– Giving the appearance that the seats drop much faster than they really do. No such feature exists and this was all fake. – Giving the appearance that the seats drop while attached to a bungee rope. (The pole doesn’t really extend like it does in the above video) – Giving the appearance that the seats rise much higher than they would using a fake extendable pole. – Giving the appearance that the seats rise upwards much quicker than they would. The video above embellishes the ride with special effects.

This is where riders are slowly lifted into the air with their seats attached to a large vertical pole, before being hurtled back to the ground at a much quicker speed. In reality the Gyro Drop is a “sudden drop” or “giant drop” ride. However the ride isn’t as death defying as this “CGI-ed” video would have you believe. It’s based in South Korea’s Lotte World Magic Island amusement complex. As many may have suspected, it’s the work of digital trickery, through it appears to have been based on a genuine video, but altered to make the ride appear more spectacular.īased on the markings on the ride in the video, the real ride wasn’t hard to track down. The video has certainly managed to go viral across social media, but it isn’t real. WHO even thinks about creating something like this?!?!!? /oXByLOhW54

The seats are then retracted into place before the whole seating mechanism rushes to the ground.

The riders are then hurtled upwards before their seats fall down attached to bungee ropes. The video shows those riding it being lifted up a large pole in their seats, before the pole extends further into the air. A video is spreading across social media that purportedly shows a death defying “gyro drop” amusement ride that drops thrill seekers from bungee ropes before retracting them back up before hurtling them back down to the ground at breakneck speed.

Gyroscope ride