We visited Moody Gardens on Day 1. And man! What a disappointment it was. People, DO NOT and I repeat, DO NOT visit Moody Gardens on Galveston Island. Unless of course, if you are totally jobless with deep pockets and bored of the beach then this is only way. Or if you want to watch a good IMAX movie.
Why am I so disappointed by it? Well to start with, when I looked at the website for the list of attractions, I saw a picture of the location with couple of glassy pyramids in the background. Upon reading the details, I found out that those pyramids were actually an aquarium and a rain forest. So the picture I had in my mind was a spiral tunnel going all the way to the top of the pyramid, which unfortunately was _wrong_. And after visiting them I was so pissed that I actually brainstormed for a few hours to come up with a such a design.
It was the same old aquarium and the same old humid climate. Maybe I expected too much out of it. And then came the shows. A 4D theatre seems to be the norm here. What good is it anyway, if the movie is so full of crap? Some movie about the underwater life was shown with really stupid effects like poking from the inside of the back of my chair for a snakebite, vibrating chair for a jellyfish (I really do not know how they connect) and spraying water on the face for a splash effect. Then we went for a "180 degree FoV Ride Film" (FoV = Field of View, Quakers know better!). It was as pathetic as the 4D movie. No wait, it was more pathetic because I was expecting some fast paced motion sickness inducing action and got a PIXAR movie gone haywire.
Then it was time to visit "Discovery Pyramid" where artifacts retrieved from the Titanic were put on exhibit. Sad stories to read but good background music.
But the day ended well with "Grand Canyon Adventure", a 3D IMAX movie. This is probably the best thing in Moody Gardens. Very good experience because you see, it is very unlikely that I will get to see the Grand Canyon first hand.
Some good pictures taken by _the_ photographer, yours truly, coming next.
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4 comments:
Do they really spray water on your face for a splash effect !? I heard there's a plan to build something like that in Hyderabad. ROFL. And dude, imagine playing quake on such a good screen with 180 deg. FoV ;)
Yeah, they really do - nozzles embedded in the back of the chair in front of you and in your own chair's headrest as well.
really stupid, isnt it? this poking n spraying n all .. how much did it cost?
$50 mate!
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