NEB's Fun World is all about fun. It's to be a wonderful and magical place where guests are instantly shrunk to the size of faeries. We do this by building everything to five times normal scale. The king of the faeries is NEB who also will happen to be the mascot for the park. Today I got to design him.
The special magic of light
As we design and build our theme park projects one of the things we keep in mind is how we will light each element at night. While our budgets are not what the big boys get to play with we can still create beautiful effects that are well suited to our theme. The key is to plan ahead and place the lights carefully. I favour the warm tones to create night scenes that are inviting to our guests.
Last evening as I enjoyed Cultus Lake Adventure Park with Phoebe and two of her friends I snapped a few pictures of the park as darkness fell. While the park is beautiful in the bright sunshine a whole new level of excitement and magic is apparent at night. I love the special mood that we can create with light.
Fifty-two lanes of magic!
As we wrap up the Viking ships for Dubai Peter and I are turning our attention to the next project. It will be the world's first fully themed bowling alley at NEB's Fun World in Oshawa, Ontario. And true to our style it is going to be a very large project involving fifty-two lanes and well over four hundred lineal feet of theme work. It is going to really change the room!
The bowling alley is already a technical wonder as the owners invented and implemented a system where each lane can be switched to either have five or ten pin bowling. They already have a digital scoring system plus many other cool features.
I posted some early concept art a while back, but an onsite visit and accurate measurements meant a tweaking of the final design. There will be some cool digital lighting effects for fun night bowling and we are also bringing the theme work through the ceiling right up to the foul line for even greater effect. The design was a collaboration between Peter and I with input from the owners to make it all work as it should.
This is going to be fun!
