There is little better than getting out of town unless it is to experience the Out of This World exhibit of costumes and props from the greatest Sci-Fi films and TV shows of all time at the Orange County Regional History Center in the heart of Downtown Orlando. A concise collection of original costumes and props including Star Wars, Star Trek, Batman, TRON, Blade Runner, Terminator, Highlander, Indiana Jones, Enemy Mine and even the Wicked Witch's hat from the Wizard of Oz.
The exhibition opened this past Saturday, February 6th with much fanfare and the courtyard leading up to the museum filled with Ghostbusters vehicles, K.I.T. from Knight Rider, and a souped up Delorean from Back to the Future along with a rather convincing Marty McFly and Doc. Spider Man, Deadpool, Batman, Iron Man, Darth Maul and slave-girl Leia also made their appearances throughout the day.
This is an absolutely essential show for any geek, dork, comic book guy, or nerd, but its great fun for everyone and entirely family friendly. Just watch what you say once you're inside if you're a sci-fi novice, some poor fool made the error of admitting to his girlfriend that he had never seen Blade Runner within ear shot of our nerd posse. Warp speed FAIL! After the chorus of dramatic gasps had died down he was summarily chastised for his egregious sci-fi shortcoming and instructed to go right home and rectify it.
I'm as green as Greedo that Orlando has such a great museum that constantly welcomes such amazing geek-friendly exhibitions, the last was the career spanning Jim Henson experience featuring his earliest pre-Sesame Street commercial works to props and puppets from The Dark Crystal and Fraggle Rock.
Take it from me, a road weary dork, it is well worth the journey no matter what quadrant of the galaxy you're from, but don't delay, you've only got until May 16th to set your coordinates and engage at Warp to see this unique one of a kind exhibit!
Find out more here:
http://thehistorycenter.org/exhibits/outofthisworld
