Fans of Fallout have a really exciting activation to check out at this year’s SXSW. Prime Video will be returning to Austin’s iconic Hotel San José (1316 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX) to immerse fans in the post-apocalyptic world of their upcoming highly anticipated Original Series Fallout, premiering on April 12.

On March 8 from 12PM to 6PM through March 9 from 10AM to 6PM, guests can get a first-look at the upcoming series and imagine themselves as vault dwellers journeying into the harsh outside wasteland society for the first time.

The Hotel San José parking lot will be transformed into Filly—a bustling wasteland shanty-town outside of the Vaults that appears to be the result of nuclear fallout. With junk, repurposed vehicles and rust serving as the town’s backbone, vault dwellers will enter Filly through an old sewer tunnel, where they will be greeted by local residents (and maybe a few radroaches here and there) warning them about the harsh reality they are about to experience. 

Venturing through Filly (which is teeming with activity and filled with easter eggs from the series), attendees will witness how unpleasant and dangerous outside of the Vaults actually is, as they take in sights and sounds from wandering lazeabouts and aggressive locals selling their wares and what seems to be the local cuisine. If they’re lucky, the locals will point them to the thing they need most: bottle caps. Collect some for trade, and maybe the wasteland won’t be so bad.

Further into the settlement, guests will come across some locals playing the ‘Shell Game’ in front of Ma June’s, the local sundries and trading post where the friendly shopkeeper will teach them a thing or two about collecting bottle caps. They will also be able to use the ‘Vault 33 Resident Portal (Va.R.P.)’ to complete scavenger quests, where photographing the wasteland, hunting for pre-war artifacts and interacting with the various elements throughout the town can earn them even more bottle caps. Fair warning: they may encounter a feral ghoul along the way.

Attendees will be able to bite on some snacks like Fancy Lad Snack Cakes or a cut of ass jerky before they try their hand at lassoing the (sort-of) taxidermied, wasteland creatures or test their shot with ‘Junk Jets’ in the shooting gallery. Don’t forget to snap a photo in the futuristic, yet post-apocalyptic dentist’s chair (where guests will notice that the doctor might like teeth just a little too much), with the power armor or even in front of the feral ghoul cage. While adventuring through Filly, visitors may even witness the town’s rival factions engaging in fisticuffs over the fate of a rumored vault dweller.

I’m a huge fan of the Fallout game series, so I’m really excited to check out this activation, as well as the upcoming show. Be sure to follow along as we post our experience, and of course, eventual review of the Prime Video Original Series, Fallout.