CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Blowing Up Stuff: New Frontier Hotel Imploded Before Your Eyes, Now a Nondescript Pile of Rubble

Gizmodo: "If you want to see a building imploded with 1000 pounds of high explosives, Las Vegas was the place to be early yesterday morning.



New Frontier Demolition! - video powered by Metacafe


That's when demolition experts finally got rid of the 16-story New Frontier Hotel in grand style, as only Las Vegas would be sleazy enough to do. Anyway, we never get tired of seeing them bring down the big buildings, but found all the fireworks just distracting. Just blow the thing up already."

2 comments:

Aaron S said...

Only in Vegas could a building demolition be made into a show. The pyrotechnic countdown was a nice touch though. The actual demolition was lacking in audience appeal. Put it back up and do it again damn it.

Anonymous said...

Only in Vegas... Building implosion is definitely one of those things I wanted to do when I was a kid. Adding the choreographed fireworks was unnecessary.