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Posted At : June 12, 2008 09:58 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Editor's Note: Here's a blog entry rescued from last week, having hitherto been imprisoned due to an inability to upload pictures to our server. Too bad, as we consequently got scooped by Norm!
Burj Dubai is aiming to outdo that modest little aquatic display on the Strip, one that still hasn't palled, a decade after Steve Wynn built the thing. It's given some folks in the United Arab Emirates a case of fountain envy, seeing as they have to advertise that their $218 million project will draw 10 million visitors a year and "is about 25 percent larger than The Fountains at Bellagio."
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Here are the stats, so you can compare for yourself ...
Acreage: 8.5 (Bellagio)/900 feet long (Burj Dubai)
Height of jets: 480 feet (Bellagio)/500 feet (Burj Dubai)
Lights: 5,000 (Bellagio)/6,600 (Burj Dubai)
Color projectors: 0 (Bellagio)/50 (Burj Dubai)
Musical programs: 30 (Bellagio)/1,000 (Burj Dubai)
You've got to hand it to Dubai: It's like Cotai Strip plus CityCenter on acid, an ostentatious celebration of wealth, built upon social inequities and sitting right at sea level -- the sort of place that got singled out for large-scale catastrophe in the Old Testament.
But never accuse those wacky petrocrats of thinking small.
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