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Stadium seating

"Stadium seating" can also be used as a synonym for festival seating
Festival seating

Reserved and free seatingSeating arrangements*Reserved seating, allocated seating, assigned seating: each chair is reserved for a specific Ticket holder....
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Stadium seating is a technique used in performing-arts venues, educational facilities, religious institutions , and movie theater

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Stadium seating is a technique used in performing-arts venues, educational facilities, religious institutions , and movie theater

Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
s to allow more guests to see an event with less blockage than traditional seating. Like seating in a football or baseball stadium, stadium seating in theaters is usually a 30 degree slope stepped upwards from the bottom of the theater, as opposed to the approximately 15 degree gentle slope in traditional theaters. This slope improves sightlines for visitors and reduces the chance that a tall person will block the view of a short person behind them. Sometimes the sloping floor is not stepped, with the disadvantage that items can roll down.

There has been some criticism of stadium seating because it usually isn't possible for disabled people in wheelchairs to climb them. To reduce the problem, venues with stadium seating generally mark the row at walk-in level for disabled patrons. This row is more open than those above or below it and includes empty spaces for wheelchairs.

The trains

Train (roller coaster)

A roller coaster train describes the vehicle which transports passengers around a roller coaster's circuit. More specifically, a roller coaster train is made up of two or more "cars" which are connected by some sort of specialized Universal joint....
on some roller coaster

Roller coaster

For Rollercoaster, the wooden rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool, see Rollercoaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks....
s are also configured in tiers; this seating configuration is also sometimes called stadium seating. Three prominent examples of roller coasters whose trains use this type of seating are Millennium Force

Millennium Force

Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster roller coaster built by Intamin AG located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It is the fourteenth roller coaster built at the park....
at Cedar Point

Cedar Point

Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, Ohio, United States on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It currently holds the world record for most roller coasters , one of which, Top Thrill Dragster, is the world's second tallest and third fastest roller coaster, reaching speeds of and a height of ....
, which opened in 2000, SheiKra

SheiKra

SheiKra is a vertical drop roller coaster in Tampa, Florida. It is situated in the Stanleyville section of Busch Gardens Africa. SheiKra was the first Dive roller coaster roller coaster in North America....
at Busch Gardens Tampa

Busch Gardens Africa

Busch Gardens Africa is a 335 acre 19th century African-themed park located in Tampa, Florida. It opened on March 31 1959 as an admission-free hospitality facility for the Tampa Anheuser-Busch brewery on the grounds of the manufacturing plant....
, which opened in 2005, and Griffon

Griffon (roller coaster)

Griffon is a roller coaster, announced on August 23, 2006, at Busch Gardens Europe, located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The coaster, a Bolliger & Mabillard Dive roller coaster, now reigns as tallest and fastest dive machine coaster surpassing its sister, SheiKra, at Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa, Florida....
at Busch Gardens Europe

Busch Gardens Europe

Busch Gardens Williamsburg is a theme park located in James City County, Virginia, Virginia about 3 miles southeast of Williamsburg, Virginia. It opened on May 16, 1975, adjacent to the local Anheuser-Busch brewery and other-related AB developments including the Kingsmill complex....
, which opened in 2007 .

Converting sloped-floor theaters to stadium seating theaters requires raising the ceiling and adding risers, so owners of movie theaters often judge conversion as not cost effective.

Stadium seating

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