{"id":45049,"date":"2025-10-07T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=45049"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:51:39","slug":"ballys-shares-details-of-delusional-fever-dream-everyone-falls-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/ballys-shares-details-of-delusional-fever-dream-everyone-falls-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bally’s Shares Details of Delusional Fever Dream, Everyone Falls for It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bally’s Corp. recently shared a new rendering of its plans for the Tropicana site.<\/p>\n

It is easily the most unhinged, delusional, whimsical folly we have ever witnessed in more than a decade of covering Las Vegas, and our town’s history is littered with unmitigated WTF.<\/p>\n

The worst part isn’t that Bally’s has foisted this nonsense on the world (given it will never, ever happen). The worst part is how the vast majority of media outlets reported it with a straight face, implicitly enabling this asinine, mushroom-driven con job.<\/p>\n

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Bally’s prompt to A.I. image generator: “Just put everything in it.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s what’s being shared as though it were based in reality: Bally’s Corp. released a phased development plan for a new resort at the former Trop site which will include a 3,000-room hotel (two towers), casino, 2,500-seat entertainment venue and 500,000 square feet of retail, all built around an imagined ballpark. Construction on the “integrated resort” is slated to start in the first half of 2026, with the first phase (entry plaza and parking) opening in time for the ballpark’s 2028 debut. The project is estimated to cost $3 billion.<\/p>\n

You think we were kidding about mushrooms?<\/p>\n

Then you haven’t seen the hype video shared by Bally’s.<\/p>\n

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Two luxury hotel towers, 3,000 rooms, a state-of-the-art entertainment venue, and direct access to the new MLB ballpark. The future of the Strip is @BallysLasVegas<\/a>. @BallysCasinos<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CvJdwPgabv<\/a><\/p>\n

— DraftKings at Casino Queen (@DKatCQ) October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n