Patent ID: 8300046

Claim:
An attraction system comprising: a theater; a booth partition member for partitioning the theater into a plurality of booths, wherein each of the plurality of booths comprises a plurality of seats; a partition moving mechanism for moving the booth partition member to combine the plurality of booths to form a combined theater; and a plurality of picture sending apparatuses provided for the plurality of booths, respectively; and wherein, when the theater is divided in the plurality of booths, each of the plurality of picture sending apparatuses sends a booth picture of the corresponding booth; when the plurality of booths are combined and the combined theater is formed, a combined theater picture is formed by a plurality of adjacent partial theater pictures sent out from the plurality of picture sending apparatuses; and the booth picture of the booth is a picture in which an image of a visitor seated in the corresponding booth is incorporated as a character; wherein each of the plurality of picture sending apparatuses provided for the plurality of booths provides an attraction picture including the booth picture and the partial theater picture; the attraction system further comprises: a plurality of attraction picture generation apparatuses provided for the plurality of booths, respectively, each of the plurality of attraction picture generation apparatuses generating the booth picture of the corresponding booth; a plurality of default picture storage sections provided for the plurality of booths, respectively, for storing a default booth picture in which the image of the visitor is not incorporated but a default character image is incorporated; and a plurality of fault detection sections provided for the plurality of booths, respectively, for detecting occurrence of a fault which disables generation of the booth picture; and wherein, when the fault is detected by the fault detection section, the picture sending apparatus provides the default booth picture and the partial theater picture in the booth where the fault has been detected, and the picture sending apparatus provides the booth picture and the partial theater picture in the booth where the fault has not been detected.