Fort Worth Museum of Science and History - Omni Theater - Fort Worth, Texas

Jose Q.

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S H.

Love the environment and the show (“Animal Kingdom”). We went 1/24/25 at 11:00 AM

The intro film before the feature show is far too loud. Painfully loud. Ridiculous. People were sticking fingers in their ears. I know we did. And imagine having kids or babies there!

Our ears were ringing for several minutes into the feature. Paid too much to have to plug my ears.

Jamie H.

Very disappointed! This used to be so amazing before renovations. They used to show the speakers and fly over. That was cool. Now it was okay for a few minutes but then I was bored out of my mind. Maybe it was just the show I picked, but it was not worth $15.00 a person. We show liquid verse.

Tracy W.

The event is okay but just okay, BUT getting to it and parking is so bad I will not go back. The city of Fort Worth has messed up parking in this tourist crowded area. Supervised by an unprofessional staff of 3 parking guys, the surrounding lots are a nightmare. They closed off public streets and changed directions of public streets, keeping people from getting through to other places. They were liberal with orange cones. Keep in mind you have to be on time to get in the show for which you paid probably $15 each. The stress is unbelievable. Given concurrent events at other close venues, you will be thrown in a dangerous- everyone for himself, Mad Max situation. The theater will be crowded, and most will have small, talkative children who will want to be up all the time. You will have to get up to let them out, and the talking is atrocious. The movie was boring, only okay for the visuals. It was a DEI slanted production to show off the new Omni theater (Orbital), which is about 20 minutes long. There is another short film with it, but many people didn't realize it and left after the first one. Strangly, the Omni staff just let about 25% of the visitors leave without saying anything! They finally made an announcement that they were starting the next one, but too late for around 30 people. It's truly not worth the parking fiasco. No, wait, once we got in the Omni and the small staff was nice. The theater is pretty and seats are nice and big too. As we left, the parking lot was cleared up, so my advice is to get there at least 1 hour before your showtime. There is a little snack bar, but with these short shows, that hardly seems worth it. Will not go back.

Daniel D.

First of all let's just start off that Orbital was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen about space. Very disappointed with the cost as well. $15* 4 is $60. Then you have to pay another $20 for parking. Now you're $80 without the popcorn and that is for only one hour of a show. I was very thankful that it was not longer. Did I mention that the chairs no longer incline? I would have had a better viewing at my house on channel 13. The planetarium at UTA cost is $8 and there's no cost for parking. Their productions are twice as good and10 times more entertaining. Just don't take my word for it almost everyone on here has said the same thing a very big disappointment for all the money they put into this renovation. I definitely wasted my money on it.

Yolanda H. K.

Encourage to arrive early to obtain a good set of seats for a group. It fills up pretty fast. Great show! The Orbital seems about 30 minutes or less. It was a great experience that made you look for more.

Andrew R.

This place was a gem of my childhood, like many others in the metroplex. I've been very excited to visit since the grand reopening this winter.

The nostalgia was great walking into the new theater. That being said, I feel like theres a lot to build on for the overall experience and justifying 4 years away and 21 million dollars.

Orbital was great conceptually but only 25 minutes run time. You cannot charge people $15 + parking ($6 for an hour) without at least advertising the short run time. Do a double showing for those shorter viewings.

The lobby/walk in area can be improved upon. The history murals and equipment was cool but otherwise the area still feels like its in the 90's/early 2000's.

And lastly just put the old helicopter flyover footage in the opening again. I faintly heard a helicopter noise but we want the full thing. Either use the old footage or capture something new 😉

Good luck Omni staff. Hope to be back.

unlesssly

Hands down, the ORIGINAL Omni Theater experience was far superior to this "upgrade" which took so many years and truckloads of dollars to build. The chairs no longer recline! They are stuck at an uncomfortable 90 degree angle. What is the point of going to a theater where the screen is partially on the ceiling if you can't lean back to take in the full view?

Secondly, don't make the mistake I made and expect a full-dome movie experience for a film that was released in traditional theaters. In the old Omni, I went to see Tron and it was perfectly adapted to the dome screen. Not so in this new theater. We went to see The Polar Express and instead of taking up the full dome, they simply added some snowy night visual decor around a regular, rectangular viewing area at the front of the dome. So it was basically the same experience as watching the movie in any other theater. I saw no indication of this during the purchase process, which is downright shameful. Some people drive across Texas and beyond for this experience, and they should know what they're getting in advance. I felt like I let down my guests big time after hyping up the Omni so much and convincing them to come see it for themselves. The employees told me that the made-for-Omni films do take up the entire dome, so I am holding out hope that this is true.

Thirdly, there were multiple technical glitches at the showing I attended which necessitated that staff restarted or rewound the movie from a certain point. I would understand if this were the grand opening or the first showing of a particular film, but it was one they had already shown at least once since reopening, and there should have been plenty of time to iron out any bugs. The worst part was a glitch while Santa was talking to the boy in The Polar Express -- after it glitched, they just skipped to the next part, skipping over dialogue in one of the most important scenes in the movie. I felt terrible for anyone in the theater for whom this was their first time seeing The Polar Express.

I am glad they made the theater ADA accessible, but they should have left the inside of the theater as-is or at least left the ability for the chairs to lean back, warned patrons with big red letters if they were buying tickets for a non-dome film, and ironed out the technical glitches before reopening. Extremely disappointing experience that failed to preserve all that I used to love about the Omni.