was horrible. We spent about 30m there before getting out. Not even my 10 year old son who loves all the Marvel stuff was interested in the land.

Besides this, supposedly Cosmic Rewind cost $500m to build... Compare that to Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure ($300m) or Expedition Everest ($100m). Where exactly did that $500m go for something with shittier theming of generic SciFi panels and some projections thrown up against a wall compared to far richer theming of the other two examples? Seems an awfully inflated cost for that 🤔

WE LOST ROCK N ROLLER COASTER FOR THIS 😭😭 I was there at its closing day & was the last person to walk out of the building (from the regular guests) I miss it dearly 😔

When superhero Island at Islands of adventure that was made 20 years ago is better than this you know there's problem

I love your videos so much. It feels like you're the ONLY one speaking up about these issues on this platform. Thank you so much for your videos! Keep doing you!

5:34 I must agree with you. The first time I rode Rise of the Resistance, I was blown away by the overall experience, especially that first transporter. But the linear plotline makes the attraction less and less exciting on each re-ride, and without some big thrill like the drop on Splash Mt. or TOT, ROTR is a very expensive investment with low repeatability. Genie+ LL+ makes repeatability almost impossible for most guests anyway.

Seeing how Disney/Marvel treats their movie studio as a factory pushing out constant mediocre projects with too many corporate notes and over rushed, underpaid, VFX work........ It makes total sense the marvel land would carry on the tradition of grey blandness.... This is a video I agree with you pretty much entirely....

Universal: “Where did your failure lead you? Back to me.”

100% agree. Rise of the Resistance feels like a Triple and not a home run. Its sterile and has no connection to the Original or Prequel series. I will say though Radiator Springs is amazing.

I’d definitely consider rise of the resistance to meet disneys standard. I’ve been extremely critical of Disney over the past years but that ride is incredible in theming, immersion, and effects and is my favorite ride in the parks as someone who has never watched starwars

Web Slingers is Toy Story Mania, but without everything I loved about the latter. Unlike TSM’s charming theming, vibrant colors, and nice music, Web Slingers has a boring and generic aesthetic and no music at all. And in TSM, you pull on a physical object, while in Web Slingers, you have to figure out a tricky sensor, and you have to buy an 80$ whatever to not do so.

The reason I think it is bad is because the disney parks seem to be just doing cash grab rides to capture the success of the Marvel universe and all of them are just lazy rethemes or copies of previous attractions where the original ride did it better. Other than cosmic rewind. The potential of marvel rides are so large and Disney is just floundering to use any of it.

When Epic Universe opens, I'm gonna pack my bags for a long fun week.

As much as Universal’s Superhero Island is tacky, it at least has some depth and theming. Care was put in. All these Disney attractions seem like they were just banking on the IP because they know people will still ride them. Sometimes I wonder if they keep these rides bland so they can retheme them if something better comes around.

A recent leak may have answered the question of "Why can't Disney get Marvel right?", and it's very simple: when Disney is hiring people for Marvel, they view anyone being a fan of the original Marvel comics as a "red flag". Rather than building on the existing characters/lore, they want all their new hires to have their own takes on everything[, narrative consistency or character building be damned].

Ok but I love how…. More casual you sound in this video. You even threw in some humor. You seem more relaxed and I like that. Keep it up 😃

I am done with giving Disney my money. They used to be so creative and imaginative. Now they just regurgitate and cut budget after budget on most of their projects. They really only care about pleasing their shareholders now.

lol that Iron Man costume looks like a Halloween costume straight out of the box. I understand they can't make an actor lug around a metal suit all day, but why didn't they make any effort at all to make it look even a little realistic?

You do such a great job covering all these rides/parks etc! Definitely deserves more than 1M subs!!!!

Avengers Island in Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure at least makes me FEEL something. I feel the fun 90s nostalgia and campiness. The bright colors and comic book aesthetic allows me to throw out reality and truly believe I am in this fun and wacky universe. But Disney's Avengers campuses are absolutely lifeless.

With the destruction of the Tower of Terror Billboard in Orlando I'm terrified that Disney is going to retheme the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Do you think the fanbase should start worrying about Disney tearing down the older more superior rides in order to fill the parks with substandard offerings and no one be the wiser?

Disney is placing all their money in streaming as the parks suffer. Disney must pay their marketing team big bucks to spin the park experience into something great.

I swear. They built “military industrial complex” the land. Who would want to go here and see concrete and steel everywhere.

When I went to Hong Kong Disneyland in 2017, just a mere 3 months after they opened the Iron Man experience, I didn't know what to expect. But I certainly expected something better than a retheme of Star Tours. The accompanying restaurant and gift shop didn't impress me either. And all this was when Iger was still in charge, too. So when I saw what they had planned for the first Avengers Campus at Disneyland, I was further disappointed that they were going to double-down on the cheap rethemes of existing rides. It's rather telling that they have no interest in doing better than what Universal already offers for Marvel fans, even when they did have the cash to do so prior to the shutdowns.

I hate chapek with every fiber in my being I hope he gets booed off stage at D23 this year

In 2040, they'll realize they lost more Legacy fans than they intended. By Legacy, I mean, they went to these amusement parks as children with their families/guardians, before it went off the rails in 2007 with all of these drastic changes. They're (Disney management) is now catering to what we now call Disney Adults --- the people who are fine paying 300-600% upcharged merchandise and property, as long as it has Disney IP on it. The fact that it is exclusive to the wealthy is another draw for these. I wonder what the parks will be like once the very wealthy will be the ones to go in. Will it perversely mirror how great it was in the beginning for Disneyland?

I must say, this is the point of view of someone who lives far away from Disneyland Paris. As I’m gonna trust that your opinion on the American parks and their Marvel additions is based on your experience, let me bring you my experience as someone who’s had an annual pass for Disneyland Paris for 14 years now. For years, we European fans have dreamed of having the attention the American parks have, we asked for investments and we finally got some for the first time since Ratatouille opened 8 years ago. Our parks have been left behind for so long, so much so that for years, if I wanted to try something new, I had to fly over the Atlantic. Trust the word of someone who’s used to Walt Disney Studios Park and Disneyland Park, someone who grew up in those parks : I went there on the 16th for the first AP Preview, and I welcome the addition, I had fun, I had the biggest smile on my face because we finally have an America level land, even though it might be super bland. Yes Flight Force is super empty and feels super half baked, yes WEB Adventure is a clone of WEB Slingers, yes everything feels like concrete land, but man, I have never lived an experience so immersive in Disneyland Paris than at its Campus ! I was a recruit the whole time, I staid in character, I met the characters who excel at speaking both French and English and at selling that they’re the real deal ! I’m also a cynic towards anything in life, but especially towards Disney, but this time, I have to disagree with you, Avengers Campus Paris is the best addition to Disneyland Paris since Space Mountain De La Terre à la Lune opened.

I don't know what I love more, your content or your perfectly timed ads. All very impressive. New subscriber here!

I've seen more detail on a family owned putt putt golf course than there is in the entire Avengers Campus. I can't believe they extended his contract for another 3 years. Businesses crash faster than ever and they need bigger plans than let's wait. Disney has too many pots going, it's gotta let something go or the whole place is gonna burn.

I can't believe they didn't even replace the train for the Iron Man coaster. There is no excuse because they replaced the trains on Hyperspace Mountain when they rethemed that! That should tell you just how cheap this retheme is: they couldn't even be bothered to order new trains from Vekoma

The saddest part is that Avengers Campus Paris is a genuine aesthetic improvement over what it replaced. It took the area from bad county fair and “upgraded” it to a suburban outdoor mall with rides

Absolutely love your videos man

Isn't Tony Stark dead? How can he maintain the European complex from the grave?

"It looks like it was dreamed up by Six Flags" **OOOOOOOF**

Just wanted to say thanks from a heavy Disney Parks fan who slowly became exhausted with disappointment time and time again. As a Parks fan your videos were the first to finally vocalize what I was feeling. It's caught on since, but thank you for stepping forward and shining a light on their lazy, half assed attempts at 'bringing the Disney magic.'

Part of the problem Disney has is that they're making they're theming worse but they're still trying to be family parks. At least six flags makes up for lack of theming with big rollercoasters and just sheer numbers of rides. Honestly with some of the less developed parks Disney would be better off Essentially making a sixflags, they should just buy good rides off the shelf for their budget parks

It was a bold stroke of genius for this land to creat synergy by both reflecting the current state of marvel comics but the MCU as well. Truly no better time to be alive for a marvel fan

guardians in epcot is a ton of fun but has so many issues all the time with projections not working and sliding back on the ride. it feels obvious that everything marvel for the parks is just kinda rushed and slapped together

Speaking as someone who consumes way, *way* too much superhero media, when I see how these Avenger and MCU-based attractions have turned out, it just feels like a half a billion dollar version of a bad tie-in movie or video game. Trying to stick too close to the overall MCU brand is honestly knee-capping themselves, and only works in places that already have a generic sci-fi theme going, like say a Tomorrowland in bad need of an overhaul. It's Disney, they could easily bring to life some of the more fantastical locations of the MCU, even making certain spots exclusive to certain parks if they really wanted people to go globetrotting to get the full experience. At least with Marvel Superhero Island at IOA, they used the comic book theming and aesthetic to their advantage; not only is everything bright and colorful (if a touch corny by modern standards) but you have merch shops that feel like browsing a cool comic shop. It's the reason why they could get away with one of the three attractions in that land being a moderately themed drop tower! And that's with it being sandwiched between two of the best rides in IOA, of not of the entire Universal resort area. It's a little hokey, but that's part of it's charm. It was always meant to be a celebration of the comics, even back when the plans centered around the area being themed to DC comics. This just feels like a half-baked cash grab with no real direction behind it other than sticking as much marketable IP in them as possible. Almost makes me worried with what'll happen when the X-Men and the Fantastic Four finally get integrated into the MCU...

Just commenting again to say how great these videos are. I'll even be honest, I'm not even interested in Disneyland, but I really enjoy listening to the way you talk each park or ride and how they could be fixed. Your videos make me want to take a trip to a theme park somewhere before the summer is over! (Just probably not Disneyland lol)

Absolutely shocks me they couldn't build the Avengers mansion. The limitations of the MCU compared to Universal’s use of the actual source material show’s the issues with the MCU in itself and its lack of comic bookish elements.

Six Flags and Cedar Fair both do theming better than Disney now, and that’s pretty sad. Also, how do they build 2 Avengers Campus areas and still don’t have a Shawarma shop in either, it’s as if they haven’t watched their own movies.

I don't know if anyone noticed this, but in the new Avengers Flight force queue line, at 15:30 you can see them directly advertising the new Disney wish cruise ship with Ms. Marvel fighting those robots on the deck. They weren't even being clever with that one, they just basically have her fighting on their new cruise ship, just so they can just advertise yet another vacation destination to you IN THE QUEUE OF A RIDE!! I don't know about you, but I find that just to be extremely tacky to me.

I was dissapointed to see that they didn't at least get the new (more comfortable) vest restrait trains for Avengers Flight Force, no, it's just a new paint job. Not spending anything on retheming Tower of Terror is, IMO, a blessing though... not a fan of the way in wich they went about changing it to Mission Breakout in Cali...

I don’t know why on the cars tram ride, they set a car on fire. That’s like setting a person on fire. It’s disturbing. I have many questions

I was in Disney Paris this past summer and wanted to say that flight force is genuinely one of the roughest coasters I’ve ever been on. It left bruises on my arms and back after only 3 rides. Also, it was constantly breaking down, which wasn’t reflected in online wait times. It was broken down at least 6 times in the 3 days I was there.

Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind: wind, screens, more wind, projections, headache, the end.

The current avengers campuses are just as bad, if not worse than Galaxy’s Edge! And the fact that Bob Pay Check’s contract was extended makes me want to break something! Disney needs to do something to fix the current lands and make sure that they don’t make the same mistakes again! 😠 Also, thank you so much for covering DLP’s Avengers Campus. Cant imagine how much work and research was done!( definitely a lot though!!)

Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion are my 2 favorite rides out of all the Disney themed rides, and they opened almost 7-8 decades ago. It’s clear to me that Imagineering was once only focused on creativity and best guest experience, but now that Disney is run by money making corporate shills, it will be anything but that. They also single handedly ruined the opening of Rise of Resistance by making the boarding pass system, which now it stands at a 120 minute stand by or you pay $20 to ensure you get on. Hopefully this D23 we’ll see some change or at least some attention given to these issues

At this point, I'm convinced EuroDisney is just a dumping ground for their bad ideas.

Since I'm from Spain and old enough to consider myself a Disney "old school fan". I really expected that they were going to do something slightly better here. Yeah... that point has no base at all but I still was wishing something good, but... when I saw the first videos from the park I just said: "oh shit... here we go again". It's just an empty land full of concrete, with a couple of disasters as rides and a really poor food ofert (my god have you seen the pizzas in Tony start cantine... Italians should raise on arms to destroy that place). I can even say more... not even the buildings are new, many of them are just retheme from the old court. A shame... a disaster... I have no words -_-. Of course the Disney fans are like "the best place on earth" but... have you seen the "loki and Thor" from Ali express ?? Come on Disney... you re not even trying -_-U

I do think that a large part of why avengers campus is so generically themed is not inherently the fault of the parks side of things. The marvel films have always been pretty generically themed in order for them all to blend together. The set design for things like avengers tower and campus in the films left them looking like really standard office buildings. To my mind, this is an issue with marvel/disney as a whole and not just with the parks. I don't think that the blame fully lay on the imagineers who designed avengers campus because they really weren't given that much to work with from the start. I agree with what you're saying in the video, even with the blandness of a lot of marvel set design, they could have taken some creative license in order to make the parks better. But profit is always going to be the goal for a major corporation, even at the cost of just about everything else. I just think that there is further context for why the parks are the way they are, not just because the parks side of disney is lazy and overly focused on simplicity for the sake of cohesion, but that all of disney is that way.