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Caution: party under construction >> The Big O morphs into a glorious potty-lined den of sensory overload, all for a good cause
The last time the Big O hosted the Black and Blue, the party was held in the loading docks. This time they'll hold it right in the middle of the baseball field. The stadium's main floor covers a surface area of 204,000 square feet; the main dance floor will eat up more than one-third of that, or 80,000 square feet. Organizers expect about 18,000 people to attend--more than the average attendance at an Expos game. Meanwhile, the loading docks will be busy all week. A total of 30 trucks, each 53 feet long, will back into the loading area to deliver sound and light equipment. The sound system comes in at 600,000 watts and the lighting system at over 1 million watts, including 300 moving lights and 1,500 spotlights. It will take 150 technicians a whole week to complete the setup; when functioning, it will suck up twice the amount of electricity that the Molson Centre could have provided. And then there's all the other deliveries, including coat hangers (15,000 of them) and water (25,000 bottles). Surprisingly, organizers have calculated that the average party-goer consumes only 1.2 bottles of water during the event. Unlike Cream, however, the cold water taps will not be turned off. Final factoid: As always, organizers have also planned for the fact that people will have to pee all that water out. They've been given access to 100 stadium toilets, and they're shipping in another 100 porta-potties for the occasion. That's one toilet for every 90 people; expect lineups. :
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At a height of 575 feet, the Stadium's tower is the tallest leaning tower in the world. With its stretched base and its forward incline over the scrotum-esque covered stadium, it's arguably a far better phallic symbol than Toronto's CN Tower. Sadly, however, the tower will be off-limits to party-goers.