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Zombie Survival Store a shop for killing undead - Orlando Sentinel
Zombie Survival store prepares for eventual undead take-over of Orlando, planet
By Jon Busdeker Orlando Sentinel
The Zombie Survival store in Orlando is a one-stop shop for all your apocalypse needs. The shop on Sand Lake Road near International Drive offers a variety of zombie-killing gear as well as zombie books, zombie targets and zombie candy.
When the inevitable zombie apocalypse begins and brain-devouring hordes of the living dead start destroying civilization, Orlando will be prepared.
Tucked away in strip mall off Sand Lake Road near International Drive is one of the country’s only shops dedicated to killing the undead: the Zombie Survival store.
“ Zombies get people excited”, said owner Kurt Josephs, who also owns Josephs Liquor & Fine Wines located next door. “It’s a craze right now.”
Stocked with surplus supplies from the U.S. Army and Navy, the Zombie Survival store has almost everything to combat flesh-eating zombies, including gas masks, boots, camouflage shirts, backpacks, MREs, machetes.
There’s also life-sized, three-dimensional zombie targets that actually bleed when hit and official United Sates Zombie Hunting Permits.
And if killing the walking dead isn’t your thing, fans of zombies can purchase an array of corpse paraphernalia: Zombie purses, zombie books, zombie caution tape, severed heads, zombie garden gnomes, zombie stickers, blood-spattered table cloths and zombie candy.
“If you like zombies, we got zombie stuff for you,” Josephs said.
Opened since April, the Zombie Survival store is the brainchild of Josephs, who also operates a costume store at the end of the strip mall. In the past few years, Josephs said he began seeing a rise in the popularity of zombies, singling out AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”
Josephs said he told several friends he wanted to open a store – the only other one in the U.S. besides The Zombie Apocalypse Store in Las Vegas – to cater exclusively to zombie enthusiasts.
“They (his friends) laughed at me,” Josephs said.
His wife supported the idea, and so Josephs moved ahead, and spent six months going to trade shows and conventions in search for zombie-themed items for the shop.
“It’s crazy the stuff they come out with,” Josephs said.
Josephs said a mixture of Central Florida residents and tourists shop to the store, which is open most days from noon to 7 p.m. And besides the zombie fans, there's also a steady flow of ex-military men and women, police officers, survivalists and those on the hunt for Army and Navy gear.
As for if and when the dead rise from their graves in search for food, Josephs said: “We're going to be ready.”
Zombie Survival Army Navy Supplies
Where: 6203 W. Sand Lake Road #D, Orlando, FL, 32819
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m.
Contact: (407) 351-4470 or Zombie Survival Store - Orlando
Zombie Survival store prepares for eventual undead take-over of Orlando, planet
By Jon Busdeker Orlando Sentinel
The Zombie Survival store in Orlando is a one-stop shop for all your apocalypse needs. The shop on Sand Lake Road near International Drive offers a variety of zombie-killing gear as well as zombie books, zombie targets and zombie candy.
When the inevitable zombie apocalypse begins and brain-devouring hordes of the living dead start destroying civilization, Orlando will be prepared.
Tucked away in strip mall off Sand Lake Road near International Drive is one of the country’s only shops dedicated to killing the undead: the Zombie Survival store.
“ Zombies get people excited”, said owner Kurt Josephs, who also owns Josephs Liquor & Fine Wines located next door. “It’s a craze right now.”
Stocked with surplus supplies from the U.S. Army and Navy, the Zombie Survival store has almost everything to combat flesh-eating zombies, including gas masks, boots, camouflage shirts, backpacks, MREs, machetes.
There’s also life-sized, three-dimensional zombie targets that actually bleed when hit and official United Sates Zombie Hunting Permits.
And if killing the walking dead isn’t your thing, fans of zombies can purchase an array of corpse paraphernalia: Zombie purses, zombie books, zombie caution tape, severed heads, zombie garden gnomes, zombie stickers, blood-spattered table cloths and zombie candy.
“If you like zombies, we got zombie stuff for you,” Josephs said.
Opened since April, the Zombie Survival store is the brainchild of Josephs, who also operates a costume store at the end of the strip mall. In the past few years, Josephs said he began seeing a rise in the popularity of zombies, singling out AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”
Josephs said he told several friends he wanted to open a store – the only other one in the U.S. besides The Zombie Apocalypse Store in Las Vegas – to cater exclusively to zombie enthusiasts.
“They (his friends) laughed at me,” Josephs said.
His wife supported the idea, and so Josephs moved ahead, and spent six months going to trade shows and conventions in search for zombie-themed items for the shop.
“It’s crazy the stuff they come out with,” Josephs said.
Josephs said a mixture of Central Florida residents and tourists shop to the store, which is open most days from noon to 7 p.m. And besides the zombie fans, there's also a steady flow of ex-military men and women, police officers, survivalists and those on the hunt for Army and Navy gear.
As for if and when the dead rise from their graves in search for food, Josephs said: “We're going to be ready.”
Zombie Survival Army Navy Supplies
Where: 6203 W. Sand Lake Road #D, Orlando, FL, 32819
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m.
Contact: (407) 351-4470 or Zombie Survival Store - Orlando
