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Show And Tell: Star Trek Experience Grand Opening Invitation

By Chuckmonster on Thursday, 24th January 2013 2:28pm
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Ten years or so, after learning about my Star Trek obsession, a friend of mine gave me an original invitation to the grand opening of Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. He said that the firm that he worked for did all the graphic design and assembly of the envelope.

Frankly, I'm shocked it has taken me this long to post a little show and tell on this little piece of my Vegas stuff collection.

Let us now boldly go where no man has gone before and open this thing.

Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation
This time it's REAL
Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation

Inside the envelope are two items. One is a glossy copper envelope with a Las Vegas Hilton hologram pasted on the outside which contains the invitation to the opening. The other is a fold out Tricorder which contains invitation to become a corporate sponsor for ST:TE.

Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation

Depending on how you tilt the hologram, the Enterprise will fly out from behind it and zoom straight at you.

Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation

There must be about 10 different scenes in this hologram. Awesome!

Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation

The invitation... "engraved" in copper. I still miss that gift shop.

Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation

The Tricorder in TNG style... shame they haven't invented touch screen technology in the 24th Century yet.

Star Trek The Experience Grand Opening Invitation

The bottom of the Tricorder folds out to announce information about a 24th century marketing opportunity.

Pretty interesting stuff. Little did I know when I got that (a few years before I started working on VT) that the invitation would eventually share the shelf with a slew of other invitations to grand openings multi-billion dollar resort casinos. Life is funny that way, at least once you are old enough to get the joke.

\\//_ Live Long and Prosper!






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Comments & Discussion:

 coybotjr posted on Thursday, 24th January 2013 - 2:35 pm

Man I could go for a Warp Core Breach, that drink was the best.

 donnymac66 posted on Thursday, 24th January 2013 - 8:17 pm

The romulan ale turned your poo blue

 weatherman2111 posted on Thursday, 24th January 2013 - 9:54 pm

And 15 years later...Paramount Parks doesn't exist anymore (sold to Cedar Fair a few years back), ST:TE doesn't exist anymore and the H Vegas or whatever they call it these days is a sad shell. Somehow that's not as funny. :^\

 Dave702 posted on Friday, 25th January 2013 - 3:55 pm

Make it so.

 Minton posted on Friday, 25th January 2013 - 10:23 pm

Anyone know if Maloof is a Trekkie?

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