Thursday, 15 March 2007
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TreeHugger-Style Roller Coaster in Japan: It's Pedal Powered
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.14.07
Here is the future of the green amusement park: The Skycycle at Washuzan Highland Park in Okayama, a pedal-powered roller coaster. They clearly have some dramatic topography to take advantage of here, and it looks truly frightening. Most North American amusement parks are on pretty flat terrain but they often build artificial mountains- Demand a green ride like this on the Magic Mountain.
The side-by-side tandem pedal-powered carts have seat belts, and a cute pink basket.
close-up of the cart
off you go
this looks really scary...
I think I may have made a mistake....
OMG I have to go on THAT?
UPDATE: No, as commenters pointed out and I missed, that is a separate roller coaster. If you
check out the additional pictures link at the bottom you will see this more clearly.
this is evidently known as "the third corner of fear!"
pretty spectacular view of the Shimotsui-Seto Bridge in the background.
::more pictures here via ::trendhunter
I got VCU over Duke right!!! WOO HOOO!!Luxury Pie: NYC Restaurant Offers $1,000 Pizza
Nino Selimaj Unveils Grand Pizza Featuring Caviar, Lobster
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(CBS) NEW YORK We've been dealing with the pocket-emptying effects of rising gas prices, new electric rates, and an increase in cab fare, but how would you feel about breaking the bank all for...a pizza? Now you can find out thanks to Manhattan restauranteur Nino Selimaj, who has apparently brought from the heavens a real "pie in the sky" with his new $1,000 pizza.
Yep, that'll be $1,000 please.
The pizza will be added to the menu at "Nino's Bellisima," one of Selimaj's six restaurants in the city. Forget traditional cheese and pizza sauce, the record-priced pie will be topped with creme fraiche, chives, eight ounces of four different kinds of Petrossian caviar, four ounces of thinly sliced Maine lobster tail, salmon roe, and a little bit of spice with wasabi.
And unlike your typical pizza, this one won't be cooked, after all, that would spoil the fish. The 12-inch pie is sliced into four pieces, which comes to $250 per slice.
"Let them say I'm crazy," Selimaj says. "But I believe in this product, and it's gonna sell!"
So who's gonna buy this pie? Selimaj is betting Wall Street business types.
"My luxury pizza will become as famous as a night at the Waldorf Astoria. When Mr. Chow's introduced upscale Asian Cuisine several years ago, people couldn't imagine paying hundreds of dollars for Chinese food. Now upscale Asian cuisine is as common as New York hotdogs. Upscale Pizza will be next," Selimaj said.
The previous international record for pizza found on a menu was $193 at Gordon Ramsey's Maze restaurant in London.(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
"Let them say I'm crazy. I believe in this product, and it's gonna sell!" -Nino Selimaj
Got a thousand bucks to spare? Why take a vacation when you can order this $1,000 pizza?
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Nino Selimaj shows off his "luxury pizza" which he's selling for $1,000.
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