Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator

The Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator, or ATLAS, is a large hydraulic motion simulator. The ATLAS was designed for theme park industry and is derived from military flight simulation technology. It uses six hydraulic actuators to provide a broad range of movement. The ATLAS is a product of Rediffusion Simulation[1] in Sussex, England, now owned by Thales Group and known as Thales Training & Simulation. Disney filed multiple patents on their variant of the device, including US Utility Patent #5161104.[2]

In the later half of the 1980s, Walt Disney Imagineering bought and refined this technology for two theme park attractions; Star Tours at Legoland & Disneyland (and later Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Park) The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Experience at Anaheim GardenWalk and Body Wars at Epcot. The technology was also used in 2016 for the Iron Man Experience at SeaWorld San Diego. The LEGO Movie & Disney attractions feature large, 40-person cabins (45-person in San Diego & Hong Kong) hidden from outside view, arranged lengthwise with four or six simulators per installation. There are four simulators at LEGOLAND Discovery Center Arizona’s Guardians of the Galaxy Experience & The LEGO Movie 2 Experience, Sea Life Arizona Aquarium’s Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. Legoland Arizona & Others’s The Lego Movie 4D Experience. Anaheim GardenWalk’s The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Experience, Legoland & Disneyland's Star Tours and EPCOT's Body Wars, while the remaining Star Tours installations have six. At SeaWorld San Diego’s Toy Story in Space & SeaWorld San Diego & Hong Kong Disneyland's Iron Man Experience, there are five simulators. Body Wars is now defunct and the simulators have been removed from the building in the years since the closure of the Wonders of Life pavilion. . Now Hosted by Peter Quill . Walter Beckett . C-3PO RX-24 & J.A.R.V.I.S