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[–] LodeMike 105 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is it? Last I‘ve heard it was bleeding money.

[–] LodeMike 9 points 4 months ago

Makes sense. Gimmicks are gimmicks.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably because they're not doing much with it. It's $100/person to see the basic "Planet Earth" showing and almost $200 to see The Grateful Dead show. Previously they showed a Phish show. That's it for options, and none of it sounds really appealing to me.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure these bands are all appealing to some, but it seems like they're really squandering the potential with them playing the same two shows over and over for months.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

U2 is the best band ever, Bono told me that.

[–] blakemiller@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

This way some faulty internet lore. The money losses were from a fluke of timing the opening date of operations versus when quarterly finances were reported. Big startup costs meant the first numbers looked silly until they had enough events to get steady profits. They’re doing fine now.

Internet should’ve known better too. It’s hard to lose in Vegas and the investors obviously knew what they were doing. The power costs are shocking for sure though. Yikes!