Part One – South Korea
A trip to the beach rendered as an image of insane, franchise supported, congestion.
Part Two – Las Vegas
The Stratosphere. An entire tower top one stop amusement park extravaganza. Various theme park attractions are strewn around the top of tower. A serpent like rollercoaster wraps itself around the top of the tower is not mentioned in the official publicity. Perhaps no one has noticed yet?
Besides the roller coaster, a further three rides are available.
The X-Stream that you can see above hanging off the edge of the building, the Big Shot which ‘catapults’ its occupants to a height of over 300m above ground level, and finally – Insanity: The Ride; a claw like device that spins its occupants at a high velocity 275m above the Nevada Desert.
Image taken by Flickr user: Zombie Jen
There seems to be a trend of theme-parking of landmarks globally. Earlier, we saw the Grand Canyon getting the “Sky Walk” with Sydney’s Centrepoint Tower not far behind with their very own “Sky Walk” and more recently at the Eureka Tower in Melbourne the “Sky Deck” thrill seekers step out into an opaque glass cube that soon, due to the technological leaps made in glass technology through the R&D invested in nightclub bathrooms, turns clear. I guess you then look down, astounded.
Just how perilous ‘The Edge’ is is in doubt, however, given that it is prominently advertised as being: “easily accessible by wheelchair and children 7 years or under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.”
The attempt by these glass floor experiences to thrill is nothing compared to what’s going on at The Stratosphere. Here, without the spectacle of a sublime landscape or cityscape to stand on a glass floor over, the strategy here is too try to give the thrill seekers as much velocity as possible, before yanking them back to the relative security of a Las Vegas observation deck.
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