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There's what looks like a disaster site in the heart of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It's a big Colonial mansion flipped upside down, walls cracked, jagged porch columns quivering from the weight of the foundation above them.
Rumor claims it was formally the home of WonderWorks, a secret lab in the Bermuda Triangle, housing mad scientists creating a tornado. When the artificial storm went horribly out of control, the building was ripped from its foundation and hurled all the way to Pigeon Forge where it crashed roof down.
Step inside the creaking crash site, look up and you'll see the floor and curving stairway overhead, then step into an inversion tunnel and you'll swear the building's being righted as you walk along the tunnel's shifting pathway into the lab zone.
That's when the experimental fun begins. Sit at a café table and experience the shaking terror of an earthquake with you at the epicenter; grab a pole and try to survive the wind force of a hurricane; train your brain to adapt to goggle-induced distortion, then try to return to goggleless reality. Challenge a virtual seven-foot basketball star or a virtual team of soccer players as you're superimposed into the games on TV; lie on a bed of sharp nails without pain; throw your body into a wall of 40,000 movable pins, then walk around to the other side and see what you looked like in 3-D. Pitch a baseball at a virtual batter in a major league game to see how fast your ball travels and if you can strike him out; swim with a bunch of virtual hungry sharks and try to escape being a tasty snack. Strike a pose in a spotlight, then see your own frozen shadow on the wall behind you. Try to land the Space Shuttle on its return from orbiting the moon, or fly a fighter jet in combat. Create your own roller coaster program, then strap into the WonderCoaster simulator and try to endure the ride you just created. Watch as the magic of computer video alters your ethnicity into five different races or morphs you and your partner's faces to show what your kids might look like, or even ages you for a glimpse at yourself 25 years from now.
That's just some of the stuff your kids - and the kid in you - can do to be amused, entertained, pleased and educated inside WonderWorks, one of the newest attractions in Pigeon Forge, TN, where fun and entertainment has made it one of America's premiere destinations. Visit www.wonderworkstn.com and www.mypigeonforge.com for more info.
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