New Heroes for New Times
“They want this to be relevant but don’t want it to be a historical piece that you kind of visit say, ‘Oh, remember back in ‘99?’ We’re looking forward, obviously,” Serna said. Connecting the Avengers Campus to big events in the MCU’s Phases as fans grow up with this era of Marvel is the focus here, something that was at the forefront as plans shifted with Black Panther. “We know that a new Black Panther taking on that mantle was important to the film. That’s going to be important to us,” he elaborated. “The ability for us to deliver that to our guests was crucial, because obviously we love to be up to date here in the campus to what you’re seeing in the films and series. So we knew that was number one on our list, and then the rest of it was really exciting—things we could add in to make it even richer, and continue to tell the Wakanda story that we really love to tell in our campus. So that was kind of what drove us first was who was taking on the mantle: How do we tell the story around that?”
