June 10, 2001

Tour Facts
From SFX.com (posted by Trinity1981 @ the JJB) THE PEOPLE
--Over 2.2 million people will see the POPODYSSEY tour this year.
--All along their US tour dates, *NSYNC will travel with their crew by bus.
--During the POPODYSSEY Tour, *NSync will sign around 9,000 autographs.
--*NSYNC will travel 500,000 miles worldwide during the POPODYSSEY tour.
--*NSYNC and its entourage will stay in 95 hotels, and book 20,000 hotel rooms.
--*NSYNC and its crew will consume up to 3000 meals, 400,000 bottles of water and 2,000 pounds of ice in each city on the POPODYSSEY tour.
--*NSYNC has several secret locations where friends and family will be able to meet them during the POPODYSSEY tour for some rest and relaxation. SFX Touring has scheduled 4 of these "secret stops" in discreet, small towns.

THE EXPERIENCE
--It takes 24 tour buses to transport the band and crew on the POPODYSSEY tour.
--It takes 55 trucks to transport the stage, lighting, sound, wardrobe and effects!
--It takes 5 full days to set up the stage for each POPODYSSEY performance. But the crew can strike the stage in 24 hours. Over 500 stagehands are used every night to set up the POPODYSSEY staging.
--The stage for the *NSync POPODYSSEY tour is a towering 95 feet high and over 20,000 square feet...the structural steel alone cost $6 million.
--188 massive loudspeakers are used for POPODYSSEY concert sound each night.
--For POPODYSSEY, *NSYNC is traveling with the biggest mobile video screen on Earth!
--POPODYSSEY carries 3 semi-trailer mounted power generators, which produce 950 kilowatts of electricity...more than needed to power many small cities.
--POPODYSSEY uses over 43,000 feet of electrical cable every show night.
--376 computer-controlled spotlights are used to light each POPODYSSEY performance.
--To dress *N SYNC during the POPODYSSEY tour, there will be 26 cases of wardrobe, enough clothes alone to fill an entire semi-trailer.
--POPODYSSEY's special effects masters control a full fireworks display, four Laser Light centers, and 68 Carbon-Dioxide Jets at every *N Sync performance.

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