White-knuckling the falls is coming quickly.
A $25 million, flying theater experience is about to take Niagara Falls guests on a wild, sky-high thrill like no different.
Opening Aug. 29, the adrenaline-pumping attraction, Niagara Takes Flight, will catapult friends over greater than 34 miles of breathtaking Niagara surroundings — full with wind, mist, movement, and a view that'll take your breath away.
On the highest ground of Desk Rock Centre, perched proper on the sting of the long-lasting Horseshoe Falls, the experience is a component flight simulator, half historical past lesson and half full-body sensory overload.
Designed by Disney Imagineer Rick Rothschild — the person who created Disneyland's “Soarin' Over California” — and engineered by ride-industry juggernauts Brogent Applied sciences, Niagara Takes Flight provides an immersive expertise.
Company are buckled into gondola-style seats that elevate and droop them in midair, as a 23-foot domed display wraps round their view.
Drone-shot footage throughout all 4 seasons fills the display with swooping river views, lush forests, wine nation, and iconic landmarks and moments, together with a re-enactment of the battle of Previous Fort Erie in Ontario, Canada.
With wind blowing in your hair, mist sprinkling in your face, and custom-crafted scents tickling your nostril, riders get a multisensory onslaught.
Earlier than the flight, the present begins on the bottom with a four-room pre-show that packs in 13,000 years of Niagara historical past, from the area's formation over the last Ice Age to the Indigenous tales of Turtle Island.
Guests are surrounded by dynamic storytelling, projection-mapped artwork, and authentic Indigenous animations by Turtle Clan artist Sara Normal. Then, Niagara Falls' most well-known hometown child, “Avatar” and “Titanic” filmmaker James Cameron, takes over with narration within the “Waterfall Room,” bringing the trendy historical past of the area to life.
“It was a pleasure and honor to lend my voice to a challenge that celebrates the Falls and the town I grew up in,” Cameron stated. “My first job on the age of 16 was working for the Niagara Parks Fee, so this closed that loop, 55 years later.”
Whether or not you're coming to Niagara for the primary time or the fifteenth, the experience is certain to supply a brand new view.
“You're going to see it in a method that you simply've by no means seen it earlier than,” Chris Giles, director of communications and advertising and marketing at Niagara Parks, told The Globe and Mail. “You possibly can go stand subsequent to the falls or go to Journey Behind the Falls and search for at it, however on this expertise, you're going to fly immediately in the direction of it and soar alongside the crest of Horseshoe Falls. That's one thing you'll be able to solely do on this experience.”
The experience packs in 12 distinctive scenes, filmed over many months and stitched collectively to ship a cinematic journey that feels as if one is flying over the falls.
Tickets price $29 for adults and $19 for kids.
The challenge, funded totally by Niagara Parks' working income, is an enormous increase to the native tourism financial system — and the sort of world-class attraction that may remodel a vacationer cease right into a must-see vacation spot.
“If it's the very first thing that [tourists] do on their go to, all the things that they do after they'll admire on a deeper stage,” stated Giles.
“It's additionally a good way to see all the things else that Niagara Parks has to supply when you're right here.”
