For Christmas my best friend Amy bought us tickets to have a go at the Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, a hyper reality experience. Last Saturday (10th) was finally time for us to do it.
Hyper reality is basically virtual reality, you put the headset on and you are immersed into the world. This experience is located on the ground floor of the Westfield shopping centre in Shepheard's Bush in London. It's running from 16th December to the 7th March so not a lot of time left if you want to experience it. Midweek tickets are about £30 but because we did the weekend it was £32 and it was so worth it.
So you scan your tickets, sign the waver to say you are in good enough health to undertake the mission and then you wait to be called in after leaving your coats and bags in a little hut with an attendant. You go into a little dark room with a screen, on the screen appears Captain Cassian Andor from Rogue One (my favourite), he gives you your mission which is to help locate an item on the planet Mustafar and to do this you must infiltrate the military base there so you will go in disguised as Stormtroopers. Mustafar is the planet where Anakin and Obi Wan fight in the Revenge of the Sith and Darth Vadar is made basically. Once you have been briefed, it's time to get the kit on which involves a vest with sensors, then the headset which had built in headphones and the screen for the virtual reality. We were really lucky and ended up going in just the two of us which made for a better experience overall. Once kitted up we went to the room where it all begins and everything was calibrated then the missions started. I don't want to give anything away but we really got into it and almost forgot it was reality. At one point we could feel the heat from the planet (it's a planet made of lava). It was really well thought out and made you feel like part of a Star Wars movie, there was also a couple of puzzles you had to work out which added to the enjoyment and also a few familiar faces pop up along the way. Genuinely at some points we thought our stormtroopers were going to die. All in all I think it took about 20 minutes which is shorter than I thought but it was so much fun. The bonus is that they could add it a bit more to it so it has so much potential to it as well. We had two photos taken as there was an offer of you can get the two photos and copies emailed to you for £15 which I didn't think was a bad offer at all, there was other merchandise there such as t-shirts, hoodies etc and the pricing wasn't too bad on them either.
Overall we thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to do it again as soon as we came out, I'd gladly take part in another experience like that. If you can get to have a go before it closes I'd urge you to, it is so much fun especially if you are a proper Star Wars fan. You can book tickets here
Until next time,
Stacey x
Hyper reality is basically virtual reality, you put the headset on and you are immersed into the world. This experience is located on the ground floor of the Westfield shopping centre in Shepheard's Bush in London. It's running from 16th December to the 7th March so not a lot of time left if you want to experience it. Midweek tickets are about £30 but because we did the weekend it was £32 and it was so worth it.
So you scan your tickets, sign the waver to say you are in good enough health to undertake the mission and then you wait to be called in after leaving your coats and bags in a little hut with an attendant. You go into a little dark room with a screen, on the screen appears Captain Cassian Andor from Rogue One (my favourite), he gives you your mission which is to help locate an item on the planet Mustafar and to do this you must infiltrate the military base there so you will go in disguised as Stormtroopers. Mustafar is the planet where Anakin and Obi Wan fight in the Revenge of the Sith and Darth Vadar is made basically. Once you have been briefed, it's time to get the kit on which involves a vest with sensors, then the headset which had built in headphones and the screen for the virtual reality. We were really lucky and ended up going in just the two of us which made for a better experience overall. Once kitted up we went to the room where it all begins and everything was calibrated then the missions started. I don't want to give anything away but we really got into it and almost forgot it was reality. At one point we could feel the heat from the planet (it's a planet made of lava). It was really well thought out and made you feel like part of a Star Wars movie, there was also a couple of puzzles you had to work out which added to the enjoyment and also a few familiar faces pop up along the way. Genuinely at some points we thought our stormtroopers were going to die. All in all I think it took about 20 minutes which is shorter than I thought but it was so much fun. The bonus is that they could add it a bit more to it so it has so much potential to it as well. We had two photos taken as there was an offer of you can get the two photos and copies emailed to you for £15 which I didn't think was a bad offer at all, there was other merchandise there such as t-shirts, hoodies etc and the pricing wasn't too bad on them either.
Overall we thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to do it again as soon as we came out, I'd gladly take part in another experience like that. If you can get to have a go before it closes I'd urge you to, it is so much fun especially if you are a proper Star Wars fan. You can book tickets here
Until next time,
Stacey x
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