Originally Posted By oc_dean This dates back a while ago ... I never knew it was a consideration. Too bad they didn't build it. It would have been great! <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129022/Star-Trek-designers-reveal-plans-scale-Starship-Enterprise-scrapped-moment-downtown-Las-Vegas-towered-Eiffel-Tower.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...wer.html</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean and speaking of the Enterprise .... I discovered this - <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l205/Goldencrest/entership.jpg">http://i97.photobucket.com/alb...ship.jpg</a> If we weren't in a day and age of realistic looking CGI .. someone could take that for real. Even if it were real ... where could it be dragged to for showcasing? Not like it's going to fly with Warp 8 light speed engines.
Originally Posted By dagobert I have seen that before and it looks stunning. As a big Star Trek fan I would have loved to see that.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Looks very impressive, but I really have to question the engineering behind a building like that. The huge cantilever in the front would be ridiculously difficult to construct in a place with gravity, like Earth I assume the contest to revitalize downtown Vegas is what eventually led to the Freemont Street Experience. That's a fun addition, and seems to put the focus on the whole area rather than one specific location. I wonder if this partly influenced the Star Trek experience at the Hyatt in the late 90's (or was it the Hilton? I always get those brands confused) off the Strip
Originally Posted By oc_dean Well .. at least this made it to reality: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/25/chinese-firms-headquarters-shaped-like-star-treks-enterprise/">http://blogs.wsj.com/chinareal...erprise/</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's a fun building! I find it interesting that they even contacted CBS for copyrights, since I thought most architecture was excluded from that sort of stuff (plus, it doesn't look *that* much like the one on the show; it could have just been an homage)
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Given that the Star Trek: The Experience closed down, it's probably a good thing that it was never built.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Guess I'm the only one who thinks the Enterprise hotel concept is hideous.
Originally Posted By phruby They would never be able to build that for $150 million. The engineering of the catilever would eat up most of it. What do we get out of Disney for that? A medium size e ticket like dwarfs mine train. The only way that would have been successful if it was a hotel and a couple billion dollars.
