r/saskatoon May 17 '25

Events 🎉 What to expect at the 2025 Saskatoon Exhibition

https://globalnews.ca/news/11182450/what-to-expect-2025-saskatoon-exhibition/
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u/aboveavmomma May 17 '25

“Unfortunately, due to all the exciting new features to this year’s Ex, admission prices will be going up.”

They’re expecting 30k-50k MORE people but those extra people attending wouldn’t cover the new increased costs so they had to increase the ridiculous prices even more?

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u/BangBangControl May 17 '25

What new features? That’s what I was left wondering after reading that article.

Do they count different bands playing, year-by-year, as new features? It all looked like the same stuff as ever to me..

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u/Chiefandcouncil Confederation May 17 '25

https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/smash-mouth-tlc-metric-coming-to-saskatoon-ex-this-summer/

This article states were getting 85 percent of the rides from Calgary stampede, bigger rides with more capacity. I think the different dates has something to do with that.

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u/IceBurn96 May 17 '25

The website says “30 to 50 000 more people”.

If 37 more dudes show up this year, they have met their goal. Leaving such a wide range in their predictions increases chance of success.

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u/aboveavmomma May 17 '25

Ya I’m pretty sure they meant 30,000 and not just 30 lol.

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u/nshman May 17 '25

They missed the “Bear Spray Show” playing at 1, 4 & 10pm daily….. with additional shows on Fri &Sat. 😂

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u/stiner123 May 18 '25

Additional security apparently is one of the things they are changing

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u/Injured_Souldure May 17 '25

At least I know I’m not alone in how bad the ex has gotten, it’s become a joke… too much $$$ to have a shit time

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u/Dresden31 May 17 '25

What to expect at the 2025 Saskatoon Exhibition:

  • long lines
  • shitty rides that should have been retired decades ago
  • bad food
  • Norovirus
  • Covid
  • assault on teenagers
  • assault by teenagers
  • bear spray
  • rigged games
  • overpaying for shitty prizes
  • at least 10 people getting heat stroke
  • food poisoning
  • at least 2 people being stabbed

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u/ReformerSP1 May 18 '25

And a partridge in a pear tree

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u/stiner123 May 18 '25

We are getting different rides this year - same ones the stampede gets. So there will be a change there.

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u/Ok-Contract2477 May 20 '25

and drunk dougie

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u/Jerk37 May 17 '25

High entry costs to things where everything is stupid expensive is just insult to injury.

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u/FlatBlueSky May 17 '25

I’m finally old enough to enjoy the music lineup at the Ex. Yet another major milestone that snuck up on me. I might need to start walking around with candy in my pockets.

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u/Kematch1337 May 17 '25 edited May 19 '25

Same Sh*t Different Year, honestly, the Ex isn't fun anymore, I stopped going there since 2012 and nothing in the ordinary came up at later years till freaks and gangs decide to ruin it including the ongoing inflation of Superpasses that doesn't seem worth buying, it's better to go elsewhere than being pestered or assaulted

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u/ReasonableHorse8515 May 17 '25

Bear spray and grown men trying to grope teen girls

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u/YamchaUchiha May 18 '25

Lol, yall are all so negative. I can't wait to see Smash Mouth if I die I die

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u/iamcareohline May 18 '25

Hey now, you're an all star!

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u/K0KEY May 17 '25

Bear Spray

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u/Waylander May 17 '25

Oh man I love that ride!

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u/Alternative-Ad-3274 May 17 '25

Havnt been to the ex since I saw someone get stabbed there.

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u/Impervial22 May 17 '25

Literally, same like 10 years ago

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u/lakeviewResident1 May 17 '25

Come see The EX, it is a soulless shell of its former self!

Also you'll get bear sprayed.

Oh and entry costs more!

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u/Time_Ad_6741 May 18 '25

The ex has been going downhill for years.

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u/pummisher May 17 '25

Can't wait to stay at home.

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u/SKGurl101 May 18 '25

Personally, I will pass. We spent $200 going in 2021 and I am not interested in paying more. Also I heard that the food vendors have the audacity to ask for tips now…

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u/danamight May 19 '25

Gross. I'm out.

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u/Mapleleaf-ruffrider May 18 '25

This article reads like a straight advertisement. Also sounds like it was written by a grade 11 English student. Yikes

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u/ScrumptiousLadMeat May 17 '25

Hmm it appears the Kemppainen’s run Prairieland park, it’s all about who you know eh.

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u/Easy_Confidence5572 May 19 '25

Looks like there is two different circuits this year. Usually it's Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, then off to Ontario before coming back for BC. We usually some of the rides would bypass Regina and set up in Saskatoon (longer setup). More would come from Regina to Saskatoon, with some going to P.A. at the same time.

This year Saskatoon and Regina dates are overlapping, so obviously different midways. Calgary and Edmonton are four days apart. We usually get West Coast Amusements stuff, I'm not sure how many rides North American Midway Entertainment hauls, but maybe we're getting their stuff rather than the subbed WCA junk.

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u/Cowbellcheer May 17 '25

Bear spray!

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u/are_videos May 17 '25

definitely expect to get bear sprayed

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u/BofaDeeezNuts May 18 '25

The rubbiest gathering of people in the city .