Niagara's Fury
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=909780
However, The Review has learned The Fury will be a Universal Studios-type attraction using video and audio effects to tell the story of how the falls were formed, bringing visitors from the ice age to present day.
Pardon me if this sounds a little less than a religious experience. Not that it won't be fun or interesting, only methinks they've gone a tad overboard on the marketing.
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If there are video effects, it'll have to be indoors (most likely).
If it's indoors, it definitely won't be "on the brink."
It's just going to be an enhanced movie about the making of the falls. Ensign is right, the marketing for it is just embellishing at this point. And I, for one, am happy, because the thought of an X-Scream-type attraction, or even a glass walkway like that at the Grand Canyon, perched on the edge of the beautiful falls is just disgraceful to me.
Whatever the attraction is, it's probably not going to interfere with the actual 'Falls themselves. Being a sort of 'Natural Wonder', and not nearly the size of Grand Canyon, I'm sure it's nothing that's going to actually stretch over the water with a glass bottom, especially since the falls controlled flow can vary in winter, summer, day, & night. Add to the fact of other stuff that can go over the falls like ice chunks, barrels, and people... it wouldn't work.
What is it? I don't know, but it is definately an outdoor experience because it's by Tablerock which is a fairly large area, and if it is anything, it COULD be something that could tawter you at the brink of the falls from a distance up.
Whatever it is, it's being taunted as something large, and there hasn't really been this much hype for an attraction in Niagara Falls, Canada since the skywheel.
Donny said:
Here are some visuals of it's glass floor.
Off topic for a moment. I wonder how they snuck a camera on the skywalk. They don't allow you to bring any electronic devices onto the glass, including cameras, cellphones, and PDAs.
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
-Joseph Campbell
P.S. Yeah, I was kidding... :)
HOCO was planning on putting some Titanic replica attraction in their owned land, which is rather large and resembles one akin to here. There was a survey about it last year on the guest experience.
So it's got to be more tasteful than that considering its location.
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Here's a little more in-depth article on this. No, you don't sit down, but it truly immerses you. A lot of the effects say that it's been done before, just not QUITE to this capacity, nor all combined into one. I don't know how a 7-million attraction truly will work, because for Spiderman & Curse of Dark Kastle (Busch), it's only pennies in the bucket... but it really looks like it will be the ultimate 4-D theater in the NF district (yes, they have plenty of them).
All I know is that I'm going to check it out as soon as I convince a couple buddies to come along. Although it says it's a 7-minute film, using the animation-style of Ice Age (and a couple cartoony critters), I wonder how long the whole process is.
It says capacity is 102 people per session, and 600 per hour. That means that the whole thing is about 10 minutes in length, unless there are other rooms before you enter the main room.
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