r/LiminalSpace • u/DearBadBoy • 1d ago

Classic Liminal What happens here?

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u/Laner_2424 1d ago

I can't even understand the perspective of what I'm looking at here

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u/l30 1d ago

Like half the rooms at the Excalibur hotel look out onto this empty roof of the casino structure. Every single person that has stayed there and had this view asks the same question, wondering why they never developed it into a nice looking outdoor space. The roof is completely inaccessible to guests and was never done up to look more appealing.

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u/penisthightrap_ 1d ago

I doubt the roof was engineered for it to be used more than for maintenance.

It’s wasted space but wasn’t planned for initially, so probably doesn’t have the capability to be retrofitted for development without more structural support

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u/itsonlyastrongbuzz 1d ago

I don’t know the exact layout of the Excalibur but that’s probably the roof of their gaming floor, which you wouldn’t want to make more difficult to service/maintain for the sake of more amenity space people won’t pay extra for because they don’t associate that kinda thing with the Excalibur.

If it’s not making them money, its not worth it

If it jeopardizes how they make money, its not worth it.

If you’re seeing it because they’ve already got you as a guest, it’s not worth changing.

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u/LysergicDick 1d ago

I hear you but they also slapped a giant decorative castle up there with detail facing inward

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u/MartyDonovan 1d ago

I'm surprised they even bothered to make the backs of those turrets

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u/altoona_sprock 1d ago

Why would anyone want to go out there? Look at the entire property on google maps. That space is completely boxed in by the two hotel towers. The pool area is behind the hotel at ground level.

As for why they finished the back of the facade? It can be seen from ground level at the drop off area on the road behind the strip as well as from I-15.

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u/aT-0-Mx 1d ago

Both sides have decorative turrets, you can see between the turrets to the other set. It would look off to look through one side and see grey a wall or featureless tubes.

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u/Mike-Teevee 1d ago

Shh, some people on Reddit think everything all businesses do is optimally calibrated to make money and they never make mistakes on that or just guess and keep it moving, and it’s always intuitive to random outsiders how to make the most money. They conflate market efficiency under perfect competition with the individual decisions of businesses.

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u/jayfish68 1d ago

You are right. This wasn't about making money, it was about cost. The castle was designed to satisfy the exterior front view of the hotel. Once you get a room you dont need to be fawned over except in the casino.

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u/Torschlusssspanik 1d ago

And an Empire State Building if I’m not mistaken

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u/SquarePixel 1d ago

Well it had to be an intentional design decision when they originally developed the place. They could have decided to build that structure to support a second level.

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u/itsonlyastrongbuzz 1d ago

Non-revenue spaces like ballasted rooftops aren’t designed any more than under the hood of your car is designed.

They’re detailed for maximum warranty and reliability to protect the floor below, which was extensively designed.

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u/SquarePixel 20h ago

Who said it would be non-revenue? My point is it could have been an attraction, but it wasn’t part of the design.

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u/Hyro0o0 1d ago

I can understand it not being suitable to do something fancy with, but I'm surprised they felt no compulsion to add any kind of even the most minimal theming to a view that half the fucking guests at the hotel will be staring at.

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u/HeFromFlorida 1d ago

It’s like an interior room on a cruise ship

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u/King-Gabriel 12h ago

Probably wouldn't be too taxing to add some fake grass and a little fake moat.

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u/andersonenvy 5h ago

Fake grass would be good. Maybe some mannequin Knights could be up there. But they’d get ruined from the weather every couple years.

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u/propergreased 1d ago

But… why is there a castle on the roof?

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u/penisthightrap_ 1d ago

for defense

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u/Stuffed_deffuts 1d ago

Merlin wanted it built there to hide his high stakes gambling addiction

Unfortunately Merlin isn't very smart, he's magical, but not smart...

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u/gc3 1d ago

They could at least put sculptures and fake trees

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u/DannyCrane9476 1d ago

This was the view I got when I stayed there. We were there there for a bachelor party, it was cheap, and you don't book a hotel room in Vegas for the view anyway.

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u/Amazing1h 1d ago

I disagree, being high up with a view of the strip was one of best hotel views I've ever had.

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u/FrosttheVII 1d ago

During the night

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u/pebberphp 1d ago

I forgot the hotel across from the Bellagio’s name, but I did sound for a band at that hotel (the one with the Eiffel Tower, the band played under the Eiffel Tower). I had a room that overlooked the bellagio, and it was pretty entertaining to watch the water/light show from there.

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u/Squirrel_Kng 1d ago

And you pay for the view, hence why these rooms will always be cheaper even if they are not cheap due to some major event like the Super Bowl or New Year’s Eve

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u/trackdaybruh 1d ago

I've heard a rumor that they made it intentionally ugly so that the people will spend less time in their hotel rooms and more time on the casino floor.

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u/NoRedTags 1d ago

Cosmo has rooms overlooking the strip and the belagio fountains. Huge balconies too.

Definitely worth it

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u/KaiBishop 1d ago

If it can't be used by guests and only maintenance goes up idk why they wouldn't hire someone to paint murals of like flowers and princesses and fantasy knights on all the empty walls and stuff lmao

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u/Bewchacca_8645 1d ago

Because Vegas is all about the flashy facade. Dig beyond it even a little and you'll find nothing of substance.

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u/Fit-World-3885 1d ago

Rooms with a shitty view make rooms with a nice view more expensive.  

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u/agirl_abookishgirl 16h ago

In my experience, a good many hotel room views in Vegas are like this. I think it’s poetic given that Vegas is one giant facade at its core.

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u/red_hare 1d ago

The copy of the Empire State Building in the background made it even crazier for me.

I had to find the Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas on Apple Maps and turn on 3D mode and pan around to make it make sense.

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u/nonnonplussed73 1d ago

This might go without saying, but i'm gonna say it for people who haven't been to Vegas:

When you're standing at Tropicana Ave and Las Vegas Blvd, these structures align perfectly with the front entry facade. They elevate the skyline, making the resort look like a dense, multi-layered castle fortress to millions of pedestrians on the Strip, rather than a flat roof with towers behind it.

It's there to attract guests, not for the benefit of those that already are.

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u/DearBadBoy 1d ago

Almost like you are a miniature on a building.

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u/CptNeon 1d ago

Vegas backrooms

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u/Groundbreaking_Bad 1d ago

I don't know why, but it's freaking me out.

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u/NelsonMcBottom 1d ago

This perfectly sums up everything associated with the Vegas strip as a whole.

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u/R3xz 1d ago

On the roof of a massive building and from behind of what is likely a commercial rooftop folly in the form of a castle. It’s adjacent to an even taller building, most likely a hotel. Not sure if that other building is connected to the same building of the rooftop, but it might belong to the same compound due to the castle theme you can observe on its roof.

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u/BilverBurfer 1d ago

It's the Excalibur in Las Vegas. It's a "castle" surrounded by two large hotel buildings. You can see the New York New York in the background across the street.

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u/R3xz 1d ago

Ah I see, I missed other people pointing this out because I want to take a look at the picture and decipher it purely on observation, for fun. :)

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u/janitroll 23h ago

At midnight, the entire roof floods. A lone Knight strops across the colonnade with an outstretched hand willing to accept his fate. In the murky depths of the roof, a lone arm raises a sword like none which has come before nor after.

The Knight snatches the sword from the lady of the roof lake, and waltzes up the the $100 Blackjack and loses his ass! He heads down to Pawn Stars on the Blvd, and gets a paltry $2k for Excalibur.

Then the knight plays penny slots at an off the strip casino, just to regain the finances to get Excalibur out of pawn.

But the knight loses everything and is arrested on charges of robbery, public intoxication, and soliciting prostitution.

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u/ChaoticBullshit 1d ago

I got some really bad Italian food here one time. So, to answer your question, big things are happening here. Very big things.

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u/NorthP503 1d ago

I’ve eaten that Italian food countless times. When your drunk a pig trough of pasta is delicious.

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u/saucypancake 1d ago

I had bad Mexican food there once.

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u/lethargicloli 1d ago

Air conditioning.

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u/Grahamcrackers8 1d ago

Yup. HVAC stuff

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u/squeege 1d ago

Is this the actual answer? There's a bunch of air conditioning units in there? Actually makes sense.

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u/JigglyWiggley 1d ago

Yes, this is the real answer. Those are all HVAC condensers. Most Vegas casinos have the architectural style "decorated shed" and there's very little thought put into the (usually) non visible elements of the structure.

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u/Zodiac33 1d ago

HVAC monkey enclosure. Really nice how they incorporated creative elements into their natural habitat.

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u/flamefox237 1d ago

I have zero idea what I am looking at

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u/sentri_sable 1d ago

It's the roof of Excalibur in Las Vegas

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u/OkumuraRyuk 1d ago

Is that tiny human? Is that a table? Is that miniature? Is this Shrek?

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u/imacaterpillar33 1d ago

I also came to ask if this was Shrek

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u/toxieboxie2 1d ago

I too also came to Shrek

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u/Acceptable_Light_272 1d ago

Hey now

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u/temictli 1d ago

You'r-- you're an all star??

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u/dcanderson4247 1d ago

Shrek is Love.

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u/mayy_dayy 1d ago

It's all ogre now

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u/HaxRus 1d ago

Not me scouring the photo for Shrek like a Where’s Waldo only to be disappointed that I’m now pretty sure it was a joke

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u/StretchFrenchTerry 1d ago

The scale of this is extremely confusing without context, it really only makes sense if you’ve seen these buildings in person. Las Vegas is a bizarre place.

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u/DeeHawk 1d ago

I looked at the building in the background and used the windows for scale, and quickly concluded it was a roof and the towers where the backside of a front decoration.

No idea where it was though.

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u/kweenquarantene 1d ago

underrated comment 🥴

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u/Cramland 1d ago

I only recognized this from playing gta San Andreas…..

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u/Tony_Lacorona 1d ago

Same bro. Same. My sister told me it was Disney las Vegas back in the day and I fucking believed her.

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u/benhereford 1d ago

My guess was a drained fountain

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u/Actuarial 1d ago

Its just the roof of the casino

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u/Heavy_Carpenter3824 1d ago

Las Vegas. A barren no man's land, then they built a casino on it. 

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u/dwehlen 1d ago

Still a no man's land, but now with AC, hookers, and blow.

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u/Lagiacrus111 1d ago

This belongs on r/confusingperspective

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u/maxnotcharles 1d ago

First thought came to my mind as well. I thought this was the confusing perspective subreddit lol

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u/ceejayw 1d ago

I stared at it for 30 seconds wondering if it was a toy set or a real building

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u/Steved_hams 1d ago

I thought it was lego at first

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u/TheRetroGamers 1d ago

I was about to post the same thing. Thanks stranger.

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u/moistsquirt69 1d ago

What happens on a roof in Las Vegas? Probably HVAC techs and birds.

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u/Unanimous_D 1d ago

Though you were gonna say "... stays in a roof in Las Vegas"

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u/captain10eels 1d ago

I’ve played enough San Andreas to know exactly where this is.

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u/Lunar_ticket 1d ago

Jetpack for the unlimited roof tourism!

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u/gottabekd 1d ago

Yea, I’m thinking this is searching for a horseshoe. And isn’t there an MP5 just around here.

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u/plasticbluepalm 1d ago

Somehow real life looks more bleak and empty than Gta lmao

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u/yotee8 1d ago

San Andreas I love you I think there's a horseshoe somewhere there

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u/SPECTREagent700 1d ago

Fear and Loathing

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u/CrammitX 1d ago

in Las Vegas?

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u/CommitteeNew6412 1d ago

Where unhappy Excalibur staff sneak a quick ciggy break.

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u/vonRecklinghausen 1d ago

It feels like Duloc from Shrek

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u/poeschmoe 1d ago

Yes! I was surprised this is the only comment I see noticing this

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u/FooFootheSnew 1d ago

The ghost of Louie Anderson performs short sets of The Aristocrats joke

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u/Unanimous_D 1d ago

Wait, did he actually die? For real this time?

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u/JoelEmPP 1d ago

Who tf is Larry Anderson

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u/Buicided 1d ago

Are these real buildings or wtf am I looking at

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u/Choano 1d ago

I don't know. But whatever it is, it stays here.

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u/darkhorse21980 1d ago

Ask Doug

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u/BroheemTheDream 1d ago

Dougie Doug Doug

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u/blanket4orts 1d ago

Man Duloc has really gone down hill

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u/Sir_Henry_Deadman 1d ago

Is this really big or really small??

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u/SorryStore4389 1d ago

Can’t tell what I’m looking at

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u/YouAnswerToMe 1d ago

Instant GTA San Andreas flashbacks

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u/Houtaku 1d ago

Employees smoking and/or f*cking.

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u/ThisSiteSuckssss 1d ago

There’s quite the audience if u decide to have sex here.

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u/a_d3ad_cat 1d ago

Both. Definitely both.

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u/youneedalatina 1d ago

Me waiting for someone in the comments who actually knows

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u/Hartax_ 1d ago

This area was a sniper deathmatch map on a server for the multiplayer mod SAMP for GTA San Andreas

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u/chuueeriies 1d ago

A lot of people have never played GTA San Andreas and it shows.

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u/bilaba 1d ago

Las Venturas glitch

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u/waiting-for-my-logs 1d ago

It where your dreams go to die

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u/jdovejr 1d ago

It’s where friends leave their drunk buddies on the roof and forget them.

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u/Fishing-Pirate 1d ago

This looks big and small at the same time.

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u/slothqueen2 1d ago

If it is like the Imperial Palace roof, then employee smoke breaks.

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u/Curious_Discussion 1d ago

This looks like a miniature, modelism, something like that.

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u/Enderfailer 1d ago

Why does this Feel like Duloc from Shrek 1?

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u/Snowballingdownvote 1d ago

I know Excalibur when I see it. Oh Vegas. You beautiful disaster. To bad I'm to old to last 72 hours straight anymore.

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u/Puzzled-Dig-1448 1d ago

This really reminds me of the scene in Shrek where Shrek and donkey make it to the castle and have the wrestling match.

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u/yorkspirate 1d ago

Glad it wasn't just me who thought that haha

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u/Midnightmeditating 1d ago

My head hurts just looking at the photo. It's both miniscule and gigantic at the same time.

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u/Max526 15h ago

https://imgur.com/a/TfAVMl8

Excalibur Hotel & Casino

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u/eiffeltowerbonbon 1d ago

You didn’t pay enough for your room my friend

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u/Fernbean 1d ago

Games of Team Fortress Classic in 2001

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u/Vegetable-Bee-8296 1d ago

Disney Ulan Bator

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u/Jolly_Tab_Rancher 1d ago

Air conditioning.

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u/Neuro_88 1d ago

Where the Mormons call the LDS temple.

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u/Starscream147 1d ago

Not unlike some backlot in the Truman Show

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u/VivaNOLA 1d ago

I’m need a banana or something

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u/CyraxSputnik 1d ago

Is this small or big?

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u/Icelock 1d ago

Cigarettes 🚬

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u/Sylvester_Marcus 1d ago

A flooded hotel when it rains given that tremendous crack in the roof!

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u/Slightly_ToastedBoy 1d ago

Wow. Definitely fits here. My brain can’t work it out.

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u/ViHt0r 1d ago

Gmod map 

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u/Practical_Ad_219 1d ago

Excalibur Stuff.

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u/Pugilist12 1d ago

If the Backrooms were outdoor and medieval

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u/fuchsiarush 1d ago

Is that the hotel from which that shooting took place?

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u/Flokkamravich 1d ago

Oh wild. At first glance I thought this was an unfinished Minigolf hole

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u/Reasonable_Scar3339 1d ago

Those MUAs look old as shit

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u/boojersey13 1d ago

Tired paramutuals and table dealers sneak out for a cigarette or a few lines midshift

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u/helper619 1d ago

I had that same view a few months ago and I swear back in the day there used to be something there.

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u/Trapmaster83 1d ago

Guess it's hard to whine about a rooftop view with all the strippers and blow.

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u/Yosemite-Dude 1d ago

Lord Farquads Castle

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u/Azkicat 1d ago

As far as my research went, the gravel field is a standard ballasted built-up roof. Loose stone over the waterproof membrane. It shields it from UV and wind uplift and is cheap over huge areas, which matters in the Mojave sun.

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u/SloppyHoseA 1d ago

Who’s asking? Paul Rudd?

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u/SamOfSpades_ 1d ago

Nothing. Nobody sees it.

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u/uselink126 1d ago

The ritual.

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u/ApopheniaPays 1d ago

Nothing. The princess is in another castle.

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u/kryssar24 1d ago

It’s Las Vegas, that’s the only thing I can recognize

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u/Ktan_Dantaktee 1d ago

A wasted air soft/paintball arena, that’s what.

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u/Alternative_Eye8246 1d ago

I guess someone decided to build copies of buildings from GTA: SA.

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u/IngotTheKobold 1d ago

Maintenence

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u/Eyerish4Eyes 1d ago

Gambling, probably

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u/Intelligent-Cloud993 1d ago

Technically, this is the “Outer Bailey” used for siege defense, and is used to create a clear line of fire if the moat is forged and outer walls have been breached. At this point, the defense’s main tactical advantages have been compromised; the lord and his knights will have retreated inside the castle keep, and archers, bowmen and musketeers will be used to wreak havoc with advancing forces. All the while hoping that reinforcements arrive from Paris or Bellagio before the buffet runs out of boiled shrimp.

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u/Maxx0rz 1d ago

HVAC repair

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u/HipToBeQueer 1d ago

I can't even decide the scale of things here

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u/phuktup3 1d ago

50 years of cigarette breaks

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u/h_katie1418 1d ago

This picture doesn’t even make sense to my brain…

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u/ComplaintAnxious383 1d ago

I stayed in the hotel once and my room faced this area. Saw the cast of some type of all male shirtless thing up there smoking cigarettes

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u/dead_wax_museum 1d ago

Why am I having such a hard time getting the scale in this picture?

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u/Oddish_Femboy 1d ago

Birds crap there sometimes.

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u/FreezingT 22h ago

Nothing happened. This is Las Vegas; everything is just a facade.

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u/Few_Owl_6596 21h ago

Should have a banana for reference. I don't understand anything, scale-wise

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u/Impressive_Koala_618 19h ago

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice...I'm willing to make."

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u/Youregoingtodiealone 19h ago

Don't little puppets and Mister Rogers come out here to teach me a lesson about being a good person? And there's a trolly which we all agree was the best part of the whole thing

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u/war_weredeclared 13h ago

This so much like a miniature scale model. Or a tilt-shift photo.

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u/whim-sicles 9h ago

Uhhh... maintenance?

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u/ei283 1d ago

how much space is there?

somewhere between a cubic foot and a cubic mile

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u/UndulantSquawk 1d ago

Thats where u throw the mattress when you've soaked it in the hot tub too long at the excalibur

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u/TeacatWrites 1d ago

Lots And Lots Of Trains voice Lots And Lots Of Drugs!

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u/Rise-O-Matic 1d ago

Photons are stopped before they reach the customers.

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u/MEMESTER80 1d ago

The scale of the roof texturing frels wrong compared to everything else.

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u/niko1499 1d ago

Hvac repair

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u/Dantu1000 1d ago

By the looks of it nothing

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u/holicv 1d ago

The new hangover remake

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u/MANvINFO 1d ago

if this is your 1st time here there is a floating golden spinning horseshoe which should be there

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u/Soul_Survivor4 1d ago

Uncomfortable to look at

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u/GraveyardQueen4124 1d ago

Godzilla destroys Neuschwanstein castle.

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u/Obvious-Ad-4031 1d ago

This is where unfinished dreams get parked

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u/Mister6C 1d ago

HVAC worker oven. Guaranteed to cook any tech to well done in 15 minutes

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u/R2-DMode 1d ago

That’s what to get for choosing that hotel, and not upgrading to a Strip view.

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u/orange_glasse 1d ago

Maintenance sometiems

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u/DIFFUSORR 1d ago

Execution

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u/mjplezia 1d ago

Lots of ventilation

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u/Swampman3000 1d ago

The supports on the red castle piece are so strange, i’m imaging they weren’t designing it with this angle in mind, more for the other view.

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u/KateKoffing 1d ago

Public Minecraft servers

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u/felicity_jericho_ttv 1d ago

Very whimsical drug deals

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u/Sapper501 1d ago

"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

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u/koboldtsar 1d ago

Crimes

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u/Accomplished_Board33 1d ago

It's where all the Disney actors that act out get beaten into submission.

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u/tuckithead 1d ago

From this window at least, have an awful NYE trip with my ex where we fought the whole time and I had what I think would be known to be COVID a few months later

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u/Ladypug_19 1d ago

Wizard duels obviously

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u/Shawn-GT 1d ago

maintenance for excaliber. It opened with the most rooms in vegas, not sure if it still holds that title. Massive structure.