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May 24, 2015 12:13 PM   Subscribe

 
This is just so incredibly cool, especially the elevator.
posted by 4ster at 12:24 PM on May 24, 2015


My breath paused during the elevator ride to the top when the old WTC was there.

Otherwise, it looks really spacious, a bit nicer and brighter than, say, the ones in Chicago.
posted by ZeusHumms at 12:27 PM on May 24, 2015 [1 favorite]


Yikes, for $32 it should be good. Actually at that tariff I'd expect to see space aliens and giant ape on that elevator ride.
posted by sammyo at 12:32 PM on May 24, 2015 [1 favorite]


I used to work at the old WTC. Seeing this view again kinda choked me up. Honestly I don't care what they charge, I'm going back to NYC ASAP to take this ride.
posted by Splunge at 12:34 PM on May 24, 2015 [6 favorites]


I got really excited for a moment because I thought it was going to be an astronomical observatory.
posted by belarius at 12:59 PM on May 24, 2015 [4 favorites]


Yikes, for $32 it should be good.

At 2:00 you're looking right down into my windows. I'll wave at you for free.
posted by StickyCarpet at 1:28 PM on May 24, 2015 [2 favorites]


50% awesome, 50% nauseatingly terrifying. But did the auteur really have to give us a FULL tour of the merch?

StickyCarpet: "Yikes, for $32 it should be good.

At 2:00 you're looking right down into my windows. I'll wave at you for free.
"

Depends. With or without clothing?
posted by Samizdata at 2:05 PM on May 24, 2015


Because, you know, after so many movies and so much TV, I want the WHOLE NYC experience. (Short of being shanked and robbed in an alley.)
posted by Samizdata at 2:06 PM on May 24, 2015


Interesting how the elevator video is calibrated to 1500 as the dawn of time in a totally vacant Manhattan.
posted by 3urypteris at 2:07 PM on May 24, 2015 [5 favorites]


It's kind of odd watching people taking photographs of the video screens in the elevator with their phones.

Or, if you want to get really meta, a guy videotaping people taking photographs of a video monitor with their phones.
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:36 PM on May 24, 2015 [3 favorites]


Me commenting on a comment on a blog post about a guy videotaping people taking photographs of a video monitor with their phones.
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 3:22 PM on May 24, 2015 [5 favorites]


Location offers 360° views, video shows only 180°. New Yorkers really don't like New Jersey, eh?
posted by Sys Rq at 4:29 PM on May 24, 2015


When I saw the term Go Pro I hoped for a moment it would be one of those first person POV films of some poor guy who has to free-climb to the tippy-top of an antenna to change a light bulb.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:26 PM on May 24, 2015


No I'm sorry that's too tall. Nothing in the world needs to be that tall. Oh god.

That lift ride was cool af though.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:26 PM on May 24, 2015


oh lol 32 bucks. Plus presumably you gotta tip everybody. Imma just torrent this lift ride.
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:27 PM on May 24, 2015


Which Industry Association of America covers lift ride videos and will try to sue me?
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:28 PM on May 24, 2015


It makes me sad that this observatory and even the gift shop are crap compared to what we had before...can you seriously not go outside?

Cool elevator I guess.
posted by trackofalljades at 9:11 PM on May 24, 2015


Location offers 360° views, video shows only 180°. New Yorkers really don't like New Jersey, eh?

It's just that Chris Christie is demanding a kickback before he lets his state be shown on the video.
posted by TedW at 4:13 AM on May 25, 2015 [1 favorite]


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