Will the i360 engineers have allowed for 200 people jumping up and down in their pod? That's a frightening thought.
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Brighton i360 construction update.
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Vegas Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2009
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I just don't understand what there will be that's worth seeing from the top. The English Channel - great; The South Downs - you can get much better views from driving or walking through the Downs; Brighton rooftops - wow; The Isle of Wight - on a clear day maybe.
As said by a previous poster, at least Portsmouth Harbour is interesting. And from the London Eye you get a panorama of the London skyline.
As said by a previous poster, at least Portsmouth Harbour is interesting. And from the London Eye you get a panorama of the London skyline.
Puppet Master
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- Aug 14, 2012
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Indeed. The Wheel is really disappointing, the view is a load of sea and the rooftops of Kemp Town and Whitehawk - big whoop.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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The Wheel is 50m high. The i360 will be over three times as high.
I have read that the bit which goes up and down can be hired for gigs. This has to happen.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Was planning to go down and take a look today, but weather's so truly madly deeply shitty that can't be arsed.
jgmcdee
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- Mar 25, 2012
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Will one be able to see the AmEx from the top?
Or a victory party for Jeremy Corbyn?
So you get to see three times as much sea and three times as many rooftops. Amazing.
This! I cannot believe people are moaning about this. I for one cannot wait to get up there and have a look about. SOD THE HATERS.
Yeah right, great view of an industrial field of wind turbines all too soon.
Pogue Mahone
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You will get a great view over Brighton and the Downs. Both beautiful, both full of sights worth seeing, and seeing them from a new angle will be lovely.
It'll be brilliant.
It will also look great from the beach, close up or from a distance, and from the sea.
I don't understand the negativity.
Pogue Mahone
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Are you talking about the proposed wind farm 10 miles out to sea?
Yeah, that'll look impressive too.
thedonkeycentrehalf
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- Jul 7, 2003
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The views you show from the Spinnaker are fine and you didn't even show the Isle of Wight. However, I fear that the thing is bound to fall over at some point as the weight of visitors is always on one side given that nobody ever looks out of the other side to see the slums of Fratton, Copnor, Milton, etc.
desprateseagull
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Will it have wifi?
Just being the tallest building, means nothing..
Just being the tallest building, means nothing..
symyjym
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I haven't got a problem with it, and it will look good at night. Will be interesting to see if it actually draws in the 400k visitors needed to break even though. They originally estimated that it would attract 800k. The Wheel gets around the 185k mark, and it’s the same targeted tourist market.
It will probably be like a cattle market over the summer squashing in 200 people a ride, but on days like today and through the winter months, there might only be a few people on each ride with an empty 400 seater restaurant.
I will probably try once it out off peak, when it's not shoulder to shoulder in the pod.