IAAPA Orlando 2025

[Ash]

Worth kicking off with something interesting


From: https://youtu.be/liGWVLc0lEg?si=pAcQ2Ikp4ZFXjMLZ


Thoughts?

 

[NuttySquirrel]

Could we try to get the spelling of IAAPA right in the thread title? Thanks!

 

[John_P]

Looks a great concept, though something probably only affordable by a Universal or Disney type park.

Does look and sound similar to the Epic Universe Dark Universe Drive Thru Movies ride concept were the vehicles would park up like a drive thru theatre before they went into the screen and the rest of the ride.

 

[rctneil]

Looks a great concept, though something probably only affordable by a Universal or Disney type park.

Does look and sound similar to the Epic Universe Dark Universe Drive Thru Movies ride concept were the vehicles would park up like a drive thru theatre before they went into the screen and the rest of the ride.

I've heard rumours that this is the system that Toverland are looking at for their heavily rumoured dark ride project.

 

[Benjsh]

This is what the Mario Kart dark ride really needed to be.

Would have been a million times better than the augmented reality.

 

[Llama]

My problem with these CGI demos is that you get the idea of someone building out a world class ride with the technology and then inevitably the actual implementation is something like Uncharted: one animatronic and then a journey through what is very obviously an empty warehouse with brief pauses to watch animated scenes that would look right at home on a Playstation 2. As mentioned, it's really only Disney and Universal that would theme something like this properly and given what we know about each company's plans it's very unlikely that either of them will do so in the next decade. Still, very cool ideas, especially the launch track.

 

[Jb85]

Surely you’d need a HUGE warehouse for one of these? And I’d imagine the downtime would be horrendous.

Impressive but I feel on offer to a very small clientele.

Anything else interesting come from the event?

 

[DiogoJ42]

I wouldn't get too excited by all this insanity. Concept rides at trade shows are like concept cars at trade shows: little more than an attention grabber to draw punters in to your stand.
"We're still perfecting the final details of that new thing, it won't be ready for a year or two.... But as you're here, why not take a look at what you could walk away with today?"