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Went to "Monster Jam" today, and do I feel ripped off...
"Monster Jam" is a monster truck rally that comes through town once or twice a year. I usually take the kids, and my dad for his birthday, since it usually comes to town the weekend after his bday. This year was no different. The kids love monster trucks, and me and dad are good ol Detroit motor heads. So I went and got the tickets a few days ago for todays show.
In years past, it has been held at the Denver Collosium, which is smaller than most of the venues you usually see on TV, but large enough to have a decent short track with a turn, a couple jumps, and a couple lines of crush cars.
Additionally, they would run a series of "tough truck" races, where locals would take out their hopped up (or old beater) 4x4s, and have some fun racing, and put on a good little side show for the crowd.
They also run "Quad wars", which is a series of ATV races that is so obviously fake, it make WWF wrestling look real.
Last year, they also included one of those "transformer" type giant dinosaur machines that rips cars apart and torches them.
This year, they moved it to the Pepsi Center, Denvers new home for the Avalanche and Nuggets. A very nice arena. So naturally, the ticket price went up. 2 adults and 2 kids tickets cost me $76 (and these where the cheap seats!), plus $10 for parking, and $30 for hotdogs and drinks.
I can deal with that if I am treated to a good show...
BUT the floor space in Pepsi Center is even smaller than the collosium. So the track for the races was nothing more than a start line, one jump, 3 crush cars, and a finish line (x2, one left lane, one right lane). This means each race was about 2.2 seconds long.
There was also not enough room for the tough trucks races, so they where omitted.
And the quad wars races where as cheesy as ever...but at least me and my dad had a good time laughing at the screaming morons who obviously thought these races where real
And instead of the transformer thing chewing up cars for 20 min, they had a motorcycle stunt guy who did ONE jump over the hoods of two whole trucks (oooh, aaah, wow!)
So, with the shortened perfomance list (no tough trucks), the sickengly short tracks (with only 6 monster trucks racing), and the obscene prices for everything involved, I ended up shelling out well over a hundred bucks for LESS THAN 2 hours of mediocre entertainment.
To put it mildly, I am somewhat disappointed.
Next time, I'm going to the drag races....
(end venting mode)
In years past, it has been held at the Denver Collosium, which is smaller than most of the venues you usually see on TV, but large enough to have a decent short track with a turn, a couple jumps, and a couple lines of crush cars.
Additionally, they would run a series of "tough truck" races, where locals would take out their hopped up (or old beater) 4x4s, and have some fun racing, and put on a good little side show for the crowd.
They also run "Quad wars", which is a series of ATV races that is so obviously fake, it make WWF wrestling look real.
Last year, they also included one of those "transformer" type giant dinosaur machines that rips cars apart and torches them.
This year, they moved it to the Pepsi Center, Denvers new home for the Avalanche and Nuggets. A very nice arena. So naturally, the ticket price went up. 2 adults and 2 kids tickets cost me $76 (and these where the cheap seats!), plus $10 for parking, and $30 for hotdogs and drinks.
I can deal with that if I am treated to a good show...
BUT the floor space in Pepsi Center is even smaller than the collosium. So the track for the races was nothing more than a start line, one jump, 3 crush cars, and a finish line (x2, one left lane, one right lane). This means each race was about 2.2 seconds long.
There was also not enough room for the tough trucks races, so they where omitted.
And the quad wars races where as cheesy as ever...but at least me and my dad had a good time laughing at the screaming morons who obviously thought these races where real
And instead of the transformer thing chewing up cars for 20 min, they had a motorcycle stunt guy who did ONE jump over the hoods of two whole trucks (oooh, aaah, wow!)
So, with the shortened perfomance list (no tough trucks), the sickengly short tracks (with only 6 monster trucks racing), and the obscene prices for everything involved, I ended up shelling out well over a hundred bucks for LESS THAN 2 hours of mediocre entertainment.
To put it mildly, I am somewhat disappointed.
Next time, I'm going to the drag races....
(end venting mode)
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