The newest addition to Disneyland Resort, Avengers Campus, has a lot of impressive entertainment. Live shows are much of the new land, as Black Widow, Doctor Strange and the Dora Milaje can be seen regularly throughout the area. The most impressive, however, is probably the Spider-Man animatronic flying through the air. A new viral video on TikTok shows what it would look like if the stunt went horribly wrong, and it’s damn funny,
The video comes from the @lainbuii TikTok account which is full of cool digital video creations so to be clear what you are going to see didn’t really happen at Disney California Adventure. But that doesn’t make Spider-Man any less funny to crash into a wall. The video shows the animatronic stunt where Spider-Man flies through the sky over Avengers Campus, but he doesn’t get the necessary permissions and eats him completely.
@alainbuii ♬ original sound – Alain Bui
To be sure, the video is really well done. The authenticity has fooled more than a few online, as it’s hard to tell from a visual inspection that there’s anything out of the ordinary. If you’re scrolling through TikTok or Twitter and watching this with the sound off, you could easily think it was real.
The addition of the audio, hearing Spider-Man yell “my back”, as if Disneyland had recorded dialogue before a crash, is the most obvious sign that this isn’t exactly legit. That and the fact that the passing audience doesn’t react at all.
The Spider-Man show takes place several times a day on the roof of the building that houses the Web-Slingers attraction. A live actor in a Spider-Man costume comes out and does some simple acrobatics before disappearing to be replaced by the animatronic “swinging” from one end of the building to the other. Then the live actor returns to climb the wall to the floor and take pictures with guests.
Part of the reason this is so funny, in a horrible way, is that it’s a… worst case scenario for Imagineering and Disneyland. There are probably some fail-safes in place to prevent this from happening exactly, as the huge robotic structure crashing into a wall would likely be a very expensive accident. The only time we’ve seen the flight stunt fail is when some sort of technical difficulty, or possibly high winds, keeps it from happening at all. But if there was an unexpected glitch in the launch mechanism during a show, something like this could technically happen. Unfortunately, if it did, we won’t be seeing the show for a while. This animatronic is a new creation and it’s unclear how many even exist.