[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.

[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.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

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

[randog]

And with that, Mr. Jaffe in a single moment, destroyed about five months of work by a host of people, and killed one of the greatest ideas of all time.

Uhmm....OK.

[IronJack]

I’ve been a Trek fan since the days of Commander Pike. But $150,000,000 just to build the thing? Call me myopic but I don’t think it would have the staying power to pay for itself.

A curiosity is one thing. A $150,000,000 curiosity is something else entirely.

[Moltke]

Well, at least some make their dreams come true.

[ADemocratNoMore]

I had the same idea way back when - “The Hotel Enterprise”, only I never thought of Vegas, my version stood alone somewhere on the Great Plains, which is as far as it ever went; some neat pictures in my head.

[al_c]

That would’ve been ginormous! Maybe if they had started smaller ... like the Millennium Falcon or something.