“And the fact that the guy is well off and DM didn’t get that white whale himself… I bet he is RPFing many many SO members for not fleecing that well off public before he fell into your clutches!”

There are some rather unpleasant implication in there, don’t you think? I prefer to think that it is just a little over-enthusiastically phrased.

Yes there are some upstat Cornerstone public that are doing Super Power now. One Power FSM public who contributed heavily to it said he is starting it as of yesterday. I would name names but don’t want my identity blown.

Being “on the ground” as it were, I can pretty much confirm the lower figure.

Sadly, all the “Extras parking” were for the filming of “Dolphin Tale 2”, not the event. I talk to the film crew regularly and they did have a shoot that day.

Another thing which hasn’t really been mentioned: There were a load of SO staff from Los Angeles and other locations (spotted some people I haven’t seen in ages who were in ILO last I knew) who suddenly showed up on Friday, so I’m guessing the numbers at the event were inflated from that, as well.

These people were NOT part of the OOT program.

LOL!

Yes, I agree, too. Miscavige was humiliated, the only thing he understands. He will be forever haunted by a helicopter buzzing inside his skull.

“I’m so not.” Yup.

Oh, God, this is all such a hoot! Mike’s face in the helicopter. priceless. Thanks again, Mike. You have no idea how beneficial this laughter is for me at this particular time.

Using this tool, you can approximate the square footage of the space taken up by the crowd. I estimated about 25,000 square feet, but that’s assuming that the area I circled was 100% full (your photos show that is not the case, seating was patchy on the outside edges). Let’s give them 25,000 anyway, just to be nice.

Then, we can guess that those seats are probably 18-19 inches wide (standard for folding chairs for us large Americans). And, your special correspondent’s picture shows us that there is almost four feet of tread (the distance from the back of the chair, up under your feet, up to the chair in front of you). There was space for people to comfortably extend their legs out in front of them. That means each attendant took up about 6 square feet of space.

So even if the area I generously circled was 100% packed to the gills, which it clearly wasn’t (especially over to the left of the stage), that would be about 4,000 attending. With all the patchy spots and empty space, it may even be under 3,000.

Amazing… just 3,000 or less in attendance for Dave’s finest accomplishment. And most of those in attendance were a captive audience. Some were probably paid extras, too.

Well done, Mike. You, Marty, Karen, Tory, so many others who have spoken out- you have made such a difference. That pathetic turnout for the “biggest event ever” is just another bit of proof of what great work you have done.

Twenty years ago, DM could pull 15,000 people in to Los Angeles for an event, maybe 10,000 after you count Sea Org (even given that there were extras back then, there were still pretty big crowds). Today, he couldn’t even pull 500 actual, real live public for his building opening. Incredible. There is still a long ways to go, but what an achievement by all of you Special People.