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So I was up early this morning to pick up some parts for a piece of heavy machinery I am working on when I look across the parking lot from the auto parts store and see this;



Somehow, someway, GW decided to open up a hobby center 3 miles from my damn house and the grand opening was today at noon!! I literally didn't know about until I saw it today.

Got done with work and headed back at noon and was extremely pleased to see that the shop (pretty small place, two gaming table with one demo table) was completely jam packed! While Tucson only has one gaming store, it turns out there is a huge Warhammer 40k community in Tucson that chooses to game at home with friends instead of playing at the local gaming store.

Here is to hoping that business rocks for them and they move up to a bigger shop.

Im not alone.

i like the 3 balloons

Yep, went there myself today. I'm surprised there is such a big community in Tucson, especially that far up north.

Tyr Grimtooth wrote:
it turns out there is a huge Warhammer 40k community in Tucson that chooses to game at home with friends instead of playing at the local gaming store.

You'd be surprised at how many people do this. If stores sales were comprised of only the people in the store playing, no store would sell enough product to stay alive.

I went in yesterday... nice showing. I hope to see a resurgence in tucson 40k and an improvement in the community as well. Personally I am a fan of my FLGS, but I welcome David and his new GW store in Oro Valley. Hopefully we can see some regional growth and development in the GW hobby.

Also as a side note, I was unaware that I meet my FLGS's GW Bits rep and in the 3rd person unwittingly gave him a peice of my mind about how GW needs to improve bits support to stores. Hopefully he takes my criticisms home and improves the brand. I meant every word I said, hopefully it stokes change... sorry if I was harsh, but I don't mix words.

Back to something fun and nice... we had a great time participating in the painting/conversion contests. Taking 2nd place myself in the conversion contest and my friend nailing down 1st in conversion and 3rd in painting was quite fun and we had some really good competition... another thing I hope to see more of in the future of Tucson GW Hobby.

 pizzaguardian wrote:
i like the 3 balloons

Really! Three whole balloons for the "grand" opening?

Tyr Grimtooth wrote:

Somehow, someway, GW decided to open up a hobby center 3 miles from my damn house and the grand opening was today at noon!! I literally didn't know about until I saw it today.

Sounds just like typical GW marketing to me!

It is always nice to have a new store move in. Sadly, my experience with GW is that they stay for a few years and then leave the community high and dry. Don't expect a bigger store, or better hours.

With the demise of GW stores around here, some FLGS have opened. This has increased the opportunity to play some of the great games including FOW, DUST, Kings of War, War Machine, Malifaux, and Infinity.

 pizzaguardian wrote:
i like the 3 balloons

Very North Korea.

Lol, here is some very fitting english celebration to go with those balloons.

Yeah, uh, disregard....

Holy cow, I can't believe I didn't know about this.