Phuket investors dream big with world’s highest Ferris wheel

[snoop1130]

Phuket investors dream big with world’s highest Ferris wheel
Chutharat Plerin

PHUKET: -- The world’s highest Ferris wheel will be built in Phuket, investors announced this afternoon.

“The Giant Ferris Wheel will break the record for the highest Ferris wheel in the world. It will be Phuket’s land mark,” said Igor Protasov, the chief executive officer for Thai Business Development Co Ltd (TBD).

Currently, the highest Ferris wheel in the world is the ‘High Roller’ in Las Vegas, which is 167.6 meters high.

Full Story: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Phuket-investors-dream-big-worlds-highest-Ferris/63559?desktopversion

-- Phuket Gazette 2016-03-29

[fiddlehead]

You're 2 days early, Gazette.

[FireMedic]

I thought they kicked this around years ago.....at the park by Bangla. Whoever dares go on it.......look out. Could suffer from brake failures or intoxicated workers.

[colinneil]

Well i will never use it.

I like my feet on terra firma- the more firma the less terror.

[chercheur888]

"“They have designed and built six of the world’s largest Ferris wheels, including the 90-metre one at Mirabilandia Park in historic Ravenna, Italy, Europe’s largest"

And the London Eye is 135 Meters But as the title says "Investors Dream Big"

[thequietman]

Now all they need is a really, really, really big hamster.

[Goldieinkathu]

I can see it now - "Foreigner in fatal plunge from highest Ferris wheel"

[ExpatOilWorker]

Meanwhile, in another province Worlds Highest Flagpole.......was also never build.

[JHolmesJr]

A new way for farangs to end it all if they dont live in a highrise condo.

[namatjira]

That's where it all goes wrong, just not very original, why not the worlds biggest hamster

[JHolmesJr]

That's where it all goes wrong, just not very original, why not the worlds biggest hamster

Because it might breed and take over the world.

[clockman]

Another reason not to visit, Phuket!

[steelepulse]

A little birdie mentioned something to me about being in the new King Power complex going in behind the huge King Power building which I',m pretty sure is on the Anuphas family land. How it will pass all the envirornmental aspects is beyond me . Those Anuphas people seem to like to go into JV's by donating the land, then getting some good points out of the JV.

Edited March 30, 2016 by steelepulse

[yankee99]

I thought they kicked this around years ago.....at the park by Bangla. Whoever dares go on it.......look out. Could suffer from brake failures or intoxicated workers.

Brake failures on a ferris wheel luckily wont be very dangerous

[mosquitobill]

Thai built Ferris wheel oh yes you would get me on that not.They cannot even build a road properly

[IamNoone88]

167.6m seems to contravene the Building height code by about 10x. Am I missing something here?

[madmitch]

Russian-Thai JV.

Certainly after the Chinese and Russian tour group trade.

Unless it's the Anuphas family's way of seeing all of their land from one point!

[PlastikbinLina]

I suppose the Ferris wheel seats will be made up from the banned beach chairs and umbrellas? I somehow suspected that they wouldn't go away. The beginning of the end of an island paradise.

[Tchooptip]

Guess how interested I can be ..0%...I am suffering from vertigo

[PETERTHEEATER]

I thought they kicked this around years ago.....at the park by Bangla. Whoever dares go on it.......look out. Could suffer from brake failures or intoxicated workers.

Brake failures on a ferris wheel luckily wont be very dangerous

I predict that they will 'fail' allowing the wheel to accelerate to high speeds catapulting suicidal farangs far out across the bay.....

[elgordo38]

I thought they kicked this around years ago.....at the park by Bangla. Whoever dares go on it.......look out. Could suffer from brake failures or intoxicated workers.

Brake failures on a ferris wheel luckily wont be very dangerous

Being new it should be OK for about a year till lack of maintenance takes over. Usually this type of nonsense appears along with the worlds tallest buildings just before the world economy tanks.

[Ulic]

World Com, Enron, Bernie Madoff, all come to mind when I read this nonsense.

[bangon04]

What could possibly go wrong?

[trogers]

It will go like all other ferris ? wheels, bust.