Gamer Discovers Fallout-Themed Bus Stop

A gamer discovers a unique-looking Fallout-themed bus stop designed around Amazon’s recently released live-action adaptation of the beloved video game franchise. The use of impressive marketing strategies like these goes to show just how much money Amazon pumped into promoting the Fallout TV show worldwide.

For decades, video game adaptations were often shunned by both film critics and gaming fanbases, due to the majority of them being rather low-quality. Lately, however, the tide has been turning in favor of fans, as a number of recent shows have garnered widespread critical acclaim for faithfully translating the worlds of beloved video game franchises to the silver screen. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, HBO’s The Last of Us, and Netflix’s Arcane are perhaps the most notable examples of this, but Amazon’s newly-released Fallout TV show is also climbing up the ranks of popularity and making a name for itself as one of the best video game adaptations ever made. In fact, a recent discovery that one fan of the series made proves just how much this particular show has managed to break into the mainstream.

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A Redditor named Acceptable-Mammoth84 posted on the r/Fallout subreddit an image they took of a bus stop they found that was covered from top to bottom in advertising for the Fallout TV show. This wasn’t just any normal advertisement, however, as the bus stop was also redesigned to look like the gear-shaped doors from one of Vault-Tec’s infamous vaults. There was even a small Fallout-inspired propaganda poster added to one side of the bus stop, in addition to what appeared to be a vault control panel on the other end. To top it all off, however, a large Vault 33 emblem was painted onto the sidewalk in front of the bus stop as well.

This sort of lavish, inventive advertising on bus stops is very rarely seen on a regular basis, let alone for something like a video game adaptation. And yet, it seems Redditors have discovered similar iterations of this marketing for the Fallout TV series around the world. Reddit user DragonHeart_2345, for instance, found a slightly different version of this Fallout-themed bus stop in Melbourne, Australia. Meanwhile, fellow Redditor WashingtonsTrousers shared a photo of an exact replica of the one Acceptable-Mammoth84 found in Los Angeles, California. This sort of extensive advertising for Amazon’s sci-fi TV series likely exposed the Fallout brand to a whole new audience who otherwise may not have heard of or even touched the games the show is based on.

The Fallout TV Show Has Been a Massive Success for Amazon and Bethesda

The Fallout TV show has no doubt been a big hit for both Amazon and Bethesda, becoming one of Prime Video’s most-watched streaming series of all time and also rejuvenating interest in past Fallout games. To put into perspective just how successful the show has been, Amazon’s live-action Fallout adaptation gained 65 million viewers merely two weeks after its release. With the wild popularity of the Fallout TV series, perhaps Amazon will adapt other Bethesda franchises into shows, which could be great news for gamers.

Fallout

Created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout is based on the post-apocalyptic RPG gaming franchise that started in the 1990s. Set hundreds of years after the Great War, Lucy leaves her Vault bunker to travel the Wasteland in search of her kidnapped father.

Release Date

April 10, 2024

Cast

Walton Goggins , Ella Purnell , Kyle MacLachlan , Xelia Mendes-Jones , Aaron Moten

Writers

Lisa Joy , Jonathan Nolan

Streaming Service(s)

Prime Video

Showrunner

Lisa Joy , Jonathan Nolan

Creator(s)

Graham Wagner , Geneva Robertson-Dworet