This is mostly to show everyone the big new Waste Management are that was having preview, it formally opens next month, but I did take a few SSE photos (well, three..) so i'll put those at the end.
So, let's start with the sign..
It's like recycle-chic!
And there's a big ol' green dump truck!
I think it's full size. *shrunk* I don't spend enough time around dump trucks to really know. There's a queue toward to the central plaza entrance, just a little bit of switchback area. They allow 4 groups in at a time, each team/group having or needing 4 players. You get a little introductory speech from an Innoventions CM and then behind the dump truck are 4 touch screen setups where you punch in a survey about your group - to determine your waste produced.
Sam volunteered to model. See, all touchscreens aren't bad. That sends your data and waste amount (based on your habits) to a cute mini dump truck that a CM brings over to you.
It has a screen on top that has your team name and actually shows contents and such and gives you directions on what to do next and where to go and such. It lights up and even beeps when you back up. Here's Sam modeling the truck:
You take your truck the sorting station first. You dock it, then you get instruction from screen and audio. It's a touchscreen game and a pretty neat. Essentially it's a pretend conveyor belt and each member of your team grabs an assigned item (paper, plastic, metal, glass) and sorts it out of the trash. I kicked butt at it, but my poor friend Steph was horrible, thus her despondent look.
You undock and goto like an incinerator to burn up the remaining trash for fuel. Silver trash burns cold red trash burns hot. Two people go upstairs to control cranes, two people stay down to control bulldozers to push the trash heaps to the cranes. It's a very odd and very strange game that is all about pushing around and dropping trash to control heat in the furnace. We really weren't very good at it.
I didn't take a photo, but you can see the station in the background of other shots of us driving around. There are like 4 of each game area, so they let 16 people in at a time, so the wait isn't too long.
Finally you create a landfill at another dock and screen game, this time with everyone at a large screen and working together as a team to move dirt to level the ground to create the nature preserve at the landfill. You pick up dirt, move it, pretty simple. Really just us arguing over whose dirt the mound was cuz we each wanted to win. In the end, we got robbed of our dirt moving score (for some reason it didnt transfer, the minigame told us we got a perfect score but our end certificate gave us zero, oh well)
In the future people will be able to send these home. Pretty neat. It took us a little bit of time to get through. Steph really didn't want to do it at first, we had to literally drag her kicking and screaming, but afterward she admitted it was fun. I think Innoventions needs more stuff like this. Plus - it beeps when you back up!
Ok, SSE, in breif - line:
Neon wires over the telephone scene... (blurry tastic!)
And moi on globe avec Sam:
Hope you enjoyed it, twas interesting to say the least.
So, let's start with the sign..
It's like recycle-chic!
And there's a big ol' green dump truck!
I think it's full size. *shrunk* I don't spend enough time around dump trucks to really know. There's a queue toward to the central plaza entrance, just a little bit of switchback area. They allow 4 groups in at a time, each team/group having or needing 4 players. You get a little introductory speech from an Innoventions CM and then behind the dump truck are 4 touch screen setups where you punch in a survey about your group - to determine your waste produced.
Sam volunteered to model. See, all touchscreens aren't bad. That sends your data and waste amount (based on your habits) to a cute mini dump truck that a CM brings over to you.
It has a screen on top that has your team name and actually shows contents and such and gives you directions on what to do next and where to go and such. It lights up and even beeps when you back up. Here's Sam modeling the truck:
You take your truck the sorting station first. You dock it, then you get instruction from screen and audio. It's a touchscreen game and a pretty neat. Essentially it's a pretend conveyor belt and each member of your team grabs an assigned item (paper, plastic, metal, glass) and sorts it out of the trash. I kicked butt at it, but my poor friend Steph was horrible, thus her despondent look.
You undock and goto like an incinerator to burn up the remaining trash for fuel. Silver trash burns cold red trash burns hot. Two people go upstairs to control cranes, two people stay down to control bulldozers to push the trash heaps to the cranes. It's a very odd and very strange game that is all about pushing around and dropping trash to control heat in the furnace. We really weren't very good at it.
I didn't take a photo, but you can see the station in the background of other shots of us driving around. There are like 4 of each game area, so they let 16 people in at a time, so the wait isn't too long.
Finally you create a landfill at another dock and screen game, this time with everyone at a large screen and working together as a team to move dirt to level the ground to create the nature preserve at the landfill. You pick up dirt, move it, pretty simple. Really just us arguing over whose dirt the mound was cuz we each wanted to win. In the end, we got robbed of our dirt moving score (for some reason it didnt transfer, the minigame told us we got a perfect score but our end certificate gave us zero, oh well)
In the future people will be able to send these home. Pretty neat. It took us a little bit of time to get through. Steph really didn't want to do it at first, we had to literally drag her kicking and screaming, but afterward she admitted it was fun. I think Innoventions needs more stuff like this. Plus - it beeps when you back up!
Ok, SSE, in breif - line:
Neon wires over the telephone scene... (blurry tastic!)
And moi on globe avec Sam:
Hope you enjoyed it, twas interesting to say the least.
