When you consider that tower rides are a reasonably recent innovation there are now quite a few types of them around. There are big free fall towers for scary white knuckle thrills, shot towers for more family style thrills, there's the frog hopper style rides for kids, observation towers and perhaps the most basic of them all , this one.

In it you spin around slowly in a pod which comes with a rope on a pulley you can pull to raise yourself up the tower, to enjoy a good view of the park, or you can let go of the rope for a gentle descent back down again. It's a very basic ride that doesn't really provide many thrills, but it's an amusing distraction while it lasts.