Thrill Rides, Las Vegas

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When you get on this ride, it looks innocent enough, you walk out onto the deck and get into a chair with your partner and the chair is ON THE BUILDING. But soon you are strapped into the chair and it lifts up off the floor and then all of a sudden you notice that the guard rail seperating you from the edge of the 100 story building has fallen over....then you also notice that the chair you are sitting in is beginning to move TOWARD that edge....and then goes OVER THE EDGE and you are sitting in a chair suspended 100 stories above Las Vegas, but the FUN (??) does not stop there. After you have been swung out over the abyss and even before you can jump back to safety they begin to rotate the chairs, and as the speed picks up the centrifugal force begins to make your chair swing back up and out which in effect leaves you looking straight DOWN !!!!
Have fun.
(PS: Yes that is my teenage daughter on the chair, and YES, I did stand there and let her go on this ride, and YES, I did laugh as she was asking to be let OFF after it swung out off the building, after all it was HER IDEA in the first place.....horrible father aren't I ;O)))

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Look UP, yes UP, to see the rooftop rides on the Stratosphere, you are so far below them you can barely see them. You can see from the first picture just how far above the ground you are. The second picture shows the roller coaster. The third picture shows the "Rail Cars" which shoots you off the edge of the building. The fourth picture shows what it looks like when the rail cars reach the "end of the rail" and then drop off the end....you can see the rail car from inside the restaurant ^O^ and you can also hear the screams of the people when the car "drops" off the edge, even through the soundproof glass ...
The last picture shows the "Swinging Chairs", looks innocent enough doesn't it, but wait till you see more........

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Height: 224 feet
Top speed: 70 mph
2 loopings

- Try to sit in the front seats. A great experience when you'll be launched out of the
building! You'll make first the whole ride foreward, then backwards.
- 10$/ ride
- You need to be 54 inches tall to ride!

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Just go to the top of the Stratophere Hotel here are what must be without doubt the most crazy rides ever, when I was there last year (2004) there were just the two rides , I believe there are now three ? My inteetion was to go on the one which fires you out over the edge then drops about 4ft just to watch from the observation floor is a Mad ..Have a Go if you Dare

You have to try at least one of them. It just half fun riding these rides 110 stories off the ground. Go at night it is better. Cost $9.95 for adults per ride. A different cost if you ride more than one.

For those looking for a thrill, take a ride on the Manhattan Express. The roller coaster leaves the loading dock from the 2nd floor of the NY-NY Hotel. Featuring a "heartline" twist and dive, the Manhattan Express is a wild ride. Reaching heights of 203', and speeds of 67mph, you drop down 75' just in time for the 55 degree, 144' second drop. A series of turns, hills, loops (yes, upside down) leads into the finale heartline twist and dive. If you are still able to breathe and walk, the casino bar is just an elevator ride away!

As of June 2005, it was $12.50 to ride!

The Stratosphere was originally constructed with the Big Shot (a contraption which launches you up a tower on top of the Stratosphere; a 4-g feeling 1,300 feet above Las Vegas City) and the Roller Coaster on the top of the building. Now there is a new ride... it is "Insanity" which spins you while you hang over the edge of the top of the building... nothing between your feet and the 1,300 feet to the street below). See the pics for the roller coaster, Big Shot and the new ride.

You must go up in the lift at the Stratisphere and ride on the Big Shot. What an experience.
You feel as if the restraints are lifted high and you could fall out - in fact you feel as if you will land face down on the strip. he he
The best and worst thrill ride of your life, and not to be missed, if you dare.
The hotel facilities is good too so could spend a day there or evening.