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A leading full-service engineering firm renowned for our trusted, high quality, and innovative approach to solving complex challenges.
Immersive Amusements

Theme Park Engineering

Theme Park Engineering

Today’s patrons demand a fully immersive theme park experience with rides, attractions, concession stands, and event spaces.

Headshot of Steve Bonadonna, Entertainment Regional Practice Leader at McLaren, a Division of KCI

Entertainment Regional Practice Leader

Today’s patrons demand a fully immersive theme park experience with rides, attractions, concession stands, and event spaces. From concept and design to continuous support through fabrication and installation, our multidisciplinary team meticulously engineers theme parks to elevate the guest experience.

KCI, formerly McLaren Engineering Group, specializes in ride show engineering, theming engineering, show staging, facility engineering, technical design and mechanical engineering to create some of the world’s most iconic attractions from Orlando to Macau.

From concept and design to continuous support through fabrication and installation, our multidisciplinary team meticulously engineers theme parks to elevate the guest experience.

KCI, formerly McLaren Engineering Group, specializes in ride show engineering, theming engineering, show staging, facility engineering, technical design and mechanical engineering to create some of the world’s most iconic attractions from Orlando to Macau.

Theme Park Engineering Services:

Queues + Guest Areas

Support for queue systems, line structures, themed waiting areas, shade structures, platforms, barriers, and guest circulation elements.

Engineering Behind the Magic

Theme Park Project
Support

Need engineering support for an attraction, themed environment, show action system, animatronic element, queue, or specialty installation? We can help.

Our entertainment engineers support theme parks, attractions, playplaces, immersive environments, and entertainment destinations with structural, mechanical, technical design, facility, site, and specialty engineering from concept through installation

Partners in the Experience

Theme Park Engineering
Who We Work With

Theme Park Owners + Operators

Supporting attractions, rides, queues, guest areas, themed environments, facility upgrades, and ongoing park improvements.

Creative + Design Teams

Helping translate immersive concepts into safe, buildable, and coordinated structures, systems, and guest experiences.

Fabricators + Specialty Contractors

Providing engineering support for show action equipment, scenic elements, animatronics, ride-adjacent structures, and custom installations.

Architects + Project Teams

Coordinating structural, mechanical, site, facility, and technical design needs from early planning through fabrication and installation.

Responsiveness you can count on

Why Choose Us
To Engineer Your Project?

Entertainment Engineering Specialists

Deep structural and mechanical engineering experience for themed entertainment, attractions, live entertainment, specialty structures, and guest-facing environments.

Creative + Buildable Solutions

Helping owners, designers, fabricators, and contractors turn ambitious concepts into safe, practical, and constructible systems.

Concept-to-Installation Support

Engineering support through concept design, technical design, fabrication, installation, field coordination, and ongoing modifications.

Complex System Experience

Support for themed environments, ride show elements, animatronics, show action equipment, queuing systems, specialty structures, and amusement rides.

Proven Themed Entertainment Work

Experience supporting high-profile attractions, themed environments, and entertainment destinations across major markets.

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Theme Park Engineering
News + Projects

From immersive attractions and themed environments to ride show elements, animatronics, and specialty guest experiences, we helps bring complex entertainment concepts from creative vision to safe, buildable reality.

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Contact Our Team

Whether it’s a new idea, active build, or existing attraction, our team can help engineer the right solution.

We’re excited to share that McLaren Engineering Group is now part of KCI Technologies Inc., a 100% employee-owned firm offering engineering and consulting across all markets, and construction for communications and environmental projects.

Our commitment to excellence continues with the added strength of KCI’s full range of engineering and consulting services.

Visit KCI’s website to learn more.