MYSTERY LODGE

Overview

Location: Knott’s Berry Farm theme park, Buena Park, California
Premiered: Spring 1994
Area: 200 seat special effects theater, preshow and exterior theming
Cost: $6 million

Challenge

Transport an audience into an authentic Long House of the Namgis people of Alert Bay, British Columbia, where they encounter a Native American elder who tells the compelling story of his life and family, and the simple truths that bind us to each other and to all life on earth.

Solution

Employing BRC Imagination Arts’ patented “Holovision” technology, the story unfolds as the storyteller magically appears and disappears while interacting with ethereal images rising from a fire of his wife and children, a precocious raven and salmon leaping from a stream. The audience is captivated by the illusion of the intimate interaction between the storyteller and these dream-like characters.