Marvel-inspired eats at Disney's Avengers Campus, from Shawarma Palace to Quantum Pretzel
ANAHEIM, California – The Avengers Campus coming to Disney California Adventure Park will feature heroic attractions like Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure (starring big-screen Spidey Tom Holland) and a collection of full-time superheroes (Iron Man) and villains (Taskmaster).
But, really, isn't it a Marvel superhero site all about the little things, like having the Avengers-approved Shawarma Palace materialize?
The Disney Parks team has mined the Avengers film catalog to dish out fan service in a major way. Here are the best nods to Marvel Cinematic Universe nerds we found during a recent sneak-peek tour of the campus, which opens July 18:
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Chow down at Shawarma Palace when you're done saving the world
Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man didn't say, "I'm going to Disneyland" when he led the superhero team to an against-all-odds world-saving effort in 2012's "The Avengers." Instead Tony Stark insisted on visiting Shawarma Palace, because he'd never tried it before. This resulted in the classic, wordless post-credits scene. Good enough for exhausted Avengers, the food cart version of Shawarma Palace is coming to Avengers Campus, serving warm chicken shawarma (with a lemon yogurt and tahini dipping sauce). There will also be a plant-based wrap, Impossible Victory Falafel.
Pym Test Kitchen blows up the Quantum Pretzel
Dr. Henry Pym (played by Michael Douglas in the "Ant-Man" movies) has talked about using his Pym Particles enlarging technology to solve world hunger. Consider it done, now that the knowledge is being used in Pym's Test Kitchen, where fans get massive snacks such as Experiment No. IP42, better known as Quantum Pretzel. Visitors will even be able to watch the normal-sized pretzel travel on the conveyor belt into the "quantum tunnel" and then appear as 360 grams (¾ of a pound) of salty dough deliciousness.
Experiment No. EE90: Not So Little Chicken Sandwich features a giant spicy breaded chicken breast on regular-sized buns. (We tried one of these: Wildly unwieldy to eat, but delicious.) And the Pym process works the other way with Experiment No. SE91: Subatomic Chicken Sandwich, a kid-sized creation.
Pingo Doce will quench Hulk thirst
While working in the Pingo Doce bottling plant in 2008's "The Incredible Hulk," Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) cut himself and his gamma-irradiated blood leaked in bottles, killing a devotee (played by Stan Lee) who downed the tasty glowing green beverage. The death was consequential as it allowed General Ross (William Hurt) to track Banner down through bottling plants. The Avengers Campus will feature the comic-favorite drink (minus the gamma blood) that's also available as a reusable soda-can novelty cup.
Terran Treats brings the cosmic, creamed stones for infinity
The Collector has had an eye for the unusual since Benecio Del Toro brought the Marvel character to screen life in 2013's "Thor: The Dark World" and 2014's "Guardians of the Galaxy." So he's a natural to set up Terran Treats at the campus to lure unsuspecting human specimens. Of particular note is the cosmic cream orb, which looks like an Infinity Stone but will kill you with whipped raspberry cheesecake mousse.
Thor's beer mug gets magically filled
In a "Doctor Strange" end-credits scene, Benedict Cumberbatch's Sorcerer Supreme gave Thor (Chris Hemsworth) just the kind of lager a Nordic demi-god could really love: The giant mug just kept magically re-filling. At the adult-centric Pym Tasting Lab, beers will be seemingly magically filled Strange-style, with a reverse tap system.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Disney's Avengers Campus nods to fans with Shawarma Palace, Pingo Doce
