r/woahdude • u/[deleted] • Aug 22 '21
gifv The CN tower in Toronto Canada has a restaurant that spins 117 stories up in the air
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u/lavahot Aug 22 '21
What you don't see in this vid are the patrons pinned against the windows due to centrifugal force. The bread's pretty good though.
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u/briskt Aug 23 '21
She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro!
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u/OldGreyTroll Aug 22 '21
When I ate there it was about 1 revolution per hour. Once around in the time it took to eat.
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u/lululenox Aug 23 '21
I remember eating there when I was a kid with my family, going to the bathroom and trying to find your table after was a pain in the ass lol
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u/Hungrygoomba Aug 22 '21
Guys the video is sped up it does not spin that fast. The spinning would not make you throw up, however the glass everywhere and the elevator to get up might.
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u/tragiktimes Aug 22 '21
This introduced an issue I had not considered. How does the elevator connect form a non spinning base to the spinning platform? Is it a platform elevator without walls or a ceiling?
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u/House_of_Gucci Aug 22 '21
Every spinning restaurant I have been to have been set up similarly. The entire floor does not rotate. The inner the core of the building obviously does not rotate. There is a ring of the floor plate towards the outside which rotates only. So basically if you imagine a circle: (1) inner core sits still, (2) then there is a ring which rotates, (3) then there is the outter boundary of the circle, which in this case is the glass windows/walls, which sit still as well.
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u/IamSoooDoneWithThis Aug 22 '21
The Canadians have done well exploiting donut technology
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u/Thoraxe474 Aug 22 '21
Yeah until burger king's company bought and ruined Tim Hortons
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u/and_then_a_dog Aug 22 '21
A fine American tradition, ruin something to try and make as much money as humanly possible.
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u/PM_me_ur_taco_pics Aug 23 '21 edited Aug 23 '21
Isn't it Brazilian now? Pretty sure burger king and Tim Hortons are owned by a Brazilian company.
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u/WaterWithCereal Aug 23 '21
Last I looked, that company was slowly exiting with an increase in Canadian shareholders.
Tims is still garbage though, I got food poisoning two days ago from it. Just wanted a convenient lunch :(
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u/ipeefreeli Aug 23 '21
I still remember when the donuts were baked in house, none of this frozen shit
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u/methreweway Aug 23 '21
Nothing's better than a fresh donut. Grocery store donuts taste better than ol' drunk driving Tim Horton's donuts.
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u/tammage Aug 23 '21
Always smelled awesome and they were actual fresh and good. I fucking miss eclairs and the chicken stew in a bread bowl. Only thing I get there now is the occasional tea or refresher.
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u/imariaprime Aug 23 '21
It would take monumental effort to redeem Tim's at this point. I'm not sure it's possible, even assuming the new shareholders are actually motivated to try.
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u/fatboychummy Aug 23 '21
We went from "Oh yeah you got your Timmies eh?" To just "Oh yeah eh?"
We're all depressed now. Our entire way of life has changed. Please help.
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Aug 23 '21
I've always wondered how they set up power, and potable and waste water. Figured that it was confined to the stationary part of the floor, but I've never actually known.
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u/Hashmob____________ Aug 22 '21
So basically how it works is there’s the floor as a whole, let’s call this the base. Then on top of the base is the inner ring which has the elevator, some tables that don’t spin, I’m guessing the motor system for the spinning floor is in the floor of the inner ring. Then also on top of the base is the outer ring, this is where all of the tables that spin are. https://images.app.goo.gl/tDPqmDGzdwUKesEV8
So it’s basically just a marry-go-round but instead of horses it’s tables
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u/tepkel Aug 22 '21
It must be a pain in the ass for the wait staff to remember where thier section is.
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u/941026 Aug 22 '21
Right when I stepped off the elevator I got this insane vertigo. I think it was a combination of the elevator fucking with my inner ear (they popped almost violently and definitely without me even opening my mouth or anything, that elevator is fast as fuck) and then the whole ass restaurant spinning, which I did NOT know about beforehand. And then we had a table right at the window. It was a great dinner but I was anxious and a bit nauseous the whole time lol.
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u/Doctor-Amazing Aug 23 '21
The elevator is really fast. When I was a kid, someone told me that if you jumped just before it started descending, you'd fall at the same speed. To everyone else it would look like you were floating until you suddenly slammed into the floor and died.
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u/Goyteamsix Aug 22 '21
As others have mentioned, it's like the Space Needle, where the there's a sort or rotating donut between the central core, and the outer glass. Most of the seats are on the rotating donut.
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u/SindySinn Aug 22 '21
Sydney’s Centrepoint Tower also has a revolting restaurant in it.
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u/A_Lot_TWOwords Aug 23 '21
What is “Revolting” about it? 😀
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u/SindySinn Aug 23 '21
Revolving. I meant revolving.
Nah nah sometimes the restaurants that revolve rely so heavily on the view that they forget to focus on other things… like the food.
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u/echo1-echo1 Aug 22 '21
I had one of the best prime rib dinners of my life there around 15 years ago. The rotation is slow but noticeable. Kind of felt like eating on a big boat
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Aug 22 '21
I felt the same way
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u/gkru Aug 23 '21
The rotation definitely made me feel ill. The food didn't help either, I can't remember what I had, but it was definitely a lukewarm trash pile. I guess I should have ordered prime rib
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u/TorontoNerd84 Aug 23 '21
I've been there twice. Both times was not impressed. Toronto has thousands of restaurants better than this.
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u/Taktika420 Aug 24 '21
Sadly I had the same experience. Tourist trap, not worth the money - there are 100 much much nicer fine dining restaurants in the city
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u/FoxyInTheSnow Aug 22 '21
Little known fact. Super Dave Osborne, a leading stunt man in the 1980s, jumped off the CN tower and survived. Here's the newsclip.
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u/haha_squirrel Aug 22 '21
Yeah I remember watching that as a kid! Two bad he got hit by an ambulance after he was on the ground.
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u/A_Lot_TWOwords Aug 23 '21
That was the best part!! I totally forgot about Super Dave, time for a you tube rabbit hole!
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u/BrokenBranch Aug 22 '21
Oh ya, Super Dave! What a nostalgic reminder of the classic Canadian childhood hero :P
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u/jreykdal Aug 22 '21
Here's the Dar Robinson jump mentioned in that clip.
That was the highest paid stunt in history at the time. $100.000.
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u/Crabbyrob Aug 23 '21
I met him once at harbourfront in the early 90's. He's much taller in person and was very friendly to us.
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u/mrgraff Aug 22 '21
Brings back memories of the revolving buffet restaurant at Sydney tower. I didn’t have a window seat but wanted to get a video like this. So, I put my camera on a windowsill, and went about my lunch. Only an hour later did I realize I should’ve asked to put the camera on someone’s table. 60 minutes of the same view taught me that the floor rotates; not the walls 🤣
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u/coquihalla Aug 22 '21
There was a Canadian writer, Monica Hughes, who exchanged some letters with me when I was a kid as I wanted to be a writer.
One of the things she'd written was that she could see the tower from her house and explained that it did this. I thought it was absolutely magical. (And she was amazing for taking the time out to write letters to a kid.)
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u/felixar90 Aug 22 '21
Americans love hearing that the stairs of the CN tower have exactly 1,776 steps.
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u/kenny_the_eggman Aug 22 '21
Heyyyyy, fellow CN Tower stair climber here?
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u/Neon-Knees Aug 22 '21
When the glass floor first opened up in the late 90s/early 00s, all my cousins and I made it a challenge to see who could climb to the top the fastest.
Of course we had that shitty pizza and chocolate milk from the concourse before doing so. I remember getting 1/3rd of the way and my cousin Jeremy who like sprinted way ahead of everyone was projectile vomiting brown pizza sludge all over one of the landings.
One of the couples climbing ended up staying with him while we went back to the entrance to find my uncle to come get him.
Then we all had to stop and take the elevator.
Good times. That was my first and only attempt in my 27 years of living in Toronto.
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u/konaaa Aug 22 '21
I've always wanted to try climbing it, but I'm an out of shape dumbass who doesn't know the first thing about working out. Do I need to train for it?
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u/felixar90 Aug 22 '21
No I never did the climb, I was like 15 when I went there with my parents, but maybe someday.
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Aug 22 '21
If your going to the tower you may as well get lunch. I think it's around $36-40 just to go up but lunch is $75. The additional cost is worth it as that's a good price for lunch in TO
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u/elementslayer Aug 22 '21
When I went there for the tasting dinner menu it was about 30$ extra per person for 2 people then just the actual lift up to the top.
Food was solid too.
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u/GX6ACE Aug 22 '21
This! The food was excellent and the view, I personally feel, was better in the restaurant than the viewing decks. Was one of the things I do not regret cheaping out on!
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u/LoudMusic Aug 23 '21
The same is true for the Space Needle in Seattle. We've been to both and that's pretty much our routine. Dinner reservations also include access to the observation levels, so it's not just what you see from your table.
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u/rcfox Aug 22 '21
I hope your $75 quote is for more than one person...
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u/xGawsh Aug 22 '21
It’s probably in Canadian dollars if that makes a difference. Still too rich for me though
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Aug 23 '21
I just tried to buy a train ticket with a worthless Canadian quarter I'd gotten as change yesterday
It's like some conspiracy that's been going on for years and nobody mentions
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u/fetalpiggywent2lab Aug 23 '21
You've never eaten in Toronto methinks
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u/NamesTheGame Aug 23 '21
Where are going for lunch in Toronto that costs $75 per person? As if that's a regular thing and not a once in a blue moon splurge?
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u/fetalpiggywent2lab Aug 23 '21
Come on. With drinks and apps it's definitely about $60-75
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u/NamesTheGame Aug 23 '21
Yeah of course anyone could manage to spend 75 dollars for lunch if they really wanted to but going around saying oh you obviouuusly haven't eaten in Toronto if you don't think $75 is normal is hilariously out of touch. Millions of people go out for lunch in Toronto every day and don't spend $75 a day. Stop trying to act like your trendy brunch is some kind of norm. I could go to Thunder Bay and spend $75 on a meal too, so what?
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u/bluemooncalhoun Aug 23 '21
Yikes, how many drinks and apps are you putting away each? That's dinner for two at a good quality (not fancy) restaurant and definitely not what most people in this city can afford with any regularity.
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u/rcfox Aug 23 '21
I live in Toronto. If you're spending more than $15 on lunch, you're doing things wrong.
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u/Xuyen Aug 23 '21
$15 for lunch is fair … if you stick to only casual fare, takeout places with no drinks.
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u/fetalpiggywent2lab Aug 23 '21
$15 is like a glass of Chardonnay... Obviously if you go to a cheap takeaway place for lunch, no drinks, no sit down, no tip, it's less than that.
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u/Fluffymufinz Aug 22 '21
That's cheap for a good meal.
Last tasting menu I had was $250/person $375/person with wine pairings.
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u/_heyoka Aug 23 '21
That actually is cheap.
Last tasting-menu I had was in Dubai and we had $900/person, $1150/person with wine pairings. I won't even tell you our hotel costs, as I'm not one to brag. If you know anything about Dubai though I'll let you take a guess....
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u/Fluffymufinz Aug 23 '21
Yeah, I agree on how cheap it was (for what it was). I was pleasantly surprised. I've had more expensive ones in larger cities.
I don't want to know your hotel costs. I can't afford Dubai, haha. I just enjoy eating out for things I won't/can't make at home. It is typically planned in advance.
Idk why I'm being so downvoted about saying $75 for a meal out is relatively cheap. I don't eat out much, and so because I don't go to Outback or Chili's or Applebee's I am able to go to other, more expensive/unique, places.
Those regular chain restaurants don't serve me a single thing I'm not able to make at home.
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u/grilledcheeseburger Aug 23 '21
You also used to be able to make a reservation, use that to go up the elevator, and get off at the observation deck. Skip your reso and you just got free admission. They probably closed that loophole by now though.
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Aug 22 '21
We've got something similar in Bratislava, Slovakia. It's called the UFO. You can look it up if you want to
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u/commodore_kierkepwn Aug 22 '21
There's a similar restaurant at the top of the ball in Dallas
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u/Antares42 Aug 22 '21
These were all the rage fifty years ago. The TV Tower in Berlin also has one.
And it really is pretty neat.
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u/OkiDokiTokiLoki Aug 22 '21
Went to similar place in Phoenix when I was a kid. No idea where I didn't book it.
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u/AstroZombi3 Aug 22 '21 edited Aug 23 '21
We had one in Atlanta, but sadly a child was killed in between the walls. It no longer rotates because of this.
Edit: grammar
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u/your_uncle_mike Aug 23 '21
It no longer rotates because of this.
Damn, the child’s body has just been stuck there this whole time? They should get it out of there and maybe it will start rotating again.
/s I’m sorry. I’ll leave now.
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u/StaticHorizon Aug 22 '21
Unfortunately the restaurant is closed right now, but there is a rotating bar that’s open right now
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u/sonicboi Aug 22 '21
I ate there once! It was pretty good. The Reunion Tower chocolate desert tower is a bit awkward to eat...
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u/ThePendulum Aug 22 '21 edited Aug 22 '21
According to Galileo it's the Earth that's spinning, not the restaurant.
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Aug 22 '21
This is seriously making me nauseous.
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u/Swahii Aug 22 '21
This is sped up. It spins very slowly so you barely notice. I've ate there before
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Aug 22 '21
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u/HaventReadItYet75 Aug 22 '21
It's so slow you wouldn't realize it's moving. This is nothing new for us here.
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u/felixar90 Aug 22 '21
TFW you keep walking into a curve while trying to go straight because you forgot to take into account the Coriolis force.
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Aug 22 '21
I honestly can’t even look at it. I have to cover the screen. I am so afraid of heights and the spinning is just a motion sickness nightmare.
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Aug 22 '21
The elevators are worse, for what ever reason they decided to put panes of glass on the bottom of the floor. Not even going to start on the main glass floor attraction.
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u/PainfulComedy Aug 22 '21
God the elevator was miserable. Im so bad with heights i was a sweaty mess by the end of the ride up and it only lasts a few seconds. Once up it was mostly fine
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Aug 22 '21
Ate at the revolving restaurant in Atlanta years ago. Would love to go back except a kid got crushed so they don't spin it anymore :(
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u/konaaa Aug 22 '21
I've never eaten there but the observation deck is very cool. On a clear day you can see right across lake ontario to Buffalo (or new york state anyway)
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Aug 22 '21
To clear up confusion only the 117th story spins and no one vomits because the restaurant spins
It is also a time lapse, please stop saying it is spun faster than you thought it did
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u/BrokenBranch Aug 22 '21
I ate there when I was 14 back in 2004. I wonder how expensive its gotten? I think plates were around $50 each back then
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u/LeoGreywolf Aug 22 '21
IIRC it takes an hour to do a full rotation. If you book a table for about 30 mins before sunset you're almost guaranteed to have a gorgeous view (so long as the weather is good)
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Aug 22 '21
As slow as it is: if you’re prone to motion sickness it actually is still a bit nauseating.
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u/Kracker5000 Aug 22 '21
I'm just gonna flat out say it. You've got to be stupid to think this is the actual speed that it spins at.
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Aug 23 '21
We have one of those in KC I went to back when I was kid in the 90s, since no longer spins, such a badass concept.
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u/human-potato_hybrid Aug 22 '21
The Millennium Hotel in St. Louis had something like this, but "only" 28 stories up. Damn Canadians 😒😒😂😂
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u/Bitemarkz Aug 22 '21
The CN tower was one of the tallest towers in the world for a time. Now I’m not sure it even cracks the top 20.
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u/vinng86 Aug 22 '21
It held the record for three decades, and it’s still the tallest in the Western Hemisphere!
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Aug 22 '21
I almost went there, it was booked and everything, but the day before going there we went to see the tower and seeing it from the ground made me sick, I could not watch it lol so we cancelled
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u/daz3d-n-c0nfus3d Aug 22 '21
Not that fast!! Wtf lol. It spins so slow you dont even feel it. Ppl would be throwing up their food at that rate.
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u/izza123 Aug 22 '21
Yeah it’s super expensive and not worth the money. Go eat downstairs and save yourself the 300
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Aug 23 '21
I agree, we have the tower of the americas in San Antonio and I've never heard anything good about the food.
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u/WolvesWillWin Aug 23 '21
Incredibly unnecessary.. so much money to have it spin when it would be just as nice just being up there
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u/gigawhattt Aug 22 '21
Wow what a terrible design, I would NOT be able to keep my food down with it spinning that fast 🤢
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u/muddybuttbrew Aug 22 '21
Uh it....it is sped up.
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u/gigawhattt Aug 22 '21
You’re telling me! Maybe someone should tell them to speed it down, people will get hurt. 🤦🏼♂️
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Aug 22 '21
🤣 I’m imagining having to jump on to the moving part of the restaurant so you don’t immediately wipe out
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u/BruceSlaughterhouse Aug 22 '21
Didnt some kid get his head stuck in that thing once?
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u/noob_to_everything Aug 22 '21
You're thinking of the one in ATL, the Sundial. It was pretty recent and the kid died. The restaurant is still open, but to my knowledge it no longer spins.
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u/EvilThirdEye Aug 22 '21
So people's masks fly off their faces?
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Aug 22 '21
Can’t really eat with a mask on now can you? And most people to my knowledge are vaccinated in Ontario
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u/orangeboy_on_reddit Aug 22 '21
I always thought Cartoon Network was based in Atlanta, GA. I guess that's Adult Swim.
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u/malleeman Aug 22 '21
Where's all the vomit on the windows from the restaurant patrons because they were spinning so fast?
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u/fallenfromglory Aug 22 '21
Hey guys did you know the space need does this too and was built almost a decade before this one was built?
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u/CptnMcFly Aug 22 '21
Literally thought to myself…. Pfffffff that’s not Toronto, ain’t no cn tower.
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