{"id":238,"date":"2013-06-19T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-1199783855.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/summer-timeshare-vacation-another-thrill-ride-slotzilla\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:23:00","slug":"summer-timeshare-vacation-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/summer-timeshare-vacation-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Timeshare Vacation – Another Thrill Ride: Slotzilla!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cZip line to zing tourists through Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n

 Take a timeshare vacation and you soon will have a new way to see the lights of Las Vegas – by being spit out of the mouth of an 11-story slot machine and zinged down a five-block zip line past some of the city’s oldest casinos.<\/p>\n

A permanent zip line, dubbed “SlotZilla,” on the downtown Las Vegas promenade known as the Fremont Street Experience, is scheduled to open sometime this summer, 2013. The zip line is costing $11 million to build and will cost $20 to $30 to ride.<\/p>\n

The attraction is actually an expansion of a much smaller, temporary zip line, Flightlinez Las Vegas, that has proved to be a crowd-pleaser.<\/p>\n

Billed as the world\u2019s largest slot machine, Slotzilla will dispense people instead of cash from its towering launch pad.<\/p>\n

A first-of-its-kind \u201cpower launch\u201d system shoots riders at accelerated speeds on zip lines beneath Fremont\u2019s LED canopy. The new attraction will have two tiers of four zip lines.<\/p>\n

The lower lines will extend 850 feet and hang 75 feet above the ground and riders in harnesses will fly in a seated position. The top lines will be 112 feet high and the line will extend 1,700 feet to the front of the Golden Gate hotel-casino.<\/p>\n

On the top lines, riders will fly in \u201csuper-hero position,\u201d lying flat in harnesses, and will be launched at speeds of 35 mph from the propulsion launch system.<\/p>\n

The Fremont Street Experience zip line started out as a 30-day promotional experiment with Flightlinez. Hundreds of thousands of riders later, the Fremont Street Experience board, comprised of downtown resort executives, began looking at how it could develop a permanent zip-line attraction.<\/p>\n

A team of developers and designers that have worked for the Walt Disney Co. and Universal Studios Theme Parks are working together on the SlotZilla project.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas timeshare rentals<\/a> start at just $79\/night right on the Strip.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: newsnotes.blogspot.com<\/p>\n

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