NIAGARA FALLS, ONT. — Niagara’s newest attraction is ready for takeoff, with an anticipated Aug. 29 opening.
Called Niagara Takes Flight, the immersive ride is Ontario’s first flying theatre experience and features a 180-degree, 17-metre-wide domed screen that allows guests to soar above the region and get closer than ever to Niagara Falls in gondola-style seating, states a release.
Wind, mist and scent effects are also used.
It is located inside Niagara Parks’ Table Rock Centre, at the brink of Horseshoe Falls, and uses drone technology to take passengers on a 56-kilometre journey.
The project has been a couple of years in the making, with procurement wrapping up in 2023 and the awarding of the development of the attraction to Brogent Technologies, which has built other theatre attractions in Vancouver, Chicago, New York and Las Vegas. Disney Imagineer Rick Rothschild, who was a principal creator of the very first flying theatre attraction, Disney’s Soarin’ Over
California, is serving as creative director on the project, the release adds.
Conceptual design and media production planning began in January 2024, with construction starting that September. Filming for Niagara Takes Flight took place between September 2024 and January 2025, at sites across the Niagara River corridor. Drones were used to capture never-before-seen perspectives of landmarks including the Niagara Parks Power Station, Niagara Whirlpool, Landscape of Nations Memorial, Old Fort Erie and Horseshoe Falls.
Toronto-based design firm FORREC, which also carried out conceptual design work on the redevelopment of the Niagara Parks Power Station, undertook this attraction’s design and thematic elements.
The thematic environments designed by FORREC for the immersive pre-show areas were produced by Great Lakes Scenic Studios, a Burlington-based design and fabrication shop.
The project’s general contractor was Merit Contractors Niagara.
Construction and media production are in the final stages in preparation for the opening date.
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