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Years ago I tried to cross them all off a list that was published in the back of White Dwarf. If I went to a town or city with a GW, I would try to visit it so that I had been to as many different ones as possible. Just seemed the thing to do when I was younger, but they opened so many I couldn't do them all.

Judging by the comments of some Americans, they are lucky to have ever been in one let alone dozens. How many have you been in?

At the most 5 or so and that's spaced over 20 odd years of gaming. Even when I was new to wargaming, I used to dislike going into GW stores and nowadays I avoid them like the plague, unless I desperately need something now and there is no other alternative.

Eight.

5 in Sydney (cbd, Chatswood, Parramatta, Miranda, Castle towers)
1 in Wollongong (it only has one).
1 in Melbourne (when there was only one).
1 in Newcastle (it also fortunately only has one).

Last time I was in the US, there were NO GW stores.

I've been to 4, but that includes two that are basically the same shop (was closed and re-located 5/10 minutes away from the original).

Luckily my nearest GW (Poole) is the only one I've been to that is actually run by a nice guy, so I have no issues going in there whenever I need anything! I avoid the others as much as possible though!

3 I think.
One in Nottingham, one in Bluewater and my local one in Den Haag.

GW Bluewater, Nottingham, Bromley, Oxford Street, Covent Garden, Maidstone and Den Haag.

That makes 7 off the top of my head. Heh, bit weird

3, but technically 2 were the same store, it just got moved.

I've dug out an old White Dwarf and checked off my list, here it is. A couple I'm not sure of, I've been to these places but maybe didn't make it to GW.

Bath
Birmingham
Bristol
Bournmouth
Cambridge
Cardiff
Chester
Darlington
Derby
Dudley
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Gloucester
Leeds
Lincoln
Newport
Norwich
Nottingham City
Nottingham HQ
Oxford
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Salsibury
Shrewsbury (I think)
St Albans
Stockport (I think)
Swansea
Torquay
Truro
Winchester (I think)
Woking
Worcester (I think)
York



I've only been to GW a couple of times in the last 5 years though, most of these I visited before I went to Uni and a few have changed their names. Merry Hill shopping centre is now Dudley and it was there that we stopped on the way past so I could get a Great Unclean One waaaaay back in about 1990, because there wasn't a shop in Wales.

Two. One in the Liberty Tree Mall (Now gone because GW are idiots) and one in NYC (It's fething tiny. Needs to be bigger.)

Sadly none. I have been to the Warstore several times such as it is right down the road from me.

I am planning on getting to the GW in NYC before the year is out however.

Chester
Oxford
B'Ham
nottingham
southampton
dublin
Blachardstown (now closed)

Been to two in my life and they both closed years ago. The nearest location is far enough away that I don't foresee ever entering another again. (Not that I'm despairing the loss. The several LGS in my area are perfectly adequate.)

Severn:

Warhammer World
Truro
Birmingham
Solihull
Coventry
Leamington Spa
Stratford

Hrm let's see if I can remember 'em all...

Manchester (old location and newer store)
Trafford Centre
Stockport
Macclesfield
Shrewsbury
Bristol
Cribbs Causeway
Torquay
Truro
Salisbury
Cardiff
Birmingham
Plymouth
Warhammer World
Durham
Newcastle
Metro Centre
Wakefield

Almost made it into my first non-UK GW last week (GW Malaga) but didn't have time in the end to go into the city itself once we'd got luggage checked in for our flight home.

5 different stores, I think. The first one I ever visited wasn't in Spain

- 1 Amsterdam, very close to Dam square. Bought an English WD and a WFB Daemon Prince. It was around March 2000. The WD issue had a Land Raider poster, and the Daemon Prince was the older metal version. The redshirt look like a nice guy, but I didn't speak much english at the time, so I just looked and bought.

- 1 Barcelona, Consell de cent, I've been a couple of times there.

- 2 Madrid, Don Ramón de la Cruz and Princesa, I've been once in Princesa and a couple of times in Don Ramón de la Cruz.

- 1 Pamplona, few years ago they opened one in my city! Well, I actually live in a town close to Pamplona, but it takes me like 20 minutes to get there. I use to go a couple of times each
month.

3, the one in the metro station, the one in sunderland town centre and the the one in durham town centre.

Never had any problem with any of the actual GW stores, just, the prices and shenannigans.

2, Bath and Poole. Much prefer the Poole one as it's bigger and has better staff. Not that the Bath store is bad but the Poole one is actually a pleasure to go to.

I'm in the US and I've shopped/played at 4 different GW in my small state (Maryland):

Columbia
College Park
Arundel Mills
Bowie (Bunker)

I've probably wandered into others throughout my life, but I don't remember.

Wiesbaden (in Germany)
Stockholm
one or two in England

I have only been to one, and that was the Battle Bunker down in Memphis TN. I prefer the charm of a FLGS

I've been to the following stores:

New York City, Upper East Side- Closed
New York City, Upper West Side- Closed
New York City, Queens- Closed
New York City, The Village- It's the only one left in NYC; unfortunately the back seat of my car is more spacious.

Amsterdam, NL
Dublin, IL

Howard A Treesong wrote:Judging by the comments of some Americans, they are lucky to have ever been in one let alone dozens. How many have you been in?

Games Workshop stores are few and far between in the States. The entire Northeast US (and lets face it, that's the important part ) has a grand total of three stores- one in NYC, one in Philadelphia, and one somewhere in Jersey. Boston, the tenth largest metropolitan area in the country* and home to four national sports teams, does not have a single GW. The population of this region is just a little lower than the population of the entire UK (55m vs. 62m) and dwarfs the UK in size (488k sq. km vs. 244k sq. km). That being said, it does look like GWs are more common in other areas of the country (Texas has 9, Washington State has 10, Maryland has 9, California has 10) but the Northeast isn't the only place with next to no GWs. Illinois (Chicago), Colorado (Denver), Ohio (Cleveland and Cincinnati), and Florida (Miami, Tampa Bay, Orlando) all have no Games Workshops at all.




*Although the city is sort of small at 600k, the metropolitan area is pretty enormous. Look it up if you don't believe me.

Hmm all the ones near me and plenty while on hols, travelling about for work or visiting new store for the opening day discounts back before the internet!

So off the top of my head;

Southend
Chelmsford
Romford
Lakeside
Bluewater
Oxford Street
Covent Garden
Colchester
Ipswich
Brighton
Newcastle
Tunbridge Wells
Canterbury
Nottingham - Warhammer World
Madrid
Paris
And I drove past one in Florida once I think?

Possibly a few more on the south coast but at my age I struggle to remember the important stuff never mind GW stores.

Oh forgot the best one, Hammersmith about 15 years ago. See I said I was getting old!

One in Syracuse, NY 5 years ago. It closed down the next year, but the staff was helpful, didn't try to over sell, asked what I was considering getting, and showed me all of the models and didn't try to push me to the most expensive thing. All in all, a very pleasant experience. Do still want to get to the one in NYC some time, as I live only a few hours away.

I visited Warhammer World when I was the UK for a few days last year. That's it.

Just the one in Philadelphia, on Cottman Ave.

It's ok (for only a 1 man operation and essentially a broom closet), and from what I can remember the redshirt there was a pretty decent guy.

But I had 3 FLGS that sold GW stuff for lower prices, and they were closer and, well, better.

I have to say, as a yank, I'm slightly amazed by the amount of locations posted by all the Brits.

Its not hard when you consider the nearest 4 to me are within 20 miles, and that without entering London where there are 8+ more within 60 miles of me.

But then you in the US seem to have an independent or three in every town plus giant sized hobbymarts or whatever you call them, seems that the US is better to me.

Personally Wayland Games is about 20 miles away so thats where I usually go.

Let's see:

Derby
Leicester
Loughborough
Nottingham
Warhammer World
Lincoln
Sheffield (Meadowhall)
Sheffield (Main City)
Sheffield "tiger store" (when it was still open)
Boston

Aberdeen
Altrincham
Bath
Bedford
Birmingham
Bradford
Bristol
Bristol - Cribbs Causeway
Bolton
Chester
Chesterfield
Derby
Dundee
Exeter
Gloucester
Kettering
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Manchester Trafford Centre
Milton Keynes
Northampton
Norwich
Nottingham City
Nottingham HQ
Salisbury
Sheffield
Shrewsbury
Southport
Stockport
Stoke
Truro
Warrington
Wigan
York

Let's see...

Park Royal
Metrotown
Victoria
Someplace in Quebec...

Only one when I was on vacation in San Francisco, which has since closed.

Whenever I'm up in the Seattle area, I'm usually not thinking of gaming; which are the closest to where I live.