A Closer Look at DLP Walt Disney Studios Marvel Land Artwork

Yesterday Disney released the above concept-art showing the future Marvel Land at DLP Walt Disney Studios. We already know that the land will include an Iron Man roller coaster inside the Rock and Roller Coaster building and a Spiderman attraction in the Armaggedon building - and that chances are high that it will be the same Spiderman ride than the one they build at Disney's California Adventure, but more about this later.

That said, there is more to say about this rendering and i suggest we have a closer look at it. First, we can see that they did their best to show the future land without showing too much of it, as not less than 19 people ( supposed guests ) are standing in the foreground and even more in the background hiding details ofthe land.

However, if we blow up the image some interesting details appear. Let's start by the right, showing the current Armaggedon building with its future look for the Spidey ride. Spiderman is hanging up there to make sure we get it, that here will be his attraction, and, yes, we got it. Under him Black Widow and Black Panther stand on an Avengers jeep and the big Avengers logo is on the right of the building. So far, this part of the artwork is quite clear.

Let's have a look now at the left part of the rendering...

The two people on the foreground hide as much as they can the building where is currently the Rendez-Vous des Stars restaurant but if we zoom even more on the visual we can see the letters "PYM" above the current entrance - see picture below - which is obviously a reference to Dr Hank Pym played by Michael Douglas in Ant-Man, the one who created the famous Ant-Man costume and we can guess that the theme of the restaurant will have a link with Ant-Man.

Let's have a look now at the center part of the artwork, the most interesting one. First, among the people standing in the middle we can see clearly THOR holding his hammer and apparently talking with a kid and some older person who looks to be ...Stan Lee himself as some DLP fans already noticed.

Now, let's have a look at the background, on the right, after the blue building, where we can see on an elevated platform the Quinjet - the Avengers plane. For your info, the Quinjet first appeared in The Avengers issue 61 on February 1969, and was designed by the Wakanda Design Group, headed by the Black Panther. The Quinjet is equipped with VTOL capability and five turbojet engines.



But why the Quinjet is located here,  so close to the stunt show entrance? Well, actually the plan is to keep the stunt show for a while with a new Marvel storyline and theming but later - i.e in quite a few years - chances are that Disney will add the big Avengers ride - the one which will open in 2023 at HKDL Tomorrowland - after removing the stunt show.

There is more to see in the background and it's where will be the entrance of the Iron Man coaster. Right now we can see for the attraction facade a structure which envelops the building - with curves reminding a bit the ones of the beautiful TRON canopy at Shanghaî Disneyland, but don't dream to have a structure as big as the one at SDL because it won't be the case. Actually, i should say "guess" rather than "see" this facade as the rendering don't allow to see what will be the visual displayed on it. There is a good reason why they've voluntarily overexposed this part, and it's because Disney don't want you to see - not yet - what the visual will be as it would be a MAJOR spoiler. I think i have a pretty good idea what it will show but i've promised to don't talk so unfortunately you will have to wait that Bob Chapek will reveal it, most probably next year at the 2019 D23 Expo in Anaheim.


In the meantime, those who wish to guess can read again yesterday's D&M article HERE which was basically a copy and paste of the Disney Parks Blog post which included unvoluntarily a clue that can eventually help you to find ...if you're good enough to make links with ...something else.  Good luck!

Pictures: copyright Disney