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Magical Mystery Tour EAST 2010 - DAY 1 COMPLETE!
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CURRENT NEWS (As of 03/25/2010)
Day 1 of the tour has been completed!
** IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER: **
* If you're bringing multiple people with you, be sure to purchase one seat per person coming with you.
* Please put your screenname in the buyer's notes so that I can get a hold of you before the MMT, and preferably your mobile phone number so that we can communicate during the tour if we get split up. If you don't have a screenname in the Penny Arcade forums, provide some other good way to contact you!
* Hurry! Only 25 seats are available on the bus, and it's first come first serve with no exceptions! They won't let us put more than 25 people on this bus, so once we hit 25 we're done. (As of now, 13 seats are still available!)
* The cost of the spot on the bus *does not* include admission to any tours, museums, etc... that we are going to! This is just for your reserved space on the bus for both days. ZeroDarkHour has graciously volunteered to research possible group rate or city pass options, but that will be discussed in the forum. If you don't want to get a city pass or group rates end up being infeasible, be sure to bring money with you for admission to the various locations! The cost of these locations is also being researched by Zero at the moment, and will be available on the board in the coming days.
* If you are only coming on the MMT for one day, you will still need to reserve the spot for two days. If you find someone who can sit in on the bus for the day you miss and you arrange to split the cost with them, that works fine by me as long as you give me their contact info: but for us to stand a chance of paying for the cost of the bus, we need to do it this way. Most people who can only go one day will likely only be able to go on Thursday, and if the majority of our bus seats are taken up by just Thursday we're going to end up with an empty bus on Wednesday and a whole lot of debt: so please, if you can only go one day, pay for both and/or make arrangements on your own for someone to split the cost with you so that they can take your seat on the day you won't be there.
Click here to reserve a spot on the Magical Mystery Tour!
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=d48jp9ktokhcbf3k51j9mqlph8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
OUR SCHEDULE!
Wednesday, March 24
10:00am - Harvard Museum of Natural History
11:30am - Lunch - Bell-in-hand
12:30pm - MIT
1:30pm - New England Aquarium
3:00pm - Harpoon Brewery
5:00pm - Drop off bus, optional after hours touring begins!
Thursday, March 25
10:00am - Museum of Fine Arts
11:30am - Lunch - Faneuil Hall
1:00pm - Sam Adams Brewery
2:30pm - Museum of Science
5:00pm - Drop off bus, optional after hours touring begins before the Pre-PAX Dinner and Pub Crawl!
Some of the times are fixed due to the business' schedules. For example, Sam Adams' Brewery has 45 minute tours, but only until 3pm. Harpoon Brewery has free beer tasting, but only between 4 and 5pm, and so on.
Let me know what you guys think of this schedule! And please, please please SIGN UP! We still have 13 seats left!
THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
** About the Magical Mystery Tour **
The Magical Mystery Tour was started in 2008 so that people who came into the Seattle area could see the sights and hang out with fellow gamers on the days leading up to PAX. We're continuing the growing tradition and extending it to PAX East with a tour of Boston!
** Where will we go? **
The locations in the Schedule below were determined by we, the people! Take a look at it below!
** When will it happen? **
The Magical Mystery Tour will take place March 24th and 25th, 2010 all during the day!
** How will we get there? **
We'll be commandeering a bus for the purpose! For 40$, you can secure your spot on our bus for both days, which will shuttle us to all our destinations between the hours of 10am and 5pm. If you're on the bus, please do not miss the 10am pickup! If you do, you'll have to find your own way to meet up with us along the way!
** How much will it cost? **
I am asking for 40$ per person, payable via PayPal at this link, for their spot on the bus for both days. If we can fill the bus, I'll be able to give the difference between the bus cost and how much we collected back to everyone (which if the bus is filled for both days, would be ~6$ or so, possibly 8$). If it ends up actually costing more than 40$, I'll eat the cost difference personally: which is a risk I choose to take for the sake of the tour.
** How do I sign up? **
SIGN UP HERE! NOW! Seating is limited!
OUR SCHEDULE!
Wednesday, March 24
10:00am - Harvard Museum of Natural History
11:30am - Lunch - Bell-in-hand
12:30pm - MIT
1:30pm - New England Aquarium
3:00pm - Harpoon Brewery
5:00pm - Drop off bus, optional after hours touring begins!
Thursday, March 25
10:00am - Museum of Fine Arts
11:30am - Lunch - Faneuil Hall
1:00pm - Sam Adams Brewery
2:30pm - Museum of Science
5:00pm - Drop off bus, optional after hours touring begins before the Pre-PAX Dinner and Pub Crawl!
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Or at least being a part of it.
I have a map in my sig with nearby POIs including historical and architectural things.
Though if the people vote on it, we could potentially include a duck tour in it. But I'm imagining that we'll hit most of those sites a bit longer than just driving past them on the duck tour anyways so it might potentially be redundant.
EDIT: Now that I think about it though, perhaps having both available as options would be wise. The Duck Tour, from what I gather, is something that can be done in an hour or two, which might be beneficial for people who can't come to town early enough for the "full-on" Magical Mystery Tour. But for those who have the time and want to hit the sites for a more extended period, the MMT can provide the same tour services we've been providing in Seattle.
EDIT 2: Also Goose, it'll be good to finally meet you at PAX East! I need to get in on some Phalla sometime this winter again. I've been keeping myself from it due to the massive addiction I got to it, but if I can keep myself in check...
It would definitely be a more condensed version than what I gather the MMT in Seattle is, but that's not necessarily a bad thing given the unpredictable weather in Boston in March. Also, Duck tours are freaking hilarious and so so so much fun. I like the idea of it as an option for those people who can't make it for the full MMT, or maybe for those people who've been to Boston before and just want a quick-ish jaunt about town.
Admittedly, I've been really looking forward to running the MMT East ever since PAX East was announced, so I really want to do the MMT no matter what.
I'm going to be following MetaverseNomad's awesome ideas from MMT 2009 and make some external web pages/Google Docs to handle these things... when we tried to do it entirely from the forum in 2008 it got a bit complicated.
Pretty much this. March is typically rainy and sometimes chilly and all in all a miserable month in Boston. Not to mention the Duck Tour only takes 80 minutes to do and can easily be done at any point because they run from 8am-6pm.. In either case, Usagi and I are going to be doing a Duck Tour with our fellas and the other people who want to do this can contact us and we'll either rent a duck if we get enough interest or we can just book half the duck.
Also Vision, I'm not saying you shouldn't do it! Go for it, do the duck tour! There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to do both. I'm just saying that the MMT will be there for people who want a more extended trip and don't mind the possibility of inclement weather. The MMT has been intended since PAX East began, and I think there'll definitely be some people who want the quick duck tour and people who want the extended MMT tour, so there'll be plenty of availability for both options. Heck, there may be people who want to do both of them even!
EDIT: You may want to start a separate thread on it though... maybe not now even, but whenever you're ready for it. That way people can sign on and know that it's happening, and that it's an alternative option to the MMT (or, if we time it right, the MMT could merge into it towards the end for those who want to also do the duck tour... maybe we could have some collaborative planning on that?). Either way, I don't see why we can't do both.
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As for the locations, I'm going to do it as we do every year: this week, I'll put up the locations I've found that would be good. I'll give it a week or two for people to suggest more potential locations, and then we'll vote on the ones we want to do. From there, I'll try to put together the best possible schedule, and then take up MetaverseNomad's idea from this past PAX and see about getting us a chartered bus so that we can take our time at locations but not have to worry about hoofing it everywhere. It should be fun!
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That being said, you don't have to come if you don't want to.
The BPD frown on people driving into the Charles.
He isn't invited.
Really though, what is there to like about things like Duck Tours? You sit in a bus with a bunch of other people from out of town who are all excited that they are in the big city, zoom past all the sights, and never get to take any time with anything. It seems so tacky.
( I am not trying to pick a fight, really am curious )
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Because when you get over yourself you realize it's good goofy fun. It's an 80 minutes summary of Boston and is a good way to start or end a day in the city. Most of the tourists do in fact take the time to visit the sights after the tour having seen where they are heard a little about them making them interested in seeing more. It's pretty much a staple for anyone's first trip to the city.
Considering I live in Boston and still manage to enjoy the Duck Tour for what it is I find it amusing when tourists think they're too cool for one. It's usually the people who take themselves far too seriously who don't have a good time.
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As for sites in Boston, I think there's going to be plenty of great sites, and if we do end up getting some kind of tour bus or something, we're going to cover a lot of ground! This is going to be awesome!
And indeed, could you guys please start another thread for the duck tour? It'll be easier for everyone if each has its own thread for organizational and easy reference purposes.
If I'm in Boston and this is happening, I'll be there. I'm all about community events. I'm just at the mercy of Amtrak.
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We'll have a blast Arco! Let me know when you find out... I'll have a registration page up in a couple of weeks, so if you feel the odds are likely you can sign on up!
EDIT: Also, the locations are now up! Check the OP for tentative locations and suggest more for the upcoming voting rounds here!
Gives people more options, which is never a bad thing!
I think the Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, and Aquarium are an absolute must see. The Bell in Hand is a 2 minute walk from Fanuel Hall, so those can be combined together as one stop (Fanuel Hall has a ton of food and shopping as well). Fenway Park may not be running tours at that time, but the area around Fenway is fun nonetheless. The TD Garden is an ugly beige building, not much to see there. Gillette Stadium is a good 45 minute drive from Boston, so I would say that it's not the best use of time.
Also, I know that the historical stuff *seems* interesting, but it can become quite boring if you string it all together (this coming from someone with a history degree). I'd recommend that you intersperse those kinds of stops with other places that are more entertaining.
Edit: From the Duck Tours site
Operating Season and Hours
March 23 - November 29, 2009. Also weekends in December.
Tours from the Prudential Center and Museum of Science depart rain or shine, 7 days a week.
(so they will be running during PAX East time)
On the plus side, I once again have incentive to plan Post-PAX events...
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Some added suggestions:
Children's Museum (not sure if there's an age restriction haha but it's so much fun)
Sam Adams Brewery.
Because New Englanders are all a bunch of drunk fucks.
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If interested here is a link to their tour information http://www.samueladams.com/contact_tour.aspx
Also, you can add the Harvard Natural History Museum up to your list of museums. I haven't actually been there yet, but it's on my list of things to do.