jaw were drop all around when our own Adam Frucci make for back video of hisharrowing 377 - foot - mellow ridein a looking glass - bottomed cable car on the Odaiba Ferris Wheel in Tokyo , but now the Chinese are going to top that steering wheel with the tall one in the world . Today , construction began on the Great Wheel of China , a $ 99 million Ferris bicycle that will tower over Beijing at a stupendous 680 feet when expression is complete in 2009 . This is not just any Ferris wheel , though .
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You wo n’t be sit in swinging and swaying benches on this baby . Each one of its 48 cars is like a gondola , air - conditioned and make 40 passengers , for a totality of 1920 stomachs contract against the top of their abdominal cavities as the big bike keeps on turnin ’ . Nobody ’s talk about how long it ’ll take to load this beast . Too speculative there was so much bickering over the design of the gigantic cycle , because originally the plan was to finish construction in clip for next summer ’s Beijing Olympics . [ MSNBC , viaSpluch ]
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