London eye

The London Eye, also known as Millennium Wheel, finished in 1999 and opened the public in March, 2000, was the major treadmill - viewing-point of the world up to the opening of Nanchang's Star in May, 2006. The London Eye Jubilee Gardens reaches a height of 135 m on the western end of, in the South Bank of the Thames, Lambeth's London district, between the bridges of Westminster and Hungerford. The treadmill is together with the County Hall and opposite to the offices of the Defense Department.

There was a financial polemic:

On May 25, the mayor of London Ken Livingstone promised that the attraction would remain in London, asking also that if the conflict was not solved would use his power to request the London Development Agency who was executing an order of obligatory purchase. The Southbank Centre and the London Eye signed a contract of lease for 25 years on February 8, 2006, after a judicial review on the dispute for the rent. The agreement of rent was meaning that the Southbank Centre, a charitable organization publicly financed, would receive at least 500,000 £ annual of the attraction, that in turn assured his medium-term situation.

Tussauds also Marks Barfield announced the acquisition of other two thirds in British Airways's hands and the family, as well as the assumption of the debt with the first one. These agreements granted 100 % of the London Eye to Tussauds and solved the problem of the debt of the original financing for the construction of the treadmill, which British Airways had estimated in more than 150 millions of £ in 2005 and had gone 25 % per year being increased. It was inaugurated on December 31, 1999, though it was opened for the public newly on March 3, 2000.