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Deconstructing Angry Birds’ ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Hogas, Pigvada’

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A green pig with an Elvis pompadour wears the King’s trademark glasses and bedazzled white collar, sitting in a convertible with a nest of stolen bird eggs under the glow of the city’s neon. “Welcome to Fabulous Las Hogas, Pigvada” reads the lighted sign.

The Angry Birds Seasons episodes of the mobile game (this one released last fall, but we just got an eyeful) hint at other landmark sites. In Vegas, it’s neon. The Milky Way in the game might not be visible from the Strip, and scenes stray wildly into non-Vegas environments—a two-story barbershop, for one. But one level has musicians on a truck’s flatbed (behind big band-style podiums) that go rolling off a hill and combust when bombed by the birds. Somehow Rovio Entertainment referenced, perhaps entirely incidentally, the musicians strike of the ’80s that replaced showroom bands and orchestras with recorded music.

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