Stuntronics Spider-Man Swings Into Animatronic Action
Most Disney outlets already wrote about the upcoming Spider-Man animatronic stunt double.
We just didn’t realize what exactly we were writing about.
Now, thanks to Disney+ and The Imagineering Story, as well as FastCompany.com, we now know that we already watched Spidey fly through the air, en route to Disneyland.
A New Era In Animatronics
Likening the arrival of robo-Spidey to the advent of animatronic tech with Abraham Lincoln, on February 3, FastCompany’s Mark Wilson wrote:
I didn’t quite get what made Lincoln so exciting until now, as Disney has shared details of its latest animatronic creation: A life-sized Spiderman that will literally be fired into the air to flip, twirl, and contort through the skies at Disney California Adventure park this summer.
The attraction is part of a new Avengers expansion, which will, for better and worse, have the same aesthetic of a mid-aughts mall that the movies have. It’s here that a robotic Spiderman will fly over the heads of guests. It’s not a hologram. It’s not an iPhone app. It’s a real-life figure soaring across the world.
Disney hasn’t shared full images or videos of what this will look like in context, but you can get a glimpse of early testing in this clip…
https://youtu.be/UEBndVLPzTY
And Holly posted this video in her recent piece about Avengers Campus:
Face Front, True Believers!
The full story is fascinating, as Wilson, a senior writer at Fast Company covering design, tech, and culture weaves pot culture and Disney history through the narrative of this new wave of storytelling. However, his final lines seem especially poignant.
In reference to Avengers Campus, he wrote:
But on the heels of Disney’s new Star Wars expansion, Galaxy’s Edge, which launched in 2019—a place that features a life-sized Millennium Falcon, along with the opportunity to build your own glowing lightsaber and drink the blue “Bantha” milk from the movies—it’s clear that Disney will continue to double down on unique, physical experiences that you can only have at its parks. It’s also clear that Imagineering is as relevant in 2020 as it was in 1960.
Nuff’ said!
