Before the Great War

Season two is based on the Fallout: New Vegas video game, with the focal point being the Las Vegas Strip pre-2077 nuclear bombing. “We had to create a retro-futuristic Vegas,” says production designer Howard Cummings. Instead of crafting the Strip using VFX, he found an abandoned shopping mall in the San Fernando Valley and built Vegas facades within the existing structure. The old Regal theater, he says, looks a lot like the casino in the game, so it was refaced with a sign reading “Gomorrah.”

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Stuck in Time

Cummings and his team built most of the signs in the show, including the Lucky 38 Resort and Casino sign on the Strip. “You can see how big this thing is,” Cummings says of the 27-foot structure. It was placed in the abandoned shopping mall set and was one of the few things that somewhat survived the atomic blast in the show.