Post-Halloween

Sorry it took a day late to get this out but I did want to get something out after Halloween.  Now that that is out of the way I wanted to ask what many of you did for Halloween?  Did any of you try and go to a zombie run or shoot? Watch any zombie movies?

I watched a few movies myself, one of them was "Night of the Living Dead".  I had never really seen the movie the whole way through but only bits and pieces of it.  It was an interesting thing to watch especially the ending.  

Zombies invade Mythbusters

Last night's episode of Mythbusters was pretty interesting.  Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the shows hosts, wanted to see if three myths they selected from zombie lore were true or not.  The first one was whether an axe or a shotgun can kill more zombies.  The second one was whether you can outrun zombies.  The last one was whether a horde of zombies can push through a barricade.  To help them with this they brought on Michael Rooker who plays Merle Dixon on the Walking Dead.

Testing the first myth was the most fun to watch.  They had acquired about a thousand extras to dress up like zombies and come at them like a horde.  Adam had a foam axe with dye in it so he knew which zombies he had killed.  He looked like he was having fun trying to hit all of those zombies.  The most interesting thing to watch was Jamie with his paintball shotgun.  They had made masks for the zombies to wear so they could shoot them in the face.  It looked a lot like those zombie shoots I see all the time.  I don't want to say who won but it was kind of obvious before they even began testing.  

The second myth was not as exciting.  They just had Tori, Kari, and Grant, who are the other people on the show who help test the myths, running past the zombies.  The only thing interesting during that was when they had to come up with ideas to distract the zombies.

The third myth was fun to watch mainly because Michael Rooker was getting back into being Merle.  Throughout the whole show he acted normal but when he stood behind that barricade he just changed.  He even flipped the bird at the zombies through the barricade which was pretty funny.

Zombie Train

You guys ever gone on a zombie shoot?  It is usually when you are supplied with paintball guns or lazer tag guns and shoot people dressed up as zombies.  It seems like it would be a fun experience.

The company Zombie Train says that they give a unique experience where you fire on zombies while moving on a train.  You are given a lazer tag gun and you shoot out a window of the train car.  

The train ride lasts for two hours.  The event will last from now till Nov. 1st.

This looks like it is a cool variant of a zombie shoot.  If you are in the area you should think about giving it a shot.