{"id":19781,"date":"2014-07-21T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=19781"},"modified":"2014-07-21T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T07:38:08","slug":"thrillarium-6d-theatre-to-reopen-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/thrillarium-6d-theatre-to-reopen-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrillarium 6D theatre in Thiruvananthapuram to reopen next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong><\/em> Thrillarium, the 6-D theatre at the Priyadarshini Planetarium which was closed down due to maintenance, will be operational by next week. The theatre became inoperable after a lightning strike damaged the theatre three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala State Science and Technology Museum (KSSTM) does have a lightning arrestor, but the lightening somehow managed to knock out\u00a0 at least four computers and projectors at the planetarium and the personal computer PC memory card of the Thrillarium. Though the computers have been repaired, the PC memory card had to be bought from China.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt incurs about Rs 19,000 through order placement from China for shipment, as against Rs 30,000 when purchased directly from the market there paying taxes,&#8221; said a KSSTM official to TOI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The order was placed with the Chinese company on July 1 and the shipment reached Bangalore on July 3rd. Currently, the shipment is with the Cochin customs as it requires an endorsement from assistant commissioner of customs for its release. KSSTM hopes to reopen the Thrillarium by next week.<\/p>\n<p>Opened in 2011, Thrillarium is a 6D motion simulator consisting of a 3D film screen and seats fitted on to a platform. The 24-seat platform is movable in six directions and simulates six degrees of freedom giving you a near-real feeling when watching visuals like earthquakes, space trips etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Thrillarium, the 6-D theatre at the Priyadarshini Planetarium which was closed down due to maintenance, will be operational by next week. The theatre became inoperable after a lightning strike damaged the theatre three weeks ago. Kerala State Science and Technology Museum (KSSTM) does have a lightning arrestor, but the lightening somehow managed to knock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-19781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}