A city pack for the Moonlit Atlas book

Las Vegas

The Strip in the middle of the desert, on one shelf: the STRAT's needle over the Luxor pyramid and the dotted Sphere, with Excalibur's turrets and the High Roller wheel in front. Put it in your Moonlit Atlas, press the brass button, and Las Vegas stands up under the moon.

The Moonlit Atlas book, closed: 8.1 × 6.7 × 2.5 in. With this pack, Las Vegas is what folds flat inside it. Scroll to open it at dusk, as the desert goes dark around the Strip.

Press the brass button. Two torsion springs lift the lid, a gear damper keeps it slow, and three rows of the city stand up with it, upright at 90°, the needle of the STRAT highest of all.

The STRAT: a slim white shaft on splayed legs, a dark pod ringed with windows and a needle over the whole set. Beside it the dark Luxor pyramid with its sphinx at its foot, and the bronze Wynn, its roof curving down to one side.

To the right, the cream Bellagio under its small teal cupola, the dark Sphere studded with dots, and Excalibur's castle towers under red, blue and gold cones.

One row down, the High Roller wheel stands in front of the pyramid. Then the Venetian's brick bell tower and its white Rialto bridge over blue canal water, Caesars Palace under red roofs, palms, and a red rock mesa at the end of the row, where the desert begins.

On the boulevard, palms, lamps and hedges run the whole row, low cream and pink shops under striped awnings stand at both ends, and a pink convertible cruises past, all kept low so the resorts behind stay in view.

At the front, the lake fills the tray in blue. Two arcs of fountain jets rise from the water beside a cream stone balustrade, and a black gondola glides past at the left, its gondolier in a red-and-white striped shirt.

Lights out. The STRAT's pod, the Wynn's strips, the Bellagio's windows, the Sphere's dots, Excalibur's windows, the High Roller's rim, the bell tower, Caesars, the shop fronts and the tips of the fountains all glow, and the moon and stars come out over the desert. They glow in the dark: no batteries, no wires.

The four pieces of the Las Vegas set out of the book, seen from the front right and a little above: in front, the blue lake plate with white waves, two arcs of slim white fountain jets with pale tips, a black gondola with a gondolier in a red-and-white striped shirt and a low cream balustrade; behind it the boulevard row, a gray road with white dashes, palms, black lamps and hedges, cream and pink shops under striped awnings at both ends and a pink convertible; then the middle row with a white spoked wheel, a brick-red bell tower with a green spire, a white arched bridge, cream columned blocks under red roofs, palms and a terracotta stepped mesa; at the back a tall slim cream tower with a dark pod and a needle, a dark pyramid with a sand-colored sphinx, a bronze tower banded in gold, a cream stepped building with a teal cupola, a dark globe covered in pale dots and cream castle towers under red, blue and gold cones — The four pieces of the set out of the book: the lake nearest you, the STRAT and the Sphere at the back.

Out of the desert

A whole world on one street

Las Vegas began as a railroad stop beside desert springs, in a valley ringed by bare mountains. The Strip grew south of it one resort at a time, and each one brought somewhere else to the desert: a Roman palace, a castle with pointed turrets, an Egyptian pyramid with its sphinx, the canals of Venice, an Italian lake with fountains. This set stands them all on one shelf, with the High Roller wheel in front of the pyramid and, at the end of the middle row, the red rock that was there before any of it.

The lakeBlue water with white waves, two arcs of fountain jets, a cream stone balustrade and a black gondola with its gondolier.
The boulevardPalms, lamps and hedges along the whole row, low cream and pink shops under striped awnings, and a pink convertible.
The wheel and the resortsThe High Roller, the Venetian's bell tower and Rialto bridge, Caesars Palace, palms and a red rock mesa.
The skylineThe STRAT, the Luxor pyramid and its sphinx, the bronze Wynn, the Bellagio, the Sphere and Excalibur's castle.

Drag to turn the book. Tap a number for its story.

14 landmarks, from the needle to the lake

Walk the set the way the film did, from the tip of the STRAT down to the gondola on the lake. Pick a landmark to see where it stands and what the model shows.

Up close

A white needle, a dark pyramid and a lake of fountains

The skyline of the Las Vegas set under a large pale moon and cream stars on a dark indigo panel: at the left a tall slim cream tower on splayed legs with a dark pod ringed by lit windows and a needle reaching up to the moon; a dark pyramid with a pale tip and a sand-colored sphinx at its foot; a bronze tower banded in gold with lit bands, its roof sloping down to the right; a cream stepped building with rows of lit windows and a small teal cupola; a dark globe covered in pale glowing dots; at the right cream castle towers under red, blue and gold cones; at the bottom the top of a white spoked wheel, a brick-red bell tower with a green spire and red roofs — The skyline: the STRAT's needle against the moon, the dark Luxor pyramid, the bronze Wynn, the Bellagio's teal cupola, the dotted Sphere and Excalibur's cones.

The middle row of the Las Vegas set: at the left a white spoked wheel with round cabins on two slanted legs; a brick-red bell tower with a cream belfry and a green spire; a white arched bridge over a strip of blue water; cream blocks lined with columns under red roofs with gold pediments; a terracotta stepped mesa at the right; green palms all along the row; behind, the tall cream tower, the dark pyramid and sphinx, the bronze tower, the cream stepped building, the dotted globe and the castle towers; below, the boulevard with cream and pink shops under teal-and-white striped awnings, black lamps, hedges, palms and a pink convertible — The High Roller, the Venetian's bell tower and Rialto bridge, Caesars Palace and the red rock mesa, over the palm-lined boulevard.

The lake plate of the Las Vegas set in the cream tray of the open book, seen from above at the front: bright blue water with white wave strokes; at the left a black gondola with gold trim and a gondolier in a red-and-white striped shirt and a gold hat; in the middle two arcs of slim white fountain jets on foam rings, with pale yellow-green tips; at the front right a low cream balustrade; behind, the boulevard row with a gray road with white dashes, cream and pink shops under striped awnings, black lamps, palms and a pink convertible — The lake in the tray: a gondola at the left and two arcs of fountain jets, with the boulevard and its pink convertible behind.

The open Moonlit Atlas book with the Las Vegas pack standing on a walnut sideboard beside a small potted cactus — At home: the Las Vegas pack in the book, on a walnut sideboard.

The open book with the Las Vegas pack on a bedside table in a dark bedroom, its moon, stars and windows glowing — Lights out at bedtime: the moon, the stars and the Strip's windows glow.

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New York off, Las Vegas on

Say your book holds New York. Each row clicks onto its frame with two magnets and two V-keys. Lift it straight up and it comes free.

Once New York's three rows are off, lift its harbor plate out of the tray.

Drop in the Las Vegas plate: the blue lake, with its arc of fountains and a gondola.

Set the Las Vegas rows on, back to front, the STRAT and the Sphere first. The magnets pull each row home. New York goes back on the same way whenever you want it.

What's in the Las Vegas pack

The set

Three building rows and a lake plate that drop into your book and click onto its frames with magnets. No batteries: after a lamp has charged them, the windows and the fountain tips glow brightest for 30 to 60 minutes.

Weight: about 4.4 oz
Made from: PLA
Building depth: up to 0.47 in, so the rows fold flat

The closed Moonlit Atlas book: navy cover, cream page block and a brass button

Add-on: needs the Moonlit Atlas book

Las Vegas needs a book to stand in

This pack is the city only. It stands up inside the Moonlit Atlas book, which is sold separately. The rows click onto the book's frames, so Las Vegas swaps with New York or any other city set in seconds.

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