Dark rides are unforgiving. Vehicles arrive on a fixed cycle, scenes need to fire with the cycle, and a missed cue ends up in survey data. Northstar locks vehicle position to show timing — for full days of operation, every day of the season.
Legacy ride-control systems can run six figures for a single show controller. Northstar is purpose-built for dark rides — same reliability, same fail-safe behaviors, a fraction of the cost and lead time.
Polaris reads vehicle proximity sensors at each block. Helm fires scene cues locked to vehicle arrival, not wall-clock time.
Loss of communication holds vehicles at the previous block. E-stop drops scene power and brings work lights up. Fail-safe defaults wired in.
Animatronic arms, projection-mapped scenes, lighting transitions — all dispatched on vehicle arrival without perceptible delay.
Open to close, no nap in between. Hardware rated and tested for continuous-duty themed-park operation.
Cuemaster has a maintenance switch. Show stops, scene power drops, work lights come up, ride techs walk in. Toggle back when done.
Throughput, scene timing variance, missed-cue counts, e-stop frequency. Pipe to your existing ride-ops dashboard via the REST API.