What is special about The Orlando Eye?
- The Orlando Eye is the tallest observational wheel on the United States East Coast
- Each of the 30 capsules weigh 6,600 pounds, or the average weight of an Indian elephant
- The Orlando Eye weighs approximately three million pounds, that is 1,500 tons or equivalent to 300 school buses
- The Orlando Eye is 400 feet tall
- The Orlando Eye is made up of components produced all over the world
- The glass covering the capsules was crafted in Turkey
- The capsules were assembled in Hungary and shipped to Florida from Northern Germany
- Switzerland-based Intamin designed and manufactured the wheel