NEW LOOK at Disneyland's Upcoming Iron Man Ride

If you’ve ever wanted to go for a ride in an Iron Man suit (and, seriously, who doesn’t?) Disney is currently working on the next best thing.

Want to fly like Iron Man?

Disneyland is getting an unprecedented expansion to Avengers Campus in Disney California Adventure, and that expansion will include two new rides, including Stark Flight Lab, which will simulate what a ride in Iron Man’s suit might be like. Well, thanks to KTLA, we now have a new look at that ride.

A new aerial photo shows that Stark Flight Lab’s exterior is almost complete. The structure is located south of Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout and next to Radiator Springs Racers. Here’s what construction on the project looks like now:

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Inside will be one of Disney’s most ambitious rides to date. Disney combined two ride systems that have never been put together before to create the new ride. It will begin on a chassis that moves up and down a track, which will take riders to Tony Stark’s lab. There, the ride vehicle will separate from that track and then attach to a massive robot arm, which will lift riders up to simulate a flight in the Iron Man suit.

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There will be a total of 12 robot arms working together, which will bring the experience to life. The arms themselves are similar to the technology used in Universal Studios’ Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Thanks to a comment by Robert Downey Jr., who is returning as Tony Stark for the attraction, the ride’s Imagineering team used motion-capture data from dancers so that the robots had more fluid motion.

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But that’s not the only new attraction coming to Avengers Campus. Another ambitious attraction, Avengers Infinity Defense, will send riders on an adventure through the multiverse to jump between worlds and take on King Thanos, who is causing chaos throughout those worlds.

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Meanwhile, Disney is also building a new Coco boat ride behind Incredicoaster, as well as an Avatar-themed land on what was once the Hollywood Backlot area. Construction on that land will permanently close Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! in 2027.

We’ll keep an eye out for more Disney ride updates, so stay tuned to DFB for more.

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