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Leisure Management - Euro Attractions Show
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Euro Attractions Show
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More than 425 exhibitors will be at Euro Attractions Show at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona – we look at what’s new
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Location: Fira Gran Via Convention Centre, Barcelona, Spain Dates: 20-22 September 2016 Who’s there: 425 exhibitors and more than 9,000 attendees What’s on: 15 education sessions and four days of networking On-site tickets: €69 (expo only)
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Lagotronics
Lagotronics Projects is demonstrating its latest developments in the field of interactive ride technology, with a new range of hand shooters and cannon that includes swipe control and gesture control shooters. The company is also presenting three examples of 3D games that can be integrated into dark rides. Show visitors can try out the game Beach Fun.
Booth #821
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Interactive shooters by Lagotronics |
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Gateway
Gateway’s Galaxy Connect is a cloud-based platform that connects operators with third-party distributors to enable the selling of live tickets. It eliminates paper vouchers so guests can proceed directly to the gate, provides live tickets to capacity-managed events and streamlines implementation with a rapid onboarding process.
Booth #1605
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International Play Company
IPLAYCO is exhibiting new play attractions such as the Turbo Tube Dual lane slide. This exclusive patent-pending slide is a great addition to new and existing projects and can be attached as a standalone play feature or incorporated into an existing location or attraction. New My Town Edutainment offerings will be displayed, as well as IPLAYCO’s Junior Jumpers activity for younger guests in trampoline parks.
Booth #1154
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Holovis
Holovis is presenting its real time, mixed-reality Extended Experiences, a specialist software designed to eliminate queue line boredom, connect different attractions within a theme park and help bring parks or FECs to life in people’s hands through their mobile devices. EAS visitors can test a variety of original IPs from Holovis, including its augmented reality game Zombiez and the hugely successful mobile app game, Battle for Cedar Point, developed by Holovis and launched in 2016 for Cedar Fair.
Booth #1448
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Augmented reality at the Holovis booth |
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Jora Vision Europe
Jora Vision Europe is working on the design and production of an escape room for its client Aerokart. Named Winscape, it’s themed like a space research centre. Participants endure physical and mental tests to help Winscape decide who is capable of a secret mission. Teams experience different journeys determined by their own choices. This enables a very high capacity of up to 36 people for the escape room.
Booth #1818
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The escape room is opening in Paris |
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Attraktion!
Attraktion! is presenting its Playoke Dance System where children, teenagers and adults can dance along to pop music with CGI live dancing clips and the opportunity to measure individual performance and compete against other players. Moreover, visitors can explore a new immersive scale model of the Dome Ride Theatre from the company’s joint product with Intamin on Intamin’s booth.
Booth #1454
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Intamin
Intamin’s year began with the opening of the Flying Aces Wing Coaster at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, followed by three signature rides (Mega Coaster, Gyro Drop and Flying Island) supplied to Wanda Nanchang. In June, the record-breaking LSM Multi Launch Coaster, Taron, opened at Phantasialand in Germany, featuring Intamin’s most powerful LSM drive and new trains for maximum comfort and a smoother ride. Plus, a Water Coaster is opening at Lands of Legends in Turkey as well as another LSM Coaster, namely the Vertical Ring Coaster at Wanda Hefei.
Booth #1122
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Taron at Phantasialand, Germany |
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Sally
In addition to a wide variety of turnkey dark ride packages, Sally is displaying two new dark ride concepts, The Walking Dead: Battle For Survival and Volcanikus. The Walking Dead transforms the TV show into an immersive dark ride that features interactivity, multi-DOF motion-based ride vehicles, media-based scenes, highly immersive theming and 4D special effects. Meanwhile, the great god of fire, Volcanikus, has awakened and its up to riders to calm his wrath in this original dark ride story concept.
Booth #1233
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Walking Dead: Battle for Survival |
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Vekoma
Visit Vekoma’s booth to find out about the custom-designed Space Warp launch coaster which has opened at Energylandia in Poland. Vekoma has also installed a Boomerang and a Suspended Family Coaster at Paulton’s Park in the UK, while Fire Storm will open at Vinpearl Thu Thiem Vietnam in 2017.
Booth #1418
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Find out about the latest coasters |
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Haystack Dryers
Haystack Dryers are designed to dry wet guests after a water ride at theme parks and waterparks. Sited in resorts all over the world, they raise a new revenue stream and increase guest satisfaction, leaving the visitor feeling drier and more comfortable. Recent additions include cashless payments (RFID and contactless card) as well as a new hotel and resort initiative to reduce poolside towel use and associated laundry costs.
Booth #2207
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Antonio Zamperla
Zamperla’s WindstarZ made a big impact at its appearance at IAAPA 2015 in Orlando. Visitors to EAS will also have the chance to find out more about the aerodynamic family ride which recreates the feeling of flying and gives each rider the ability to control their two-person gondola flight.
Booth #1401
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Alterface Projects
This year the Belgium-based company Alterface Projects is celebrating 15 years of expertise in interactivity, which started with gesture-based attractions and culminated in new “visitor-centric” interactive rides. At EAS, the company will be demonstrating its know-how and the power of its Salto interactive show control system, which has been deployed in many award-winning rides. There is also going to be a special focus on Alterface’s modified spinning theatre following its worldwide launch five years ago.
Booth #842
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Jack Rouse Associates
Rixos Hotels’ 64-hectare (158-acre) Land of Legends theme park in Antalya, Turkey, will add a landmark attraction to the Turkish Riviera. When fully completed, the resort will include a five-star hotel, theme park, shopping boulevard, wildlife park, waterpark and family entertainment centre. The first phase of development, Aqua World, has recently opened and features an aquarium, a dolphinarium and a waterpark featuring 72 slides. Jack Rouse Associates provided master planning and concept design for Land of Legends.
Booth #1121
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IMAGE: JACK ROUSE ASSOCIATES |
A rendering shows Land of Legends |
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nWave
nWave is presenting at EAS in Barcelona and attendees are invited to immerse themselves in the 3D/4D theatre at the nWave booth. On the new ride simulation film Machinarum 2D/3D, produced by N-Gon Visuals and distributed exclusively by nWave Pictures Distribution, you’ll experience hot steam, menacing machines and a giant out-of-control robot. It’s a dangerous mix that might overwhelm even the most seasoned adventurer. Can the mad professor shut the robot down before it’s too late?
Booth #1151
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Machinarum, new from nWave |
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Triotech
Triotech’s Maestro hand gesture technology is revolutionising the way interactivity is experienced in dark rides. Gone are the gun-like devices – guests can now interact with the story by using hand gestures. Maestro is already being deployed in NINJAGO The Ride at Merlin’s Legoland parks. Vistors can experience it for themselves at Triotech’s booth at EAS.
Booth #1111, #1014
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Gesture technology for rides |
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