Nice dramatic pause after the countdown. [heavy sarcasm]
It reminds me of the lame fake-drama crap like on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Vagabum

The 7 didn't work in the count down.

LoganSix

*neatly sidesteps whole WTC discussion*

*ahem*

THAT WAS SPACK-EFFING-TACULAR!!!! THANKS GIZ - I WOULDN'T HAVE OTHERWISE KNOWN ABOUT THIS.

Man I just LOVE watching buildings being demolished. Once waited nearly 2 hours in Seoul to watch an old massive apt complex come down. Was TOTALLY worth it, but then I always did have an overwhelming obsession with anything burning, exploding, or basically just getting the eff stomped outta it :^)))

banmojo

I agree with Strider. It was a beautiful thing... the sort of explosion that should bring us all together, not rip us apart. I especially liked the count down and plunger effects.

OldSchoolGadgetLover

I miss that place. Now all we have left is that Trump eyesore.
I love the old casino's. They have heard. The newer ones may look pretty, but they've got nothing. I'm sticking to Freemont Street, for those of you who knoe Vegas.

nosauten

@YOUGOTTABEKIDDING sorry to pick on you too, but "whole" buildings dont drop like they did because of some fuel burning. Steel structures in todays building can withstand extremely high burning temps.

zakeen

@TommySez: I must have gone to Vegas ten times from the mid eighties to the mid nineties, and the strikers were always there. At some point, don't you just go get a job at another casino?

Anyways, always cool when Vegas blows up an old hotel. How old do you think we'll all be when they start blowing up the second-generation strip hotels, like the Excaliber and The Mirage?

EBone

@yougottabekidding: Your ignorance is staggering. Try opening your eyes once and a while. Enough has already been said and I'm not going to spark an argument here, but I feel bad for you. I'll leave it at that.

thecharlie

Oh lighten up, people! In Vegas, this counts as art!

senorbelly

Can't we all just enjoy the implosion?

Why do you always fight at these things??

strider_mt2k

@thecharlie: Wow, that statement reminds me that world really is full of idiots. Thanks for letting us know you're still out there.

yougottabekidding

@flyboy: Sorry, but that sounded like a stupid statement.."fireworks were wasted on that hotel". If you really think about it, fireworks are just a waste of resources in the first place, with the exception of the entertainment value, which I'm sure Vegas got out of them in this case. I'd bet that the simple implosion and use of fireworks on this building brought enough people out just to see that happen that the surrounding casinos, restaurants, etc, made more money off of those same people. In that sense, it wasn't a waste.

yougottabekidding

Wow, that implosion oddly reminds me of how the WTCs fell! (minus the fireworks of course). Coincidence? dun dun dun.

thecharlie

BTW you really have to visit Vegas, images do not do it justice....

and the fireworks were wasted on that hotel.

flyboy

what a place - if you have been there then the sad people putting money continuously into electro-mechanical devices at a losing v. win probability ratio defies any rational explanation.

Rome is burning in those places

flyboy

That's some stylish blowin-shit-upness right there!

SkyLab

@TOMMYSEZ

LMAO, those striking workers out front will always be what I remember most about that place.

Bender

Oh man. I remember back when it was just the Frontier, with the perpetual strike going on. Ate there once, during the strike. The food was great and the service top notch. Whether that was due to the lack of a union, I have no idea.

TommySez

I like Vegas because I win while I'm there. If they make another place for me to make money, I'm cool with that.

FlashSandbox

"another $2 billion luxo-palace on the Vegas strip that will specialize in fleecing those who don't understand the difference between possibility and probability."
Sounds like the words of a guy who's lost a LOT of money in Vegas.

homerjay

@LoganSix:
i thought i was the only one that noticed.

willyolio

Shooting fireworks off of the roof and out of the rooms is a really bad idea--they could have started a fire.

islandmonk

@thecharlie: DAMN! You beat me to it... looks eerily familiar.

MasterYong

That may just be the most f'ing Vegas thing I've ever seen. They've even made blowing up a building into a cheesy-ass show. Wow. Super craptactular!

golferal

@zakeen: @yougottabekidding: You guys have no clue. The WTC buildings were not imploded by explosives like the casino here. And the temperatures that a building can withstand isn't the only thing the WTC buildings had to deal with on 9/11. The damage and force of the planes, plus the sustained heat and various other factors came into play to bring down the buildings. Besides that, you do know that a demolition crew takes months to plan out the implosion of a building, including the removal of key structural pieces and placing of explosives in key locations to bring it down, right? If that had happened at WTC, people would have noticed long before 9/11. Yes, eerily it does look like the WTC coming down, but then again so do most implosions. Gravity has a nice way of bring things straight down doesn't it? You're just trying to stir up some controversy by relating a fairly routine building implosion to WTC with your statements.

yougottabekidding

"Yes, eerily it does look like the WTC coming down, but then again so do most implosions."

Actually, it didn't.

It vaguely resembles the videos I've seen of that day, but it all looked a lot different in person. I was closer to WTC7 when it fell that afternoon than whoever shot this video, and that ain't what it looked like.

willentrekin

twice

trunk666

funny....kinda looks like the world trade....

trunk666

we need to build more buildings so we have more things to implode later.

jiganto