Yeah I don’t think the alternative is placing and striking 500 chairs, it’s the decision between being able to strike the chairs or not. So, expensive as hell to have the option. In my theatre, we have modular seating on our pit lifts, about 200 chairs per lift. Four air caster seat wagons and two wheeled seat wagons that store at pit/ basement level. Takes 4 or 5 hands about half an hour to strike or 45 min to set.
@@GettinSadda what about the 20 years of continued maintenance cost on the hardware required to make the change? Regardless, it's still amazing engineering.
Ever have one of those clicks that you almost didn't make but so glad you did? I hope the switch to this function is under guard with lock and key while those seats are filled.
For all the people that think this is some insane complicated dangerous and expensive system. It’s actually incredibly simple piece of engineering that’s been used for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s simply a motor underneath which turns a driveshaft, which then turns two vertical screws, the vertical screws, then raise and lower the platform. As far as safety, it’s in nearly impossible for to fall down it would have to shred the threads off the 24” wide screws. Or the steel frame would have to rip apart which are both virtually impossible with proper engineering. As far as dangerous for squashing people and digital electronic motor can measure the resistance, and if there’s any sort of sign of even the smallest amount of interference, it can be programmed to immediately stop. And as far as pricing, it’s not that expensive it’s basically just a wooden platform with a steel frame underneath of it two large steel screws, a motor and some driveshafts. When you add to the fact that you can make the floor, reach the mezzanine and turn it into a movie theater for extra revenue, then you can make the floor flat. And remove the seats for extra revenue in performance arts and exhibition space, and then add to the fact that there’s actually other systems that will raise the mezzanine out of the way, and any side seating and lower the stage and turn the entire place in to one flat open space for expositions the money you spend on the system you’ll make 20 times in revenue with the versatility of the space.
@@davepowell7168 measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.
It would be cool if the system could be designed one step further, to give the audience a rock-and-rolling experience in their seats!! Remember Universal's Shrek 4D??
Question. how come they are all at different heights until then end point. What would be the reason they are not going to their assigned position as soon as they are unfolded?
yeah, what happens is the human beings operating it have a quick looksy while they are doing it. they also have a clear schedule of when its going to happen and they will shout "clear the space". if youre stupid enough to break into a theatre while its closed then its your own fault if you fall. also unless youre sat on the chairs as it goes back youve got allot of time to run off it. the only real danger is if youre sat on the chairs cus the floor just rises up and down. and possibly being underneth the thing but again they are all aware and trained on how to use it safely
I wonder if there is something fail-safe to make sure the hydraulic pistons stay put while the guests are there. Is there some additional mechanical locking going on? Or can it be made reliable enough as it is? I doubt one row moving down (even slowly) with guests would end well.
@@maxmustermann5932 well, first of all, you would never use hydraulics with something like this, hydraulics drift, and fade. There’s other videos that show it, and it’s a mechanical system with vertical screws, driveshafts and motors, which are very failsafe. If there’s a power outage, it just stays where it’s put.
It’s actually an incredibly simple system with one motor, one driveshaft and two screws that turn up and down. It’s a type of motion system that’s been in used for over four or 500 years it’s just been adopted with motors over the last 200 years. And because it’s solid steel screws that it rides on, it’s virtually impossible for anything to go wrong. Hence, the fact that it’s been approved for use. You do realize there are regulations and standards and engineering that are involved with this and it’s not just some people slapping something together?
why is it going back to front and not fron to back.... I would've thought front to back makes more sense as it wouldn't need to lift the sections that high in order to reach above the row if seats behind.... It would just need high enough for the seats not to touch the floor...
it probably does it in reverse backwards and it needs to be high enough for the people on the keys and pressing the button can see if something snaps off so they can stop
I find it entertaining when some Internet genius thinks he knows a better way to do it than a company who has built hundreds of these systems and spent millions of dollars in research and development and trial testing with hundreds of incredibly trained engineers.
@@Eric_In_SF bro, go ahead and continue to be this rude to people who ASK QUESTIONS TO LEARN SOMETHING. What I did here was exactly that while giving a reason why I want to know so that one can have a civilized discussion... smh
Interesting. Costs quite a bit. For tickets poor people can't afford. AND don't need to have that rabble (union laborers) loitering about eves dropping on our precious goodness.
Attention: @Disneyland Please incorporate this around the Rivers of America for Fantasmic! I hate sitting on the ground or paying for reserved seating. 🪄
