Brighton Wheel

[Vicar!]

Great prospect for Wheel ticking. Maybe it should have its own magazine. Wheeltastic. Got to admit its a change from Weatherspoon ticking!!!

 

[Lewes Seagull]

Do you all wheely need to be so ferrisocious about it?

 

[Drumstick]

Is this the same thing that turns up in Nottingham, Derby and every other city up and down the country?

They had one in York as well

Maybe they are just recycling them around the country. Re-inventing the wheel, as it were.

More than likely.

It was previously located in Paris in 2008, Copenhagen in 2009 and Cape Town in 2010. Here So this is it's UK debut!

Great prospect for Wheel ticking. Maybe it should have its own magazine. Wheeltastic. Got to admit its a change from Weatherspoon ticking!!!

Am I being blonde or wtf is Wheel/Weatherspoon ticking?

 

[Drumstick]

Copenhagen

Paris

Cape Town

Brighton

 

[Cullip4]

Cant believe you are all falling for the "Brighton Wheel" story it is obviously some kind of radar system to detect the UFO's that are flying over on the way to the secret base at Southwick Tunnel.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

If it was an original thing to do, then all well and good, but it's been done so many times, and far better (as in The Eye), that it seems a bit cliched and tacky.

 

[Storer 68]

Is this the same thing that turns up in Nottingham, Derby and every other city up and down the country?

Indded it is. And the one they put up a few years ago in Manchester welcomed everyone to ................................................ Paris!

Surely it is just a huge fan which is needed to blow the foul stench of Selhust away from the clean air of Sussex.

and here is the one they put up in Manchester. Hmmmmm, looks familiar.......................

 

[MattBackHome]

I love this.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Is this thing permanent?

Those shorter "spokes" in the middle immediate;y made me think of the Sputnik illumination that must have been quite near there back in the earl 70's. Anyone else see this or is it just me?

PS These were known as rotospheres and there's a whole history of them here http://www.agilitynut.com/sca/roto.html

Loved the old light bulb show, bring it back I say

 

[Storer 68]

Blimey I remember tyem. The ball used to go round and the spikes were illuminated as they rotated.

Very flash for 1971 I can tell you

This is how I remember them

 

[Woodchip]

There are some lovely buildings along there, hardly multi-story carpark

The Van Allen is hardly a lovely building. Take the glass out and it looks like a multi-storey.

 

[catfish]

Do you all wheely need to be so ferrisocious about it?

Some people spoke very highly of it...

 

[Lush]

The moaning could easily get a bit tyreing.

 

[easy]

I went down and had a look, I like it.

 

[catfish]

Let's put a positive spin on it...

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Im going to wait until its really windy & take the wife and kids on

 

[Half Man Half Biscuit]

I took a snap of it today with our club badge in the foreground:

 

[spongy]

Which way will it rotate? Clockwise or anticlockwise?

That depends on what side of it you're looking at it from.....

 

[RexCathedra]

The Van Allen is hardly a lovely building. Take the glass out and it looks like a multi-storey.

Did not the IRA have a go at that a while back?

 

[Goring Gull]

Hmmmm. The London Eye gives you a great view all over London. The Brighton Wheel gives you a great view of a load of houses, a bit of countryside, a few landmarks (Pavilion! Amex!) and a lot of water.

Exactly, thought that when i drove past last saturday - I certainley won't be wasting my hard earned cash on that. Also what happened to the Brighton Dougnut thing they were going to build.