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REMINDER/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone to Pontiac Hot Wheels Cool Nights; Fully-Equipped Vehicle Takes Technology, Fun on the Road






	   What: The Best Buy Fun Zone, a mobile marketing and entertainment
          destination, is available for media tours. The traveling Fun
          Zone features:

	       --  The latest technology offered at Best Buy stores,
            including products that create a state-of-the-art bedroom,
            kitchen and high-definition home theater.

	       --  An interactive gaming area with video game pods featuring
            the latest video game systems, and egg chair digital music
            pods complete with interactive video screens

	       --  An expandable stage for events.

	       The Fun Zone creates the environment of a fully networked home
        within the interior of the 53-foot trailer. A series of 14
        monitors show the superior picture quality and clarity of
        flat-panel LCD and plasma TV, using video streamed through an
        advanced audio/video/Internet network. The Fun Zone also
        features a touch-panel remote system that controls all of the
        trailer's audio, video, Internet and lighting devices. Other
        product highlights include a prototype refrigerator from
        Whirlpool, a 50-inch wide-screen plasma TV from Pioneer,
        Alienware computers and a satellite radio system from XM
        Satellite Radio.

	       People who visit Pontiac Hot Wheels Cool Nights can tour the
        Fun Zone to experience all of the technology first-hand and
        discover new ways to integrate the products into their lives,
        helping to make their time more fun and productive.

	   Where: Pontiac Hot Wheels Cool Nights
           Downtown Pontiac, Mich.

	   When: Friday, June 28 - 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
          Saturday, June 29 - 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
          Sunday, June 30 - 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

	   Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome
                Call contact to arrange interviews


    About Best Buy Co., Inc.

    Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. is North America's number one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Company operates retail stores and commercial web sites under the names: Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca); Magnolia Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody (SamGoody.com), and Suncoast (Suncoast.com). The Company reaches consumers through more than 1,900 retail stores in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.