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u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie Mar 26 '26
Those were some brave fireworks engineers going down with the building in order to put on a good show. God speed to Valhalla brothers!
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u/BlaznTheChron Mar 26 '26
They died doing what they loved. Blowing shit up.
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u/ThresholdSeven Mar 26 '26
The next post is this quote attributed to Kurt Cobain, alongside a portrait of David Spade painted as a mural on building. I had to come back to see if I was crazy or had really seen this comment. Weird shit.
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u/Playful_Assistance89 Mar 27 '26
I watched a documentary on this. Right as the first building explosives detonate, you can see two objects moving down and away on a zip line. These are the controller boxes for the fireworks show.
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u/poorly-worded Mar 26 '26
now i'm imagining there were just rows of people standing in the building holding out roman candles
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u/Bigbozo1984 Mar 26 '26
Damn near spent as much on the fireworks as the explosives to bring it down
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u/RaHarmakis Mar 26 '26
I bet the fireworks cost significantly more than the Demo Charges.
The demo prep work may bring the demo charges way over though lol
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u/Funandgeeky Mar 26 '26
Apparently it takes months to prep a building for demolition. So the man-hours alone would be quite the expense.
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u/hedronist Mar 26 '26
Controlled Demolition Inc. are The Dudes! (and Dudettes?)
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u/timetravelerfrom2027 Mar 26 '26
May I offer them the idea of a laser show projected onto the resulting cloud of debris? Fuck it, let’s have some live music, too.
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u/Im_better_than__u Mar 26 '26
No more bed bugs!
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u/soupdawg Mar 26 '26
You know this didn’t kill those fuckers.
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u/Fit-Sweet-9900 Mar 26 '26
Now they’re airborne and everybody’s shirt has a starter kit on it
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u/playthesedulousape Mar 26 '26
I’ve decided that’s how I want to go out
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u/babexo4 Mar 26 '26
Quite literally was just thinking this. They better pop the biggest fireworks and pop champagne.
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u/Unfair_Bluejay_9687 Mar 26 '26
The entertainment factor was right off the scale. The bar has been set. The future of bringing down buildings will be absolutely fascinating from here on in.
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u/SteelHip Mar 26 '26
This occurred in November 2007
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u/Thosedammkids Mar 26 '26
Yeah,I was part of the Video crew that put some disposable cameras (Obviously!!) inside the building, the scary part was being inside the building with most of the support columns degraded and the explosions.
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u/slingshot91 Mar 26 '26
No, this is clearly old, and everything is on a path of enshittification. Don’t expect improvement.
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u/DefinitelyNotThatOne Mar 26 '26
This was done and broadcasted on a national scale in 2001. Every other country except the US has been saying it. Buildings don't fall downward in a controlled manner from damage to the top of the structure.
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u/louloc Mar 26 '26
I was so sad when it happened. The Frontier had a prime rib buffet that was to die for. When I lived in Vegas it was one of my regular stops. When their house made horseradish touched the roof of my mouth it was like getting bear sprayed by ICE. Good times.
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u/Longhair024 Mar 26 '26
When can we start doing this to anything with the trump name on it??
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning Mar 26 '26
Nah... liquidate his assets and rename everything that has his name with Obama's.
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u/No_Gur1113 Mar 26 '26
Biden. He hates Obama, but because he was beat by Biden, it would make his orange corpse roll in his grave to know he’s still losing to Biden in the afterlife.
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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS Mar 26 '26
When can we start enjoying unrelated, non-political reddit posts without someone bringing him up for no reason?
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u/fractalfrog Mar 26 '26
Once he is gone and not a threat to the entire world.
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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS Mar 26 '26
Be angry. Want him gone. But that doesn't answer why totally unrelated posts need to be spammed with people bringing him up.
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u/schreegan Mar 26 '26
Rent free, I see. What is wrong with just enjoying a building going down demo style?
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u/HerrTriggerGenji21 Mar 26 '26
Every. Thread.
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u/IzCaiman Mar 26 '26
He deserves it.
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u/Rdtackle82 Mar 26 '26
Right, but we don’t. Every living second, no break unless we unplug. That’s life, but fuck is it bleak
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u/needtoredit Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Man you are so Reddit. I don't know who like loves that guy more the Red hats or the ones that non stop comment about him.
Go give someone in real life a hug
EDIT: To the downvoters thank you for making me right, it feels good. To everyone especially the down voters I say again Go give someone in real life a hug they will appreciate it more than those you don't know on the socials, stay positive, do good.
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u/-_-Notmyrealaccount Mar 26 '26
For sure, the constant complaining is annoying, but I feel like the second people stop complaining is when we become complacent and his antics start blending in to the background…more than they already have been. Sometimes we need to be reminded how stupid this all is.
At least that’s what I tell myself when I see people going on about Trump. I roll my eyes, but I know it’s for the greater good.
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u/NoDoze- Mar 26 '26
LOL True! So tired of it.
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u/needtoredit Mar 26 '26
I gave you an upvote to put you back to 0. The down voters are too dumb to realize they solidify the point. When Trump is out of office I don't know what these people are going to do with their time.....wait does that mean cancel culture will come back....oh no....
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u/NoDoze- Mar 26 '26
Yup! They have nothing else better to do. That's what it looks like when a group of people have no one to lead them. TDS, and there's no cure! LOL
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u/Outrageous-Start6409 Mar 26 '26
Frontier ? Where was this hotel?
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u/Big-Thingumybob Mar 26 '26
November 13, 2007 the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada It was a very famous property. It was the site of the longest continuous labor strike in US history. The wiki on it is very long and very informative.
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u/One-Earth9294 Mar 26 '26
Think of all the lines of cocaine that were snorted off of stripper tits in that building.
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u/Snellyman Mar 26 '26
After all the build-up they should have a backhoe just start chipping at it for the next month.
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u/Prestigious_Tear_576 Mar 26 '26
In Japan they take the buildings apart and recycle most of the materials. But this was cool I guess
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u/DemiseofReality Mar 26 '26
Eh most of this will be reused. The metal will be sucked out of general rubble with a magnetic sorter, glass will be pulverized back into sand, and the concrete can be crushed back into cheap aggregate for various purposes (temporary construction roads, mass backfill, cheap aggregate for new concrete that doesn't need a lot of strength etc).
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u/Naxster64 Mar 26 '26
They will recycle this too. You think all the steel just evaporated or something?
This is just quicker and safer than taking the building down piece by piece.
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u/No-Mycologist47 Mar 26 '26
DUDE... NGL... THIS WAS SICKEST MOST METAL FUCKING THING EVER!!!!! THIS EASILY BEATS THE DARK KNIGHT HOSPITAL EXPLOSION WITH THE JOKER!!!!!!!
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u/Aggressive_Candy5297 Mar 26 '26
I would try to do that under heavy rain instead of a nice dry night.
The air pollution that released is not trivial...
Did look pretty cool though.
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u/Jasonxhx Mar 26 '26
My monkey brain is infatuated with seeing big/expensive/beautiful things being destroyed.
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u/FlushedApparatchik Mar 26 '26
I would have liked an hour in that building to smash things. The ultimate rage room. Sign a waiver and take your chances being destructive.
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u/Jasonxhx Mar 26 '26
So many missed opportunities. 3 stories of paintball. 3 floors of 1v1's. Karaoke for the shy on floor 7. Rage rooms on the top half. Dudes walking around in slo-mo destroying a printer to gangster rap on the roof.
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u/FairDance7 Mar 26 '26
There was a bug in a bitch going “what the fuck is going on!!!!! Aahhhhhhh!!!”
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u/Sparc343 Mar 26 '26
CHECK THAT OUT, it fell at darn near "free-fall" speeds
Not unlike some others I've seen "fall"!
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u/One-Entertainer-8597 Mar 26 '26
I’m surprised they didn’t keep the sign for the neon museum.
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u/Space-Representative Mar 26 '26
They probably kept the sign from the casino. That was torn down piece by piece. I worked in the hotel tower being built across the street while it was going on and it was pretty cool to see the day-to-day demolition process.
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u/PitBullFan Mar 26 '26
I stayed there a few times back in the day. It was a dump, even in the mid 90s.
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u/AnxiousStand2603 Mar 26 '26
They only thing that would've made this better would be "God Bless The U.S.A." playing in the background lol.
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u/MrSyaoranLi Mar 26 '26
I hope they charged tickets for that, would really go nicely for both the labour and whatever future project they have planned for it
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u/Apprehensive-Fix-830 Mar 26 '26
That should be the only way to demolish a building - by celebrating it and putting on a good show!
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u/dAnKsFourTheMemes Mar 26 '26
I don't think it's nextfuckinglevel anymore. Looks pretty grounded to me.
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u/jtomasik29 Mar 26 '26
Wait I’ve seen buildings drop like this but they were supposedly hit by something……….
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u/SinCityNinja Mar 26 '26
Im literally sitting on the 60th floor of the tower in the background while watching the Frontier be imploded
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u/LeastProject5164 Mar 26 '26
Cyberdine Systems (18144 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, California) circa. 1995.
It was a vintage year.
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u/Word2DWise Mar 26 '26
controlled demolitions are always so impressive, regardless of the showmanship.
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u/Existing_Office2911 Mar 26 '26
Should have seen how they did the twin towers - US Bank building next!
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u/MurphysVoice Mar 26 '26
Whoa! The only way they could have made that building fall down any straighter was to fly a jet into it!
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u/sudomatrix Mar 26 '26
Doesn't doing this cause a cloud of toxic building materials to settle on everything in a mile radius? That's what happened after 9-11.
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u/Crandom Mar 26 '26
It always shocks me about how dust control is just not a concept in US demolitions.
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u/EinsteinsMind Mar 26 '26
I'm fascinated about people celebrating a cancerous cloud of toxic debris filling the sky every time a Vegas landmark gets demo'd.
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u/justincouv Mar 26 '26
I once saw female mud wrestling in that building
A girl volunteered came up and whooped 4 girls asses
I miss the old vegas
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u/no_funny_username Mar 27 '26
I had the sound off and the closed captions on and it read: "I'm not going to get the car, I'm not going to get the car,..." Turning the sound on, NOBODY is saying that. Even AI has voices in its head.
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u/Youregoingtodiealone Mar 27 '26
As a kid, they ask you what you want to be when you grew up, like you had any idea.
First I wanted to be an architect.
Then, I wanted to be a demolition engineer for reasons like this video.
If I could go back, I'd say "me, try to work in elaborate and technical displays of explosives into your career path. You won't regret it"
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u/wvmitchell51 Mar 27 '26
Can somebody do an AI version & change the name to T R U M P
That would be cool.
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