Jives
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If you are lucky enough to take a trip to las Vegas in the United States, I highly recommend that you stop by the las Vegas Hilton to check out Star Trek - The Experience.
It's the Mecca of Star Trek fans, I kid you not.
When you enter the building, you will see a gigantic model of the enterprise hanging from the ceiling. You buy a ticket ($20 US) and get in line. Get this: the line actually snakes through the Star Trek Museum, so as you are meandering along, you get to see all the original props and uniforms from all the movies and series. (I loved the original "salt and pepper" shaker medical scanner!) They have huge dioramas of many of the best known scenes.
Not to put too many spoilers in this, but next you step onto a transporter.
The air shimmers, then suddenly, you are in another room...completely! I figured at first that they just flash the lights then move the walls, but aside from how fast it occurs, and the fact that the lights don't go off...the floor was different too! Now, how did they do that?
You then find out that you have accidentally been transported to the actual Enterprise in the 24th century because the had a malfunction that "locked onto" you in your time frame. (ala "Mirror, Mirror")
You go running down the hallways to the bridge...it is HUGE! I don't know why, but I never expected it to be that big.
Then you take a turbo lift to the hanger.
That's when things get really great! The shuttle craft is a iMax simulator, but I've flown military simulators that weren't that convincing. I was sitting in the front row and I tried to look out sideways and back to see if I could get around the illusion, but the wrap around screens are near perfect, as is the motion simulator.
After a great close-up fly by of the Enterprise (ala "Star Trek - The Motion Picture) you are off to the really incredible part of the ride!
(No spoilers here)
Finally, after the crash, at the end of the ride...you end up in the single best Start Trek store on Earth. Real uniforms, weapons, jewelry, operational props, communicator-shaped cell phones, you name it.
Absolutely awesome.
It's the Mecca of Star Trek fans, I kid you not.
When you enter the building, you will see a gigantic model of the enterprise hanging from the ceiling. You buy a ticket ($20 US) and get in line. Get this: the line actually snakes through the Star Trek Museum, so as you are meandering along, you get to see all the original props and uniforms from all the movies and series. (I loved the original "salt and pepper" shaker medical scanner!) They have huge dioramas of many of the best known scenes.
Not to put too many spoilers in this, but next you step onto a transporter.
The air shimmers, then suddenly, you are in another room...completely! I figured at first that they just flash the lights then move the walls, but aside from how fast it occurs, and the fact that the lights don't go off...the floor was different too! Now, how did they do that?
You then find out that you have accidentally been transported to the actual Enterprise in the 24th century because the had a malfunction that "locked onto" you in your time frame. (ala "Mirror, Mirror")
You go running down the hallways to the bridge...it is HUGE! I don't know why, but I never expected it to be that big.
Then you take a turbo lift to the hanger.
That's when things get really great! The shuttle craft is a iMax simulator, but I've flown military simulators that weren't that convincing. I was sitting in the front row and I tried to look out sideways and back to see if I could get around the illusion, but the wrap around screens are near perfect, as is the motion simulator.
After a great close-up fly by of the Enterprise (ala "Star Trek - The Motion Picture) you are off to the really incredible part of the ride!
(No spoilers here)
Finally, after the crash, at the end of the ride...you end up in the single best Start Trek store on Earth. Real uniforms, weapons, jewelry, operational props, communicator-shaped cell phones, you name it.
Absolutely awesome.
