The jaw-dropping Spider-Man stuntronic that gracefully somersaults through the air crashed into the side of an Avengers Campus building — but the Marvel superhero was back in action a short while later at Disneyland without any visible injuries beyond his pride.
The Spider-Man stuntronic smashed into a silo atop the Web Slingers attraction building during a rooftop stunt show in Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure on Thursday, June 9, according to video posted to social media.
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The stuntronic failed to release from a cable the Spidey robot swings from and slammed into the side of the silo where the audio-animatronic typically lands during a mid-day performance of the rooftop stunt show on Thursday. The dramatic crash caused the louvered paneling on the side of the rooftop silo to collapse.
Fortunately, occasional crashes were built into the DNA of the Spider-Man stuntronic and the rooftop silo. That’s one of the key reasons Spidey soars over a building rather than a crowd — in case he doesn’t stick the landing.
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Walt Disney Imagineering even built a “crash mode” into the audio soundtrack that accompanies the Spider-Man stunt show at the Disneyland resort.
“The W.E.B. facility is not equipped with airbags,” the audio track announced after the embarrassing crash.
The silo panels were replaced and the Spidey stuntronic was back in action above the Web Slingers attraction building by mid-afternoon on Thursday.
The stuntronic aerial acrobatics performance at DCA’s Avengers Campus comes during the middle of a stunt show in which a Spider-Man character leaps and tumbles across the rooftop while bantering with the crowd below. After the stuntronic flight, the Spidey character climbs down a brick wall to the ground for a meet-and-greet session with visitors.
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The autonomous audio-animatronic stunt robot in a Spider-Man suit developed by Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development as part of the Stuntronics Project is capable of performing aerial somersaults and backflips 65 feet in the air.
Imagineering’s stuntronic robots can fly through the air, strike aerial poses and calculate trajectories to hit a prescribed target using on-board hardware. The stuntronic robots utilize accelerometers, gyroscopes and laser range finders to rotate in midair and perform aerial tricks after being slung from a wire.