Day Out With Thomas: Mystery on the Rails Tour
June 2-3 & 9-10, 2012
Railway Heritage Park, Squamish
Help our favorite No. 1 engine find the clues and solve the mystery! Thomas the Tank Engine™ is pulling into the WCRA Railway Heritage Park for Day Out With Thomas™: Mystery On The Rails Tour 2012, presented by HIT Entertainment, a worldwide leader in children's entertainment, and sponsored by MEGA Brands, a leading toy company. This fun-filled event offers little engineers and their families the opportunity to take a ride with a 15-ton replica of Thomas the Tank Engine, star of the popular Thomas & Friends™ series. Children will take a ride along with their favorite engine friend on his latest adventure and participate in Thomas-themed activities. The tour, now in its 17th year, will make stops in more than 45 US cities and is expected to welcome more than one million passengers in 2012.
WHO: Thomas the Tank Engine
WHAT: A 25-minute (approximate) ride with Thomas the Tank Engine. Games and activities featuring a mystery element. The opportunity to meet Sir Topham Hatt™, Controller of the Railway. A Thomas & Friends Imagination Station; featuring stamps temporary tattoos, hands-on arts & crafts, train tables, and coloring sheets. Commemorative activities, merchandise and giveaways including a special reveal poster previewing new engines and a new destination from the upcoming 2012 Thomas & Friends feature, "Blue Mountain Mystery". Storytelling, video viewing and live music. Write a letter to Thomas or his friends and they will receive a reply in the mail. Ride the 3km long mini rail trains around the perimeter of the park site.
WHEN: Friday.Saturday-June 2/3 & 9/10
TIME: Park Hours 8:30-6PM with rides departing hourly starting at 9:30
WHERE: Railway Heritage Park – 39645 Government Road, Squamish, B.C.
Tickets for Day Out with Thomas™: The Mystery Tour 2012 are available by calling Ticketweb toll-free 888-222-6608, or by visiting www.ticketweb.ca/dowt or wcra.org. Ticket prices are $20 plus tax for ages 2 and up (service charges and fee may apply).
For more information and directions, contact the WCRA at 604-524-1011 or 1-800-722-1233 or wcra.org (for map and directions). For information on Thomas & Friends™, visit www.thomasandfriends.com/dowt
