There will be 4 sessions throughout the day, utilising both ground floor and upper concourse of the Famous Five stand at Hibernian FC!

This event will not contain zombies as we’ll be going for a different feel to our successful Terminal Infection events.

I have lot’s to work on to make this event happen and that planning has already started. I’m very excited about running our FDT event at this venue, we’re already working on games that we’ve never run before so anyone attending this event will be running through some first time ever scenarios!

We’ll be working with Hibernian FC on promotion of this event, but it’s important to state this event is not a football/soccer based event – anyone is welcome to come along and take part in FDT Stadium. To this end I’ve had logos designed which will appeal to both sides of Edinburgh 🙂

More details to come as we have them – onwards and upwards!

Using a sports stadium is something I’ve wanted to do as long as I’ve wanted to run the shopping mall event. I approached both Edinburgh football teams and as most local football fans will know Heart of Midlothian FC are undergoing some building works at their stadium with no set completion date, so can’t accommodate us at this point.

However, Hibernian FC have the perfect multi level stand for us to use for FDT Stadium, the “Famous Five” stand. We’ll be using both lower and upper concourse levels connected by stairwells at either end. This will not be a zombie themed event, but we’ll run 4 two hour sessions on a non match Saturday which will take place in either May or June. The first session should be 10:00 – 12:00, with the last session being 19:00-21:00. This should allow most players the chance to come along to a session.

We are right at the start of the planning stage, but given the experience we have from the Secret Bunker and Terminal Infection shopping mall events, and what we have learned from those, I expect the FDT Stadium events to be just as enjoyable for our players. I’ll be deploying our FDT cubes for some cover, as well as “event lighting” on the upper level.

Huge thanks to Laura Montgomery who is Head of Sales and Sponsorship at Hibernian FC for working with me on this exciting new project:

“We have excellent facilities here at Easter Road and bringing Foam Dart Thunder to our concourses represent another exciting innovative use of our space. We look forward to hosting what we are sure will be a very successful and fun packed event”.

I’m looking forward to working with Laura and her team on what I hope will be the first of many FDT Stadium events. Obviously I’ll be looking to expand this if it goes well to other stadia across the UK. More updates to follow!

The feedback after Terminal Infection 2 last weekend has been amazing so we were keen to get the next event booked up quickly. We had made some tweaks to the format after TI1 and they seemed to pay off.

Ticket information is as follows:

* Tickets will be on sale to FDT members this weekend Sat 3rd/Sun 4th February

* Tickets will be on sale to general public next week after the Member’s sale has completed. Day to be confirmed.

And please have a look at the article which the Edinburgh Evening News ran today on our event! The pictures are amazing!

Edinburgh Evening News Terminal Infection story

Both sessions will pit teams of Military versus Scientists just like our August event Foam Dart Bunker, but this time we have the added threat of Zombies! Players from age 8 are welcome, and during the first session we’ll ensure the zombies aren’t too scary, but we’ll ramp up the scare factor on the second session. To be clear, the lights in the mall will stay on, but we will be adding effects to create a great atmosphere in which to Nerf!

Planning has been going on for months now and we’re almost there. As well as the zombie actors and the effects, we’ll have our video crew back and also our event photographer.

And if this is your first Foam Dart Thunder event, please do check out this video below as Big Al takes you through what you should bring and recommends some blasters as well. Whether you’re a new player with us or a “Legacy” veteran we’re looking forward to seeing you at Ocean Terminal on Saturday 25th November!

This is the final “Main Mission”. Both teams were tasked with solving clues leading them from room to room, while battling it out against eachother in the bunker corridors. They would eventually locate 2 pieces of code that would unlock the safe hidden deep within the bunker. They would have to decide whether to join forces to open the safe and find out what lay within….

This is the second round of Defend The Core. This time around the Military switched to defend the base after making their way through the smoke filled tunnel. Who would prevail before facing off in the legendary last mission? You’ll need to watch the video to see if the Core was breached!

In other news the planning is going well for our big shopping mall event Terminal Infection to be held at Ocean Terminal on Saturday 25th November in Edinburgh. We’ve agreed which production company we are using and visitor tickets (for those from out with the UK) are being agreed. So far we have players travelling in from Denmark and USA!

The final video from Foam Dart Bunker will be live at the same time next week!

This game is called Defend The Core. In this scenario the Military forces attempt to attack and secure the “Core” which was actually the cafeteria within the bunker. But in their way were the gutsy Scientists who didn’t plan to give up without a fight. The Scientists won the outdoor game so got to choose whether to attack or defend. In the second round they would attack the Military position. With music pumping through the whole bunker, and the smoke and light effects, several of the players said this was like being in a movie! We’ll be aiming to create a similar atmosphere at our next big Foam Dart Thunder event – Terminal Infection! Next video same time next week!

In this round it’s the Scientist’s turn to advance deep into Military territory to see if they can progress further than their “enemies” did in the first round. We’ll be carrying over the storyline from this event into out Terminal Infection event in November in Edinburgh. We’re also planning to be back at Scotland’s Secret Bunker next year to complete the storyline! Keep an eye of for details of that!

In the meantime please enjoy the video – there will be another one next Wednesday!

In this video the Military forces attempt to move barrel’s into the heart of the Scientist’s base. There were 2 rounds played of this game at Foam Dart Bunker, and the whoever won would have a bearing on the first round within the actual bunker itself, though the players weren’t aware of what that bearing was.

We were blessed with nice weather on the night which you can see from the video – which can be an issue with outdoor events n Scotland, even at the tail end of Summer. But it really helped make the event. Keep an eye out soon for Round 2!

The number of sessions is still to be confirmed but we expect a minimum of 100 players (50 v 50) to take part. The number of sessions will depend on how ticket sales go, and for all those asking, tickets will be on sale at the end of September.

Rather than just the usual game of Humans V Zombies we’ll be pitting the 2 teams against eachother with “added Zombie threat” until the last game which will be the more traditional HvZ game that frequent Foam Dart Thunder players and Nerf aficionados are familiar with. Only we’ll have actual Zombies! Furthermore, we’ll be linking this event into the storyline of the Foam Dart Bunker event held in August. Stay tuned for more on that.

We hope you like the logos we’ve designed – these will be available on a limited edition range of merchandise which will be available to pre-order and then pick up on the night of the event. This will include t shirts and our ever popular dog tags!

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