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High Roller is a , diameter giant
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, it opened to the public on March 31, 2014 as the world's tallest, and is the world's second tallest Ferris wheel. It is taller than the Singapore Flyer, which had held the record since 2008.


Design

High Roller was announced in August 2011 as the centerpiece of Caesars Entertainment Corporation's $550 million
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. Arup Engineering, which previously consulted on the Singapore Flyer, acted as the structural engineer. The wheel rotates on a pair of custom-designed
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s, each weighing approximately . Each bearing has an outer diameter of , an inner bore of , and a width of . The outer rim comprises 28 sections, each long, which were temporarily held in place during construction by a pair of radial struts, prior to being permanently secured by four cables. The passenger cabins (or capsules) are mounted on the wheel's outboard rim and are individually rotated by electric motors to smoothly maintain a horizontal cabin floor throughout each full rotation. Preliminary designs anticipated 32 passenger cabins, each with a 40-passenger capacity —with the final design accommodating 28 40-person cabins and a total capacity of 1,120 passengers. Each cabin weighs approximately , has a diameter of , includes of glass, and is equipped with eight flat-screen televisions. At night the wheel is illuminated by a 2,000-LED system which can display a single solid color, differently colored sections, multiple colors moving around the rim, and custom displays for special events and holidays.


Construction

Located on Las Vegas Boulevard, across from
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, construction was originally scheduled to begin in September 2011 with a late 2013 completion; subsequently revised to early 2014. The outer rim of the wheel was completed on September 9, 2013. The first passenger cabin was delivered and installed in November 2013 and the final cabin was installed the following month. After preliminary testing, High Roller's lighting system was illuminated at sunset on February 28, 2014. High Roller opened to the public at 4 p.m. EST on March 31, 2014.


Ticketing

Tickets were originally expected to cost less than $20 per ride, but estimates had risen to "about $25 per person" by mid-2012 then "about $30 per person" in September 2013 news reports. When High Roller opened to the public in March 2014, tickets for a single 30-minute ride, the time taken for the entire wheel to rotate once, cost $24.95 (daytime) and $34.95 (nighttime). Other ticket options included a $59.95 Express Pass, allowing the holder to skip the line and ride any time.


Successor as world's tallest

The
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in the United Arab Emirates opened on October 21, 2021. It is tall and was announced in February 2013, with construction to begin in June 2013 and completion in 2015. Construction eventually began almost two years behind schedule in May 2015. Erection of the main support structure was completed in 2016. Further delays pushed the target opening to 2021, coinciding with
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Gallery

File:The High Roller - View From The Linq 2.jpg, View of High Roller from The Linq in 2014 File:The High Roller-Cabin.jpg, One of the 28 cabins in 2014 File:The High Roller - View of the Strip.jpg, High Roller view of the Las Vegas Strip in 2014 File:The High Roller-Peak View East.jpg, High Roller view looking east in 2014 File:Las Vegas High Roller (20216869960).jpg, Top of the High Roller from the base in 2015


See also

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, a former roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Las Vegas tower *
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, a giant Ferris wheel proposed several times for Las Vegas, but never built *
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