At San Diego Comic-Con, Amazon Prime Video was GO, bringing its most-watched series The Man in the High Castle and kids’ animated series Thunderbirds Are Go to the annual pop-culture fest.

For the first time, the network created a land-based activation, swapping out Ron Perlman masks for some prime San Diego real estate. Dubbed the Amazon Village, the pop-up immerses fans in both shows with social media opportunities galore.

Credit: Getty Images for Amazon Studios
Credit: Getty Images for Amazon Studios

The Village houses a museum dedicated to The Man in the High Castle, featuring costumes, set recreations, props and artifacts from the show’s sumptuous set.

Credit: Getty Images for Amazon Studios
Credit: Getty Images for Amazon Studios

The separate activation for Thunderbirds Are Go features a photo opportunity inside the Thunderbird 2 ship. Weta Workshop also created miniature of downtown San Diego, showing how the Amazon series is shot, and allowing attendees to take a shareable green-screen photo (see below).

The big draw, of course, is The Man in the High Castle VR experience, where fans get to become Resistance spy Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) and try to retrieve a clue within the dangerous Pacific States of America. Star Rupert Evans gave it a try:

Credit: Getty Images for Amazon Studios
Credit: Getty Images for Amazon Studios

Fans that experience all that the Amazon Village has to offer get a free ‘High Castle’ pin and a double-sided bag featuring both shows. Each show had creator and cast panels on Thursday, in an effort to ramp up ahead of their respective second seasons.

Clearly, fans of Amazon Studios are thankful we’re in this timeline, and not an alternate history in which Amazon didn’t adapt Philip K. Dick’s classic short story, or reimagine the classic Thunderbirds show.

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