Young Wild Things Tour

The Young Wild Things Tour was a four band fall 2007 arena concert tour By Fall Out Boy with supporting acts Gym Class Heroes, Plain White T's, Cute Is What We Aim For, and Doug (from November 9 on). The tour is Fall Out Boy's biggest tour to date, grossing over $30 million and the tour sold out 5 hours with over 1.5 million tickets sold.^[1] It was first announced on the Fall Out Boy website that the tour would be held, but instead of the traditional method of announcing tour dates in the same release as the announcement of the tour itself, the bands decided to choose an unusual method. Fans would text a certain number and would be given a code for their state/area. That code would then be entered on a website. After an unknown amount of codes were entered, the tour date would be unlocked. The thirty one date tour was only seen in America except for two Canadian dates. The tour began on October 18 and ran through December 2.

Inspired by Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are, the concert tour and included sets designed by artist Rob Dobi containing images from the book. Commenting on the decision to incorporate elements from the book, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz explained "Where the Wild Things Are is a great narrative. It encapsulates pretty much every FOB song ever written: You know, tantrums and monster islands and all."^[2] "There's also a play on words of the young wild thing idea that everybody has with Hollywood and starlets right now."^[3]

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