Sky Voyager: Experience USA

[themagician]

Introducing an all-new experience on Dreamworld's #1 attraction, Sky Voyager! For a limited time, you can take flight and see America's greatest sights aboard Sky Voyager Experience USA, with the new film available daily from 10:00AM – 3:30PM upon the park's 16 September re-opening.

Aboard Sky Voyager Experience USA, you will experience iconic locations such as the islands of Hawaii, the city scape of New York and Niagara Falls, just to name a few.

You can still journey around Australia from 3:30PM - 5:00PM daily with free passage across state borders for some of the country’s most incredible sights. 

 

I think this is a great addition and shows how easily they can change the attraction when they want. And it’s good to see they are still offering the Australia version, so really you get two attractions in one. Hopefully they advertise this in park as it will give people a reason to re-ride it 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Will it still come with Pine'O'Cleen lemon edition?

[Brad2912]

Happy to see this as a point of difference for regular visitors.
I am assuming this is just a direct port of an offering at different site, but that’s no issue and keeps the costing down no doubt. 

Keeping the original for certain times each day is also a good move I believe so first time visitors get that experience 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

Great to see, looks cool. An idea below.

 

Edited September 9, 2020 by Gold Coast Amusement Force

[Vidgamer]

Very clever move, we've ridden Sky Voyager 100s of times so to see a new perspective will be great. My kids will love it.

[themagician]

The video will also be longer, running for 9 minutes 

[StingRay]

Good to see SV have a different film to show. I understand the film is under license. Seeing that its a longer film also should make it really interesting.

I would like to see seasonal films. Like around Christmas have one showcasing snow regions around the world etc. The ride has potential its just gotta be given the chance. This is that move in that positive direction. I do hope they keep this film and any future ones on for as long as possible. 

[themagician]

And potentially they could do an around the world one too

[Gazza]

I rode it at Mall of America, it's good but you get spritzed with water more than a ride at Universal Studios.

[themagician]

Apparently it’s not very good 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

I just went on it and thought it was amazing. Better than the Australian one in my opinion. If you don’t think it’s good, you probably don’t care for fly over attractions.

[aussienetman]

I went on it today. Loveeed it. Had the biggest grin on my face the whole time. Definitely a highlight for me out of all the gc parks 

[ejpdtd]

I was meant to be in Orlando this month and today would have been my first Epcot day so figured I’d take a trip to DW and check out the new SV video. 
 

I like that during this time they ain’t wasting any time on preshows or safety vids, straight from the queue to the seats - although loading and operations definitely aren’t ‘fast’. But props to the girl running the queue line, had a quick chat and asked about how long she thought the line was, and she said since I’m a single rider she should be able to squeeze me in on the next cycle seeing as they have too leave two seats between parties there is usually a spare seat or two after they’ve batched everyone, so I waited like 5 minutes and was on. Also I thought it was really good that she was enforcing everyone to stand on the yellow dots, you’d think this is self explanatory but when I jumped in line everyone else was bunched up right next to each other, and after a minute or two she made everyone step back through the line so that parties were on their own dots. I was at MW right before DW for an hour and it doesn’t seem like the staff are enforcing the queue distancing and people just don’t understand to stay the heck away from me and stand on your dots - like there’s obviously a reason I’m not moving up to the next party, yet the people behind me feel the need to get as close as possible - YOURE STILL IN THE SAME SPOT IN LINE JUST STANDING FURTHER AWAY!

Anyway to the ride.

I enjoyed the new video, not sure which I prefer it been a while since it rode SV normally, I feel like I got more wet on USA but there was definitely less noticeable smell pods I think. Also with America being known for big cities, a lot of the flyovers are of big skyscrapers etc which isn’t that interesting especially if you’ve seen them before irl, but there are still a lot of great scenic shots. There is one shot toward the end that looks soo similar to the one from soarin, not complaining just interesting to point out (it’s the canyon rock formation with the balloons in soarin, exact same location in SV but has some people on the rocks ready to bungee off it looks like). Soundtrack/score is a bit lacklustre, I don’t quite remember how good the Aus score was but surely more epic than this was. 
 

Overall I enjoyed watching something new, there was a bloke sitting next to me that was so blown away by it which was heartwarming to see his reaction, it was his first time on a flying theatre and I think he was more blown away by that than the video itself, but still nice to see people in awe at something from our parks. 

[themagician]

[Coasterlife]

they should keep it

[joz]

I wonder if they have to pay a fee to show it, where as they would own the Australia film? The change is good, but I think they should really run that Australia film as much as they can, and only bust out the others when it makes sense and you see a boost. If you constantly change the film then you stop getting any kind of boost when you do it, it just becomes expected.

[Naazon]

13 hours ago, joz said:

I wonder if they have to pay a fee to show it, where as they would own the Australia film? The change is good, but I think they should really run that Australia film as much as they can, and only bust out the others when it makes sense and you see a boost. If you constantly change the film then you stop getting any kind of boost when you do it, it just becomes expected.

Fee is probably likely. 

I'm assuming they will show a different film for the Summer and Winter holidays each year.

[Gazza]

I've heard good things about the Canadian film, maybe that would be a good one to bust out during Winter Wonderland?

[Im Hungry]

On 18/09/2020 at 11:04 PM, ejpdtd said:

There is one shot toward the end that looks soo similar to the one from soarin, not complaining just interesting to point out (it’s the canyon rock formation with the balloons in soarin, exact same location in SV but has some people on the rocks ready to bungee off it looks like).

It seems that there are many segments of the "Experience USA" film that are featured on other Flying Theatres - especially FlyOver.

As mentioned before, @Gazza experienced a similar film like this at Mall of America.

https://www.flyover-america.com/

Just taking a look at this video playing on the website, there appears to be 4 (of the 5) shown in the preview that were also shown on Sky Voyager.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4715710/

Apparently the FULL version of the USA film goes on for 1hr 1min, but I haven't found any mediums on where we can view it other than on a Flying Theatre itself.

FlyOver America trailers:

60 sec

30 sec (it's most likely Dreamworld used this trailer for their advertising purposes of the "Experience USA" film)

 

It's clear to see that (as mentioned before) the film is licensed for use. I guess that implies other films can be accessed and broadcast onto our very own Sky Voyager (should Dreamworld wish to).

Edited May 4, 2021 by Im Hungry

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I am sure these films are expensive to produce, but I would like to see Dreamworld invest in a few different local ones they could cycle through over a few years. Maybe even get a few cut scenes with various themes for various events like halloween (pumpkins and cornfields) or christmas (yule fires and snow). The marketability of these "different" shows has been talked about before and its a great way to get locals to visit repeatedly too. I think one of my last visits to DW was to see the USA video...

[Ogre]

It's back!

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_4mH7hJzIb/?img_index=3

[Tricoart]

11 minutes ago, Ogre said:

It's back!

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_4mH7hJzIb/?img_index=3

Just a few days late. Hopefully it's better than the aquatic one they did, that one didn't seem like the movements were programmed that well (as it was rather jolty), and it being a fully CGI film with some pretty obvious mishaps & no real use of effects made it substantially worse than the default SV film.

Edited September 14 by Tricoart

[Brad2912]

Surely we can get a permanent new film soon? It’s well overdue 

[Vidgamer]

Saw it today. I prefer the American one to the Australian one but I don’t think the image clarity is as sharp for the American one. 

[Miloja84]

I wish they showed it over the Christmas holidays as well. That’s the only time I can get there and I really want for see it.