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Sky-High Amusement Parks, Both Imagined and Real

Sky-High Amusement Parks, Both Imagined and Real

Have you ever gazed upon the New York skyline and thought to yourself, there’s an amusement park missing from this picture. Have you ever dreamed of twirling around the top of New York’s fourth-tallest building while strapped into flimsy carnival swings? While it’s certainly not for the faint of heart, these fantasies have been imagined, and now they’ve been rendered into a beautiful new video.

In this quite impressive promotional video for Luna Park in Coney Island, Argentinean director and post-production wizard Fernando Livschitz has transformed Manhattan into a fantastical amusement park. Swings spin atop the Chrysler Building’s iconic art-deco spire, tilt-a-whirls whizz through Times Square and across the Brooklyn Bridge, and a roller coaster zooms around the Empire State Building. Utilizing tilt-shift photography, time lapse, and some wild after effects, Livshitz is a master of turning cities into funfairs.

But if you’re inclined to try out a sky-high amusement park in real life, you’ll have to head over to Las Vegas, where a miniature funfair-in-the-sky sits atop the 1,149-foot-tall Stratosphere Tower, including the world’s tallest amusement ride, a vertical descent called the Big Shot. Unfortunately, a roller coaster twisting around the top of the tower has since been removed, but we’ve included a video of the experience below for old times’ sake.

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