What is a Family Entertainment Center?

Family entertainment center(FEC for short) always strives to maximize family fun and provide new and diverse activities for everyone to enjoy. 

What is an FEC?

Apart from being a fun and exciting way for you and your family to spend the day together, a family entertainment center is actually a small scale amusement park marketed towards families with small children or teenagers. FECs include an incredible wide range of entertainment options including climbing walls, arcade games, mini golf, free fall rides, ropes courses, laser tag, and more. And the wide range of games and activities provide entertainment for all ages and leave every member of the family with a fun and thrilling experience.

Family entertainment centers, sometimes called family fun centers, have been around for decades. The first family fun centers gained popularity in the early 1970’s as arcades and miniature golf facilities, and quickly spread across USA. As time went on, these facilities continued to expand and gain more activities, games, and new innovations. Today, nearly every FEC still includes arcades and mini golf courses however many new FEC activities have entered the scene. As the industry continues to grow, FEC games and equipment will continue to become more inclusive and diverse.

Equipment in Modern FEC

Today, we see a variety of new equipment that has been added to the list of FEC essentials. Go karts, high ropes course, climbing walls and other thrilling equipment are just some of more common FEC activities and rides. With these newly incorporated standards, family entertainment centers are even more exciting and cater to a greater range of customers.

A High Ropes Course is modern addition to the classic family fun center, which can be both indoor and outdoor. With various aerial challenge activities, participants will be more exciting here.



Zip Line is another thrilling element to add into FEC. By using state of the art zip line equipment, you can create a fun zip line with automatic brake for your customers.



Many family entertainment centers also love to add Climbing Walls to give their FEC a well-rounded experience for the whole family. Climbing wall with auto belay can always provide exciting reliable family fun.



JP Development offer High Ropes Course, Zip Line, and Climbing Walls, and if you have any question about the equipment above or plan to build Family Entertainment Center indoor / outdoor, feel free to contact us.

Zipline in China

Zipline, also named Zip Wire, Aerial Runway, Death Slide, Flying Fox, etc., consists of a pulley suspended on a cable and usually mounted on a slope. It’s designed to enable a user propelled by gravity to slide from the top to the bottom of an inclined cable by holding on to or attaching to the freely moving pulley.

In some remote areas in China, such as Nujiang Valley in Yunnan Province, Weining in Guizhou Province, ziplines served as the purposes of bridges across rivers though now most of them have been replaced by real bridges.

Apart from this, zip line was used in alpine self rescue and military assault in early times in China, and now, it comes in many other forms as a mean of entertainment full of challenge, excitement and joy. When short and low, the zipline is designed for children play and usually found on some playgrounds. While longer and higher rides are often used as a means of accessing remote areas, such as forest canopy in scenic spots.

Nowadays, zipline tours are becoming popular vacation activities among Chinese, and can be found many outdoor adventure camps and upscale resorts, where they may be an element on a larger challenge ropes course.

JP Development is professional in building zipline as an element of challenge ropes as well as forest adventure and this kind of project has been built in several countries all over the world.

If you’re interested to learn more, feel free to contact us.