“Fremont Street Experience Year in Review 2017” by Fremont Street Experience
Fremont Street Experience is a five-block entertainment district located in historic downtown Las Vegas. The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy featuring Viva Vision, the world’s largest video screen suspended 90 feet above the urban pedestrian mall.
The Viva Vision screen is 1,500 feet long, 90 feet wide and 90 feet tall. There are nightly Viva Vision light and sound shows with 12.5 million LED lights and a 550,000-watt sound system.
While Las Vegas is typically known for always leaving the outside casino lights on, each show here under the canopy begins by turning off the lights on all of the buildings, including the casinos. Before each show, one bidirectional street that crosses the Experience is blocked off for safety reasons.
In addition to its Viva Vision shows, Fremont Street Experience also offers nightly free concerts and entertainment on three stages. The venue has become a major tourist attraction for downtown Las Vegas. It is also the location of the SlotZilla zip line attraction and the city’s annual New Year’s Eve party, complete with fireworks on the display screen.
The SlotZilla zip line attraction features the 850-foot “Zipline” and 1,750-foot “Zoomline.” Guests take off from a 12-story slot machine-themed tower and fly under the Viva Vision canopy. SlotZilla offers “flyers” two levels of lines, the lower “Zipline” (77 feet up) and upper “Zoomline” (114 feet up).
The lower lines travel halfway down the Fremont Street Experience pedestrian mall. The upper lines go the entire length of the mall (1,750 feet). Guests on the upper “Zoomline” go down “superhero-style.”
SlotZilla cost $17 million to construct and features a launch tower with over-sized dice, a martini glass, a pink flamingo, simulated video reels, a giant arm, and two 37-foot-tall showgirls. One of the towers also bears a “Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas” sign.
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The world famous canopy is getting a $32 million renovation, which is set to begin in February and will be finished just in time for the big New Year’s Eve reveal on Dec. 31, 2019. This is the first major renovation for the canopy since first debuting in 1995. The upgraded monitor will be seven times brighter with four times its current resolution.
The latest attraction to hit the Fremont Street Experience is “Fear The Walking Dead Survival,” a new 4D thrill attraction – part maze, part interactive game based upon AMC’s hit TV series Fear the Walking Dead.
Fun Fact: Fremont Street has had many firsts in Las Vegas. Fremont Street had Las Vegas’s first hotel (the Hotel Nevada in 1906, now the Golden Gate), first telephone (1907), first paved street (1925), first Nevada gaming license — issued to the Northern Club at 15 E. Fremont St, first traffic light, first elevator (the Apache Hotel in 1932), and the first high-rise (the Fremont Hotel in 1956). The Horseshoe was the first casino to install carpeting, while the Golden Nugget was the first structure designed from the ground up to be a casino (source).
Movies Filmed on Fremont Street
Many movies have been filmed on the Fremont Street Experience. One YouTube user has put together a video showcasing several films, including Get Carter, Con Air, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Starman and The Cooler. Watch the full video below.
“Movies filmed on Fremont Street, Las Vegas | Filming Locations | Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Costner” by The Filming Locations
Other notable films include Jason Statham’s 2015 film Wild Card, Frank & Lola (which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival), the 1997 romantic comedy Fools Rush In (starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek), and the classic Honey I Blew Up The Kid in 1992.
Fremont Street Experience has also appeared in several television productions, including Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Food Paradise, and most recently, the hit NBC show This Is Us.
With pedestrian access to eight member casinos, more than 60 restaurants and specialty retail shops, Fremont Street Experience attracts more than 17 million visitors annually.
If you’re looking for an authentic “Las Vegas” atmosphere to use as a film location for your next production, be sure to check out Fremont Street Experience! Visit vegasexperience.com for more information.
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