There's lots and lots of different attractions and diversities to be found along the International Drive corridor that winds through the Orlando Attractions all the way down to Kissemmee. There are museums, roller coasters, sling shots dinner theater shows, nightclubs, bars, restaurants, hotels and more gift shops than you can shake a tree-full of sticks at. Among all this is a new attraction out of Wisconsin, of all places, called Zombie Outbreak. It's sort of like a laser tag version of a live POV video game as you run down the corridors of a zombie-ridden former military installation clearing out roaming hordes of the living dead.
I first heard about it from some friends I'd performed with at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights last October who had been hired to play the live zombies at the new attraction. When I decided on making it an episode of the YouTube version of The Last Wanderer of Mars I wanted to experience the apocalyptic fight wearing a GoPro camera. But the powers that be at the attraction wouldn't allow that, so I settled for a DAVE-O-MATION version that's whimsically representative of the experience along with live footage from a couple of the players.
I think the episode which is called Davy vs the Zombies really fun. Not only is there facilities shots and an interview from the zombie that actually did chase me down, but I also go the chance to use the Ghost Hunt animated ghost-shooting game I got from Cracker Barrel last October. Sadly, though, this is the last video I made featuring a POV ride - compliments of a GoPro camera on a chest mount - on my Icebear Lancer motorcycle before it was stolen, stripped and dumped on a service road next to a retention pond. Orlando is brimming with some of the world's most innovative attractions. It's also overrun with thieves and criminals of all sorts. Sad, but that's what tourist towns attract.
Perhaps I should do an episode on that.
