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Our first peek inside Electric Daisy Carnival

It’s big in there. Really, really, really big

Spencer Patterson

Thu, Jun 23, 2011 (4:51 p.m.)

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This Ferris wheel is one of the Electric Daisy Carnival’s many rides at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Photo: Justin M. Bowen

How massive is Electric Daisy Carnival? The square footage of most Las Vegas venues wouldn’t even cover the area occupied by EDC’s portable restroom corrals.

The staggering scope of the electronic dance music festival set to begin Friday night came into focus today, when local media toured the re-imagined Las Vegas Motor Speedway infield. According to promoter Insomniac Events, the usable space for this edition of EDC will be 15 times that of the 2010 version, held in the puny-by-comparison Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.