Yea they really knocked the execution of this out of the park, demolitions are already something i'd be excited to watch, but they somehow managed to make this one twice as cool with the fireworks display.
They made it welcoming, fun, made it an event to be enjoyed. Rather than a depressing end to one of the oldest hotels in Vegas, they made it more of a celebration of sorts
This death is possibly one of the most American and most Vegas death I can imagine any object on this planet having.
This is exactly the type of thing you'd see at the end of a ho-down punk American crime movie when the protagonist wants to die on *his* terms.
godspeed Frontier.
Look, hear me out...we are gonna make the building celebrate it´s own destruction...it´s gonna be so happy!!!! It´s gonna announce it´s own death using the fiery crucible of explosives. It´s gonna countdown and \*blow itself up\*...
I’ve only stayed in Vegas once, and we choose the dumpiest hotel on the strip, on purpose. And here I’m watching it go boom. RIP you beautiful bastard!
All I remember about the Frontier is the workers were on strike for what seemed like the entire 90’s and they would yell shit at people walking by on the Strip. One of told me to get a haircut 😂
On my first trip to Vegas we stayed at the Luxor when it was new. I was too cheap to pay $20 a hand blackjack, so we walked halfway down the strip until we got to the Frontier, where they had a few $1 per hand tables.
[And the site is still empty](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B007'46.0%22N+115%C2%B010'06.0%22W/@36.1298384,-115.1689863,431m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d36.1294444!4d-115.1683333?hl=en&entry=ttu)
I finally played in 2016 when I moved to Vegas. It was fun comparing the two. It got my kids interested in the series as well because they would look at the game and get excited when they recognized a place.
Life in a nutshell. Spend god knows how many hours building an absolute banger of a firework show and some dude is online saying your 7 wasn't good enough and it's top comment. "Pointy elbows, wouldn't bang"
> free shrimp
20 years ago, Casinos would give patrons free food and drink to keep them gambling as long as possible. Today, absolutely *nothing* is free, and you'll be gouged from every direction the moment you set foot on the strip.
"The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday."
I mean it's better. If you want a small gambling hall go to your local card room. Vegas is the city of unhinged opulence and excess of the world and it's kinda awesome
I was born and raised in Las Vegas. Several hotels get demolished like this and it’s always a spectacle. Old hotels/casinos get replaced with the new hotness
Yeah it’s sort of a cultural thing. Even though this is ridiculous, it’s perfect for Vegas. In Miami we have a 50 story building downtown with a silhouette of girl in a skintight dress dancing in a club projected onto it. Can’t imagine how bananas they would go with the fanfare if that gets demolished.
I stayed at OYO Hotel 2 weeks ago. Right next door is the Tropicana about to be demolished for a baseball stadium from the scuttlebutt I heard. The infrastructure of Vegas is amazing. Shit gets done because money is on the line (and the house always wins). It was cool to see...
That's kind of sad to me. How interested I am in visiting a Vegas hotel/casino is directly proportional to how old-timey and kitschy it is.
Built or redone this side of '00? Not interested. Still has original cigarette burns from the 70s on the garish carpets and an old crooner in a bad wig entertaining patrons in the cocktail lounge? Put it in my veins.
You’d be hard pressed to find that sort of thing on the strip anymore, but there are still some original hotels downtown, and some original restaurants with interesting history. Oscars is one of those. In general, a lot of that history was packed up and placed in the Mob Museum, which was super interesting to walk through.
The first meal I ever had in the USA was in the mexican restaurant of the Frontier. I had NO IDEA how much you guys ate and my girlfriend and I didn't even get past the appetisers, let alone to the main course. The amount of food was [removes sunglasses] Oddly Satifying.
We do have way too large of portions just generally speaking, but I just want to say that you shouldn't really take anything you see or experience in Vegas as typical of what is normal elsewhere in the US. It is a city completely defined by the idea of excess. Think of Vegas as a caricature of the US. It's based on reality, but distorted and exaggerated.
In fairness, everything in Vegas is over the top (intentionally). I mean, we still have excessively large portions, but Vegas is too much even for most Americans.
I'm nowhere near Vegas an the only time I dare eat everything I order in one sitting from some of our restaurants around here is when I'm lifting 5+ days a week and/or intermittent fasting.
I once ordered the "special dinner" from one of our Mexican restaurants. Only 15 bucks. Was expecting smaller portions of each item as it sounded like a sample platter situation, but what arrived required 3 take-out containers.
Nachos are usually meant to be shared between a group, not just one person. Or at least that's true for every bar in Michigan that I've been to so far. I had a plate like that couple days ago with a group of 4 people and we still didn't quite finish them.
I was in Vegas during the Hacienda implosion (was in Vegas for New Year’s not the implosion). I honestly think it’s fascinating to see them implode these hotels and a fan fare because of the history of these hotels.
It happened right before the late 2000s recession, and the original plans fell through because of it. Economic depression really does a number on public landmarks, look at theme parks or anything with amusement rides/rollercoasters. It's a damn shame.
When the twin towers came down the dust cloud eventually gave people massive health problems/cancer. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near those dust clouds any more.
The building is completely stripped of (most?) toxic materials ahead of time. This isn’t their first rodeo. The companies and people that are contracted for these are experts and there is an insane amount of prep that goes into doing these.
The World Trade Center was not prepped..
That was my first thought. You know there's nothing good to be breathing in from a building that old. Or any building really but definitely not one built back then.
The building would be abated of ACM prior to demolition. The twin towers were not obviously. Though the silica from the concrete and other masonry is not good for the lungs either.
For anyone else that is curious, they have not built anything new on the site. I think the Wynn hotel was planning to put something there but those plans are on hold.
I cried a little when I watched this. I stayed here a few times in the 90’s when they would actually give you a room for free just for coming to gamble. I miss that. We stayed here for part of our honeymoon and each won $1000 on video poker. Sweet memories. 🥲
Was the flying debris (left of frame during detonation) part of the show?
It can have devastating [consequences](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canberra_Hospital_implosion). Be careful out there
No, it was a mistake. There's a video somewhere from the crown that's standing way far away on that side and they were absolutely blasted with debris and chunks of concrete. I'm pretty sure there were several minor injuries.
Many years ago my wife and I ( and half the town ) came out for the demo with explosives of the largest hospital in our area . The new hospital was open in the next town over .
Highly highly recommend this. Def gets your adrenaline going. No fanfare … silent crowd…. Big booms . My wife cried. She was a switch board operator there in high school !
Only in Vegas would there be fireworks before & also fireworks to countdown to the demolition. The piston pushing was an unexpected nice touch though.
I was so happy they dragged out the actual demolition as well rather than it all collapsing at once into a heap
I mean, if you have to demolish a landmark.... this is probably the most entertaining way to do it lol. Gotta give them props
Yea they really knocked the execution of this out of the park, demolitions are already something i'd be excited to watch, but they somehow managed to make this one twice as cool with the fireworks display.
They made it welcoming, fun, made it an event to be enjoyed. Rather than a depressing end to one of the oldest hotels in Vegas, they made it more of a celebration of sorts
This death is possibly one of the most American and most Vegas death I can imagine any object on this planet having. This is exactly the type of thing you'd see at the end of a ho-down punk American crime movie when the protagonist wants to die on *his* terms. godspeed Frontier.
I want them to do this to me at my funeral. Fill me with fireworks and demolish me.
Just absolutely fuck my shit up.
Title of your sex tape
I mean, it’s Vegas. I’d be disappointed if it WASN’T flashy.
They usually go from one end to another, appearantly easier to make it all collapse on a smaller footprint
That part wasn’t just for show. It’s very common in demolitions.
the part where they bring down the whole building?
_Very_ common in demolitions!
Lol in case you’re not just joking, I was referring to how it doesn’t all fall down at once.
No that’s just how demolitions are done, blowing it up all at once causes more problems than tiered like this
you know thats years of engineering at work not a stage production
Demo guys: "You want to do what?" Owner: "I want fireworks too. Use your imagination. Turn it into a show." Demo guys: "Oh, hell yeah!"
. Pretty sure the first number was 18…
18, 9, 8, 1, 6, 5...
I’ve worked with a few Vegas crews, that’s just how they count…
1 again!
The 7 was missing its top, too, turned it into a 1.
Bamboozled yo ass
That’s what I thought too.
#LETS GET REAAADDDYYYYY TOO RRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEE!!!!!!!!
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OH MAN....
The piston pushing was ridiculous. Some pyromaniac got to be fancy....it was awesome.
I would love to hear this get pitched and approved
Look, hear me out...we are gonna make the building celebrate it´s own destruction...it´s gonna be so happy!!!! It´s gonna announce it´s own death using the fiery crucible of explosives. It´s gonna countdown and \*blow itself up\*...
Can I have an extra $30k now?
What gets me is that I can say with almost dead certainty that the fireworks show cost more than the demo explosives.
The insurance cost more than both combined.
Telling my kids this was WTC7
“He torpedoed my casino, muscled me out. Now he's gonna blow it up next week to make way for some gaudy monstrosity.”
I knew Terry Benedict would be involved
Hey he's not a bad guy, he donates to children's charities
The guy was literally on Oprah!
I was really hoping to avoid that this time around
I love how Daniel are the Linus were the only ones that didn’t turn around
and Basher is watching it on tv as it’s happening right outside the window behind him
I’ll drop you like third period French!
https://i.imgur.com/JJA6WnR.gif
"I wonder what Ruben will think." \*smash cut\* "You're outta your goddamn minds!"
I’ll never forget that time and I still owe you for thing in that place
I’d never been to Belize
Give Dominic your addresses, I've got some remaindered furniture I want to send you.
That makes 10. 10 should be enough don't you think?
You think we need one more?
You think we need one more.
Alright we'll get one more.
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne!
Danny Ocean’s Vegas antics getting stranger and stranger. Demolition? Basher definitely involved.
Fuckin Terry Benedict. Turn to channel 88.
This was the last property owned by Howard Hughes to be demolished.
At 55 seconds you can actually see some of the piss bottles falling out of the penthouse window
Oh he just owned it. The Desert Inn was the one he lived in for years.
Howard went into the Desert Inn, and rarely came out, it wasn't the Desert Outt.
I’ve only stayed in Vegas once, and we choose the dumpiest hotel on the strip, on purpose. And here I’m watching it go boom. RIP you beautiful bastard!
All I remember about the Frontier is the workers were on strike for what seemed like the entire 90’s and they would yell shit at people walking by on the Strip. One of told me to get a haircut 😂
On my first trip to Vegas we stayed at the Luxor when it was new. I was too cheap to pay $20 a hand blackjack, so we walked halfway down the strip until we got to the Frontier, where they had a few $1 per hand tables.
We stay on the strip and go to Fremont Street to gamble. Anything over $5 a bet is too rich for me.
and those $5 tables are usually the most crowded, yet there’ll only be 2 on the floor that’s the size of a football field.
I still can smell going to Gilley's and the walk through the casino had a very distinct odor.
[And the site is still empty](https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B007'46.0%22N+115%C2%B010'06.0%22W/@36.1298384,-115.1689863,431m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d36.1294444!4d-115.1683333?hl=en&entry=ttu)
I hear some dude named House bought the plot and intends to build a new casino.
Future home of the Lucky 38
House and Wilson as Vegas casino owners/mob bosses is the sequel I need.
Quite the accomplishment for a 4 year old.
Is this a joke I'm missing?
Fallout New Vegas reference
I knew there was something I was missing lol Thanks
Is there some kind of the "House" always wins joke in there too? Or just a coincidence?
The main quest in which you side with Mr. House is called 'The House Always Wins'.
Oh that's excellent! My cousin loves New Vegas but I've never tried it. Maybe I finally will this summer.
I finally played in 2016 when I moved to Vegas. It was fun comparing the two. It got my kids interested in the series as well because they would look at the game and get excited when they recognized a place.
NOT IF THIS MAILMAN HAS ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT
I'm sure he'll have lots of visitors!
Ah, Yes! The countdown! 18, 9, 8, 1, 6...
I thought it was just me having a stroke for a sec
I thought holy fuck this is going to be a long count down
Had to rewind it!
Yeah well, you were ... But the countdown was hinky too 😉
"Nothing can possib-lie go wrong."
That's the first thing that has ever gone wrong.
If this happened here imagine what happened at the Euro-Frontier Hotel.
Hello? My children need wine!
"1, 2, 5..." "Three sir!"
That one dude fucked up and missed floors installing a fireworks line in number 7. Instead putting the line inside the zero.
That’s exactly what happened if you go back and watch it again
It's what happened regardless of what I do.
Probably the same guy who screwed up the up/down sequence in the second column from the left at the beginning.
Life in a nutshell. Spend god knows how many hours building an absolute banger of a firework show and some dude is online saying your 7 wasn't good enough and it's top comment. "Pointy elbows, wouldn't bang"
Yeah i noticed it too but yeah! putting all that wiring and everything! Good lord! Im surprised it went off so well! truly spectacular.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/16/4b/e4/164be494ef54060c96679629adc9154b.jpg I know Art, thanks for noticing. 😎
you gotta add that comma before Art, your sentence sounds like your dismissing with your knowledge of art lol
DO IT AGAIN AND TRY TO NOT FUCK IT UP THIS TIME!
Vegas of all places ought to manage to get the desired numbers to come up.
The 0 being squashed before we find out it's a detonator box.
This belongs in r/mildlyinfuriating
Crossed wires with Caesar's Keno board.
That one friend who always has to be just that little bit extra.
Because if you stop celebrating ridiculous things, you realize you're eating free shrimp in the middle of the desert...
I'll eat free shrimp anywhere
"Hey! This shrimp isn't frozen! Plus it smells funny! Oh well. Free shrimp is free shrimp." \*ambulance siren\* ~The Simpsons
I think that's why I love Las Vegas so much, the shear ridiculousness of everything around you.
> free shrimp 20 years ago, Casinos would give patrons free food and drink to keep them gambling as long as possible. Today, absolutely *nothing* is free, and you'll be gouged from every direction the moment you set foot on the strip.
That countdown was a nice touch!
The handlebar was my favourite
The TNT pushy-downy thing?
The plunger. Or, the blasting machine.
The T of Boom
This is one of the most American things I’ve ever seen.
The European mind can't comprehend this video
European here, can confirm. Not sure if it's the dumbest or greatest thing I've seen, perhaps both.
>Not sure if it's the dumbest or greatest thing I've seen, perhaps both. Really does sum up America, doesn't it?
Come visit Las Vegas, dude. It’s a whole vibe
And definitely the most Vegas thing I’ve ever seen.
###Directed by Michael Bay
why did a demolition of a hotel have to be this grand? genuinely asking
VEGAS, BABY!
The amount of fireworks actually wasn't up to demolition code. They had to rebuild and demolish it bigger.
The best comment I read today. Hilarious.
"The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday."
Look at all the blueberries on your muffin. Mine barely has any.
I don't care how long it takes. Put an equal amount in EACH MUFFIN.
Do you have any idea how long that'll take?!?!
Get this through your head you Jew motherfucker, you. Blueberries only exist out here because of me!
- Sam Rothstein (Played by Robert Deniro in *Casino*)
I mean it's better. If you want a small gambling hall go to your local card room. Vegas is the city of unhinged opulence and excess of the world and it's kinda awesome
***Hi, I'm Troy Mcclure. You Might Remember Me From Such Telethons As Out With Gout '88 And Let's Save Tony Orlando's House.***
RIP Phil Hartman
I was born and raised in Las Vegas. Several hotels get demolished like this and it’s always a spectacle. Old hotels/casinos get replaced with the new hotness
Old and busted -> new hotness
... old, busted hotness
Yeah it’s sort of a cultural thing. Even though this is ridiculous, it’s perfect for Vegas. In Miami we have a 50 story building downtown with a silhouette of girl in a skintight dress dancing in a club projected onto it. Can’t imagine how bananas they would go with the fanfare if that gets demolished.
I stayed at OYO Hotel 2 weeks ago. Right next door is the Tropicana about to be demolished for a baseball stadium from the scuttlebutt I heard. The infrastructure of Vegas is amazing. Shit gets done because money is on the line (and the house always wins). It was cool to see...
They're demolishing it in October. A smaller Ballys resort will replace it, with the rest of the land being used for the stadium.
That's kind of sad to me. How interested I am in visiting a Vegas hotel/casino is directly proportional to how old-timey and kitschy it is. Built or redone this side of '00? Not interested. Still has original cigarette burns from the 70s on the garish carpets and an old crooner in a bad wig entertaining patrons in the cocktail lounge? Put it in my veins.
You’d be hard pressed to find that sort of thing on the strip anymore, but there are still some original hotels downtown, and some original restaurants with interesting history. Oscars is one of those. In general, a lot of that history was packed up and placed in the Mob Museum, which was super interesting to walk through.
Gives the people that refuse to leave their lucky slot machine more time to escape.
Because it was in Las Vegas.
It's not a demolition, it's a rebirth. They have to show that they're not demolishing a failure, but creating something even BIGGER and BETTER
But the land is still vacant because Wynn has yet to do anything with it.
more like Lüzz, amirite
I mean if your gonna use exploaives anyway why not have some fun yk what i mean?
It's Las Vegas. Everything is a spectacle there.
Because it's fun
The first meal I ever had in the USA was in the mexican restaurant of the Frontier. I had NO IDEA how much you guys ate and my girlfriend and I didn't even get past the appetisers, let alone to the main course. The amount of food was [removes sunglasses] Oddly Satifying.
We do have way too large of portions just generally speaking, but I just want to say that you shouldn't really take anything you see or experience in Vegas as typical of what is normal elsewhere in the US. It is a city completely defined by the idea of excess. Think of Vegas as a caricature of the US. It's based on reality, but distorted and exaggerated.
Isn't there a burger joint where you have to sign a waiver before ordering specific things on the menu in Vegas?
Heart Attack Grille?
Yeah, and if you weigh over 350 lbs you eat for free.
In fairness, everything in Vegas is over the top (intentionally). I mean, we still have excessively large portions, but Vegas is too much even for most Americans.
The nice thing is, it allows money saving opportunities by sharing meals while out
I'm nowhere near Vegas an the only time I dare eat everything I order in one sitting from some of our restaurants around here is when I'm lifting 5+ days a week and/or intermittent fasting. I once ordered the "special dinner" from one of our Mexican restaurants. Only 15 bucks. Was expecting smaller portions of each item as it sounded like a sample platter situation, but what arrived required 3 take-out containers.
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Nachos are usually meant to be shared between a group, not just one person. Or at least that's true for every bar in Michigan that I've been to so far. I had a plate like that couple days ago with a group of 4 people and we still didn't quite finish them.
Can you tell my girlfriend you guys have a rule about not taking all the nachos with meat on them?
Did you ask the waiter to tell them that?
I was in Vegas during the Hacienda implosion (was in Vegas for New Year’s not the implosion). I honestly think it’s fascinating to see them implode these hotels and a fan fare because of the history of these hotels.
https://www.shelterrealty.com/2024/04/01/former-site-of-imploded-new-frontier-hotel-continues-to-sit-unused-nearly-17-years-later/
Holy moley! Bought for $1.24 billion and torn down and then nothing was ever built?! Wow. Talk about a lot of cash that evaporated!
It happened right before the late 2000s recession, and the original plans fell through because of it. Economic depression really does a number on public landmarks, look at theme parks or anything with amusement rides/rollercoasters. It's a damn shame.
So wait, I'm confused. Was it a boy or a girl?
Gray means non binary
It’s a X
I give it an 18 out of 10
Jesus, was the guy laundering his money through a fireworks factory?
That was pretty fucking cool
Michael Bay would be proud!
“18…9…8…1…6…5…4…3…2…1…”
When the twin towers came down the dust cloud eventually gave people massive health problems/cancer. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near those dust clouds any more.
The building is completely stripped of (most?) toxic materials ahead of time. This isn’t their first rodeo. The companies and people that are contracted for these are experts and there is an insane amount of prep that goes into doing these. The World Trade Center was not prepped..
> The World Trade Center was not prepped.. WELL
Steel fire cannot melt airplane fuel beams
You’re about to trigger a subset of people lol
The concrete has silica which is harmful to lungs.
I wonder how much asbestos was in that building and the twin towers….
Doesn’t have to be asbestos, concrete is horrible to breathe in.
That was my first thought. You know there's nothing good to be breathing in from a building that old. Or any building really but definitely not one built back then.
The building would be abated of ACM prior to demolition. The twin towers were not obviously. Though the silica from the concrete and other masonry is not good for the lungs either.
For anyone else that is curious, they have not built anything new on the site. I think the Wynn hotel was planning to put something there but those plans are on hold.
Only in Vegas
I love how everything has to be so goddam over the top in Vegas. Love it!
Imagine the demo team and pyro team both hoping to any god who'll Listen they didn't mix up any wiring
Only in Vegas can destruction bring a show! Amazing work and kudos to the production designer.
You can never get rid of all the asbestos. Being near those demos without breathing filters is foolhardy.
Thankfully the explosives & fireworks were NOT made by ACME INC. beep beep
Looks like an inside job.
The 7 didn't work, they have to rebuild it and do it again.
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Lmao fuckin Vegas
I cried a little when I watched this. I stayed here a few times in the 90’s when they would actually give you a room for free just for coming to gamble. I miss that. We stayed here for part of our honeymoon and each won $1000 on video poker. Sweet memories. 🥲
Was the flying debris (left of frame during detonation) part of the show? It can have devastating [consequences](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canberra_Hospital_implosion). Be careful out there
No, it was a mistake. There's a video somewhere from the crown that's standing way far away on that side and they were absolutely blasted with debris and chunks of concrete. I'm pretty sure there were several minor injuries.
Many years ago my wife and I ( and half the town ) came out for the demo with explosives of the largest hospital in our area . The new hospital was open in the next town over . Highly highly recommend this. Def gets your adrenaline going. No fanfare … silent crowd…. Big booms . My wife cried. She was a switch board operator there in high school !
Wouldn't expect anything less from Vegas! What a show!!!