Whichever one of y’all is without sin can go ahead and throw the first stone. The rest of us will be over here enjoying our guilty pleasures. You know the ones. The childhood favorites that never quite let go. There are grown men building Lego sets like tiny architects, and adult women who still keep a teddy bear nearby just in case. Me? I like monster trucks.
It starts innocently enough. A kid with a toy car, making engine noises on the living room carpet. That was probably the beginning of my lifelong obsession with anything on four wheels. Then I became a dad, and suddenly I had a perfectly good excuse to dive right back into toys, theme parks, and all the fun stuff. Monster Jam was one of those rare gems. It was a TV show, a toy line, and a live event that rolled into the SkyDome every January. These days it skips Toronto and heads to Hamilton instead, but honestly, the magic still hits the same.
This weekend the ‘Monster Jam Freestyle Mania‘ is taking over the TD Coliseum. It is a small hockey arena with about 18,000 seats, which just means the chaos feels a little closer. Every show from Friday to Sunday is expected to be packed. The lineup is exactly as over-the-top as you would hope. Grave Digger is rolling in, that black and green beast styled like a haunted 1950 Chevy panel van. Then you have the wild cartoonish ones like El Toro Loco, Megalodon, and Team Sparkle Smash with its glamorous unicorn vibes.
There is a Friday night show, two on Saturday, and a Sunday afternoon finale. Tickets start around $39, and if you are lucky, you can snag a deal. My fully grown kids like to call me childish when I throw on my Grave Digger trucker hat and fire up my GMC monster truck to head out to Hamilton. But the second I hear that classic “Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!” echo in my head, I am already halfway out the door.
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