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Laser Bounce ready to open at Glendale’s Atlas Park
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The new year is bringing an exciting
new place for kids in Glendale
to play and have parties.
Laser Bounce, a Long Island-based play
center with laser tag, infl atable bounce
houses and an arcade, is opening a new
location in the Shops at Atlas Park. While
there is no set date for the grand opening,
Laser Bounce co-owner Ryan D’Amico
said that he hopes to have the new site up
and running by mid-to-late January.
“We wanted to expand our market
and were looking for a neighborhood
that had a bigger demographic,”
D’Amico told the Ridgewood Times.
“In Glendale, we fell in love with the
community and how tight-knit it is.”
The new and improved Laser
Bounce, which is its fi rst expansion,
will have several features that set it
apart from the original. Most notably,
the arcade will be twice as large to accommodate
a pair of fully immersive
video games, D’Amico said.
One is a 4-D motion simulator that
the players sit inside of. As a scene of
riding a runaway train or hang-gliding
down a mountain side plays out,
the simulator moves and even blows
air to make the players feel like the
experience is real.
The other is a four-player virtual
reality game made by the German
company Hologate that D’Amico said
is the fi rst of its kind on the East Coast.
The players wear VR headsets that respond
to their eye movements as they
duck, crawl and shoot at aliens invading
all around them. The mission takes
10 minutes to complete and D’Amico
said he was amazed at how lifelike and
real the game felt aft er he tried it.
Another unique feature of the
arcade is the decision to “go green” by
eliminating the paper tickets that the
games dispense, D’Amico said. Instead,
players will be issued a plastic card
that will give them access to games
and store all of their points to be exchanged
for prizes at the end.
Also included at the Atlas Park
location will be Laser Bounce staples
such as laser tag, infl atable bounce
houses and Ballocity, a play arena with
multi-level platforms and a variety
of features like buckets and canons
that send foam balls fl ying in every
direction.
Laser Bounce will be located where
the former SteinMart department
store used to be, two fl ights below
the Regal Cinemas movie theater. The
former SteinMart had been vacant for
many years.
D’Amico, who co-owns Laser Bounce
with his father, Joseph D’Amico, said
that it’s “always exciting to get new
faces” in the play center, and he hopes
it will become a must-visit attraction
at Atlas Park.
Photo: Robert Pozarycki/RIDGEWOOD TIMES
Laser Bounce is opening a new location inside the Shops at Atlas Park.
