InPark Magazine Issue #84 Feature

SimEx-Iwerks FlyRide® theaters take off in Branson and the Wisconsin Dells

By Joe Kleiman

The motion simulator ride has been around for over a century. According to the late film historian Ray Zone, “Hale’s Tours” was the first on the market utilizing motion picture film; it premiered at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair before being franchised worldwide. The concept was simple – riders would board a railroad car positioned on a gimbal, at one end of which a short, point-of-view travelogue film would play. Combined with a rocking motion applied to the car and a wind machine, riders had the sensation they were actually riding the rails.

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