Marvelous Meet and Greet Ops are Out of context
With the Marvel/Star Wars takeover of Disneyland’s TOMORROWland (and don’t get me started), there are opportunities for Meet and Greets with Captain America and Thor. Both characters are in the Innoventions Pavilion, which also includes an Iron Man simulation game where people get the opportunity to virtually tryout the Iron Man suit.
The Thor presentation includes standing in a line with artifacts from Asgard and then going over the Rainbow Bridge to the Asgard throne room. Thor is personable, and everyone gets the opportunity to truly interact with the Norse God of Thunder as envisioned in the Avengers.
The Thor presentation includes standing in a line with artifacts from Asgard and then going over the Rainbow Bridge to the Asgard throne room. Thor is personable, and everyone gets the opportunity to truly interact with the Norse God of Thunder as envisioned in the Avengers.
The Captain America line presents a timeline of Captain America’s development and missions and what appears to be a lenticular image of before and after. Steve Rogers was 5 foot 4 before the serum and over 6 feet tall afterwards.
Either experience involves a bit of a wait as everyone gets one-on-one time with the hero at the end of the line, and the interaction is more intense than just a handshake and a photo. This is one of the experiences that Disneyland has always been known for, and because the two heroes are “face” characters, there is no pantomime involved.
Whether or not Thor and Captain America should be in Tomorrowland’s last bastion of the future – the original reason for Tomorrowland was to explore the innovations of tomorrow not the heroes of today or a long time ago – is a question addressed here and probably to be addressed again. For now, the “tomorrow” in Tomorrowland is relegated to the lower section of the Innoventions Pavilion and Honda’s robot presentation, and the character Meet and Greets are worth the 30 to 45 minutes that it takes to see them.
Either experience involves a bit of a wait as everyone gets one-on-one time with the hero at the end of the line, and the interaction is more intense than just a handshake and a photo. This is one of the experiences that Disneyland has always been known for, and because the two heroes are “face” characters, there is no pantomime involved.
Whether or not Thor and Captain America should be in Tomorrowland’s last bastion of the future – the original reason for Tomorrowland was to explore the innovations of tomorrow not the heroes of today or a long time ago – is a question addressed here and probably to be addressed again. For now, the “tomorrow” in Tomorrowland is relegated to the lower section of the Innoventions Pavilion and Honda’s robot presentation, and the character Meet and Greets are worth the 30 to 45 minutes that it takes to see them.