Photos by InPark’s Judith Rubin and Martin Palicki (camping out at booth 1949)
Animated Joker figure by Sally Corporation for Six Flags Justice League 4D Interactive Dark Ride
Animated Joker and Cyborg from Sally for Six Flags Justice League Dark Ride
Newly on board principal in charge Jean-François de Lamotte will cultivate international markets for Visual Terrain
George Walker is now creative director, project development at Farah Leisure
Stuart Hetherington of Holovis
Darrias Baker at TEA Party
IPM’s Marty Palicki (attached to Oculus headset) with Markus Beyr of Attraktion! at the Intamin booth
EVO-6 ride vehicle from Oceaneering to premier on Six Flags Justice League rides
Steve Birket and Christine Kerr announce the 2015 Thea Award recipients
Christian Martin, Vice President of Marketing for Triotech discussing Knott’s 2015 interactive shooter dark ride “Voyage to the Iron Reef”
Triotech founder Ernest Yale discusses Knott’s 2015 interactive shooter dark ride “Voyage to the Iron Reef”
Rob Decker, Corporate VP, Planning and Design for Cedar Fair discusses Knott’s 2015 interactive shooter dark ride “Voyage to the Iron Reef”
Stephan Villet with “Isaac” at the Smart Monkeys booth
Ira West and Nick Winslow camping out at the InPark booth
Goedele Gillis and Melanie Siberdt of nWave. New releases include Knight’s Quest 4D, House of Magic 4D, Haunted Mansion 4D, Glacier Race 4D, Great Apes 4D. 20 minute version of Great Apes is doing well in zoos and aquariums.
Chris McMullen, Abby Roy, Vicky Hrdy of National Fiber Technology
InPark’s Judith Rubin tries a new hairstyle
accesso booth
Honolulu Hot Dog. Best exhibit honor in Brass Ring Awards. Roger Strohecker holds the award. New company, owned by Ashland Technologies, which is a builder of coasters and rides.. First kiosk has just soft opened at Fun Spot Kissimmee. Company owner Bill Wydra couldn’t be here because he and wife Angela just had their fourth child, daughter Finley, on Tuesday.
Honolulu Hot Dog
Tim Witcoskie. Usually a machinist at Ashland Technologies, today he and colleagues are at the kiosk.
Hunter Olson, Senior Design Engineer with Alcorn McBride talked to us about several products having their worldwide debut at the show.
At Alcorn: Amptraxx 16 channel amp with DSP. Designed for on board audio. Partnered with Oceaneering to build for the new Justice League ride with Sally. Digital Video Machine also new with built in amp and DSP, good for kiosk displays. New AV Binloop plays 8 channels of uncompressed video. Handle 4K, 2K, 1080p, ships early 2015. WinScript Live new upgrade of Alcorn control software has more intuitive interface. In general the company is doubling down on theme park markets with leadership of Steve Alcorn, Him Karstarsen, Loren Barrows.
Theme parks guru at About.com, Arthur Levine
Arthur Levine is joined by the smoothest voice in themed attraction podcasting, Mr. Douglas Cornelius Barnes of the Season Pass Podcast
ECA2 visits the InPark booth/campground
Chris Yoshii and Beth Chang of AECOM with children
Thorburn Associates President Lisa Thorburn visits the IPM booth
Ladies from Costume Creations at the National Fiber Technologies booth
Kendra Minadeo, Project Coordinator at the Bezark Company with IPM’s Judy Rubin
Brian Yessian and Yas Takata visit the InPark Campground
Blur Studios visits the InPark campground
Pamela Manlulu of Electrosonic tries her hand at marshmallows at the InPark booth
Fifteen years after working together at Iwerks, Jon Corfino and Donna Davidson reunite on the trade show floor
Themed Entertainment Association COO Jennie Nevin with Jan Maarten de Raad of JoraVision
A themed design charette suddenly erupts on the trade show floor
Nick Farmer and Bob Ward
Linda and David Smith
Vytautas Krasnickas of Uno Parks, JSC
InPark’s Martin Palicki plays King Kong to NextGen prodigy Colt Sammons at Hettema Group’s party celebrating the High Roller observations wheel in Las Vegas
Mark Dvorchak of Pro Forma Advisors and George Wade of Bay Laurel Advisors
InPark’s Martin Palicki chats with Andy Grant and Samuel Nusbaum of Grant Leisure
Andy Grant and Samuel Nusbaum of Grant Leisure
M. Lamotte from Visual Terrain with Michel Linet-Frion
Hettema party: Aram Ebben of exp
Jon Corfino & Thierry Coup of Universal, at the Hettema party
InPark’s Martin Palicki with Marissa Blake
John Kasperowicz of XPA Experiential Architecture
David Price and Lisa Thorburn
MediaMation
Hettema Group party
Phil Hettema
Phil Hettema and Stan Walker
InPark’s Judith Rubin and David Price
Hettema Group party
InPark’s Judith Rubin gets enchanted by Austin Powers (www.austinpowerslookalike.com)
Austin Powers
Polin staff at their booth
InPark’s Judith Rubin tries out a unique slide design from Polin
Raised in San Diego on theme parks, zoos, and IMAX films, InPark's Senior Correspondent Joe Kleiman would expand his childhood loves into two decades as a projectionist and theater director within the giant screen industry. In addition to his work in commercial and museum operations, Joe has volunteered his time to animal husbandry at leading facilities in California and Texas and has played a leading management role for a number of performing arts companies.
Joe previously served as News Editor and has remained a contributing author to InPark Magazine since 2011. HIs writing has also appeared in Sound & Communications, LF Examiner, Jim Hill Media, The Planetarian, Behind the Thrills, and MiceChat His blog, "Themes, Schemes and Dreams", takes an unconventional look at the attractions industry. Follow on Instagram at @JalekAvant
Joe lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, dog, and a ghost.
