Ride Vehicle Testing Nears on Shanghai Disneyland's Spider-Man Coaster
Shanghai Disneyland's Spider-Man coaster is close to a milestone. With the track finished since June, the first ride vehicles are about to go on, and testing follows. D23 also brought concept art of an oversized Spider-Bot wreaking havoc.
The Spider-Man roller coaster under construction at Shanghai Disneyland is about to reach the testing stage. According to Shanghai Disney Resort, the first ride vehicles will be placed on the track imminently, with vehicle testing to follow. Track installation itself wrapped up in June, when the final piece was fitted.
The land was originally announced at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in 2024, with further details emerging at the most recent D23 event over the past weekend. The resort's own framing is that development has progressed steadily across the last two years.
Also released was concept art showing an enormous Spider-Bot causing chaos along the coaster, following an earlier look at that Spider-Bot being installed back in July. Within Marvel's canon, Spider-Bots are the invention of Peter Parker and his fellow engineers at the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, better known as W.E.B.
That makes this land W.E.B.'s first appearance at Shanghai Disney Resort. Across the Avengers-themed lands, W.E.B. functions as a centre for innovation where heroes, inventors and engineers develop and test new technology together. While the area is built around Spider-Man, other Marvel characters are set to appear.
D23 attendees additionally received a first look at the land's mural art programme, produced with Chinese mural artists and celebrating Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man through a local perspective. No opening date has been announced.
Written by DPM-VIDS · August 20, 2026, 17:19