We're running a poll right now asking you for what nonexistent Vegas attraction you'd pay to do. And along comes something that easily could've been on the list had I imagined it. Dave McKee at LasVegasAdvisor.Com reports in his news column today that, for a few hundred bucks, you can get in the operator's seat of a Caterpillar excavator!
The front of the website PlayWithOurCats.Com says you can do a half-day for $249 but the booking section indicates a 90-minute experience costs $350 and a full day is $700. Either way, what a great idea!
Here's part of their sales pitch:
At the Big Dig! Adventure, you can operate an excavator or a bulldozer by yourself on our 10-acre playground. No experience or prior training is necessary, we’ll teach you everything you need to know, and we’ll be right there with radios to help you be a safe and successful operator on your first day. If you are bored with golf, sunburned from the pool, and tired of paying the one-armed bandits, get away for a few hours and make a childhood dream come true in our enormous, climate controlled Earth-moving Machines.
I love it. Brilliant. If only Boyd had thought of this! They could have had tourists PAYING to help them complete Echelon. The only thing I don't get is the air-conditioned cabs. That hardly seems like a realistic adventure.
Anyone ever heard of such an attraction elsewhere?
Anyone ever heard of such an attraction elsewhere?
3 comments:
Yes, this idea was first in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. DigThis.info
Heck, Steve, it's been a year or so since I watched a local anchor girl try to maneuver one of those machines in an attraction like that in -- of all places -- Knoxville, TN. I can't believe the sticks are ahead of the glitz!
I'm not sure about an attraction, but 40-50 years ago, when Bill France was building the NASCAR superspeedways at Daytona, or Talladega, he opened a school for earth moving equipment operators. Reportedly he got all the dirt work done at no cost.
Jeff in OKC
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