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Avengers HQ belongs to a Chinese excavator and bulldozer manufacturer

Chinese fans enjoy the tidbit from Avengers: Endgame... even if Thanos blows it up later

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Avengers HQ belongs to a Chinese excavator and bulldozer manufacturer
Josh Ye
This article originally appeared on ABACUS

It’s not just the members of the Avengers who have secret identities. When the team's headquarters isn’t housing spaceships or time machines, its real-life identity is a manufacturer of heavy equipment like excavators, crane machines, bulldozers and concrete mixer trucks.

Chinese Marvel fans on Weibo have recently caught wind of the fact that the majestic headquarters of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is actually the US headquarters of Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sany Heavy Industry Co. The facility is located in Georgia, where a good chunk of Avengers: Endgame was filmed.

(This story contains mild spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. If you haven’t seen it yet, why aren’t you in a movie theater right now?)

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Head to the HQ in real life and you’ll get an excavator instead of the Guardians of the Galaxy spaceship Benatar that was parked outside in Avengers: Endgame. (Picture: China Daily/Weibo)
Head to the HQ in real life and you’ll get an excavator instead of the Guardians of the Galaxy spaceship Benatar that was parked outside in Avengers: Endgame. (Picture: China Daily/Weibo)
Other people have recognized the building before, as well -- like this Redditor did last month. The connection only recently started trending on Chinese social media, though. The discovery was later confirmed by Chinese media. A Chinese movie journalist who is close to Paul Rudd also posted on Weibo a picture on set, saying he visited the Sany location during the filming of Endgame.
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Online buzz about the minor detail attests to the huge popularity Avengers: Endgame has enjoyed in China so far. The movie has raked in US$575 million in ticket sales there in just three weeks, making it China’s biggest foreign film at the box office.
Sany and the Avengers crew signed a confidentiality agreement so it didn’t generate any buzz before the release of Endgame. (Picture: DaweixiongDr_GMF/Weibo)
Sany and the Avengers crew signed a confidentiality agreement so it didn’t generate any buzz before the release of Endgame. (Picture: DaweixiongDr_GMF/Weibo)
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