Stratosphere Tower: High Roller Dismantling

[Mr Stratosphere]

Hey everyone its been a long time since ive been on, but i got a bit of news, The roller coaster world is going to be losing the World's Highest Roller Coaster!!!!

Thats right kids, the High Roller atop the Stratosphere Tower is being removed, Its last day of operation is December 30th 2005, thats right its a week from today!!!

The High Roller will not even make it to be a decade old. We do not know what will take its place yet, but this is one bit of news that is kinda sad. Well it is to me.

 

John

Why stop at the edge.....When you can go over!!??

[zaneymon]

Its alway sad to see a coaster go and this is no excepitiona noother credit missed out on

[What Now]

I'm glad I have that credit.

 

I wonder if this means that they'll add another ride?

[Hicko]

Nooooooooooo. I'm going in 2007 and I wanted to ride that thing!

[ncf]

It's actually nothing special IMO, I was very disappointed...

[lapseofreason]

Noooo!

 

I've only been on that once!

 

And there's no way I can get there and ride it again in a week!

 

 

Waaahhh... I love you, High Roller.. so fun and cheap to boot.... I'll just to have to express my sorrow by riding your (S&Ster) Big Shot...

 

 

 

-Amanda "RIP High Roller, you were a cheap thrill just like the rest of Vegas" Vincelli

[Bubba Z]

I heard or saw a post that they want to add a bungee drop or zip line?

[lapseofreason]

I heard or saw a post that they want to add a bungee drop or zip line?

 

Now THAT would rule.

 

Kinda like one of the rides they originally proposed, where a coaster train dropped down the side of the tower and across Las Vegas Blvd.

 

Check out http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com and click on "dreams" to see how much this would have ruled!

 

-Amanda

[coastered]

Nooooooooooo. I will go to Vegas in 2006 and I wanted to ride that thing!

I know it's not a great coaster, but I want the credit (and the view).

[lapseofreason]

Nooooooooooo. I will go to Vegas in 2006 and I wanted to ride that thing!

I know it's not a great coaster, but I want the credit (and the view).

 

Actually, the view is not that great, as (especially with the first ride) you are scared of how high up you are!

 

I am still freaked out when I go up the tower! But maybe you will not be so acrophobic.

 

-Amanda

[CoasterCrazy]

I wish I could have had the chance to ride it, I think it would have been a lot of fun. I hope they replace it with something better.

[Dark Vampire]

What's the reason for removing this ride?

[DerekRx]

Wow, I'm glad I finally got out to Vegas when I did, and that I was lucky enough to get to ride the High Roller. It may not have been very extreme, but it was pretty unique having a coaster that high in the air. I can only assume the removal of this means they'll try to get another coaster of sorts in its place.

[TheStig]

Aww bummer man! Im really glad I got the credit, but it was about 5 years ago and I was only 10 so I dont really remember the ride that much, but I remember it being scary as hell! Oh well, another one bites the dust...

 

Colin C

[haux]

Kinda like one of the rides they originally proposed, where a coaster train dropped down the side of the tower and across Las Vegas Blvd.

 

Check out http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com and click on "dreams" to see how much this would have ruled!

 

-Amanda

That was going to be made by Arrow. I remember all the fuss about it. People didn't want it because it would be noisy, so Arrow lowered the height from about 750 feet to 400 feet. Then it just hit snag after snag and eventually was scrapped.

 

I'm upset that I never got to Las Vegas. High Roller doesn't look like the best or the most fun, but it is an experience unlike any other.

 

Hey, if you dig deep enough on that Web site, there were plans for a stand-up coaster to be built at the Titanic resort. That'd be cool.

[momo1tx]

That's kind of a dissapointment, but hopefully something cool is going there. I find it kind of funny how all of the coaster books would rave about how coool it is to ride it, yet no one really liked it that much.

[Shockwave]

Well at least it's not the Big Shot that going.

 

I just wonder what they could put in the space the caoster is taking up.

[benzo41190]

I think that they should just put in a bunch of flats instead of a new coaster. Imagine a "A Topple Tower" over the edge. Or some other flats like a Zipper, Roll-O-PLane, Inverter, A Skyscraper........

[RCTfan]

Sadness! I wanted to experience it! Sure, it may not have been that great but would've been a unique experience.

 

Maybe they'll replace it with an Intamin launch coaster with a 400 foot tophat that will go over the Power Tower. YES. It'll launch in circles around the tower until it reaches its speed to top the tower.

 

I know, I'm brilliant. When it happens, I get credit!

[coasterdude5]

Darn.... I might be going to Las Vegas in a couple of years...

[lagg]

I hope to see another coaster added in, that coaster looked cool. Its a shame to see it leave though. A bungee would be great, but I would love to see an Intiman mini mega coaster on that tower. *keeps dreaming*

[socalMAN123]

So sad, so sad. Another credit lost this year. I have an idea for them! Make a Wild Mouse going off the side!

---Brent 8)

[CoasterEricHP]

Sad to see it go.. especially since we'll never get the credit! I guess they cant uh.. relocate it .

 

But anyways, I'm drooling over the possibilities of what else they could put out there.. maybe another coaster?

 

Eric

[niiicolaaah]

alas, another credit i shall never get.

[Scaparri]

That kind of sucks. I was looking forward to riding it in March. Oh well I guess.