Casino Player magazine says: 'At two minutes and 45 seconds. Still need more theme park news? Check out the Los Angeles Times Funland theme park blog on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Instagram. The Stratosphere used to have a red roller coaster called the High Roller that circled the bulb at the top of the tower, but it was removed in 2006 to make room for a new observation deck. You can still ride the coaster without the VR headset for $15.

The Big Apple roller coaster at New York-New York Hotel & Casino costs $20 with the virtual reality experience. The Jet Star roller coaster sits partially submerged in the Atlantic Ocean in early 2013 after Superstorm Sandy destroyed part of the Casino Pier amusement park in Seaside Heights, N.J. An out-of-place Vegas Vic neon sign that belongs in downtown Vegas shows up near McCarran International Airport. The Tropicana gets turned into a parking lot and the mock Eiffel Tower is erased from the Strip. The VR experience does a fairly accurate job of rendering the Vegas Strip, but non-MGM properties get short shrift. The VR coaster ride comes to an end in the middle of the heavily damaged Vegas Strip with a view of flapping American flags flanking the Statue of Liberty in front of the New York-New York Casino. A military helicopter rescues the riders from the alien ship, tugging the coaster by another tow cable past the Bellagio fountains, over the erupting Mirage volcano and through a keyhole in the MGM marquee sign.ĭuring the finale, a helicopter squadron fires missiles at the alien ship, which collapses at Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.

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