Fallout Fans Raised $3,000 Trying To Get Mr House On The Vegas Sphere

thegamer.com:

Fallout: New Vegas reimagines the gambling capital with a retrofuturistic aesthetic in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, run by a pre-war CEO clinging onto life by projecting himself through monitors as a talking head. It's easy to see why it's become one of the most iconic parts of the series.

These days, the real Las Vegas has an enormous sphere in the centre which advertisers use as a giant billboard, kind of like painting your logo onto the moon. With Fallout fever at an all-time high, fans want to bring Mr. House into the real world by plastering his face onto this same sphere, making it so that--wherever you go--he's always watching.

The trouble is that getting your advert on this comically oversized ball costs a lot. Mortal Kombat 1 used it for a day and it set them back $450,000. So, ambitiously, the community is hoping to scrounge up $487,710. Right now, they've made $3,745 across 312 donations.

"Let's get down to business," organiser Even Zarsaz writes in the GoFundMe's description. "As the sole proprietor of the Las Vegas Strip, it's only right that Mr. Robert House of RobCo Industries makes his presence known in the crown jewel of the Mojave."

Zarsaz has even set up Twitter and Instagram accounts dedicated to promoting the GoFundMe page in the hopes of garnering more traction, but with the end goal being half a million dollars for one joke, maybe we shouldn't get our hopes up.

That being said, donations continue to pour in, with fans sending everything from a few bucks to $200. Unfortunately, however, they're still $483,965shy of having enough to plaster Mr. House's big mug across the sphere.

If only Robert House was real. The big tower we find him in that looms over the Mojave--the Lucky 38--exists in real life. It's called the Strat Hotel, and it's worth $70 million. Sticking his face on the sphere would hardly make a dent. But alas, he isn't.