'The Lion King' will roar in Las Vegas

[ALIASd]

Originally Posted by Megastrophy

Call me crazy but there's this great big casino just a mile down from Mandalay with a great big huge lion out front, lions that you can watch and even get your picture with and a lion logo on pretty much everything inside of it, wouldn't a show called lion king mesh well there?

The concept of "Matching" the high-end 'Lion King' to the comparatively cheesy MGM lion-theme is silly. Their poorly presented former 'Wizard of Oz' theming and failed theme park leaps to mind. They were disgraces to the once legendary studio but enough of a lure to a hotel & casino that is not up to the standards of The Mirage/Bellagio/Wynn/Mandalay Bay for example.

Yes, the Manadalay Bay Shark Reef is wonderful but it's only name asset, hardly. Having House of Blues and their beach and Events Center on-site easily gets more media and attendence. And 'Mamma Mia!' certainly hasn't hurt them either.

A not inexpensive theatre ticket on the same property with the clientele of it's THEhotel makes perfect sense. It's simply a far classier location than the home of the shiny lion.
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[DVkid07]

Originally Posted by ALIASd

A not inexpensive theatre ticket on the same property with the clientele of it's THEhotel makes perfect sense.]

Well, MGM does have KA. Pricy ticket and a rather solid show.

[ALIASd]

True. It was a smart move on MGM's part to spend well over $100 million to have the Cirque du Soliel brand on property. That and Emeril's are the real reasons to go there.

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