Tropicana Casino Implosion: When Las Vegas Icon Will Drop

The Trop is about to drop. We now have a better idea as to when the Tropicana Casino implosion will take place, and it is only a few months away.

On Thursday, the company hired by Bally's Corporation, owners of the Tropicana Las Vegas, filed documents with Clark County seeking approval to drop the Trop. More specifically to perform an "implosion of the 22-story reinforced concrete Tropicana Club Tower and the 22-story structural steel Tropicana Tower in a single explosives event." Sounds fun.

According to the documents, they'll be setting up for the Tropicana Casino implosion by late September with an implosion set for no later than Tuesday, October 8th. They've been carefully piecing apart the property over the last several weeks after the property's closure in April. If you haven't looked in a while, here's a gander.

In case you've been living under a rock, the Oakland Athletics are moving to Las Vegas. At least, they are saying they are moving to Las Vegas. The stadium is set for the corner of the Las Vegas Strip and Tropicana and while the Tropicana casino implosion will make room for that, there are some doubters.

Renderings of the proposed casino changed, resulting in a questionable new rendering. Financial issues are rumored to be causing an issue with the owners of the Athletics. The teachers union is against the public financing part of the deal. Not to mention that Bally's Corporation is having financial issues of their own and may not have the funding to open a casino next to the stadium as planned.

There are still a lot of moving pieces when it comes to the plan, but one thing is for sure: the Tropicana Casino implosion will be moving what is left of the property down to the ground.

The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil is coming to an end after a spectacular 18-year run on the Las Vegas Strip.

The colorful advertisement for the show that's spread out on The Mirage's top portion of the building will soon be peeled off. The website for The Beatles LOVE show says the last performance will be on July 6. Although the show was originally going to close on July 7, Ringo Starr's birthday, an earlier press release from Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group stated.

The show will go dark due to The Mirage rebranding itself as the Hard Rock Las Vegas. USA Today reported that rumors of the show closing started about two summers ago, "when MGM Resorts International offloaded The Mirage – home to the show and its $100 million custom-built, sonically superior 2,013-seat theater – to Hard Rock International."

The show opened the curtains on June 30, 2006, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group's website states.

"LOVE is a Rock 'n' Roll poem, a magical mystery tour into the heart and soul of The Beatles music through an exploration of the aesthetic, political and spiritual trends of the 1960s," the LOVE website says.

The Associated Press reports that more than 11.5 million people have seen the show. LOVE's website also says the show's origin blossomed from a friendship between Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil's founder and George Harrison.

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison have celebrate the show and the milestone anniversaries. The show has evolved throughout the years to adapt to the changing landscape of live theater and performance.

The show fully cloaks you in a beautiful score of The Beatles' hits and cult-followed songs like "Love Revolution," "Octopus’s Garden," "Eleanor Rigby," and so much more.

The show is a compilation of trapeze, Russian swing performances, tumbling, acrobatic gymnastics, slow-motion aquatic ballet, ariel contortionist acts and more., It's a rainbow and mixture of foundational circus disciplines with a sprinkle of contemporary choreography and acting.

Your eyes are glued to the stage the entire time. Each part of the stage peppers in a different part of the plot with the acts, dancers and more -- it all comes together in beautiful synergy to create a full story about the immaculate story of The Beatles.

Cheers to a great 18-year run of amazing dancing, constant innovation and the sharing of The Beatles with the world. We will always LOVE The Beatles LOVE show. It's a part of Vegas history and became a mainstay on the glittering Strip.

But with many Las Vegas icons, all good things must come to an end. The show is a homage to Vegas's past, present and future. We're growing and becoming something different each deace. But, at the end of the day, all we need is love.

Welcome to Beatlemania. This entrance was beautiful, and I loved it,

This sign shined in the bright lights of the venue.

The website states, "In this energetic trampoline performance, long-haired free-spirits playfully attempt to tame and jostle the authorities with their daring, fast-paced acrobatics."

The website states, "A euphemistic stimulant launches them and the show itself on a psychedelic trip."

This scene felt like an explosion of joy and colors with this punchy song.

Bubbles stimulated the audience as colorful lights danced around the venue with bubbles floating throughout the crowd.

This scene definitely got our adrenaline running.

This felt bittersweet to end the show with familiar faces.