The ‘Mates’ Expertise Is Coming to Las Vegas — What to Know

Cue up The Rembrandts and seize your besties to bounce across the well-known Mates fountain, “The Mates Expertise” is establishing a West Coast flagship location in Las Vegas to assist have a good time the present’s thirtieth anniversary.  

Dubbed “The One in Vegas,” this Mates Expertise — very similar to the touring variations — will put guests proper on the recreated units of the hit present. Company can chill in Monica’s condo, calm down within the Central Perk coffeehouse, and sit back, actually, in Chandler and Joey’s black lazy boy recliners. And, in true homage to Sin Metropolis, Mates followers can reenact Ross and Rachel’s iconic marriage ceremony scene and bust by way of the marriage chapel doorways.  

“Las Vegas is the right vacation spot to debut The Mates Expertise’s second U.S. flagship location,” Stacy Moscatelli, CEO of Authentic X Productions, an organization identified for its immersive experiences, stated in a press release. “Not solely does the town entice thousands and thousands of Mates followers yearly, however Las Vegas performs an integral position within the sequence that includes among the present’s most iconic and hilarious moments.”

Along with the nostalgia-packed units, followers will get a behind-the-scenes peek into the present’s manufacturing and have the ability to view props and costumes. 

Within the 5 years because it launched, “The Mates Expertise” has traveled to 24 cities checking off eight international locations alongside the best way. Its first everlasting location was in New York Metropolis, the place the sequence was set, with Las Vegas and London getting their very own anchored activations. 

Calling Mates “nothing wanting phenomenal,” Peter van Roden, senior vp of Warner Bros. Discovery International Themed Leisure, stated in a press release: “We’ve seen followers from everywhere in the world embrace the possibility to relive their favourite moments and join with the present in a complete new approach. With Las Vegas premiering because the West Coast flagship, there’s much more to sit up for as we proceed celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Mates.”

The all-ages activation opens later this 12 months at MGM Grand — a property with its personal ties to Hollywood. The resort was as soon as dwelling to a Wizard of Oz attraction and the MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park, a mini model of Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Common Studios that lasted from 1993 to 2002.  

Be taught extra at FriendsTheExperience.com/Vegas.