This year’s IAAPA Exhibition will bring with it a new theater system that promises to revolutionize the amusement industry. Valtiner & Partner GmbH will unveil their E-Motionboard system, a ride that many are calling the best theater concept in decades. Guests ride the E-Motionboard System standing up, which offers a completely new way to integrate park-goers into the film experience.
Martin Valtiner, an architect by trade, has been working on the concept of a standing theater for several years. His experience as a pilot guided the sensations he wanted park goers to be able to experience. “We debuted the prototype at the world-famous Prater in Vienna. Since then, we have redesigned the system, eliminated the hydraulic base, updated the concept and made it friendly for theme parks to operate and maintain. We felt it was time that the concept could be shared with the industry at large,” he said. “This summer we constructed a full-scale ride in our factory and have had the opportunity to bring several industry veterans to experience it. Their insight has helped us tweak the ride system to offer the best experience possible.”
Tucked away in the town of Lienz, Austria, the team at Valtiner & Partner have been hard at work creating a theater system that is designed to meet the unique needs of the amusement industry. Herbert Gall, the company’s Project Manager, said, “Our goal has always been to create a system that meshed with the needs of amusement and theme parks. Buyers have been telling us that they need theaters that can fit in existing, underutilized buildings, that they want freedom when choosing a film content creator, and the theater had to offer a completely new experience. People in the amusement industry let us know that we need to offer customization while utilizing standard equipment, and we used all of this input when designing every component of the ride system. Now, this system, combined with the many special effects options we offer, are ready to show guests an new dimension of fun.”
The guest experience is where the E-Motionboard stands out from its peers. Instead of sitting in a seat riders stand in front of the Motion Grid, and that instantly engages and immerses them in the action. Valtiner said, “Riders are not just watching images on the screen, guests feel like they are flying. It is like nothing else the industry is currently offering and we are very proud of it.”
Elements of the E-Motionboard can be seen at the Ride Entertainment Group’s IAAPA Exhibition Booth, #5151. As Valtiner & Partner’s key sales group, everyone on the Ride Entertainment team is excited about the potential the product shows.