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Brighton: i360 Tower

I would agree that it is not the best looking tower:

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The colour of the tower changes in the light. In nice sunny weather it glows with a shiny aluminium finish and looks alright but introduce some cloud cover and it goes the dreary and dull gray colour pictured. And it is the UK after all so overcast days are not exactly a rarity.

I think it will look quite spectacular with the glass pod ascending up it though.

As a Brighton resident myself, I don't understand all the hate, seems to be a great investment for the Seafront that has already started to revitalise that end of the beach. Sure it's not perfect but we should be lucky to have investment coming into the Seafront at all, given the state of other Seafront towns up and down the country!
 
I just hope there is some kind of lighting package to make it look something at night.

Yes it's good investment for the seafront, but even with the resident discount (£7 or however much) you only get 180 degrees of views. Half the view will be like looking out of a plane window over the Atlantic.

It's also sticks out like a sore thumb from almost anywhere north of the town. I'm glad there is a hill in the way so I don't see from my house.
 
shawnoc said:
I just hope there is some kind of lighting package to make it look something at night.

Yes it's good investment for the seafront, but even with the resident discount (£7 or however much) you only get 180 degrees of views. Half the view will be like looking out of a plane window over the Atlantic.

It's also sticks out like a sore thumb from almost anywhere north of the town. I'm glad there is a hill in the way so I don't see from my house.
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It does have fully customisable lighting, they were testing it a couple of weeks ago. I live on a hill north of town and can see it from my living room! I don't really mind it though, seems quite exciting to have a tall landmark I can see from my window, and I think it will look pretty good with the glass pod up the top.

As for views, you can see the isle of wight on a clear day from my house, so I'm sure from up there on a sunny day you will be able to see quite far. The wind farm is being built out there as well, so there will be at least something to look at on the sea facing side, though admittedly not the most stimulating view!
 
I went last Saturday, it is good and you can see a fair way along the coast. However, during the sunny weather, you get lots of reflections on the glass. If you thought the London Eye was bad, you haven't seen anything yet! Shame really
 
I've never really seen the point of these towers in seafront towns. I feel exactly the same about the Weymouth Tower, I just don't see the point. Half of your view is the sea and as for the other half, Brighton and Weymouth aren't exactly huge town. I feel that these observation type attractions are far better suited to city centres where there's more to view, although the tall buildings offer the same experience.
 
@Enter Valhalla I agree to an extent, they feel like they're from an era gone by, not least because there are a couple rotting away throughout our green and pleasant land.

That said, I think they're more novel than a ferris wheel, and the view is typically better. Blackpool Tower is OK for 180 degrees, the back half toward the town, not so much...

I wish there was more interest in building Flying Island attractions, but it seems not. Perhaps the finances, and perhaps the maintenance don't work out.
 
The one in Morecambe is rotting away nicely, was in Blackpool on the Pleasure Beach, roughly where the entrance stairs to Infusion are.
Rotting away nicely now on a derelict site.
Polo, the mint in a hole!
 
Thought I'd revive this as there have been a few developments and changes to the i360 in the past few years. The sponsor of the attraction, when it first opened, was British Airways, but naming rights lapsed in December 2022 and BA decided to pull out. The tower was originally funded through loans primarily from Brighton & Hove City Council, which the i360 has since defaulted on (also in December 2022). The current debt is valued at "more than £48 million" (source: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23584931.brighton-hove-council-approve-i360-cricket-plan/).

Do we think that Merlin might step in to either take ownership of the site, or to run the attraction as part of their "Eye" expansions? They've obviously got precedent with Blackpool and they already operate the Brighton SeaLife Centre, so it's not as though there aren't any local attractions. Admittedly with Blackpool, however, the Tower isn't considered to be a white elephant, unlike the i360.
 
Dragging this topic from the depths.

Brighton i360 closed with immediate effect yesterday

Administrators were appointed in November and yesterday 109 staff (that seems like a lot for this type of attraction?) were made redundant with the attraction closed. Brighton i360 owe the local council £51 million.

I feel for the staff affected, not what you want before Christmas.

This always felt like an odd attraction. Nothing to particularly look at, a almost £20 ticket. I doubt anyone else (Merlin) would be interested in snapping it up.
 
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