Marvel Super Hero Island is an area at

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park in

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that is themed after popular

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superheroes. The area opened in 1999, ten years prior to Universal competitor

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acquiring

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in 2009. The island is home to four attractions, including ''

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'' and ''

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''. Marvel Super Hero Island’s architecture and theming is modeled after a Marvel comic book, with a comic book color scheme, amplified angles, and cutouts of many of the most popular Marvel characters.

History

What is today known as Marvel Super Hero Island was originally conceived as "DC Superhero Land", an area featuring

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superheroes, which was inspired by the success of

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's 1989 ''Batman'' film starring

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. Along with the success of

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's opening in 1990,

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(then-owner of

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and

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) and

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began entering negotiations in the early 1990s for theme park rights to DC Comics for the "second gate" adjacent to Universal Studios Florida, originally known as "Cartoon World" (later changed to Islands of Adventure). Ultimately, the deal fell through, as

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acquired

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in whole in 1990 and obtained the full license to DC Comics, and due to the heated dispute regarding

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for the characters' park presence between Warner Bros. and MCA. Meanwhile, Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. sold off their characters'

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to several

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s, including Universal Pictures. MCA then eventually negotiated with Marvel for the theme park rights to their characters and both companies signed an agreement on March 22, 1994. This contract stipulated that "MCA will construct a complex of attractions, stores and food venues heavily themed around the Marvel properties" under the Marvel Universe banner at the second gate. The agreement remains in perpetuity (aka good faith), or indefinitely, unless Universal decides to close the Marvel Universe area, stop making payments for property usage, or Marvel opts out of the contract providing that it needs a reasonable explanation that Universal is mishandling the usage of their property. Construction of

began in 1997, with the Marvel Universe area being officially named "Marvel Super Hero Island". Islands of Adventure opened up to soft openings on March 27, 1999, and officially opened two months later on May 28. Marvel Super Hero Island is among the six of the original islands in the park.

Attractions

Marvel Super Hero Island currently features four attractions. ''

'' is a motion-based 3D

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, which was considered a huge technological achievement, combining

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, ride movement, and

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s for the very first time. The ride takes place in

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and features

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taking on the

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, when it is learned that they seize the

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with an anti-gravity gun and threatens to destroy the statue if the city does not surrender to them. Guests enters through the ''

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'' with empty offices and apparently all of the reporters have fled in the midst of the carnage. With no reporters left, the Bugle's Editor-in-Chief

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hatches a plan to send guests as would-be-reporters to cover the story in the news-gathering vehicle, known as the SCOOP. ''

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'' is a

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themed after comic book superhero character, the

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. From 1999 to 2015, guests entered the science laboratory of Dr. Bruce Banner with many televisions showing a cartoon of the story centered around the Hulk. After the Hulk roller coaster was opened in 2016 as part of the refurbishment, a new, original storyline was added with a completely redesigned queue experience that places guests inside a perilous scientific experiment led by General Thaddeus Ross, which shows CGI animations of test subjects being exposed to

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and being transformed into Hulk-like creatures. '' Doctor Doom's Fearfall'' is a space shot ride based around the

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's main villain,

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. The plot involves Doom's latest invention by using the guests' fear as part of an effort to defeat the Fantastic Four. The guests become a subject of Dr. Doom and traps them so he can have their fear extracted. '' Storm Force Accelatron'' is a

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themed after a popular member of

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. It opened on May 28, 2000, a year after the rest of the Marvel Super Hero Island attractions opened. Riders are made to spin around in order to power the Accelatron, a device that amplify the mutants' abilities, to allow the X-Men,

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and Storm, to defeat

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Dining, merchandise shops, and meet and greets

Marvel Super Hero Island is also home to dining and merchandise shops. ''Cafe 4'' is a futuristic command center-like restaurant themed after characters from the Fantastic Four universe, featuring a

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with

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options. ''Captain America Diner'' is a restaurant themed around

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and other members of the

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(e.g.,

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, etc.) as well as its related villains, featuring typical fast foods like cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken fingers, crispy chicken salads, and more. Merchandise items can be bought from a variety of themed stores including ''Spider-Man Shop'' (which guests exits from ''The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man'' ride), ''Marvel Alterniverse Store'', ''Comic Book Shop'', and ''Oakley''. "Meet Spider-Man and the Marvel Super Heroes" is a meet-and-greet attraction, where guests can meet superheroes including

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, Storm,

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, and Rogue, Spider-Man, and Captain America.

Disney's acquisition of Marvel

On August 28, 2009,

(Universal's largest rival in the theme park market) agreed to purchase

for $4 billion. The deal was finalized on December 31, 2009 in which Disney acquired full ownership on the company. Universal stated that the acquisition would not impact its theme park licensing agreement with Marvel, while Disney CEO

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acknowledged that Disney would continue to honor any contracts that Marvel currently has with Disney competitors. The 1994 agreement between Marvel Entertainment and

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(Universal's current parent companies) governs the use of Marvel properties in non-Universal theme parks and dictates what parks in the region can use such properties. Currently, Islands of Adventure uses the

, and the

, while

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only employs Spider-Man, as it has operated the Islands of Adventure cloned ride ''The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man'' since 2004. The contract forbids

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and the

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from installing these characters, as well as the other characters in the same "family" (i.e. any team members, side characters, and villains closely associated with the superheroes). In addition, Disney is not allowed to use the "Marvel" name in all of the U.S. and Japan, nor create a Marvel-themed

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within the legal designated regional distances of any Universal theme park in the U.S. and Japan regardless of whether the Marvel characters are being used by Comcast/NBCUniversal. The

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is not constrained by the agreement, as the contract allows Disney to utilize any Marvel character (regardless of whether it is being used by Comcast/NBCUniversal) west of the

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. However, the resort is still bound by the clause of not being able to use the "Marvel" name. Disney parks outside the United States and Japan are permitted to use any Marvel properties, the Marvel name, as well as any type of ride they want. Both

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and

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have opened Marvel attractions since the acquisition, including

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and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! at the former and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' – Mission: Breakout! at the latter. In 2017, Disney announced plans to erect a series of

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-themed lands called

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at Disney California Adventure, Hong Kong Disneyland, and

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, with the first one opening in June 2021 at Disney California Adventure.

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also have plans to incorporate Marvel attractions, while

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opened a '' Big Hero 6'' attraction called "The Happy Ride with Baymax." Meanwhile, Disney World has taken other measures to promote its Marvel properties within the Resort. At the

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on July 14–16, 2017, Disney announced that ''Guardians of the Galaxy'': Cosmic Rewind would be coming to

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which forced the closure of Ellen's Energy Adventure on August 13.

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trains have been wrapped in advertisements promoting films such as '' The Avengers'', ''

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'', and '' Captain America: Civil War''. As these monorail trains feature Marvel characters that are used at Islands of Adventure, they are operated only on the Resort and Express lines of the

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, which run entirely outside the theme parks, unlike the Epcot line, which enters and loops through its namesake park. The resort does have a Marvel-themed store, Super Hero Headquarters. However, it is also located outside of park gates in

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. Marvel characters not connected with the ones at Islands of Adventure also appears at

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in form of meet and greets, such as

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and

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from ''

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'', as well as Dr. Strange from ''

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Halloween Horror Nights

In 2002, during

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12, Marvel Super Hero Island was converted into a scarezone known as "Island Under Siege", loosely based upon the 14-part comic book story, ''

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''. It featured an alternative plot where Spider-Man's archenemy, Carnage, killed most of the Marvel superheroes and took over the island. Criminal gangs running amok the streets, and

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has been broken down as a result. A haunted house, "Maximum Carnage", was also featured in which guests had to explore through Carnage's hideout containing all his henchmen and the bloody remains of several superheroes.

Characters used at Marvel Super Hero Island

The following list of characters are or ''may'' be seen at Marvel Super Hero Island. This includes from actual costume appearances to 2D drawings all around buildings to videos seen at attractions.

Gallery

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References

External links

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