Here’s a look at some of the resorts we missed out on over the decades, as well as a few bullets we dodged along the way:

Plus, would those boots have clashed with the guitar-shaped hotel Hard Rock International wants to build at what’s currently The Mirage? Assuming that ever actually happens, that is. But it could’ve been downright wacky had these resorts, all of which were announced with varying degrees of fanfare, actually been built.Ī hotel tower as tall as the Rio, but shaped like a cowboy boot? Sitting next to an identical one? That would’ve been nearly as unsightly as the dueling fake San Francisco resorts practically across Las Vegas Boulevard from each other. Our skyline already is ridiculous, in the absolute best possible way, with its pyramid, Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty. 11 attacks, the Great Recession or just plain ol’ common sense. Somewhere out there in the multiverse, there’s a Strip where these resorts, some of the wilder ideas ever proposed for Las Vegas, weren’t derailed by the aftermath of the Sept. If you get to the Titanic-shaped hotel, you’ve gone too far.” “You lookin’ for that hotel with the marina and all the yachts? What you’ll wanna do is hang a left at that 200-foot slot machine over there, go past the Golden Gate Bridge, go past the other Golden Gate Bridge - don’t even get me started on those two - then it’s just the other side of the 400-foot tall cowboy boots.

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