{"id":847,"date":"2012-04-08T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2012-04-08T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:50:22","slug":"now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992-gge-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: THE \u201cSTAR TREK\u201d ATTRACTION THAT ALMOST CAME TO LIFE in 1992."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(The real winner of the 1992 downtown Las Vegas redevelopment competition was NOT the FREMONT EXPERIENCE \u2013 it was the STARSHIP ENTERPRISE from STAR TREK. But no one knows this \u2013 until now.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygoddard.com\/blog\/index.php\/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992\/\">NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: THE \u201cSTAR TREK\u201d ATTRACTION THAT ALMOST CAME TO LIFE in 1992. \u2013 GGE Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This would have been so cool!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We learned everything we could about the Starship \u2013 its actually size and dimensions, how it would exist in \u201cdry dock\u201d on the planet if indeed such a situation had been possible.\u00a0 We imagined what it could be, and how we might achieve it. \u00a0We got Ken Ball (former head of engineering at Disney\u2019s MAPO) involved to figure out how to engineer and support it.\u00a0 (Ultimately we realized we would need to add some supports on the outer edge of the \u201cdisc\u201d section due to the extremely high wind conditions in Vegas.\u00a0 For this we created a high tech \u201cscaffolding structure\u201d that gave the ship more of the appearance of being in an open-air dry dock.\u00a0 I have not yet located that sketch, but I\u2019ll try to find it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The real winner of the 1992 downtown Las Vegas redevelopment competition was NOT the FREMONT EXPERIENCE \u2013 it was the STARSHIP ENTERPRISE from STAR TREK. But no one knows this \u2013 until now.) via NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: THE &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-cool-beans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}