Have you got your ticket for the Grand Tour?After nine months, The Grand Tour returns to Second Life! The “All Aboard Grand Tour” will be Saturday and Sunday, February 19 and 20, 2011. The tour includes 15 different locations with a theme of trains and transportation.
The Grand Tour began in 2008 as a positive expression after some unpopular decisions by Linden Lab left many residents discouraged. A few people got together and created the marathon event. The All Aboard Grand Tour is the fifth tour. The creator of the event, Fogwoman Gray, summarizes the purpose, which had become the motto of all grand tours: “To bring all nations and groups together to demonstrate why we stay and what is important.
The tour this year includes exciting new events including music festivals, mysteries and even a hobo ball. The full schedule is listed below. Landmarks are available in world, and at each venue. Everyone is invited to jump on the tour wherever and whenever they wish. All time zones should find some events that are convenient; we are looking forward to greeting both old and new friends. Co chairs, or this year’s “Gandy Dancers” Breezy Carver and Rose Springvale will be available throughout the tour to answer questions, deal with problems and keep the Grand Tour Train on track. All Aboard!
Saturday
5-7am Al Andalus Alhambra;
The beautiful palaces of 13th century Moorish Spain is hosting a music festival featuring Joaquin Gustav’s flamenco guitar and the amazing percussion group DRUM! Also the beginning of the All Aboard Grand Tour Photo contest, sponsored by Al Andalus! Pick up the rules here. Flamenco or Arab dress encouraged!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Al%20Andalus%20Alhambra/214/156/59
7-9 Tuliptree:
Hobo Haven Jungle Grand Opening sponsored by the Virtual Rail Consortium, with Hobo and train music played by DJ Callipygian Christensen. Come and learn the history of rail at this wonderful build, and see what the Consortium is doing in SL. Hobo costumes… or whatever you have!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tuliptree/104/208/30
9-11 Steam SkyCity:
Sparking Gears Ball. Romance among the Robots! Clanks and Automatons are invited to come and greet the day, with dancing and prizes for best avatars.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Steam%20SkyCity/121/84/76
11-1 Winterfell:
Revelry on Reverie. Love and Devotion music, in beautiful Winterfell, with DJ Gabrielle Riel.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Winterfell%20Anodyne/128/24/22
1-3 Antiquity:
Celebrating the "All Aboard" theme, various sims and factions through Antiquity have donated something that makes them special or unique: food, guards, art, etc to celebrate the diversity Antiquity has to offer.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20London/176/221/28
3-6 Seraph City:
A city representing the era “between the world wars, presents music and dance with Edward Pearse, at the Seraph City Club, the classiest club in Seraph City.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seraph%20City/66/143/106
6-9 New Babbage:
Piermont Landing presents The NeverMore Midnight Blue Ball Saturday including a Creative Steampunk Cage Building Contest. (After all, do you think we are going to cage Ravens or they going to Cage YOU?) Dress is formal, midnight blue of course, and there are prizes!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/46/49/113
9-11 Caledon’s Oxbridge Village:
Thistle Hill Marketplace, a cozy collection of shops featuring Victorian era Steampunk gadgetry, original artworks, and much more, hosts a dance at Alley Cat Alley, with a theme of cats and other night animals, with DJ Poppy.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge%20Village/169/59/26
11-1 New Toulouse:
DJ Gabriel Riel takes the party to crescendo with “Don’t Throw Mama From The Train: Jazz and Blues in late night. Theme is trains and travel and 1920’s dress appropriate!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse%20Bourbon/165/132/27
Sunday
7-9 Seraph City:
Hold the Front Page! The Primgraph Offfice Grand Opening in Seraph City includes dancing and a murder mystery! Journalistic attire will get you in the proper frame of mind! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seraph%20City/96/154/106
9-11 New Babbage:
Brunel Hall Academy Pop over to the Steamlands' largest and most luxurious hotel for dancing and general frivolity as Victor1st Mornington takes you through a tour of the chart topping hits from 1950's all the way to the 1980's. Steampunk attire is a New Babbage standard. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Academy%20of%20Industry/74/91/108
11-1 Clos Normand:
The Consulate of Europa welcomes the Tour as Duke Otenth Paderborn regales us with tales from the rails, high above the beautiful sims of Côte d'Fleurie.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clos%20Normand/75/106/37
1-3 Armada Breakaway:
Celebrating the second anniversary during the Grand Tour with a dance! There will be rum and pirates and ladies in their finest gowns. Join us as we ring in another year of mayhem!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Armada%20Breakaway/155/170/23
3-5 Steelhead Nevermoor:
Tea will be served at 3:00, along with a dance, featuring a combination of gothic, Wonderland, and that eclectic mix that makes Steelhead what it is, provided by Fuzzball Ortega, Marshal of Steelhead City!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead%20Nevermoor/128/128/27
5 -7 Steeltopia:
Rounding out the tour in the Pneumatic Revolution Lounge, DJ SteelCobra Calamarihosts the Super Spy vs Super Villain Dance. Come as a Super Spy, Villain or henchman, let's make Mr Bond and Goldfinger proud! A wide variety of spy tunage to be played.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steeltopia/25/239/51
OK, still confused. There was a Grand Tour last year, during Relay For Life time. Really. I have the pictures. (Some, anyway.) Does the tour this year have any connection to RFL? If not...well, frankly, why not? Seemed to work well last year.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this Tour has any connection to RFL, as it's pre-launch. Not all Tours have been linked to RFL in the past.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible that there could be another one, I would think, during the Relay run-up.