Luxor Las Vegas in popular culture

* This destination hotel is often viewed as a prime example of 1990s Postmodern architecture, and appeared on the cover of architecture scholar James Steele's book Architecture Today. 
* Since opening in 1993, the hotel has appeared in numerous films including the 1996 film Mars Attacks! (in which a major character is depicted as an employee of the hotel, dressed in Egyptian costume), and the film 2012.
* In Up in the Air, George Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, is asked to take a picture in front of the Luxor hotel. 
* The Hotel was seen in the movie The Hangover. 
* A futuristic but abandoned version of the hotel is seen in Blade Runner 2049 along with other famous landmarks in a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas.
* The hotel has been featured in the television shows Fear Factor, Criss Angel Mindfreak, Great Hotels, and CSI. 
* A replica of the Luxor, named "The Camel's Toe", appeared in the Las Venturas area of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and another replica appeared in the Las Vegas area of the 2000 video game Driver 2. 
*The Luxor Las Vegas also appears in Futurama episode, "Viva Mars Vegas". 
*The hotel appears in Vegas Vacation starring Chevy Chase. Tupac Shakur also stayed in The Luxor in September 1996 when he was gunned down on the strip after a Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight on September 7, 1996. 
*Will Smith filmed the 1998 video for "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" in the hotel's lobby and in front of its sphinx.
*The hotel was featured in the Life After People episode “Sin City Meltdown”. The pyramid survives, but all its windows are destroyed. The fate of the Sphinx and obelisk are unknown.
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