NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: THE “STAR TREK” ATTRACTION THAT ALMOST CAME TO LIFE in 1992.

The Goddard Group ^ | 5APR2012 | Gary Goddard

[Jack Hydrazine]

Concept Pics:

[TigersEye]

Dang! That’s too bad. I might actually go to Las Vegas if they had a full size Enterprise.

[RightOnline]

Cool. I’m geek enough to have gone to see it. Too bad.

[kingu]

I had forgotten all about that project. I had, at the time, wondered why it was canceled, and now I know the rest of the story. The rumors at the time would be that Vegas would build one, then likely two more would be built at Universal Studios Los Angeles and Universal Studios Orlando.

Wonder if this might re-spark interest in building them...

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

I have never been to Las Vegas. I am not a gambler, so it holds very little attraction for me. But, if they had built a full-scale Enterprise, I would have probably been a regular visitor.

Pity how small minds can kill great ideas.

[Sherman Logan]

OTOH, if it had been built we might have been reading articles about what a huge disaster and waste of money it was.

I’ve gone well out of my way to visit Vegas twice. In both cases it was primarily to stand on the street and watch the Bellagio fountains.

There’s an attraction that can be changed at a moment’s notice and costs remarkably little to install and operate.

[skr]

The starship Enterprise to a walk around and walk inside of would’ve changed my mind about never visiting Vegas.

[Tainan]

Shoulds...Woulda...Coulda...been fantastic.

[PowderMonkey]

“It’s dead, Jim.”

[Eye of Unk]

I had a dream that LV was attacked by Iran and turned into a pile of radioactive slag.

[Larry Lucido]

Eh.

Now a functional Death Star. That would have been cool!

[Larry Lucido]

They might have had a nice bar, though!

[LRS]

Hmmm! A holodeck gambling room, with holographic winnings! Now that would be a gaming house wet dream! Patrons pay for imagination...

[luvbach1]

A sure hit. “Too big to fail.”

[McGruff]

Instead I feel like we're living through an episode of Lord of the Rings.

[6SJ7]

Ultimately we realized we would need to add some supports on the outer edge of the “disc” section due to the extremely high wind conditions in Vegas. For this we created a high tech “scaffolding structure” that gave the ship more of the appearance of being in an open-air dry dock.

[wally_bert]

I’m no gambler either but would have liked to have visited Vegas for that even if I am more of a B5’er.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Great idea. It’s so easy to reject great ideas. The error is invisible.

[CORedneck]

Fulsize Starship Enterprise ? I would have been there ! I driven through LV a few times and never really stopped there !