june 18 2013151 the newest attraction on the las vegas strip may not be a new hotel casino or nightclub but a 650foot roller coaster if a coaster of this size were to be built it would be the worlds tallest currently the tallest in the world is the 456foot tall kingda ka at new jerseys six flags great adventure floridabased us thrill rides submitted an application in april to the federal aviation administration for the socalled polercoaster the application is classified as a work in progress polercoaster is designed to be two attractions in one a roller coaster and an observation tower the coaster according to michael kitchen president of us thrill rides would have a very small footprint thats a necessity in a city as developed as las vegas most roller coasters take up several acres of land the polercoaster kitchen said loads from the bottom takes patrons to breathtaking heights up the center of the tower and then descends down around the structure with multiple inversions loops and direction changes check out the coolest new coasters of summer 2013 federal law requires developers to give the faa the opportunity to review any structure more than 200 feet tall to determine if it could pose a hazard to aircraft or navigation aids and if so whether the hazard could be mitigated its up to the local government to decide whether to issue a building permit for those whod prefer to skip the drops and loops theres the observation deck the us thrill rides website said the observation tower would be serviced by two glass elevators this allows operators to use the two levels on top as an observation deck and retailrestaurant space providing additional revenue the website reads according to a map filed with the faa application the site of the polercoaster appears to be at or very near the tropicana las vegas tropicana chief marketing officer fred harmon would not comment specifically on the proposal we have been approached by many companies given the quality of our location however no commitments have been made he said kitchen would not specifically comment on the location in the proposal he did say however that vegas is rebounding and is unarguably one of the best tourism markets in the world