{"id":1473,"date":"2013-09-09T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:54:51","slug":"mgm-grand-enters-the-las-vegas-marquee-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/mgm-grand-enters-the-las-vegas-marquee-race\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM Grand Enters the Las Vegas Marquee Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>So, it&rsquo;s not a race, but calling it one makes it sounds more exciting, doesn&rsquo;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the MGM Grand&rsquo;s marquee seems to be getting an upgrade.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1474\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mgm_marquee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1474 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"New bling soon, we trust.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mgm_marquee.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New bling soon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We don&rsquo;t know the details of the MGM Grand&rsquo;s marquee upgrade, because that would involve &ldquo;research&rdquo; and &ldquo;making an effort,&rdquo; but we suspect any improvements will add still more glimmer to the world&rsquo;s most exciting city. Las Vegas. Please pay attention.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1475\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mgm_marquee2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1475 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Reverse angle, because that's how this Las Vegas blog rolls.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/mgm_marquee2.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reverse angle, because that&rsquo;s how this Las Vegas blog rolls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The marquee race on the Las Vegas Strip has really heated up in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The Linq, between the Flamingo and The Quad, has a new marquee that has only recently begun testing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1476\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/linq_marquee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1476 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"If you can't go neon, at least go big.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/linq_marquee.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you can&rsquo;t go neon, at least go big.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, the grandaddy of digital marquees on The Strip (at least for the moment) is the Aria marquee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1477\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aria_marquee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1477 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"It's a stunner.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aria_marquee.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&rsquo;s a stunner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aria&rsquo;s marquee is a whopping 250 feet tall and 65 feet wide (that&rsquo;s 10,000 square feet of LED screen), and with 11 million pixels, it doesn&rsquo;t skimp on resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas is already one of the brightest cities on Earth, but if there&rsquo;s one thing we&rsquo;ve learned about Sin City, it&rsquo;s that too much is never enough!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&rsquo;s not a race, but calling it one makes it sounds more exciting, doesn&rsquo;t it? Nevertheless, the MGM Grand&rsquo;s marquee seems to be getting an upgrade. We don&rsquo;t know the details of the MGM Grand&rsquo;s marquee upgrade, because that would involve &ldquo;research&rdquo; and &ldquo;making an effort,&rdquo; but we suspect any improvements will add still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegashotels"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MGM Grand Enters the Las Vegas Marquee Race | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So, it&#039;s not a race, but calling it one makes it sounds more exciting, doesn&#039;t it? 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