Triotech, an award-winning creator of media-based attractions, is focussing on the success of a high-tech simulator it previously delivered for a top heritage destination in France, coinciding with the 78th D-Day commemoration.
Over 750,000 visitors have experienced the company’s 4D dynamic flight simulator since it opened seven years ago at the D-Day Experience Museum in Normandy, France.
Guests are provided insight into what it may have been like for the soldiers of the 101st Airborne, as they fly over to Normandy in June 1944. Visitors board a genuine C-47 constructed in 1943, with the firm’s creative team having lodged the aircraft on a pneumatic cylinder platform, separating the wings from the fuselage so that it efficiently manoeuvres in three dimensions.
Immersive multisensory attraction
With the addition of custom media content and special effects, the attraction virtually recreates the turbulent flight over the English Channel and Normandy, delivering a completely immersive multisensory adventure that can be enjoyed by all ages.
Managing director of Triotech’s CL Corp Division, Christophe Lucchini says: “Over the years, we have developed a sterling reputation for the high quality of our customised attractions and our ability to create exciting ‘edutainment’ experiences for museums, tourist attractions, aquariums, and other location-based entertainment sites.
“This project, integrating a real aeroplane from WWII, was a complex technical challenge. We are proud of this edutainment experience that attracts visitors of all ages and makes them live history from a first-person point of view”
Exponential growth
Located in Saint-Come-du-Mont, The D-Day Experience covers more than 10,000 square metres, with Triotech reporting an exponential increase in museum interest since the installation of the Triotech CL Corp attraction. The site has been transformed from a local museum welcoming 21,000 visitors per year, to a top heritage site gaining 190,000 visitors in the same length of time.
The modern D-Day Experience comprises two museums, a 3D large screen cinema, a war memorial, retail stores and the aforementioned 4D immersive flight simulator. Triotech Division CL Corporation is located nearby in Rennes, home to the firm’s design, production, sales, installation, and maintenance teams.
“Changed our business”
D-Day Experience museum manager Emmanuel Allain outlines the importance of the museum’s 2015 investment:
“Meeting CL Corp was one of those moments that literally changed our business. Without them, we would never have added this exciting experience to our attractions, and we would not be where we are now.
“The immersive ride made all the difference in the world because we went from being a small local museum to a must-see attraction. And the attendance figures speak for themselves.”
Last month, Triotech announced its latest NINJAGO The Ride installation at Legoland Korea, as part of the largest Lego-branded park in Asia.
Photo: J.M. Caillard
