Marvel Avengers Campus: home of Marvel’s superheroes

Marvel Avengers Campus is the Marvel land at Disney Adventure World (formerly Walt Disney Studios Park) at Disneyland Paris, in the back left corner of the park.

The land’s theme is the American headquarters of the Avengers. Its story is part of one larger, connected narrative shared with the other Avengers Campus lands around the world (Disney California Adventure and, under the name Stark Expo, Hong Kong Disneyland). Several major set pieces carry the story: the Quinjet (the Avengers’ iconic aircraft), the Avengers Deployment Vehicle (ADV), which in the story was designed by Tony Stark with Shuri of the Wakanda Design Group to send the superheroes into action, plus F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) and the Hulkbuster.

The land has two rides. Avengers Assemble: Flight Force is a retheme of the former Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster. It keeps the indoor coaster track with its three inversions, in newly themed ride vehicles. Riders team up with Iron Man and Captain Marvel to steer Kree missiles away from Earth. Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure invites you to an open house at the W.E.B. (Worldwide Engineering Brigade), Tony Stark’s fictional company, where robotic spiders called Spider-Bots run wild and multiply. Wearing 3D glasses, riders stretch out their arms to sling webs while the technology tracks their movements. Targets are worth different points depending on their color (blue, green, gold), and a scoreboard shows the top scores of the day, week, and month.

The Hero Training Center, next to Flight Force, hosts meet-and-greets with Marvel characters.

For food, there are three restaurants: PYM Kitchen (themed to Ant-Man and his shrinking and growing experiments), Stark Factory, and Super Diner, plus three food trucks: WEB - Worldwide Eating Brigade, FAN-tastic Food Truck, and Cassie’s Ice Cream. The main stores are Mission Equipment and Portal Shop. Finally, the land has rooftop shows where stunt performers playing the superheroes (Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, and others) put on regular acrobatic sequences.

The land is presented as a secret Avengers recruitment center for the next generation of superheroes. You walk into a base where you’re treated as a hero in training and join missions alongside Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, and other Marvel figures.

The common thread is a hero’s training: each ride is a mission (Avengers Assemble: Flight Force = a real flight operation, Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure = training to catch Spider-Bots), and the superhero meet-and-greets keep the immersion going.

The land by the numbers, pulled from across the site for a quick visual summary.

This site used to be the Backlot area, open from 2002 to 2019, which was home to Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster avec Aerosmith (closed in September 2019), Armageddon: Les Effets Spéciaux, and the stunt show Moteurs... Action!.

The land is part of the Disney Adventure World expansion plan announced in February 2018 (D23 Expo Japan), which called for three themed areas: Marvel, Frozen, and Star Wars (the last one was eventually dropped). That’s where Disney revealed that Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster would become an Iron Man ride, and the Avengers Campus name was confirmed at the 2019 D23 Expo.

Walt Disney Imagineering designed the land, and construction ran from April 1, 2019, to summer 2022. The Covid-19 pandemic delayed the opening, so Marvel Avengers Campus didn’t welcome guests until July 20, 2022, where the Backlot once stood.

Read the full story of the Avengers Campus land.

The land is modeled on Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure (June 4, 2021), the first Marvel land in the world. The Paris version places Avengers Assemble: Flight Force on the track of the former Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster.