Coming down next month with a car. I heard that the Pawn Stars shop is near the Strat. I wonder if it is worth taking out time from poker to check it out?
Has it become another tourist trap or is it cool?

not worth it. the guys from TV probably won't even be there, so you are just standing in line to go inside a pawn shop

Unless you have a missile for sale.

Love the show but it doesn't sound too good the way augie puts it. My friend went there and got a picture with chumlee.

I've heard if you go there on the weekends, it's packed and the guys on TV aren't there. I went out last year and drove by there a few times a day. Every time the lines were too long. I'm tempted to try to go early on a Monday morning.

Everyone says it's way too small, and a friend of mine bought his wedding ring from there.

It is AMAZING!

Best 3 minutes spent looking at useless junk of my life...





That was sarcasm. If you feel an uncontrollable desire to go there do NOT wait in line. Come back another time. You can usually walk right in at night.

i like to drive by it though. driving by and seeing the sign is basically as good as going in...you will recognize it from the outside and you can say "yay!" or even wave and say "hi pawn stars!"

I can confirm that this is the best way to experience the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop.

Another good way to see it in all its glory is to navigate to Las Vegas Boulevard and Charleston on Google Maps then click on street view...

I went there but only found a Walgreens and a payday loan place, should I stroll down LV Blvd or Charleston?

LVB

meh augies a hater, i got in no line and saw chumlee and rick real quick. didnt spend much time in there but enjoyed it being as big of a fan of the show as i am

been sippin hateraid all day

I went to see it a month ago, they were filming so i had to wait. All the guys from tv get off work around 4 or 5 so go early. They were leaving when i got there but i got to talk to Rick and take a photo with him. They have a lot of t shurts for sale plus the stuff thats pawned. They told me that the coolest stuff they have usually sells fast on ebay. It is in a shady part of town though.

Just go on a weekday morning and walk right in. No line, no waiting.

I went in December and saw everyone, but I was lucky because they were getting ready to film. Honestly though, it's really worth it, but fans of the show will probably enjoy it, or at least not hate that they went.

The son Corey was just in the news yesterday for getting arrested after assaulting a deputy officer in a town 80 miles from L.A.

I just drove by on Mon. and that friggen line was all the way around the building... several hundred people long. I dont see how they can do business that way.

what are the other really great pawn shops here in vegas?

I have been in a few because I love looking at junk. all those that I have been in, compared to those in southern california, suck big time. where are the good ones?

This is what I never get, when the idiot customer takes $250 for something he thought he should get 1500 for. These people never heard of Ebay? I know sometimes their expectations are unreasonable but some of them do seem to get lowballed because they need the money and want to get rid of the item.

I hate to break it to you, but nearly all of the show is scripted. The show is produced. It's not candid. A lot of the time what you see on TV only happens for the purpose of entertainment and advertisement. Sometimes Gold and Silver Pawn already owns the item that someone is "bringing in" on a TV episode. Let me elaborate. There are episodes where the producers find someone to pretend to be the owner of an item for the sake of creating an episode. More importantly, most of the items that you see "sold" on TV never actually make it on display in the store. Please don't go to the Pawn shop and ask if they have that XXX you saw on the History channel last week.

The items that never make it for sale in the store are the things that can't fit inside the building. The cars, trucks, RVs, bikes, airplanes, etc are never for sale to the public in the sense that you can just walk in the store and buy and airplane. You're like "OK, duh," but the majority of the reason is because the transaction you see on TV is never serious. It's not as if someone calls Rick up and says, "Hey, I want to sell my RV," and the History channel camera crew follows Rick to meet the guy selling his RV. It's all for show.

My girlfriend's dad repairs and restores antique slot machines, and he did some filming. He's unsure if they're going to air it. One of his friends is Ernie Moody of videopoker.com. Ernie owns Robosaurus, this giant vehicular fire-breathing robot dinosaur. Obviously the thing was never for sale, but an episode recently aired where (as the storyline goes) Chumlee gets Cory to check Robosaurus out in a parking lot. The guy who acts as the owner (definitely not Ernie, the real owner) pretends to try and sell it for a mirrion dollars.

I can't bring myself to watch a lot of TV because so much is scripted crap that people believe really happens(ed). If any of you have questions about the show and how the majority of it is produced / scripted and very little is based on real events, I'll do my best to answer.

Also, if any of you in Vegas are interested in antique slot machines, shoot me a PM.

Show is ruined for me now. Its like the time I was watching "Rehab at the Hard Rock" and I slowly replayed the scene where the security guard got kicked in the face. During the slow replay, the dudes foot misses the security guard by a mile. Couldn't watch it after that...

The robosaurus was awesome

Yeah, but its still fun to watch. But as to your point, you of course are correct - - - and not only about this show, but about most all reality tv shows.

I have first-hand experience with dealing with reality tv because one reality show was focused on my wife and I as we attempted to sell our house a few years ago. The show was Designed to Sell on HGTV. For those who are unfamiliar with the show (which I assume is most of the people on this forum), a camera crew comes to your house to see what needs to be updated and/or redesigned to help you sell. A real estate "expert" states what needs to be done, the designer then comes up with the fix, and then contractors come in to make the changes. (We got an updated bathroom, a redesigned den, and some changes in a guest bedroom.) At the end, an open house is filmed with the host asking the prospective buyers how they like the house.

The entire show was pretty much scripted. Not only that, but most scenes were filmed several times from various camera angles to get the different perspectives. Before filming, the director told the real estate expert what she should say was wrong with the house. The "open house" consisted of our friends and neighbors, and the director told them how they should react and what they should say. At the end of the episode, the director instructed us to state on camera that the house had been sold and that we had received our asking price and it was all due to the changes made by the design team.

In point of fact, we hadn't even put the house on the market yet. That happened shortly after the show was filmed. Although it was a lot of fun being involved in the filming of the episode for the week or so that it took place, very little of it was "real."

cliffs: I participated in a reality tv show and can confirm that they are pretty much scripted.

so because you were on a sh*t reality show that was scripted means that a highly respected show like Pawn Stars is too?? LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

lol

Yeah but the reality part isn't the coolest thing about it. The cool thing is the items they have and learning the history behind them.