Superheroes looking for a place to assemble at Disney parks won’t need to go further than the upcoming “Avengers Campus,” company officials announced at the media preview of the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center Thursday.

Disney has planned a series of Marvel-themed lands at Disney parks in Anaheim, Hong Kong and Paris, shuttering the original “a bug’s land” in Disney California Adventure in September 2018 in order to build the new land — which, due to complicated rights issues will not be called Marvel Land.

Rendering of Disney California Adventure’s upcoming Marvel-themed land named Avengers Campus during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Rendering of Disney California Adventure’s upcoming Marvel-themed land named Avengers Campus during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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Disney Chairman of Parks, Experiences and Products, Bob Chapek announces changes to Epcot and the name, Avengers Campus, as the title of the upcoming Marvel-themed land during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Visitors to the Avengers Campus booth try out a hands free touch screen during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Visitors in the Avengers Campus booth during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)



a plastic model of Disney California Adventure’s upcoming Marvel-themed land named Avengers Campus during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Disney California Adventure’s upcoming Marvel-themed land will be named Avengers Campus during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A chart shows new Marvel-themed areas at Disney resorts in California, Hong Kong, Florida and Paris during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Rendering of Disney California Adventure’s upcoming Marvel-themed land named Avengers Campus during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Rendering of Disney California Adventure’s upcoming Marvel-themed land named Avengers Campus during a media preview at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)



Aerial image of A Bug’s Land/Marvel Land at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Nearmap)

A new Marvel attraction is planned for Hong Kong Disneyland, where guests will be invited to team up with Ant-Man and The Wasp to fight Arnim Zola and his army of Hydra swarm bots in a thrilling new adventure. (Courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.)

A newly reimagined Marvel-themed attraction is coming to Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris, where riders will team up with Iron Man and their favorite Avengers on a high-speed, hyper-kinetic adventure to another dimension. (Courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.)

Bob Chapek, Disney’s Chairman of Parks, Experiences and Products, announced the name on Thursday evening. The idea is that the campus will train new recruits to join the Avengers.

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Park visitors now see gray construction walls around the site with Stark Industries on them — which is a joking nod to the fictional weapons and technology company of Tony Stark (Iron Man) that features prominently in Avengers lore.

The new Disney California Adventure land will open in two phases, according to published reports from WDW News Today. The first phase is scheduled to open in 2020.

A Spider-Man ride will occupy the former “it’s tough to be a bug” theater building, where visitors can shoot webs at big screen targets. People would enter through the former rear of the building, from what would now be the hub of the new land. That central hub will have a large Avengers symbol in the center. Restrooms would be redesigned from their former theme as recycled trash.

The Marvel land at the Anaheim theme park is expected to feature a Dr. Strange stage show and Ant-Man microbrewery restaurant, according to reports from WDW News Today in October.

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