served as the location for an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show. It also appears in the 1970 film The Grasshopper. In the 1971 journalistic novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, author Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos . . . but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space." When the novel was adapted to film in 1998, the fictional "Bazooko Circus" was featured as a thinly veiled stand-in for Circus Circus, which had refused permission for the filmmakers to shoot on their property. The midway was featured in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. A year later, it appeared in an episode of Banacek titled "A Million the Hard Way". Circus Circus made appearances in several other films of the 1970s, including Las Vegas Lady, Damnation Alley, and Corvette Summer. The 1999 film Baby Geniuses was partially shot at the Adventuredome, which stood in as the fictional Joyworld theme park. In the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Circus Circus appears under the name Clown's Pocket. A recreation of Circus Circus, called the Ringmaster, also appears in the 2014 racing video game The Crew, near the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. A robbery occurred at Circus Circus in 1993, when Heather Tallchief, a driver for an armored truck, drove away with $3 million, which was in the process of being distributed to ATMs. Tallchief carried out the robbery with the help of murderer Roberto Solis. They disappeared, but she eventually surrendered 12 years later. The robbery is chronicled in an episode of the 2021 Netflix docuseries Heist. See also Circus Circus Reno Circus Circus Tunica References External links Images from University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1968 establishments in Nevada Architecture of the Las Vegas Valley Casino hotels Casinos in the Las Vegas Valley Las Vegas Strip Hotel buildings completed in 1972 Hotel buildings completed in 1980 Hotel buildings completed in 1986 Hotel buildings completed in 1996 Hotels established in 1972 Mandalay Resort Group Resorts in the Las Vegas Valley Skyscraper hotels in Winchester, Nevada