Patent ID: 8057317

Claim:
Amusement park attraction comprising: a carriage movable along an associated carriage path, said carriage comprising: a vertical extending frame, wherein the vertical extending frame, as part of the carriage, is movable along the associated carriage path, at least one passenger assembly, for one or more passengers, wherein said passenger assembly comprises a restraining device for the passengers, adapted to restrain each individual passenger, wherein said passenger assembly is guided by said frame and movable in a vertical translational movement with respect to the frame, an array of cells in a matrix arrangement of cells next to one another and above one another, the array including cells being arranged at various horizontal positions along said carriage path and various vertical positions with respect to said carriage path, wherein a cell is defined by a boundary and has a viewing opening, the boundaries separating adjacent cells from each other, and wherein multiple cells of said array each contain a discrete scene to be viewed by the one or more passengers, a programmable actuating system, which actuating system provides a programmed route of said carriage and of said passenger assembly along the viewing openings of said scene containing cells, to allow the passengers in the carriage to look into the cell so that the one or more passengers are presented a predetermined sequence of scenes and at least experience a vertical motion and a horizontal motion along said route, wherein the actuating system can move the passengers from one discrete scene to an adjacent discrete scene at a different horizontal position by moving the vertical extending frame along the associated carriage path, and from one discrete scene to an adjacent discrete scene at a different vertical position by moving the passenger assembly along the vertical extending frame.