MEDIA
RIDES
the world’s first inverting looping playground slide
The following account is recreated from interviews with those who were there, and then dramatised for the internet. All video footage contained below is...
VR Playground for your audience
Can you remember swinging in the playground as a child: enjoying sensations of speed and weightlessness as you swooped high and low; laughing with...
REPORTS
Engineering Fun: The Story of Orton & Spooner
I've been invited to guest curate the physics and engineering section of this new exhibition by the National Fairground and Circus Archive (NFCA) A...
Thrill Engineer Brendan Walker on the Science of Sensation
'According to Thrill Engineer Brendan Walker, the most thrilling moment of any theme park experience is just before it begins.
'That brief interlude between being...
jump-o-meter
Thrill Laboratory is renowned for creating some of the UK's leading precision bespoke scientific instrumentation. Our Jump-O-Meter is no exception - using 6 degree-of-motion...
EXPERIMENTS
Fairground: Thrill Laboratory
Brendan Walker curates Fairground: Thrill Laboratory at the Dana Centre, featuring a heady mix of three classic British fairground rides - the Miami Trip,...
HANDBOOK
