Children's Family Rides
Lagotronics: appeal for the whole family
Interactivity is a key ingredient alongside reliability and low maintenance requirements, says Lagotronics
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any Theme Parks and FECs have a strong focus on families and providing a fun and relaxing day out for the entire family, so that needs a good and balanced mix between thrill rides and family
rides. Especially for family attractions and kiddy rides, we see a strong desire to experience it all together. This means it’s important to keep an eye on certain things during the design phase – does the attraction provide fun to all ages, are there limitations that exclude people from the attraction, can the entire family sit together in the vehicle or gondola? Next to experiencing the fun together, interactivity is a major trend when
it comes to offerings for families and children. Younger generations are particularly used to interactivity in their daily lives and they also expect this when visiting theme parks and other leisure activities. Especially when the thrill-factor is not there, interactivity is extremely important. So the integration of interactive systems, multi-media and gaming elements can be seen as a big trend for the family rides sector. There is one other important aspect to make family rides and kiddy rides
appealing to a wide audience; storytelling and theming. This day out with the whole family should take people away from their daily responsibilities and everyday routines. Storytelling and theming are a perfect way of achieving this. This story and attraction design can be completely customized to the customer’s requirements. On the other hand strong and well-known IP’s are a good alternative as well, since people are already familiar with the story and characters and perhaps identify themselves quicker with the story. Family rides require a high level of theming and storytelling and even for
smaller kiddy rides, operators want to provide something unique. Although the attraction system can be the same as the one of their closest competitors, by creating a unique storyline and translating this into a well themed attraction they can diversify themselves and at the same time immerse their guests.
TRENDS Lagotronics Projects is constantly developing customized interactive and audiovisual solutions for its customers. We help our customers make the right choices from the design stage of the project until completion. When it comes to integrating technology and media in family rides it’s important to choose
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the right type of system. There are so many options for adding interactivity to different kind of attractions, so we like to be involved early in the project to advise our customers on the best options for them to create this interactivity. For this reason we don’t focus on one type of system, we use and develop
systems with trigger devices (shooting systems), touchscreen based systems, we use gesture control systems, VR and AR systems, but sometimes a simple system with push buttons or levers are the right way to go. A big advantage of our interactive systems is that we can create teamplay,
meaning guests are experiencing the attraction together in a team, and competition between individuals as well as teams. This makes the gameplay much more fun and challenging and brings guests back for repeat visits. The Smurfs GameChanger Dark Ride at Shimao Dream City is a perfect
example of family attraction that has it all. People enjoy this attraction by a rotating platform which is divided in multiple sections with each section having 4 seats in 1 row. We used a strong and well-known IP (known by all ages), we integrated a media-based interactive system for immersive gameplay on large projection screens, the attraction is well themed according to the Smurfs IP and there is a scoring system which generates competition. Another project that is currently under construction but is perfect example
of adding interactivity and technology to family rides, is Pradera Islands. Next to a media based and highly themed dark ride, we provide interactive systems and show equipment on three rides. There are two Interactive Towers that will have magic wands to interact with scenery and there will be one convoy ride that will have interactive cameras to take pictures of themed objects which as a result will trigger special effects like movements, sounds and lighting.
UNIQUE We believe we stand out because of the wide variety of technologies we are able to develop and integrate. And the high quality level, not only limited to the quality of the materials we use which are industrial grade, but also regarding the fact that we strive to provide very reliable and low maintenance systems and want to deliver ‘real interactivity’. With our systems, guests experience real interactivity, which means real time and proper feedback to their actions, plus a decent scoring system.
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