I may generally lack a sense of balance but that doesn’t stop me from wanting a pair of these remote-controlled electric heel-skates. Oh wait, 80kg weight limit? And this is coming to America? More »
There was a great disturbance in the amusement park force this weekend, as Disney revealed that the closing dates for its 20-year-old Star Tours ride would be July 27 (Disneyland) and September 8 (Walt Disney World). More »
I love me some good old fashioned misadventure with jet engines. Brooklyn-based arts collective, The Madagascar Institute, had tested their jet-powered merry-go-round before…but never with people. Thankfully, Popular Mechanics’ Seth Porges stepped up to the plate: More »
The Star Trek Experience—that ride at the Vegas Hilton where you used to be able to tour the Enterprise D bridge and ride in shuttlecraft—is going to reopen next year.
By artist Greg Brotherton, the same guy who gave us the vacuum-inspired minotaur robot, The Migraine Machine spins around its doomed pilot, who spins the opposite direction in dizzy delirium. [Brotron via Super Punch]
The Spring weather I am experiencing has really put me in a summer mindset. The other day it was grilling and today it’s all about amusement parks.
It’s a sad day in New York City history: Astroland, the amusement park at Coney Island, is officially closed for business forever. But New Yorkers’ loss is your gain: now you have an opportunity to buy the famed Astroland’s rides to recreate the dirty, dirty magic in your own backyard.
Martin Montesano’s giant “Walking Beast” isn’t the first robot spider ever made, but it is the only one I can recall that is this enormous and has the ability to take on passengers. His 6 tonne, 23-foot-long creation was built over the course of three years at an expense of US$50,000–and it can carry up to six passengers in its steel belly and two (including the driver) in the head.
