What: Magical Mystery Tour Stop #7
Where: Pizza Ranch
When: June 20, 2015 at 1900-2100 (that's 7 to 9 pm)
Why: A Righteous Good Time
Who: Any one who feels that they are the Walrus
How: Bus, van, car, bike, or transportor
The Magical Mystery Tour 2015 is set for June 20, 2015. Originally held in 2012 as a state-wide, 24-hour event with eight different stops – create your own adventure in 2015! Load your closest 12 geo-friends in a van and cache the entire state in 24 hours. Attend your closest event and meet cachers from across the state as they travel to you. Pick an event in another corner of the state and meet new friends, see new places, and find a few new caches. There is never a shortage of caching tales (or caching tall-tales) at an event – hear a few and make of few of your own on the way! The first event starts at 0001 and the last event ends at 2359. Grab a friend (or two) and make as many of the stops as you can. There is no limit to the amount of fun that one can have traveling the state of Minnesota!
Stops are scheduled in the following cities:
- Maple Grove
- Hinckley
- Virginia
- Bemidji
- Crookston
- Fergus Falls
- Redwood Falls
- Rochester
Magical Mystery Tour
In The Beatles Anthology, John Lennon states that "if stage shows were to be out, we wanted something to replace them. Television was the obvious answer." Most of the band members have said that the initial idea was Paul McCartney’s, although he stated, “I’m not sure whose idea Magical Mystery Tour was. It could have been mine, but I’m not sure whether I want to take the blame for it! We were all in on it — but a lot of the material at that time could have been my idea.” Prior to the movie, McCartney had been creating home movies and this was a source of inspiration for Magical Mystery Tour.
Production
The film was unscripted and shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches and situations, which McCartney called the "Scrupt". Magical Mystery Tour was ultimately the shortest of all Beatles films, though nearly ten hours of footage was shot over a two-week period. The core of the film was shot beginning on 11 September and finishing on 25 September. The following eleven weeks were mostly spent on editing the film from ten hours to 52 minutes.
Much of the film was shot in and around RAF West Malling, a now-decommissioned airfield in Kent. Many of the interior scenes, such as the final ballroom sequence for "Your Mother Should Know", were shot in the disused aircraft hangars. The exteriors, such as the "I Am the Walrus" sequence and the impromptu race, were filmed on the runways and taxi aprons. RAF Air Training Corps cadets can be seen marching in some scenes and during "I Am the Walrus" a RAF Avro Shackleton is seen orbiting the group.
The mystery tour itself was shot throughout the West Country of England, including Devon and Cornwall, although most of the footage was not used in the finished film. The final striptease sequence was shot at Paul Raymond's Raymond Revuebar in London, and the sequence for "The Fool on the Hill" was shot around Nice, France.
The Magical Mystery Tour movie was made, but the hoped-for "magical" adventures never happened. During the filming, an ever greater number of cars followed the hand-lettered bus, hoping to see what its passengers were up to, until a running traffic jam developed. The spectacle ended after Lennon angrily tore the lettering off the sides of the bus.
The coach used in the film is a Plaxton-bodied Bedford VAL Panorama I, licence URO 913E. The vehicle was new to coach company Fox of Hayes in 1967. The Hard Rock Cafe acquired the coach in 1988, and the vehicle is now completely refurbished. In the race, Ringo himself drives the bus around the airfield racetrack.
-Wikipedia
