Comments | eldan: When I make my millions

eldan

When I make my millions

May 25, 2009 23:16

I will invest in Las Vegas. I will build the "Seattle" casino hotel. Behind a half-size Space Needle, the ground floor will have a Pike Place Market theme, complete with that iconic neon clock, and plastic salmon being flown by wires over the slot machines. The second floor will have an indoor reproduction of Lake Union, complete with rentable ( Read more... )

las vegas, pike place market, cities, wtf, travel

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harleybitch May 26 2009, 12:38:11 UTC

that sounds awesome.

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harleybitch May 27 2009, 02:11:58 UTC

you could add the ghost of curt kobain singing in the lobby, fountains of starbucks, flying fish, think big!

eldan May 27 2009, 05:56:01 UTC

Yes, I like this. The world's largest Frappucino fountain, which could be just marginally bigger than the chocolate fountain the Bellagio, for stupid bragging rights. Also a Mount Rainier beer volcano, and Duck tours of something. Maybe the Ducks could tour the Strip, and trespass in the Bellagio's ridiculous lake-in-the-desert.

Or... even better... there could be a Vegas franchise of the Seafair Pirates, and they could pillage the "Venice" Grand Canal and board gondolas, every hour on the hour.

eldan May 27 2009, 05:51:45 UTC

You may be right about it not being tacky enough. I don't think "too normal a city" is a problem though - judging by "Paris" and "Venice" it just has to be a place that tourists have really strong stereotyped images of. Though I suppose a "Seattle" casino would have to actually incorporate Mount Rainier before it could approach Caesar's Palace's level of utter insanity.

eldan May 27 2009, 06:35:16 UTC

Oh, I admit defeat. I am incapable of dreaming up anything more absurd than real-life cruise ships.

maarten May 29 2009, 18:24:10 UTC

A cruise ship housing 8,000 people but consuming enough electricity to power 105,000 homes. Yeeeow.

(Unclear if that 12 tons of diesel per hour includes ship propulsion, or is just to power the electric grid on board.)

eldan May 29 2009, 18:28:43 UTC

Wow. That's... uh... terrible. It's also a useful comparison - with all the stick the cruise industry gets from environmentalists I had been wondering if a cruise ship really was all that bad relative to the same number of people staying in hotels and renting cars. Sounds like it is.