Feb. 25 Off-Season Tour and Luncheon

Is there only one tour guy with 100 ppl or two groups of 50?

Walt and I will be at the back of the group with cattle prods to make sure no one falls behind.

So make sure to stay around the middle... gotcha

He's not kidding. My ass is still blistered from December.

TMI... :)

P.S. Don't Tase Me Bro!

"they had to taser here again"
-Heywood Banks

Still any idea on what areas we're going to be covering?

Somewhere in the park. ;)

The tour includes a walk through the main parking lot, behind the scenes look at the dog kennel in the winter, and ending with a stroll down the 1st floor corridor of the Bon Air wing at Breakers. ;)

Then after the tour, back to breakers east for a steak, baked potatoes and some Great Lakes Beer. As Charlie Brown once said: "What a day!"

I also heard that if were really lucky, we will be able to get a behind the seens look at the bathrooms near the main gate.

Awesome! I've never been in the dog kennel!

Looks like we might get snow after all! I was hoping for some true behind the scene's like the Engine House for the locomotives and other machine type shops!

I really don't care where we go. Just got to give PointBuzz lots of thanks for setting this up for all of us. Plus getting John Hildebrandt as a speaker, priceless.

^^With Randy Catri being off on Saturday and Sunday, there won't be much to look at inside the Engine House. The engines are stored inside where he does offseason maintenance while the tenders sit outside.

The tour was great and the food and presentation made it that much better! Thanks to everyone who set this up! It was a grey experience for me and my girlfriend! I hope there are more of these and the luminosity looks great to! Thanks!(:

All the Tweets I kept getting from Pointbuzz made me really excited for this season. Can't wait!

Based on the PointBuzz tweets, this season is going to be amazing in terms of park atmosphere improvements. One of my biggest complaints with the park was the lighting at night. I am beyond thrilled to see that they are addressing the three rides that had the biggest lighting issues, as well as upgrading the sound and lighting on the main midway.

Luminosity sounds like it will be something truly great. I have a feeling it will be somewhat Disney-esque, which is perfectly fine. The park is going to shine at night, which is something that hasn't happened in awhile. Hopefully they do a little maintenance to Starlight this year as well.

Luminosity, lighting upgrades, food changes, new paint, no more giant screen, and upgrading Soak City. I think I may be just as excited for the park to open as I was in 2007.

Pictures from the tour can be found here.
http://coasterbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/59757.aspx

I plan on posting more, so stay tuned.

From the looks of the pictures it looks like a good time. Hopefully there will be another, as I am officially jealous that you guys were able to go inside Disaster Transport!!!