Comments on: The Birmingham ‘Eye’

By: Tamzin

Tamzin — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:48:26 +0000

I went to the wheel the toehr day it was amazing i went with my boyfriend and it was so nice lit up in the dark. But i found out after i had been on it wasn’t bolted to the floor! its held up by water in the legs of it haha!

By: Chloe

Chloe — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:49:22 +0000

I think the wheel is very nice and now I am doing a geography project for school about birmingham so I am including the wheel so i came across this site! :D

By: mark catanzareti

mark catanzareti — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:02:53 +0000

You should see the Ferris Wheel at Great Adventure here in New Jersey. I froze and couldn’t move. It takes you too high. Whooo!
Mark

By: bob

bob — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:43:42 +0000

The Eye is great1 it scared my nan and my cousin from Oz loved it!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:09:21 +0000

the wheel is still here. its all christmassy at the moment! i’m scared to go on it but i do really want to!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Mon, 09 May 2005 23:47:10 +0000

Hi, me and my friends went on this. It was good, my friend cried on it, and me and my other friend were laughing at her. But I would recommend to go on it.

By: Dad

Dad — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:50:36 +0000

We were in Brum yesterday and the new Birmingham Wheel looks a lot better than the old (Paris) one. We went to a concert in Symphony Hall (worthy of a separate feature) and during the interval stood on the Level 4 foyer where the Wheel (in neon blue lights) was nicely framed by the steel and glass window wall of Symphony Hall. Would have made a great photo with a wide angle lens.

Trip on the Wheel costs £5, by the way.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:47:47 +0000

Aparently, and this is just something I heard, this one is permanent and ain’t going anwhere. The fabled Paris one is, according to my man Queso, in Manchester.

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:47:38 +0000

i know we are the second city and get an second hand wheel but this its looks like we have had the front wheel this time . i went to city centre night and was very nice to see wheel with all light on .well done birmingham .

By: queso

queso — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:16:41 +0000

its in manchester now, next to the printworks

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 01:09:10 +0000

No idea, Emma. You probably best ask the people who run it.

By: emma

emma — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:41:43 +0000

could you let us know how much the cost will be

By: shamela

shamela — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:22:08 +0000

the birmingham eye is wicked you shold go on it if you dont tuff luck it is wicked check it i am a year 10 student at whtc

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:22:56 +0000

Nice story about the commentary. It’s good to see that changing a tape over comes under the category of “complex technical difficulties”.

By: Rob Fisher

Rob Fisher — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 05:30:02 +0000

Interestingly, if you ride on this wheel you'll notice that the recorded guide speaks in French and is talking about Paris, not Birmingham. Yes, really. (That's because it _is_ the one in Paris).

By: Dad

Dad — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:50:27 +0000

So the second city gets a second hand ferris wheel! I knew I had seen it somewhere before!

Meantime I see that the miscreant who accidentally set fire to “Forward” will not be brought to justice. Of course there are those who would say he did the right thing in destroying the piece. However I, for one, liked it a lot and shall miss it.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:18:13 +0000

Love the photos. I’m hoping to take the children on the wheel on our next trip to Brum, very soon.

I agree it’s as big as the one in Paris…because it IS the one from Paris!
;o)

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:25:23 +0000

Problem is, once you’ve seen (or in my case lived pretty much next to) the London Eye every other big wheel seems, well, not so big. I had to really think about it before aknoweldging that perhaps this Brum one actually was on the large side.

I did think as I was preparing to take the photos that the fish-barrel thing was in action. None of them were duff. Sometimes scale just does the job for you.

By: Dad

Dad — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:40:56 +0000

Good light! Good choice of perspectives. It’s located where the fiberglass sculpture “Forward” used to be before a couple of thugs set it on fire. When April and I were in the area in November it was raining hard and the wheel was closed. It’s not as big as the London Eye but probably as big as the one in Paris.