I don't know about 9D, but I once saw Avengers: Age of Ultron in 4D in a theater in Seoul, South Korea. It was a 3D film with moving seats, smells, and air that would blast in your face.
During a car chase, you could smell burning rubber, or close-ups of women would have a whiff of perfume or flowers. During a shootout, you'd get fine blasts of air on either side of your face, like bullets barely missing your head. If someone took a hit, the seats would jolt violently. It also poked you in the back if someone was hit from behind. Not to mention, flying in any aircraft felt like you were on a rollercoaster; the seats would raise and lower and tilt in all directions. It was pretty intense. Like being on one of those Universal Studios rides at their theme park, except for an entire film.
Dude I wish those kinds of theatres were more common. Disney has (or had when I was there last anyway) Honey I Shrunk The Audience and A Bug's Life as 4D experiences, and those were awesome.
This is a PSA but there are a handful of theaters that do 4D called 4DX theaters and you might have one near you if you live in the US. Regal theaters specifically usually have them.
Went and saw Dune Pt2 in theaters and it was actually super fun. Shaking during the fight scenes, wind on your face when out on the dunes, lots of movement riding the sand worm, and water blasts and more.
They’re super fun, look them up and maybe travel to one sometime.
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I saw dune 2 in 4dx and I'm going to have to disagree... It was mostly just being mildly shaken, uncomfortably, for 10 seconds as you hope your food and drinks don't spill in a hard chair. Not to mention expensive, I'm probably never gonna see a 4dx again
It’s not for everyone but mildly shaken is not how I would describe it for me. They would be hard pressed to shake you or move you any faster without a seatbelt. The movie also doesn’t shake you for the entire time, but I’d say it’s on for a good 1/3rd of the movie. I was at my limit with it by the end for sure but that was fine. But maybe it varies from theater to theater.
You’re correct though, they usually are more expensive. I went on a discounted day, my ticket was $14, but they are usually $20 which is double normal rate.
So my advice is: If your movie is available in IMAX, go see it in the room adjacent. Or on a regular screen. Have your soda, popcorn, hotdog, whatever. Be comfortable. Then on another day, preferably discount night, come back to 4DX and don’t get a lot of food and drink. It will make you spill it.
4DX isn’t meant to be comfy and relaxing. It’s an intense experience and isn’t for everyone. It was my second time with the movie though and if you’re going in expecting to be on a rollercoaster the entire time, it’s super fun if you already know the movie. Also, pick your movie carefully. They only do a dozen 4DX movies a year. Horror would be amazing with it but the more action packed, the more shaking. So choose wisely. And if you have kids, this is a must at least one time. They’ll have so much fun.
When I was a kid in the mid-90s, I went to Universal Studios in Orlando and experienced T2-3D: Battle Across Time, their Terminator spinoff story. It was amazing! 3D visuals, spraying mist into the audience as machines are blown apart, and there was audience interaction too, where the story would "leap off the screen" and actors would duke it out in front of us. I always wanted to go back and experience that again, but I guess they finally closed down that ride about a decade ago.
To each their own—I hated a Bugs Life 4D as a kid. Get stung by bees for fun? No thank you!
Unfortunately, Honey I shrunk the kids is no more and I heard that they are getting rid of A Bugs Life (although that might just be a retheme)retirement.
The Star Tours ride moves around while you're in it and the Avatar ride moves and puffs smells while you fly on the back of the flying dragon animals, but I think that's the closest experience to 4D now.
My dad and brother are going in a couple months but I gotta know: has Star Tours changed at all? I constantly hear rumors that it has more tours you can take, but I've heard that since I was 12 it's always just been the same thing, despite all the posters in the line for other things lol
Yes, Star Tours has changed. A friend rode it back to back like 6 times and only repeated a couple scenes. The ride has multiple scenes to choose from the prequels, OT, and sequels and it's all randomized.
Read up on Genie Plus, they now have a system where you can get a virtual queue starting at 7 AM on the app that will give you a time window to join a ride (kinda like Fast Pass). Then you have to wait a certain amount of time to join another virtual queue. Some rides, like Tron and Guardians of the Galaxy, are virtual queue only. There is also Lighning Lane, that costs around $16 and let's you basically skip the line.
I think there's even a way to link everyone's accounts together so that you can select the virtual queue or lightning lane for everyone. You definitely can link accounts, so that all your pictures are pushed to everyone's account. If a picture doesn't show up from a ride, you can tell them the date, time, and a description of people in the group and they can normally find you and send the pictures into your Disney experience app I hope y'all have a great trip!
Disney's California Adventure has one that was recommended to us where you fly over parts of California, but it was unimpressive. Also, it apparently was highly dependent upon where they seated you because we were getting perfumes blown right in our faces rather than getting vague wafts of smells like were obviously intended.
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That sounds awful to experience as a customers, but also sounds like an awesome challenge to pull out convincingly for whoever created it.
There were Dippin' Dots vending machines in the mall... Like 4 of them. Do people really like Dippin' Dots that much?
I mean, it is "the ice cream of the future". From some 30-odd years ago. May want to check the expiration date on that.
They're basically ice cream styrofoam. They probably last forever. And putting them in vending machines actually makes more sense than having a person handing out specific-size cups of the same 4 flavors in a mall kiosk.
That said, in the attached convention center, they had a Dippin' Dots kiosk with a person handing out specific-size cups of the same 4 flavors. 🤷
I once went to the booth operator of the nearby "4D" theatre, and asked what the fourth dimension was.
Near as we could figure. It was water. The theatre sprayed you with water (probably a mist or something) as the "4th dimension".
I did not buy a ticket to the show.
Ive been in a couple of these and usually 4d means 3d movie with a combination of added physical effects in the room, common are
- spray mist
- blow wind
- moving/shaking chairs
Most fancy ive seen was the roof fake collapsing
As a novelty attraction in an amusement there quite fun but i cant see it worth much of a premium over already overpriced movie tickets.
Well you've got hight, width, depth of course. As for the other six, you've got: time, parallel, perpendicular, alternate, Disney, and fnord.
You make a good point, all movies are three dimensions (height, width, time), while some have the illusion of a fourth (depth).
All movies are 3D.
Are you... sure you want to know?
Like at some point, after your standard 5 (vision, sound, touch, taste, & smell), those dimensions gotta start wrapping back around to where they started. And at that point they must have to go THROUGH your tissues to do it.
I am saying that one of them surely is an electrified butt-plug. So that's six, and after that... that's where shit REALLY starts to get freaky!
I'm not sure you know what dimensions are... but then neither did whoever made this mall attraction.
Also, come on, you show Pinhead but it isn't Doug Bradley?
Let's not even go into whoever they dropped in after he left the tattered franchise. Oddly enough, the Hulu reboot/continuation(?) wasn't that bad. Further note, it's weirdly connected to an upcoming tenforward post I'm slapping together.
If you want another connection between Hellraiser and Star Trek, Doug Bradley's name was on the tip of my tongue and it just wasn't coming to me, so I looked up Pinhead on Wikipedia.
Pinhead was voiced by Fred Tatasciore- Lower Decks' own Shaxs- in 2011's Hellraiser: Revelations. He only did the voice, but there's a link for you.
Yup, saw that one earlier when i discovered there were a couple more entries to the franchise prior to the Hulu one. New line needs to drop their attachment almost as bad as Sony to Spider-Man. Almost.
These marketing gimmicks are fairly uh... "broadly inclusive" in their definitions of terms (whatever makes them the most money).
But you are right, that choice was unforgivable. My image seems to have caused you... pain?
Thus, mission failed spectacularly! :-)
Believe it or not, in certain contexts, this is an appropriate use of dimension. Dimensions can be thought of as parameters, essentially. In 3d space, you have 3 parameters, length, width, and height. Add in time and you have 4d spacetime. From there, if you're defining a system with more parameters, it's a higher dimensional space. A movie with 3 spatial dimensions, then programmed smell releases, like someone else mentioned, would then be 4 dimensions: l,w,h,s. The reality is, it's a bit silly and definitely a marketing gimmick to refer to your movie experience as "9d", but it's not entirely incorrect.
This could be an SCP or something lol, like you go in and are subjected to 6 additional dimensions of reality and go insane
Watching 9D Aliens and you get absolutely burnt to a crisp when Ripley fires the flamethrower. Turns out the final D is Death.
Shnee? I could hoovers some shnee. I’m surpriseds I’m not hooverings some shnee rights now’s.
Not fun. Way too many people. Probably double from last year, which was too many. And the vendor floor was ridiculously huge. Also, celebrities now charge like $60 for an autograph. Back when I regularly went to cons, it was free. I didn't even walk by their booths. Why even bother? I mean it would have been cool to walk up to Felicia Day and say I'm a big MST3K fan and loved her playing Kinga Forrester, but I'm not going to do it for $60.
They had other stupidly expensive things too. Like they had a DeLorean done like the one from Back to the Future. If you wanted to take a phone picture with it- as in stand in front of it and have a picture of you taken with a phone- it cost $10.
I only went because my daughter wanted to see all the cosplayers and had a cosplay costume to wear herself and even she found it way too exhausting. We didn't even stay for the cosplay contest, which she was initially looking forward to.
Pop Con is next month in the same location. I don't think we'll be going.
Aside from the less unpleasant but still unpleasant experience at the same con last year, it's been a good 15 years now since I've been to one, but I've done a lot of cons in my life. I've been a guest and a vendor and a performer and a guest at various times (no, I'm not famous, it's more complicated than that). I've been to DragonCon. I've been to NASFiC, the official U.S. national convention. This was just not fun. And if this is what cons are like now, forget it. Honestly, the only part I really enjoyed was, because I know nothing about anime and not a gamer, asking my exasperated daughter what half the cosplayers were.
3 of space, and 6 of time. You're only missing 2 dimensions of time from 11D. Personally, I think the decision to not include the last 2 time dimensions is a bit too avant garde for my tastes.
It's not a movie theater. There are these little tiny pods you sit in with VR goggles. Goggles god knows how many other people have worn that day.
Dimensions don’t have to be spatial or temporal. They can just be parameter spaces. So, how much water sprayed on you during the ride is a parameter with a value and hence a dimension.
But yeah, this marketing phrase is only going to impress someone with the education of a six year old child.