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What Could Have Been
Feb. 5th, 2013 07:31 pmLas Vegas almost built a full-size starship Enterprise.
I’m not surprised the project was scrapped – it would have been expensive, take a long time to build, be almost impossible to convert into anything else should it fail as an attraction, and it’s not entirely clear what the designers planned on doing with most of the interior space – one gets the impression they were actually set on a full recreation of the ship, presumably including hundreds of unremarkable corridors and rooms.
The weird thing is that it was Paramount that scrapped it, not the Vegas businesspeople who would have been stuck with building, maintaining and paying for this thing.
I will admit, while I suspect it would have been a commercial fiasco, I’m disappointed this never got started, though. Wonder if the designers have considered approaching Dubai for a second crack at it?
I’m not surprised the project was scrapped – it would have been expensive, take a long time to build, be almost impossible to convert into anything else should it fail as an attraction, and it’s not entirely clear what the designers planned on doing with most of the interior space – one gets the impression they were actually set on a full recreation of the ship, presumably including hundreds of unremarkable corridors and rooms.
The weird thing is that it was Paramount that scrapped it, not the Vegas businesspeople who would have been stuck with building, maintaining and paying for this thing.
I will admit, while I suspect it would have been a commercial fiasco, I’m disappointed this never got started, though. Wonder if the designers have considered approaching Dubai for a second crack at it?