Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki:Treehouse/Avengers Campus Coverage

AVENGERS CAMPUS COVERAGE ON THE MCU WIKI

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki covers mediums such as movies, television shows, tie-in comics and video games, under the precept that events that occur in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) should be covered on the Wiki. This notion naturally extended to events that do not occur in the MCU's primary timeline but rather within a canonical alternate universe within the greater Multiverse, specifically those that are created by or for the MCU, such as the alternate realities depicted in What If...? as well as the alternate realities in which the tie-in video games take place in. However, there is another canonical alternate universe, based on the MCU and set in the MCU's Multiverse, that has yet to be covered on the Wiki: the Avengers Campus Universe.

Avengers Campus

Avengers Campus is a Marvel Cinematic Universe-themed area that can be found at select Disney Parks, specifically Disney California Adventure of Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States and Walt Disney Studios Park of Disneyland Paris in Paris, France, with a third location currently in development at Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong, China under the name Stark Expo. Information and content regarding theme parks and amusement rides based on intellectual property may not be readily covered on wikis that cover said IP, and under normal circumstances, this practice would extend to the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki as well. However, in the case of Avengers Campus, there is more to it than meets the eye.

Avengers Campus was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, in collaboration with Marvel Studios themselves. According to Walt Disney Imagineering, Avengers Campus, and the events that transpire within it, are set within its own universe, specifically in an alternate timeline within the MCU's Multiverse. The company states that at some point, there was a divergence within the timeline, and explicitly compares it to the Time Heist realities in Avengers: Endgame, declaring that both the Time Heist realities and Avengers Campus had the same history of the primary timeline up until the point of divergence, specifically comparing it to the alternate 2012 timeline in Endgame, which they state had the same history as the main timeline until 2012. This point of divergence, according to the Executive Creative Director of Disney Parks Live Entertainment, is that the Snap did not occur in this universe. While the statements from these executives would already be sufficient, Kevin Feige and then Disney CEO Bob Chapek, both of whom had collaboration and involvement with Avengers Campus, stated that it was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Multiverse. With confirmation that the events that occur with the Avengers Campus sections of these Disney Parks are canonical to the MCU's Multiverse, they are eligible to be covered on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki.

Coverage

Walt Disney World

General Exclusion

While undergoing the process of including information from Avengers Campus to the Wiki, it is important to note what exactly is eligible to covered and what is not. The general MCU-inspired aspects of Walt Disney World in Florida, however, do not count as being part of Avengers Campus. The sole exception to this is Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Therefore, no other attractions, rides, or characters from Walt Disney World that are MCU themed or inspired are to be added to this Wiki. The exclusion of Walt Disney World from Avengers Campus is due a 1994 deal where Marvel Entertainment sold the theme park rights regarding Marvel characters in Florida to Universal Parks & Resorts, which led to the creation of Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal Islands of Adventure in Orlando. The contract, which exists indefinitely, prevents the Avengers, as well as Spider-Man and members of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, from being used at Walt Disney World, which is located relatively close to Universal Islands of Adventure. This restriction does not apply to the other Disney Parks such as Disneyland California, hence why the Avengers (as well as the other aforementioned characters) can be used freely in these parks and why the MCU-themed sections of these parks are officially designated as "Avengers Campus" whereas the MCU-inspired or themed attractions at Walt Disney World is not.

Cosmic Rewind Exemption

As stated in the "General Exclusion" section above, an exemption is granted for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. While legally not a part of Avengers Campus, due to the aforementioned contractual restrictions as per the 1994 deal with Universal Parks & Resorts, maps of Avengers Campus that can be found at Avengers Campus, that are designed to be in-universe maps, denote that there is an in-universe facility known as the "Xandarian Outpost", which on the map is located in Florida. Additionally, the in-universe map lists coordinates as well, which are the coordinates for where Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is situated within Walt DIsney World. Therefore, it is clear that while Disney Parks cannot legally list Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind as part of Avengers Campus in real life, they still consider the events that transpire at Cosmic Rewind to canonically occur within the same universe of Avengers Campus. As a result, this attraction has been granted an exemptive status when it comes to excluding MCU-inspired attractions from Walt Disney World.

Disney Cruise Line

Worlds of Marvel

"Worlds of Marvel" is an interactive dining experience available on the Disney Cruise Line, specifically on the ships Disney Wish and Disney Treasure. Much like with Avengers Campus, where guests at the parks are considered in-universe recruits helping out the Avengers, "Worlds of Marvel" includes a dinner theater experience called Avengers: Quantum Encounter, which is set in the same universe as Avengers Campus, where guests and diner also canonically help out the Avengers. As a result, the in-universe events of "Worlds of Marvel" are eligible to covered on the Wiki as a part of the greater Avengers Campus universe.

Tie-In Comics

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Wiki Stipulations

When incorporating information from Avengers Campus onto the Wiki, the following stipulations should be kept in mind:

• Images of Avengers Campus are not to be uploaded freely. Official images of Avengers Campus, released by the Walt Disney Company themselves, are allowed to be uploaded by any user. However, unofficially released images can only be uploaded by Staff, in an attempt to prevent users from uploading images that they found online, many of which would be uploaded online by guests who did not intend for it to be used on the Wiki. If a community member visits Avengers Campus, they may speak to Staff and receive a special exemption to upload images, but this request must be approved by Staff before any uploads are made.
• A page for you will not be created. If you (yes, you, reader!) visited Avengers Campus, you cannot upload a page about yourself as "someone who helped the Avengers" or anything of that nature. By extension, you cannot add yourself to the Relationships section to the characters or as a member of the canonical Recruits. Names of real-world players or stand-in names from interactive areas of the Campus are also ineligible for wiki inclusion.
• Pages for rides and attractions can be created, but only those that are part of Avengers Campus.
• Characters whose only appearance and role within Avengers Campus is greeting people will not receive a page. They must appear in a ride or in some other capacity where significant biographical information is known or revealed about them.
• Items that are sold as merchandise or food items in restaurants within Avengers Campus, no matter how in-universe they are presented, are not to be created unless they have a specific in-universe history aside from just being sold at Avengers Campus.
• Actors who portray characters at Avengers Campus should only receive pages when they are involved in rides or specific events or attractions. Actors who only greet people, for example, should not receive pages.
• A section has been added to the Layout Guide for Theme Park pages to further explain how pages should be structured.