Wednesday, October 16, 2024
We have designed and manufactured Ride, Show and Animated figure control systems for major attractions in some of the largest theme parks in the world. Our control systems use cutting edge technology to provide safe, reliable solutions to the highest of standards.
Universal Studios – LA – “Jurassic World - Revamp, Animatronic Dinosaur Control Systems” – Value $2.5 Million
This project involved designing a new control system, both hardware and software for 9 multi axis, state of the art animated dinosaur figures that were being used for the Jurassic Park Ride Revamp which had been at the park for a number of years. The revamp was based on the newest films, where they introduced “Blue” the Raptor and also “Indominus Rex”. Again this project took roughly 2 years to realize and meant almost 9 months in LA. For this we had to work closely with Universal’s animation team and again I believe our solution was ground breaking as we devised various methods to allow the animators to animate the figures real time and edit the profiles on the Fly, also the figures movements were high fidelity and realistic. You can see this ride on You Tube. (main Control equipment. Beckhoff IPC’s and distributed I/O, Wiegl animation playback units, TwinCAT 3 software development environment).