UTA Planetarium — Attraction in Arlington

Time I can't get back... Refund my $12. Buy a 4K projector, I know the university can afford it. Why a new projector? Entire showing of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was poor-illuminated and tainted by either peripheral lighting or (more likely) a burned-in image of the university's main entrance (used as a wallpaper in between shows; consider using a looped video). Tonight's host spoke WAY too fast and failed to project his voice into the microphone (most patron's first/only interaction/opinion of the university.). The early 90's called; they want their lame imagery back. If David Gilmour / Roger Waters were in attendance, a stream of British-accented cursing would have ensued. The poor quality of the low-res imagery was an insult to music that has helped define a generation. Clean (maybe replace) the carpet and seats; turn on a blacklight in there and the staining would look like a crime scene photo from the Manson murders. The stars I provided were earned for the music content, though not the sound system quality, the 90's also asked you return that as well; I'm sure someone like Mackie Audio or QSC Audio would spot you an awe-inspiring sound system in exchange for plastering their...

Bumping this up to five stars because the receptionist was on time, and we weren’t confused by signage, or the lack thereof this time. Bailey is still the heart of the show. She went to great lengths to show us where Proxima Centauri was from the southern hemisphere.

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First visit got off to a rocky start: Was hard to find general public parking; The parking lot sign said we could pay at some toll station that we could never find; The receptionist / cashier wasn’t available at 12:30 PM opening time, so maybe we were supposed to go to the main office in Room 364 as the sign said? Nope, we couldn’t even make it to any Room 364. Was about to write a bad review but the young lady named Bailey redeemed the visit because she … told us to come to the later show because we were too old to appreciate Big Bird hosted the presentation with enthusiasm, even showing humor when the projectors glitched and froze a few times helped my son with his homework after the show was over. Full stars to Bailey. Will bump this review to five stars if they do better for...

Ultimately it was disappointing. The main event really didn't benefit from the curved screen as it could've been just a regular flat screen film and had nothing interesting to visually see on the planetarium screen

The lady who did the constellation sight seeing utilized the immersive screen correctly and really delivered a worth while show.

The final event was this strange Rollercoaster marble film with the most out of place song I've heared in a planetarium

There were also physical issues. Dead pixels dotted the screen although not enough to completely ruine the view.

The screen itself was also not aligned correctly so you could tell where the seams were.

The actual films they showed we're so visually outdated that they reminded me of when my teacher would roll in the TV to watch a badly 3D animated movie about science.

Kinda want...