Prime Video is opening the vault for the SXSW 2024 festivalgoers’ opening weekend. After a stellar SXSW 2023 event, the streamer is back at the Hotel San José. Here, fans get the chance to be immersed in the post-apocalyptic world of the new Prime Video Original Series Fallout, premiering on April 12, 2024.
The streamer will transform a parking lot into an immersive wasteland shanty-town of Filly. With junk, repurposed vehicles and rust serving as the town’s backbone, guests (or fellow vault dwellers) will enter Filly through an old sewer tunnel, where local residents will greet them (and maybe a few radroaches here and there) warning them about the harsh reality they are about to experience.
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While in 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 is as they take in sights and sounds from wandering locals selling their wares and what seems to be the local cuisine. If they’re lucky, the locals will point them to what they need most: bottle caps.
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.
Where is the Filly SXSW Event?
Prime Video will be transforming the Hotel San José (1316 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX) parking lot on March 8 from 12 PM to 6 PM and March 9 from 10 AM to 6 PM.
Is Fallout at SXSW Free?
Yes! This free event will offer a lot for festivalgoers to experience, all with Fallout at its heart. As you journey through Fill, you 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.
You 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. And the streamer promises a feral ghoul along the way.
Filly will also have food, which is a must for any SXSW event, and of course, it’s Fallout-themed. You’ll get a chance to eat 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.
