{"id":6616,"date":"2013-12-04T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/04\/final-passenger-cabin-affixed-to-high-roller\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:03:46","slug":"final-passenger-cabin-affixed-to-high-roller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/04\/final-passenger-cabin-affixed-to-high-roller\/","title":{"rendered":"Final passenger cabin affixed to High Roller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i39.tinypic.com\/kb38kx.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 185px\">The final cabin is attached to the High Roller on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\tBy Ed Komenda Las Vegas Inc<br \/>\n\tIf you took a look at the High Roller today, you\u2019d think it was complete.<\/p>\n<p>\tThat\u2019s because construction crews today attached the final passenger cabin to the 550-foot-tall observation wheel. In all, 28 glass-enclosed cabins are now connected to the wheel, the tallest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\tCrews began installing the cabins in early November. Each cabin can hold 40 people, and one revolution of the wheel takes 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Nevada Highway Patrol escorted the 44,000-pound pods to the wheel from an assembly warehouse 10 miles away. The short journey took three hours per pod.<\/p>\n<p>\tThough the High Roller is now structurally complete, workers will now add LED lighting and a communications systems to the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>\tSet to open in 2014, the wheel is at the eastern edge of the Linq entertainment plaza\u2019s 1,200-foot pedestrian walkway.<\/p>\n<p>\tExecutives at Caesars Entertainment Corp., the company behind the $550 million retail-dining-entertainment development, expect between 4 million and 5 million riders in the High Roller\u2019s first year of operation<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final cabin is attached to the High Roller on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. By Ed Komenda Las Vegas Inc If you took a look at the High Roller today, you\u2019d think it was complete. That\u2019s because construction crews today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}