Foxwoods Resort Casino last week opened Thrill Tower, which has two rides with a 120 foot drop so scary that the Felix Rappaport, chief executive officer of Foxwoods, pronounced himself truly impressed after he tried it out.
“I wouldn’t say it’s scary, but it’s unknown until you do it,” he said after trying the four-person Sky Drop, which rises 120 feet and then drops to the courtyard, creating a brief effect of weightlessness.
The two-person Sky Launch throws its passengers into the air ten stories high and then brings them to earth using cables, with magnets breaking the fall.
Another employee Dennis Champlain, told the Hartford Courant, “It was nice and smooth. I can’t say that I was scared. The g-force going up was something I always wanted to experience.”
The thrill ride, the first at an east coast casino, is part of an expansion of non-gaming amenities at the resort and takes advantage of the wooded part of the Mashantucket Pequot 1,200-acre reservation. It will, says Rappaport, move the resort towards being a “full-service destination resort.”
It will be followed by the HighFlyer Zipline in a few weeks, which will transport riders 60 miles per hour 330 feet high.
