A tornado is about to ravage Poitiers.
Your mission, if you accept it, is to board the pick-up truck of a scientist and a tornado hunter to prevent disaster with the help of a super-powered probe.
Be careful, it may shake!
Futuroscope is opening this Saturday, July 2, a new attraction dedicated to a phenomenon as fascinating as it is unpredictable: tornadoes.
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In this new immersive experience combining synthetic images, real sets and actors, visitors are harnessed to a dynamic 120-seat platform in the center of a cylindrical screen.
The latter, the largest LED screen of this type in the world with 17 meters in diameter and 8 high, or 420 m², is made up of slabs that retract to reveal living scenes where real and virtual come together.
The spectators, surrounded by the screen, are installed in armchairs positioned on a rotating platform 11 meters in diameter, capable of moving on three axes with an amplitude of one meter.
The platform raises, lowers, tilts while rotating at 30 km/h, or a complete revolution in 7 seconds.
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21 million euros of investment
Before arriving on site, visitors stroll through several scenographic spaces recreating a study center dedicated to tornadoes: a tornado simulator, a workshop, the garage where the pick-up is stored or the tornado monitoring headquarters.
Budding tornado hunters then head into a holographic theater room with a vibrating floor, where the TromBX, a (fictional) device for neutralizing the meteorological phenomenon, is presented.
First projected on a screen, the images advance towards the spectators thanks to LEDs located on the ground diffusing images on a transparent film.
This attraction represented an investment of 21 million euros, the largest in the park to date.
The teams worked with five companies specializing in the creation of immersive films and the live images mobilized more than forty people in a studio in Aubervilliers.
Futuroscope, avenue René Monory, 86360 Chasseneuil-du-Poitou.
The park is open from 10 a.m. until nightfall (closing time varies depending on the night show).
Adult: €38.
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: 05 49 49 30 80.