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Aaron here with CNET and I'm out at South by Southwest and I'm about to take you on a tour at the fictional town of Sweetwater from the HBO show West world if you haven't seen Westworld the premise is it's a theme park that's a western themed and very rich people with a lot of money can kind of pay to play cowboy and interact with androids or hosts so let's go take a look alright folks so our first stop is the Mariposa hotel and saloon if you've seen the show this is where the town madam Maeve kind of sets up shop so we're gonna go in here and you can see that there's kind of like a commingling we're also gonna have playing along here looks like we've got a corner and also here the player piano that sort of prominently featured in the show it's kind of always interesting to to look at and in this case it looks like there's a little bit of blood splatter let's take a look at the keys we also have our bar up here because I mean how could you not and what I've noticed so far is that every time I walked walked past the host they actually are having that conversations and have characters and names and whatnot so think hi what's your name what do you name nice nice to meet you how long have you been in Sweetwater is that so really do you get a lot of newcomers kind of passing through here yeah look good look at that thanks for chatting oh thank you so much let's see what else is going to live outside of somebody getting excited about a poker game okay so across the street here it looks like we have a photographic studio let's go see what's happening in there three seconds oh man how can I pass that maybe I'll just watch let's see what's the ask gun in here so it looks like there's a couple of clothing options if you're like me and you're wearing a hat but also like a North Face jacket which is not exactly authentic to the time there we go let's see what else is going on so this little dark tonight but we've got a blacksmith shop kind of over here to the left which you can't really see very well it looks like there's some stuff going on at the Coronado which is the hotel from the show looks like they've converted it into an opening their situation also got some live music over here got Sweetwater plugged into an electric after all right looks like we've got another section of the coronado just over here another bar because again how could you not food looks like you can eat beans out of a Tanner get a shot up through the wall seeing but sad this way so I've also seen a bunch of horses kind of milling around so hopefully we'll run into some of those because horses are nice all right some townspeople out late at night and over here we have a bank it doesn't look like the sturdiest thing it looks like there's some type of a serious conversation going on here see what else and over here looks like a barber salon I suppose a good shave was hard to come by in the Old West see yeah I think I see a horse let's see if we can get around to it yep run there we go a horse oh look her name is Gracie Oh nice to meet you Gracie what kind of horse is she a paint very beautiful Thanks so as you can see it's it's pretty free-range there's a lot of people milling around kind of checking out all the little buildings that have folks inside doing stuff and just a little while ago I wish I could find him but I saw a Shogun samurai guy if you've seen that looks like we got a fight over here let's see how well you can see but there's definitely here's another horse near it and here's a lady with a shotgun looks like there's a post office over there we're just about back to the Coronado and a few steps away the Mariposa and there you have it folks Sweetwater after dark if you want to see more coverage from South by Southwest don't forget to check out cnet.com you can also follow me on twitter at a Terran Carson thanks for watching