Proposed Stratasphere Coaster?

That would explain it!

-Tina

The southern part of The Strip is great. Bellagio, the Wynn, Mandalay Bay, Paris, the Venician... the list goes on and on. Compared to that, the part of The Strip that Stratosphere calls home is very dark and somber.

Weird how that spectacular coaster concept got shot down by Vegas locals. I didn't think people in that city would turn down anything. Maybe the place isn't a very good neighbor and there's some kind of animosity towards it?

Even the scale model of that coaster looked absolutely hideous in my humble opinion.

Like a game of 'pin the tail on the tower' that went too far...

-'Playa

It looked hideous, but the same can be said of many things in Vegas. Size definitely takes precedence over beauty in many cases.

How would it get back up to the top?!

Same way many other coasters do: chain lift, LIMS, cable lift, or some other method.

The magic of Flubber!

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VF--New-coaster07 said:
How would it get back up to the top?!

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After the Tower and the High Roller opened, the owners talked about their plans to build a ride on the outside of the tower. It was supposed to be a giant Ape/King Kong which climbed the Tower and would fall back down. The passangers would be seating in its hand.

Sounded totally nuts, but maybe they planned and build the tower with the idea to add something to its outside from the very start.

I've never understood why they never added a plain 'ol freefall-type ride down the side of the tower. Can you image a 1000' freefall?

^NIMBY! ;)

Here's another sketch of the proposed ride.

It was called the Arrow Fish hook coaster.

~Rob Willi *** Edited 7/17/2007 11:45:58 PM UTC by HeyIsntThatRob?***

That thing could be so "feel the power of 0 gravity" space age themed... it could be the longest moment of weightlessness you could feel on the planet (another record Vegas so much loves)
It's all kind of exciting

But if you ever heard how deafening STE at SFMM sounds when it runs - it easily rivals a jet engine - you can understand why the neighbours wouldn't love it, and that's not counting the screams yet.

^The car would have been enclosed.

Wow, 700ft, of weightlessness! Wouldn't that KILL a person?

I was able to get a video of the ride from the arrow website before their demise. Here's a link: http://web.mit.edu/slf/Public/drop.wmv

I always found it amusing that the citizens complained and shot it down. The North end of the strip is the area that's full of homeless and panhandlers, it floods at the hint of rain, and is closest to the residential areas seen on "Cops" multiple times a year. It's odd where people draw the lines of tolerance sometimes.

Since the Statosphere was brought up, does anyone know what happenned to the new thrill ride that was supposed to replace the High Roller 3 months after it closed? *** Edited 7/18/2007 12:47:30 PM UTC by RollerCoastin!!!!***

^^
wow, so they really were making quite detailed plans and simulations about it.
No wonder with such a huge vehicle would it have a lot of aerodynamic resistance and loose a lot of momentum on the way.
People would be pretty much hanging in their restraints all the way down - probably not a very comfortable ride.
The vehicle would have been really massive - an auditorium on wheels, incredible, very Las Vegas - esque!

edit: ...looking closer though, the number of passengers on Griffon actually seems to surpass this one in terms of massiveness.

*** Edited 7/18/2007 1:32:36 PM UTC by superman***

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DantheCoasterman said:
Wow, 700ft, of weightlessness! Wouldn't that KILL a person?

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Would it? Isn't skydiving the same idea?

I agree that the North end of the strip is a dump. I don't think adding a new ride to the Stratosphere will do much to spruce up that area. North of the Wynn hotel it gets questionable.

Now the rumor about putting one on the Eiffle Tower at Kings Island will resurface...

^^^ True, I didn't think about it that way...