A stunt performed by a Spider-Man robot went wrong when the web-slinger crashed into a building at the Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim. The web-slinging shenanigans saw the robot being flung from a rope and attempting to land on a building. However, there is a crash instead. 

The show was paused for a couple of hours at the recently-opened park, but resumed on the same day, Fox 11 reported. 

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The show includes a human performer and a robot. While the human performer initially dazzles the crowd, the stunt is then performed by a robot. A LA Times Today interview explained, “That is something that the director of live entertainment at the Disney Parks calls a robot sandwich. The human performer will come out, sort of dazzle the crowd, disappear behind the building that houses the Spider-Man ride. And then a robotics stunt double will launch from behind the building and soar through the air, strike a heroic pose and then disappear behind the building. The human performer comes back and continues his meet and greet responsibilities. And the transitions are supposed to be sort of seamless so that the crowd thinks it’s all one superhuman being capable of these amazing feats”. 

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The stunt involves an “advanced slingshot system to mimic Spider-Man flying from a web”, as per the interview. 

“They wanted to mimic Spider-Man as much as possible. So they devised this really advanced slingshot system that involves a wire that they launch the robot from, and then it flies into the air, performs some stunt combination. And then it lands in a net, and they had to decelerate the landing. That is why they could not do it with a human performer. You can’t program a human to decelerate”, the interview concluded, explaining why it was a robot and not a human doing the stunts.