That's How It Happened

Every ride at Futuroscope is some variety of sub-Star Tours "3D" cinema experience, except for Danse avec les Robots. In a giant hangar, six enormous industrial robot arms, each have a pair of rollercoaster seats attached to the end. In time to music, choreographed by Kamel Ouali, (France's answer to Bruno Tonioli), they flip and spin you in ways a normal rollercoaster never could. I rode it last year, but had somehow forgotten what a great experience it was, until I saw this video of a robot arm pouring a bottle of Japanese stout. The combination of intense power with extreme precision was what reminded me of it.

Unless you are a fan of lame simulators, son et lumiere, and general dilapidation, Futuroscope still isn't strictly worth a visit. Definitely save your Euros for Parc Asterix.

Labels: beer, dance, robot