I used to play massive amounts of roller hockey, and I’ve been known to hit the ice, but it’s been a (long) time. So, when the family went to the American Museum of Natural History, we jumped at the chance to try the skating rink.
We were excited! We immediately rented skates, changed into them, and got right out on the ice… er… synthetic ice. Yes, it was made from plastic interlocking pieces, and while it looks just like ice in the photo, it didn’t act like ice. Much to our dismay, it was amazingly terrible. You couldn’t skate on it; the skates just slid all over the place making it impossible to get traction to actually, well, skate. Everyone was just standing still or falling. There wasn’t much in between. And when you fell, you’d get covered with all of the little plastic shavings the skates were carving out of the “ice.” Funny thing is, the justification was that it was more eco-friendly. More eco-friendly than ice in the winter? Huh?
Didn’t anyone try out the synthetic ice before building an entire installation of this crap? The planetarium is amazing, but AMNH gets an epic fail for the rink.
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