OVER 100 INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS! FUN FOR ALL AGES!

Inversion Tunnel

Defy Gravity!!! As you approach WonderWorks, it is obvious that the building landed upside-down. Professor Wonder and his staff of Brilliant Scientists invented the Inversion tunnel to realign and invert your orientation so that you can defy gravity and play with all the exhibits and experiments.

Hurricanes

Guests will feel the effects of winds reaching 74 miles per hour. According to the Saffar-Simpson Scale, the hurricane in this simulation is a category one. Get Ready – Hang On!

Disaster Challenges

How’s your natural disaster I.Q.? Are you up to the challenge? WonderWorks™ Natural Disaster Challenge pits you against the touch screen computer. Choose from an array of disaster subjects including Wild Weather, Quakes and Blazes, Man-made Catastrophes, and Extreme Disasters. This is an interesting and insightful look at some of the world’s greatest disasters – some natural and some man-made. You’ll leave with a much greater respect for the forces of nature and how man must take responsibility for his actions to protect the environment and our world.

Wonder Brite

Have fun with the oversized version of lite brite and create designs with the lightsticks.

Speed of Light

Move like the speed of light to press the buttons on the light matrix to win points and beat the clock.

Anti- Gravity Chamber

Water is traveling from the floor to the ceiling, or is it? At the touch of a special button that you control, water will appear to change direction! Look up! The change in frequency of the strobe lights is what causes the water to appear as if its directional flow has changed.

Virtual Soccer

The pressure is all on as you enter the Holopod. You are the soccer goalie in this Virtual Soccer game. Soccer balls are coming at you from all directions. Use your hands, arms, feet and head to deflect, rebuff and deny the endless stream of black and white balls from reaching the net. You get quite a workout just standing your ground with this virtual reality sport. Reflexes and great horizontal and vertical movement skills are keys to being a successful goalkeeper. Are you up to the task with WonderWorks™ Virtual Soccer…or will the crowd surrounding you be screaming, “Goal!!!!”

Pulley Challenge

WonderWorks™ Pulley Challenge lets you flex your biceps. A three-station challenge, participants see the effects of sitting on a chair and using two-, three- or four- pulleys and a rope to pull themselves up. With the addition of each pulley the amount of body weight you must pull up is dramatically reduced. The two pulley station requires lifting approximately one-half of your body weight. The three pulley station cuts the amount of weight to just about 1/3 of your true weight; the station containing four pulleys trims your weight to about one-quarter of your actual physical body weight. These reduction devices used in pulley challenges are a great blend of science and physics.

Bubble Lab

Kids of all ages (1-101) love bubbles! This exhibit is just for the fun of it! Put yourself inside a gigantic bubble that you created! Bubbles do not have their own color. They reflect and refract the light around the bubble. The colors you see on a bubble actually show the thickness (or thinness) of the bubble wall.

Piano

WonderWorks™ Piano is reminiscent of the movie, “Big.” Starring Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia, the two have a memorable scene in an FAO Schwartz toy store as they play piano music by dancing on huge piano keys. Visitors to the Panama City Beach attraction may choose from “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” or “Hush Little Baby.” Of course, you could dance to a tune of your choice if your feet have a bit of “Hopscotch” in them. You’ll make music by leaps and bounds at WonderWorks™!

Bed of Nails

You’ve been out in the sun viewing Florida beach attractions and frankly you’re a little tired. It may be time to just lie down and take it easy. Anyone can just lie down…let’s make it a bit more interesting. How about lying on a bed of nails – 3,497 of them to be exact! With your weight evenly distributed on the rigid bed, the nails rise – ever so slowly and you will be resting on the points of thousands of nails! The average pressure of 0.04kg per nail is less than the pressure required to do damage to your skin. It takes 2 kilograms of pressure to puncture the skin. So, you get the point and a relaxing break from Florida Panhandle attractions.

360 Bike

Visitors will pedal their way on these tandem bikes as they try to generate enough power to complete a full loop over the top and back to its original position.

• Must be 48" tall
• Closed shoes required
• 250lb weight limit

Wonder Park

Have you ever thought what it would be like to be on the mound and stare down a Major League Baseball player at the plate? Now you’ve got your chance with WonderWorks™ Velocity Ball. Select a player to pitch to from Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard, Sammie Sosa, or Barry Bonds. Take your windup and throw a pitch. Then hear Ball, Strike, Home Run as the speed of your ball is displayed on the screen. “Batter Up!”

Fighter Pilot

Are you a Top Gun? Do you have the ability to pilot a U.S. military-style jet aircraft? How good are you with keeping the jet aircraft in line with the horizon? Can you execute a barrel roll? How about lining up on the landing strip and bringing the craft back to the airfield? Oh, did we forget to mention that some simulator programs have you taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier? It’s that little speck in the big blue ocean. Don’t “bolter” the aircraft – that’s a naval aviation term used when an aircraft attempting to land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier touches down, but fails to catch an arrestor cable and come to a stop. Are you up to the WonderWorks™ Jet Pilot Simulator?

Shuttle Lander

Have you ever dreamed of being a part of the Space Shuttle Team? How about piloting the Space Shuttle? Here’s your chance as you sit in the commander’s seat aboard the Space Shuttle simulator. You’ll learn about the slope, speed and directional data the Shuttle Commander must mentally process in the blink of an eye to keep the craft on the final glide path to a safe return to Kennedy Space Center or Edwards AFB. The Space Shuttle is in a free-fall, no engines, no brakes, no ability to circle the field and attempt to land the Shuttle again. It’s a one-time chance to reach a successful ending to a Shuttle Mission. Do you have the nerves of steel, the eye/hand coordination, and ability to process multiple pieces of information simultaneously to make the right decisions to safely land the Shuttle? The Shuttle Pilot Challenge is only available at WonderWorks™!

MercuryCapsule

NASA’s first manned space flights were established with the Mercury Space Program. Seven astronauts were selected to pioneer America’s manned space flights. The select list included Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton. Come sit in a replica Mercury space capsule and take a photo of you lying on your back in the Mercury capsule. Learn more about the space race to put the first man into space and safely return him to earth.

Mindball

Mindball pits two participants in a unique mental contest. Participants square off at opposite ends of a table. Each participant is seated and wears a headband that measures the brain’s activity. The more calm the brainwave – the better. The round “Mindball” is placed in the center of the table – equal distance from each participant. Mindball relies on calmness to measure a participant’s success. The goal is to be more relaxed than your opponent, in order to move a physical ball away from you and into your opponent’s goal…ultimately winning by relaxing! So, if you’re good at being “cool” and “chilling out” this is the game for you!

Probabilities

What are the odds that games of chance, statistical probabilities, and risk factors can be fun and informative? At WonderWorks™ in Panama City Beach the odds are great! Enter a room filled with displays that visually show you how games of chance, laws of probability exhibits and mathematics play a major part in our daily lives. Simple concepts using beads can illustrate probabilities. Dice will demonstrate chance and statistical probability. Take an off-the-wall test to see how much risk factors into your daily decisions. It’s revealing and interesting to see who enjoys living on the edge, and who prefers safe and predictable environments.

Far Out Illusion Gallery

The mind is a wonderful and curious thing. It processes perceptions from the senses and their perspectives to formulate what it appears to see, hear, smell, taste and feel. But sometimes the brain can be tricked. Visit the illusion center within Panama City Beach’s WonderWorks™. Stare at the spiral vortex – a black and white spinning disk – for 20 seconds, and then look at an adjacent static picture of blue sky and white clouds. The clouds will appear to move, even though the visual is flattened and without movement. Observe the spinning vase display. Depending upon your perspective in may appear to be just a vase, but the individual who opens their mind to other possibilities may see two talking heads in conversation with one another. You are already in an upside down world within WonderWorks™. Look out the window in the illusion gallery – the world outside is upside down, too! How is this possible? Come visit the gallery and learn the answer.