Welcome to Floridaland!

A couple of guests arrive at the famous Floridaland theme park. It's in a bit of disrepair, 200+ years after the bombs dropped, but the robotic mascots still eagerly welcome visitors. At least one of the park's atomic power generators is still online, keeping the lights, music, and air conditioning running, making it a tempting spot for post-apocalyptic survivors to explore. Of course, there are RULES to be followed in the park, and everything is paid for in Old World cash rather than bullets or bottlecaps, so there might be a few misunderstandings. As friendly as the robots might be, it's been patently impossible for them to maintain their priority objectives since all the living staff died and no one has performed maintenance work in centuries. As a result, some of the flaws in their logic processes have become painfully obvious to anyone who makes the mistake of venturing into "employees only" areas, scavenging for loot, or disturbing any part of the many skeletons littering the grounds.

Work-in-progress shot of a couple of "mascot-bots" I cobbled together using the "Fugitoid" figure from the HeroClix TMNT line, head-swapping from some small toys I found at a thrift store. I also picked up a few other Clix minis I thought might have post-apoc application: "Dee-Dee" from the HeroClix "Batman the Animated Series" line actually gave me two characters that I might try fixing up with gas masks, weapons, and other wasteland gear. The "monkey with cymbals" has obvious application for anyone who's played through Fallout 4. The "Dune Buggy" looked wacky enough that I thought it might pass for a retro-futuristic alt-universe vehicle of some sort.

The big sign/waiting area structure, inspired by a 1950s entrance to Silver Springs, is made mostly from foam-core illustration board. I found a bag full of self-adhesive letters that I thought might be useful for signage, but found that a lot of the letters (especially "E") were long gone. I couldn't even spell out "FLORIDALAND" (let alone twice), but I figured out that I could cobble together the missing letters by cutting apart and recombining several of the remaining letters I had in abundance. (So, "T" with some trimming and extension became "L" and the curve of a letter "G" combined with an "I" to give me a couple of "D"s., etc.)

The broken pavement is from Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes tiles (the remaining stock now distributed by Elrik's Hobbies).

After I wrap up my Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign, I'm hoping to pitch the idea of a post-apocalyptic campaign (either using Fallout Wasteland Warfare's RPG add-on, or a personal hack of Savage Worlds) taking place in a post-apocalyptic north and central alt-history Florida. This is meant to be evocative of "a future Florida, as it might have been imagined by someone in the 1950s/1960s," so there's no Disneyworld, that atomic canal across the peninsula was actually built, there are still orange groves (tended by robots), and there are lots of tourist-trappy places.

One thing I intend to do is to minimize the involvement of familiar Fallout factions/entities such as the super mutants, Vault-Tec, the Brotherhood of Steel, NCR, etc., and go more my own direction. For one thing, Florida houses generally don't have basements for a reason, and this would be a terrible place for Vault-Tec vaults. Super mutants are way too prevalent in all the Fallout games, IMHO, and I think we need to see OTHER sorts of not-so-super mutants. Plus, I really don't want to have to deal with the implications of applying power armor as it's portrayed in the games in an RPG setting. (A la, just how long a fusion core should really last, if the Brotherhood of Steel can afford to send power-armored troopers on long-range recon/patrols/quests, and whether I'm willing to put up with the power-level differences in a PC party between the character who's safely inside a walking tank vs. the one who's NOT.)

AND YET ... I've got a bunch of super mutant minis (and a friend just gave me some more to paint up), and lots of power armor, and... Okay, so maybe these things will pop up at some point or another. They just won't be the main event, if I can help it.