Edit: It's actually spelled Sucia, not Suica. My apologies for the autocorrect.
Can anyone confirm?? Just spotted on Facebook. Very good safety record according to Google 😮
If you have tickets/are planning on getting tickets to watch The Odyssey at Pacific Science Center, BE AWARE this movie is being shown in the PACCAR IMAX. NOT in the larger "IMAX at the Center" theater (formerly Boeing IMAX). You can thank the Space Needle, new owners of what was formerly the Boeing IMAX, for the choice to kill the pacific northwest's greatest movie theater.
If you are expecting a 1.43, dual laser IMAX experience, you will not recieve it. Paccar's system is dual xenon. It is still a worthwhile watch. It may not be the experience you thought you'd get. But please refrain from taking your anger out on the PACCAR usher/concessions staff. There's nothing they can do. Kindly re-direct your ire to the Space Needle. They are actively making the choice to continue withholding feature films from us when they have every ability to screen them. They've already been review bombed so severely that they've had to take down the "IMAX at the Center" Google listing, despite them being FULLY open and continuing to show their shit documentaries. Keep it up.
This'll probably sound like a lot of made up bullshit, and it's certainly hard to believe, but it's from someone who applied to work at the theater (now officially called "IMAX at the Center") and made it to the interview stage.
The theater won't be showing features. Or, at least, they don't currently plan to. It also won't be possible to purchase standalone tickets for it (you'll only be able to watch movies there if you add it on to a space needle ticket). The only shows they'll be screening aren't even IMAX documentaries. It's two documentaries: a trimmed down version of Deep Sky and a documentary about Dale Chihuly that's not even finished. When questioned as to why they wouldn't screen features the answer was simply that "features don't make enough money to support the costs of the licensing". Boeing made 2/3 of Pacific Science Center's revenue. Space needle's head of HR was unaware IMAX is a corporation. I don't think the IMAX corporation is going to want to touch that theater with a ten mile long pole. There is also as of now no set reopening date.
DISCLAIMER: This is only the current plan as of late April 2026. It was only told to me through a good friend of mine, so it may be incomplete info. I made this post because I think even the small chance that folks on here may band together and complain enough to change Space Needle's minds, would be better than doing nothing at all. I do not condone any hateful words towards any involved parties.
This genuinely, honestly and truthfully sucks. I loved that theater. My top cinematic experiences happened there. And Seattle isn't going to take this lightly once the news really drops. I fear that theater will close within a year. I honestly hope someone comes up with some sort of call to action to protest this in some form, it's so beyond obvious that the Space Needle is woefully misinformed on what they've just decided to do.