Description

Wizard’s Way is a free-roam mixed-reality adventure from DreamPark, currently open at Dave & Buster’s on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Guests walk into a full wizarding school in the real building, wearing Meta Quest headsets, where a digital world is layered over the physical space. The grounds are the school. The school is the adventure.

Before arrival, each visitor completes an initiation: choosing a clan (Embermere, Moonmere, or Thornwall), binding a wand, and receiving a personalized relic. That identity travels into the experience and home from it, stored in MyDreamPark, DreamPark’s persistent guest profile that carries progress and items across every visit and every DreamPark location.

On the grounds, visitors choose their quest. The primary quest, The Dragon Hoard, runs about 60 minutes: collect the scattered runes across the school, then face the dragon in the inner sanctum. It’s a boss encounter designed for a full party. Side quests run shorter. Gnomes, Where! is an exploration hunt through secret doors and sealed rooms; Gimbly’s Carnival is open-ended, drop-in lawn games and spells along the green for guests who came to hang around and have fun rather than chase a boss fight.

Visitors going solo get matched into a circle on arrival. Groups assemble their own circles before they come, using the initiation flow to invite friends and give everyone time to choose their clan and wand before setting foot in the school. Because the experience runs stream-through, multiple groups moving through the grounds concurrently, operators see real throughput across the session window, not a single group at a time.

DreamPark runs on Meta Quest headsets using mixed reality, which means guests can see the actual space and the people around them throughout the adventure. The platform requires no permanent construction: the software is the attraction, and the footprint is whatever space an operator has. At the Hollywood location, DreamPark has taken over a section of Dave & Buster’s. The DreamPark platform also supports PICO 4 headsets for operators working within that ecosystem.

Wizard’s Way is an original IP built entirely by DreamPark. The three-clan structure, wand mechanics, relic system, and branching quest design are proprietary, and each return visit holds the opportunity to pursue a different quest, try a new clan, or bring a new circle through the school for the first time.

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