The script of a summer blockbuster movie?

No – the Challenge of Tutankhamen is an interactive “dark  ride” at an amusement park in Brussels, Belgium. Jacksonville-based Sally Corp. creates custom-designed and fabricated animatronics. The corporation manages complete show production for  amusement and theme parks; retail and restaurants; exhibition/expos;  and museums and heritage centers all over the world.

Akshardham scene, New Delhi

The Ashkarhdam Cultural Center is a massive monument carved entirely from pink sandstone in New Delhi, India. A global Hindu religious order built the center to showcase India’s ancient culture and traditions.   Sally Corp. created the original ‘living exhibitions’ for the center 17 years ago -  since time, the representations have performed over 210,00o performances to audience of over 25 million.

Sally Corp. is currently creating a new ‘living experience’ for  the cultural center.  “My experiences with Sally have been culturally invigorating since day one,” said Chairman and CEO,  John Wood. He recalled a monkey-king in Seoul and a Minatour in Madrid.

Sally’s executive management team co-ordinates industrial-design technology; character design and sculpting; interactive and digital control systems; script-writing and sound-track production. Project management handles internal production, co-ordination  with subcontractors, architects and engineers – both globally and domestically.

LegoLand Theme Park - Windsor, England - Merlin Entertainment Group

Wood said while the  amusement park industry was born in Europe, it’s now a “great export” business for the U.S.  He’s headed to London on May 16 to meet with his largest customer, Merlin Entertainment Groups - the biggest attractions operator in Europe and the second largest in the world.

Expanded business in Europe, perhaps?

-k.a. gardner