Voletarium is a flying theater attraction that takes riders on a fanciful tour above Europe. Accompanied by symphony orchestra soundtrack and filmed with Red Weapon cameras at multiple locations across the continent, the Holger Tappe film takes visitors on an adventure engineered by characters Eckbert and Kaspar Eulenstein, who wished to fly across Europe one day.
Locations include Venice, the Aletsch Glacier, Norwegian fjords, European Parliament in Strasbourg, and — of interest to stateside Disney theme park fans — Neuschwanstein Castle and the Matterhorn.
Ten of the 15 scenes are filmed, while five include animated imagery. FWIW, I think it's refreshing that MackMedia acknowledged that it used animation in the production of Voletarium. I think a lot of visitors who see these types of films — notably Disney's new version of Soarin' — are curious about which scenes are "real" and which are CGI. For Voletarium, the animated scenes are the Eiffel Tower, Neuschwanstein (both of which appear in the new Soarin', too), Scho¨nbrunn Palace in Austria, Dutch tulip fields, and Spain's La Mancha. The rest of the film is the real deal.
Europa Park said that the attraction can accommodate 1,400 guests per hour across its two theaters. The park is selling timed-return ride reservation tickets to the show, as an alternative to the standby queue included with park admission.
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Six Flags could have their own, maybe with a CGI DC theme. But they already have VR on their coasters, so a flying theater may be a letdown, except for people who can't ride coasters.
I know what would be a great concept, have the theater in a complete sphere, with the seat arrangement hanging from the ceiling like a pendulum, which would swing and turn and rotate within that sphere and the movie would be projected on the whole inner side of the sphere. Disney could do this with Spaceship Earth, although you would probably have to have multiple theaters.
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