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If you’re holding out for a hero, you have lots of choices at Orlando Science Center, current home of the traveling exhibit “Hall of Heroes.” There are real-life heroes, well-known fictional superheroes and some new, somewhat generic figures that help mild-mannered folk figure out their own superpowers.

There’s plenty to see and do in the exhibit, and it works on several layers. Some displays play off the nostalgia factor (Remember Green Hornet? Electra Woman and Dyna Girl on a console TV?), some are inspiring and some are burn off kids’ excess energy.

Even small kids are drawn to the balance-beam area built to look like they’re walking 100 stories above a street. There’s a jump chamber that measures vertical leap and the Wind Tunnel Testing Area.

“The key for a successful exhibit is activity,” says Jeff Stanford, vice president of marketing at the science center. Kids were getting their fill of that as we walked through the exhibit this week.

The exhibits are broken down into time eras. It’s kind of funny to look at AOL in a time-capsule way as well as comic books from the “bronze age,” which the exhibit defines as between 1970 to 1985.

A big piece is a full-size (but dissected down the middle) 1960s Batmobile. You can’t sit in it (or see its parachute from the TV series), but you can push buttons that make things happen. My inner 6-year-old squealed when he turned on the Batmobile headlights. Holy High Beams, Batman!

The exhibit takes superhero staples and puts real-life application to them. I liked the chart called “the power of gadgets” and one that takes heroic traits that can be developed into greatness, such as “hypercognition” and “tactical analysis.”

There may be a newsy angle too: Statues of Marvel and DC heroes in the same airspace. On one side of the room are life-sized Hulk and Iron Man (think the look from the second film), and across the way are Superman and Batman. They’re not all fighting a common enemy or anything crazy like that, but they make for fun photos. And you can teach your kids what a phone booth is.

“It’s a great exhibit to bring all the generations together,” Stanford says.

(Overheard near the “Doctor Who” Tardis: “Daddy will be so excited!”)

“Hall of Heroes” remains at Orlando Science Center through Sept. 3. It’s included in regular admission.

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