Around 350 water systems producing more than 70m-high fountains, more than 130 flame generators producing up to 15m high flames, seven LED screens, eleven full-colour 25 Watt lasers, 20 green laser scanners, plus new light and sound concepts were employed at this year's shows.
Technical implementation of the project was assigned to a team whose collaboration had proven its worth in staging the annual shows for the last few years. Included among the collaborators were the firms of Aquatique Show for the water systems, Leyendecker for the lighting, tarm Showlaser for the laser systems, Entertainment Technology Concepts for the video equipment, and LiveAudio event technic for the sound systems.
Particular challenges were accurately synchronizing the compositions consisting of flames, water jets, laser effects, lighting, and video projections to the music throughout the lengthy durations of the open-air shows, along with the extremely high moisture levels to which all of the equipment was subjected.
Altogether, the Wolfsburg automobile theme park attracted 498,000 visitors during the summer season. Expressing his satisfaction with how well everything went off, Otto F. Wachs, Autostadt's general manager, stated, "Our concept was a 100 % success. Thanks to our expanded show schedule, we had daily many more visitors to the park than in preceding years. The feedback from visitors was uniformly positive."
(Jim Evans)
