I’d love it.
You’d have to drag me on there, kicking and screaming, and I’d be pleading for my life, but once I finished the ride, I’d be yelling “Again! Again!”
I love love love scary roller coasters, but I usually start losing my nerve as my turn comes up, so I need to be with someone braver than me who can talk me into staying!
All the coasters around here are lame, though. I need to take a trip this summer.
I’d give it a shot. I’ve trusted my life to riskier propositions in Vegas! 
Plus I don’t think it could be scarier than the X Scream. I had nightmares of plunging through the IHOP roof many stories below. Somehow the gin and blackjack seemed to clear those up though.
There’s enough in Vegas that’d make me lose my lunch, I don’t need a giant blender to make it happen.
Flodnak brings up a good question…
Such an extreme ride must make a few people lose their lunch.
What exactly does the X-Scream do? It looks like you sit in a car, tilt over the edge of the roof, go down a ramp, freak out, come back up the ramp, tilt back, and get off. Woo-hoo and all, but…come on…this is a ride? Then again, a ten-second ride duration does lead to a quick turnaround time. Gotta love fast line movement.
Oh, and as to Insanity: hell, yeah.
…if your after a thrill, I couldn’t reccomend Sky Jump at Skycity in Auckland more…its about 100 feet shorter than the Stratosphere, but you get to jump off it!!! :eek:
Damn Sam! It was a good movie for sure.
That X-Scream is simple but it is creepy. It comes to such a hard hitting stop that I trust there are regular inspections on the ride including an X-ray of the welds.
Ya forgot to mention, “built by the low bidder”.
I was on X-Scream in August… basically, yes, it does just tilt over the roof. But it’s not a ten second ride. First, it tilts at a … oh… say 30 degree angle off the roof and goes two-thirds of the way down the track. Now, you’ve got everyone happy, going slowly down and admiring the view, thinking this is a great ride. This is where my girlfriend was happy I persuaded her to come on the ride.
Then it tilts back slowly, letting the train come one-third of the way back. Then… whoops, the track immediately drops to a 50 degree decline, sending the car all the way down the track, stopping quickly at the end and holding you there, hanging over the strip for a few seconds. This is where my girlfriend was cursing me.
Next, it raises up again, bringing the car all the way back. Only to drop again at and even steeper angle just to put the fear of Og into the riders. After a few more seconds hanging it raises and returns to the station.
I like to consider myself a coaster enthusiast and I wholly enjoyed X-Scream, if only for the novelty of hanging so high up.
And yes, I plan on going back and staying in the tower again to ride Insanity.
Is the tower a hotel? 
Looks okay to me. The thing that would deter me the most would be: a) the cost. I have no idea what the admissions charge is, but I would imagine they’d have to charge a boatload to recoup the cost of building the thing and the insurance payments; and b) the wait. 10 riders per ride means the wait would (in theory) be astronomical.
I think if I rode it with the thought, “this might break and I might die,” I would be absolutely terrified.
If I instead told myself, “this is defintely going to break, I am without a doubt going to plummet to my death, I have only minutes more to live” I think I could handle it a lot better.
The tower is just a tower, but it’s attached to a hotel & casino. There’s a mall in the base of the tower and a resturant at the top.
Checking out the website, looks like admission to the tower itself (for the observation deck) plus one extreme ride (X-Scream or Big Shot) is $15. I suppose Insanity would run around the same.