PYM Test Kitchen

*This article is on the real-world restaurant. For the fictional location see, PYM Test Kitchen (location).*

## General Information

### Status

Open

The **PYM Test Kitchen** is a dining service in Disneyland's *Avengers Campus*.

## History

### Backstory

The PYM Test Kitchen was originally a base for the Pym Labs of the company *Pym Technologies* in an industrial complex run by *Stark Industries* where Pym Tech developed their, "Pym Particles" which could grow and shrink matter. In modern day, this complex was turned into an outpost for, "Superheroes" such as Ant-Man and the Wasp, the successors of Pym Tech founder, Hank Pym. Ant-Man's daughter, Cassie Lang was a member of the nearby *Worldwide Engineering Brigade* and had an idea to use Pym Particles to grow and shrink foods in an effort to solve world hunger and reduce food-waste. The Pym Labs base was converted into the, "Pym Test Kitchen" to test out this plan.

## Summary

This is a themed restaurant with a gimmick for serving foods modelled after enlarged and shrunken meal items. There is also the, "PYM Tasting Lab" which serves alcoholic beverages.

## Trivia

* Ironically, as Pym Particles are not real the Walt Disney Company produces higher quantities of food-waste due to this restaurant's enlarged food gimmick.
* The texts which Scott and Hope receive from other characters identifies the restaurant as experienced by guests as taking place after the events of *Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure*, before the events of *Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!*, and during the construction of *Avengers Campus Paris*.
* Artwork on the wall depicts Ant-Man fighting the HYDRA robots of Arnim Zola as he does in the attraction Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! in Hong Kong Disneyland.
* The giant ketchup and mustard bottle come from, "Bountiful Valley Farm". This is a tribute to the Bountiful Valley Farm area of *Disney California Adventure* which Avengers Campus took up space of.. The year of establishment is also 2001, when the park was made.
* There is a massive beer-can labelled, "Silver Age" est. 1956. This is a reference to the Silver Age of Comics, a period of comic-book history where the censorship group the Comics Code Authority, fallout of World War II and rising threat of the cold war caused comic generas to be bottle-necked towards campy, child-oriented, often science-fiction super-heroes. It was this period when Marvel rose to fame.
	+ The flavour is, "Chitauran Charged", a reference to the aliens from the Avengers.
* The menus outdoors are made to resemble the enlarged phones of Ant-Man and the Wasp and will receive texts from other Marvel characters.
* One of the giant soda cans is *Pingo Doce*, a fictional soda company which Bruce Banner worked for while in hiding and accidentally contaminated with his gamma irradiated blood.
* In both the comics and the films, applying PYM Particles to food and drink would be problematic due to prolonged exposure to them sometimes causing insanity in their users.
* The giant Christmas-lights are repurposed from the gates of *A Bug's Land*.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.marvel.com/articles/culture-lifestyle/avengers-campus-hidden-details
2. ↑ https://www.disneybymark.com/2021/06/photos-do-you-recognize-these-13-hidden-easter-eggs-in-disneys-avengers-campus/
3. ↑ https://allears.net/2021/06/02/photos-first-look-inside-pym-test-kitchen-at-avengers-campus-in-disneyland/
4. ↑ https://www.insider.com/avengers-campus-marvel-references-2021-6#peggy-carter-gets-a-shout-out-too-23
5. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2021/06/04/marvel-character-text-messages-at-avengers-campus/
6. ↑ https://insidethemagic.net/2021/06/avengers-campus-a-bugs-land-rwb1/