Armor Ace on Tour!

Armor Ace on Tour! was a travelling show that toured America before the Great War. It was created by the Dynamite Animation Company to promote their television show Armor Ace and the Power Patrol. Several accidents occurred at Armor Ace on Tour! events, surrounding it in much controversy.
==Background==
Armor Ace on Tour! was devised by the Dynamite Animation Company's marketing department as a means to promote the Armor Ace and the Power Patrol television show. Several trucks and trailers would travel between cities in America from July 4th 2075 to July 4th 2076, staying in each location for several days before moving on to the next city. Events included a fairground, food vendors, Armor Ace and the Power Patrol-themed shows, as well as several events and attractions hosted by the United States government, military, and corporate sponsors. The tour started in Seattle on Independence Day of 2075, and ended exactly one year later in Washington, D.C.
The show proved to be wildly popular over the year it toured, helped by American citizens' patriotism and jingoism of the Sino-American War. This popularity attracted many sponsors to the tour, all wishing to advertise their products and spread propaganda messages to the attendees. Corporate sponsors like REPCONN, Vault Tec, RobCo, Rockwell, and the Nuka-Cola Corporation all flocked to the tour in order to show the public how patriotic and vital to the war machine their brands were. Government organizations also saw it as a propaganda opportunity, and informational and recruitment booths could be found at every stop of the tour. The tour ended as a massive success. It brought massive profits to the Dynamite Animation Company and caused the viewership of Armor Ace and the Power Patrol to skyrocket to unprecedented levels. The corporate and government involvement also reassured many American citizens that they would triumph over China, although this had little effect when nuclear armageddon struck in 2077.
==Attractions==
A number of attractions ran during each stop of the tour. Most were themed around Armor Ace, but several were demonstrations the military, government, and corporate sponsors like Poseidon Energy and West Tek. Not every attraction was present at each stop of the tour, as they depended on the funding and availability of each sponsor. Below are examples of these attractions, but should not be taken as an exhaustive list.
===Booths===
* Full House: The Robots of RobCo
* Military recruitment booth
* Plasma, the Future of Warfare! Presented by Poseidon Energy
* Rationing and You: Presented by the Department of Agriculture
===Midway attractions===
* Armor Ace Laser Shooting Gallery
* Atomic Rollers
* Dunk the Red!
* Whac-a-Commie
===Shows and events===
==Controversies==
By 2076 the tour was surrounded in significant controversy due to several accidents caused by poor safety regulations and mismanagement. Funding, support, and propaganda by the United States government ensured that the tour was still seen in a positive light by most American citizens. Despite several court cases being brought against the tour, neither the Dynamite Animation Company, government, nor military were ever ruled to be responsible for the accidents. Many of these cases were covered and/or downplayed by government-controlled media.
===Live fire accidents===
A lack of safety precautions at the military's booths and attractions led to at least three live fire accidents during the tour, causing one death and two hospitalizations. Two incidents were caused by non-military event staff mistaking live rounds for blank ones, and the other being the result of a "drunken after-hours shooting contest."
===Windsor Plasma Incident===
At the tour's stop in Detroit, a "sister" event was set up in the adjacent Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. The Canadian sister event was set up to, as the marketing team put it, "show our new American citizens what they should be proud of." It included a selection of events happening at the parallel Detroit event, notably featuring a demonstration on plasma technology by Poseidon Energy. Reportedly, a demonstrator's finger slipped during the show and accidentally fired their plasma rifle. The discharge struck an actor playing The Subjugator, melting them on the spot into a thick green sludge. Officially the Canadian People's Front resistance group was blamed for the accident, and several Canadian scapegoats were summarily executed.
===The Crushing of 76===
During a stop in Ohio, a child managed to sneak behind the scenes of one of the tour's stage shows. Here they found a suit of power armor owned by the United States Army, modified to look like that of titular character Armor Ace. This suit was being used by a trained actor playing the character, who had stepped out of it for a moment during a break in the performance to use the washroom. The actor had not closed the frame and so the child was able to step into the suit which closed around them. As power armor is designed to be worn by someone the size of an adult, the steel frame crushed the child within. While the suit was cleaned and continued to be used during the tour, actors and attendees of the show reported that the suit continued to smell like "grease and blood" for the next several weeks.
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