LOS ANGELES -- Think you can compete with Barry Allen?
To promote next month's premiere of The Flash, the CW, working with Two Bit Circus and media agency OMD, have created a mobile installation that'll give you the chance to find out.
Starting Saturday outside the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, up to 20 people at a time can step inside the S.T.A.R. Labs mobile research unit to get a taste of what it's like to have super speed.
After iHeartRadio, the truck will move on to USC on Sept. 27 and be at Long Beach Comic-Con the day after.
As you walk into the environment, the first thing you see is a dripping faucet that's been synched with a strobe -- to give you a bit of an idea what falling water might look like to The Flash.
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/drips.still_.jpg" caption="A demonstration of what dripping water would look like to "The Flash."" credit="Josh Dickey/Mashable" alt="drips.still"]
The installation is loaded with cool details right from the actual set design, like engraved illuminated glass instruction panels:
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/strike.speed_.jpg" caption="Instructions for the "Strike Speed" test at the S.T.A.R. Labs mobile research unit installation." credit="Josh Dickey/Mashable" alt="strike.speed"]
This reflex-testing game reminds me of Tempest -- anyone remember Tempest? -- and Two Bit Circus designer Eric Gradman was clearly the flashiest player:
Moving on, test your speed-reading skills with these panels that show words onscreen at varying speeds. Between 400 and 800 words per minute, it starts to get a little blurry:
But the real heart-pounder was trying to dodge (or catch, if you're showoffy) a speeding foam arrow.
As you can see, Gradman didn't even get moving in time:
But if you click through my tweet here, you'll see it's doable (OK, I may have had a bit of warning).
They tried to shoot an arrow at me at the S.T.A.R. Labs Mobile Research Unit BUT MY REFLEXES WERE TOO GOOD http://t.co/ZGH8Slj30w #TheFlash
— Josh Lincoln Dickey (@NotoriousJLD) September 20, 2014The Flash premieres Oct. 7 on the CW.
