If the big trucks aren’t excitement enough, the Fergus Truck Show is bringing in the Mighty Machine Showcase.
The event is based on the popular children’s television show, Mighty Machines, where cameras take the young audience inside and around heavy equipment and large transportation vehicles like dump trucks and tower cranes or airplanes and trains.
“The Mighty Machines Showcase is a family-oriented event that brings Mighty Machines to life, providing adults and kids a chance to see construction and other service vehicles up close, so they can touch them and investigate them,” said Guy Exley, event manager of the Impact Events Group Inc., producer and manager of the showcase.
“I’m planning to bring more than 20 machines to the truck show,” he said, adding, “The machines will be static and in most cases, an operator of the equipment will be on hand to answer questions and explain how everything works. It’s fun for the kids to meet the guy who drives it.
“The kids love to climb in the cabs and honk the horns or touch the buttons and ask ‘what does this do?’ It’s great because these machines make all kinds of weird, cool noises.”
Exley has been operating the show out of Kitchener for nine years, but this is his first experience at the Fergus event, and he is sure the equipment will fit the atmosphere.
“We all see these machines on construction sites,” said Exley, of the fascination people feel for heavy equipment or large transportation. “We can see them, but we can never get close to them. With this show, we can. And the Dad’s love it, too.”
The showcase will run on July 28 from 9am to 5pm.
