ORLANDO, Fla. — Tucked in the woods of urban Orlando, just off Forsyth Road near Colonial Drive, there’s trouble afoot with enemy troops lurking and the scene of a plane crash in the trees.
At least this is the narrative tourists will experience while driving a 17-ton tank — what some might consider a bucket-list item — at Tank America, which recently relocated from Melbourne to Orlando. The experience opened near the coast in 2017 and moved this year to be closer to what co-owner John Kinney called “the largest tourism destination in the country.”
“The majority of our customers have always been tourists coming from Orlando. A lot of people Uber nowadays and it makes things a bit difficult to take a trip over to Melbourne,” he said. “We’re less than 30 minutes from I-Drive, Universal and all the other attractions. That was the main goal, to be in the heart of everything in the tourist world over here.”
