The Human Pinball is an upscale water ride that has been designed to simulate the famous pinball machine enjoyed in every arcade. The 200-foot long, 75-foot wide ride uses a sloped fiberglass surface and a gentle glaze of water keeping it slick. Entire families of 5 can gather into a single giant tube to share their interactive adventure. The more groups that are on the ride at one time, the more bumping, colliding and exciting their journey becomes. The adventurers will giggle and laugh as they bounce and spin off of bumpers and flipper paddles that actually sweep gently and knock the participants in an altered direction. “Binnnngggg, baaannngg, bonnnnggggg….. whappppp, whappppp….   buzzzzzz, ptuuuiiii.” The exciting sounds of the pinball machine pump up the fun. The incredibly visual lights effects, fog, bubble and foam machines get hearts beating faster. Participants get to experience what the real silver ball feels like. Like those popular movies where people are shrunk down and suddenly find themselves eerily lost in a bizarre world of oversized machinery. Blasts of water burst up next to passing tubes. Various water effects can spray down from above and from the sides to enhance the play value. If they’re lucky, they get knocked or bumped into the bonus play chute. They will disappear down under the playing surface, zip along a short flume adventure, and squirt out onto a conveyor that will transport them back up to the top for a free play. “Wew-wew-wew” loud cop sirens wail indicating another winner as they enter the chute.

The fun goes far beyond the random journey that each family will enjoy on the ride. Spectators gathering along the sides and at the base of the Human Pinball Ride can try their hand at activating the variety of interactive control features. Guests can press giant buttons, which activate the many giant air-cushioned flipper paddles to divert their friends who are headed down the slide, “thwack-thwack”. They can take command of any of the awesome water blasters that can hone in on a group of pinballers. They can yank on a tall lever arm that would trigger a blast of fog accompanied with a “bing-bing-bong”. Tippy buckets, shower sprayer and loose thrashing hoses fling water in every direction. “Splat…squirt…splatooie” sounds blare. Lights flash and spin. There is so much chaotic fun in and around the Pinball.

Key design Features:

Capacity:

Incredibly, the Pinball can put through 1200 people per hour on the playing field, and that’s just the beginning! Add to that the 1500 guests per hour that operate all of the interactive control features and the number grows enormously to 2700 people per hour! How many rides can boast about that kind of capacity? Those figures haven’t even included the number of spectators. With plenty of deck space and overpass viewing area, this ride is as fun to watch, as it is to play, as it is to ride.

SmartWorks Technology

Capitalizing on the industry’s most versatile and powerful technology, interactive smart controls provide a cost-effective solution, which brings so much excitement into one product. In the 21^st century, computers will control the world because of their swift processing capabilities. SmartWorks harnesses the power of computers to process participant activities and turn them into desired responses in nanoseconds. Today’s computers are so versatile that an impressive number of exciting effects can be easily triggered.

Interactive Features:

Using the SmartWorks, guests don’t see or feel the presence of the computer that is located in a remote utility room. All they understand is the immediate response between their action and the ride’s reaction. Interactivity is all about participants performing some comfortable act and getting rewarded with an exciting response. Key to the success of an interactive ride or attraction is immediacy. If there is a time gap, or a physical disconnect between participant and ride, the guests feel separated from the features, which quickly destroys the pleasure of interactive fun. SmartWorks Technology is the tool that allows our imaginations to get carried away when developing exciting interactive features. It brings fun to a new level by closing the gap between participant and attraction as well as tickling all of the human senses.

Ride and Free-Play Attraction all in one:

There are two basic properties of entertainment in water parks, amusement parks and FECs. There are rides, which have a start, a finish and a specific length of time between them. Then there are free-play attractions that have neither a start, finish or specific length of time afforded to the guest. Instead, the guests can enter an attraction and stay as long as he or she wishes, and can wander around at their own discretion and stop and play wherever they feel like. For the very first time, the Human Pinball Water Ride blends the benefits of both properties into one product. The participants on the ride will enjoy the excitement of a random adventure of being bounced around, sprayed, bumped and jostled, while the spectators along the perimeter of the playing surface will enjoy the freedom of jumping from one interesting interactive gadget to another.

Fun For All Age Groups:

No matter what age you are, there is something for everyone. For those who seek adventure, the ride that is different every time will give them their fix for sure. For those who don’t want to be bounced around and sprayed with water, perhaps like grandma and grandpa, they can enjoy a plethora of opportunities to control interactive elements that bond with their family and friends on the ride.

Group Vehicles:

Most rides are fun, after all that’s what they are designed for. When the guests can share the fun with a friend or family member while the fun is happening, well that dramatically enhances the experience. The Pinball accommodates up to 5 people in a single vehicle. Mom, Dad and their three children can share their experience together while Mom and Dad feel secure that they are close to their children.

Highly Themable:

One of the features that make arcade pinball machines exciting is the theme or the decorations. If you look back through history, it seems that everyone who was making news in the public eye, had his or her own pinball machine. Evil Knievel, Elvira, Elvis, and Kiss. There were pool table themes, magic act themes, Terminator, Las Vegas and just about every cartoon ever created prominently displayed on their own machine. It was a marketing tool as well as an exciting toy. The Human Pinball Water Ride capitalizes on these principals as well. With our world-class theming capabilities, we can blend your park’s theme into this incredible interactive adventure that will be sure to excite guests when they arrive at your park. Just think about the marketing possibilities and your new brochure. It is a self-marketing machine.

Very Energetic and Exciting:

Amusement parks and water parks are all about excitement and energy. Guests don’t come to the park to take naps. They come to get a dose of adrenaline and a smile on their faces. High energy, lots of visual effects, chaotic action, heart-pumping sound effects and masses of people provide that level of excitement that will adrenalize your park.

Wet, Dry or Moist:

The Pinball can be custom-designed to accommodate the level of wetness that is desired. Lots of water can be sprayed, squirted, shot, dumped and blasted on a really wet pinball. We can tone down the wetness with less water gags and more bells, whistles, bumpers, lights and air jet gags, but leave the guests with a damp shirt to remind them of their fun adventure. If no water is desired, the vehicles can ride on casters (small wheels), and we can use dry interactive gags.

New, Yet Old:

The world has never known a ride or attraction to the magnitude of the Human Pinball Water Ride. It is an entirely new and exciting form of fun that mixes ride and free-play. It reckons the ever-popular pinball machine and builds on that established fun. It is enormously visually attractive with cool graphics, action, lights and sounds. Everyone loves to see and try the newest form of fun. Park owners have always capitalized on the marketing power of the world’s newest form of entertainment. What is intriguing is that the SmartWorks Technology has been a proven tool for water parks and amusement parks in the 21^st century. This is the hub for which all the fun is created. We have quietly developed and installed a number of smart products in several popular parks in the past 4 years, and we have witnessed their outstanding success. Hence, the Pinball involves very little uncharted territory thanks to this new technology, yet the ride looks and feels completely different thanks to the newest interactive gadgetry and world-class theming.