Thrill Rides at the Stratosphere Hotel Las
Vegas
Insanity
Ride at the Stratosphere Hotel Las Vegas Not
all the scariest rides are roller coasters, a fact that
everyone who has been to the top of the Space Needle like
Stratosphere hotel in Vegas knows only too well.
Perched over the Strip,
the most frightening of the Stratosphere’s three rides is an
electric-green-colored centrifuge called Insanity, which
extends 64 feet over the north edge of the tower. Spinning over
40 mph, riders are angled down by 70 degrees so all they see is
the street, 900 feet below. Opened in 2005, it is the second
highest thrill ride in the world, and truly one of the world’s
most harrowing rides.
XScream Ride at the Stratosphere Hotel
Las Vegas
If you chicken out on the Insanity Ride, try the Xscream. The
appropriately titled X-Scream is only slightly less
frightening, propelling riders head first 27 feet over the edge
of the building in a roller-coaster car, and dangling them in a
weightless state before retracting the car and then repeating
the whole thing at a steeper angle. Tip: the back seats are
less scary, the front seats requires a change of underwear
after the ride.
Big Shot Ride
at the Stratosphere Hotel Las Vegas This is the one
that made the Stratosphere famous. You're strapped into a chair
with your legs dangling, and then they shoot you straight up
the tower's steeple, 160 feet in two seconds, at four G's. Then
they freefall you so you get negative G's, then shoot you up
again! If this ride started at ground level it would be scary,
but add to that the fact that you're a thousand feet from the
ground and it's terrifying. As you're going up you worry that
the brakes will fail and you'll go straight off the steeple and
land down the strip at the Sahara.
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