Warhammer Citadel Store & Café-Grapevine, Texas important update page 12

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**Daedalus81**

I welcome this with open arms.

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Galas wrote:
My local Great Mall put a Starbuck store in his lower floor, just at the side of one of the entrances, with windows to the exterior, etc...
It EXPLODED in customers, and it was a very high number of them even before.

Don't underestimate how physycally and socially addicted people is to coffe. If the "Cafe" part of the "Warhammer Cafe" is good enough, people could just enter for coffe. And then is a matter of time until they start playing warhammer.
Is the kind of business parents go to let their childrens play where they are speaking for hours.

The biggest danger - it gets used as a cheap daycare for smelly children. It happened to an internet cafe I went to - $20 for a full day pass = cheaper than a babysitter.

**Daedalus81**

I used to live near Grapevine. Great place. The rent for them will be absurdly high.

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EnTyme wrote:
For baseball fans, the Texas Rangers also just broke ground on a new stadium. And there's FC Dallas for those who don't know what real football is . Also the Stars for our Canadian visitors, and the Mavericks for the self-loathing. Lots of sports destinations for those who may want to combine their wargaming trip with some feats of athleticism.

Wait...NEW one? When I lived there the one they had was already huge. What the hell are they going to do with the old one?

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avantgarde wrote:
Really? Grapevine Mills? That mall is ass my dudes. Anyways it's nicely situated to pull in from Fort Worth and North Dallas. Sleepy suburbs and non-stop highway construction.

Guess I got lucky. Cafe is gonna be a real quick drive down the road for me.

Seemed like a well maintained strip mall, to me. Very family friendly and gak tons of people walking through all the time.

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oni wrote:
DFW... Wow! What a horrible horrible horrible location choice. TX is great and all, I love it there, but DFW just isn't viable. Other than DFW itself, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, there are no other major populated areas to draw from. No one will ever travel to this Warhammer Cafe who doesn't already live in TX in one of these nearby cities - which are themselves even 5+ hours drive away.

If I were to even attempt visiting this store...
1. I would need to set aside no less than 3 days to travel (Fri-Sun), which means: using a vacation day from work; two days of travel and ultimately having ONE day of gaming.
2. Round trip airfare will be no less than $300.00.
3. A hotel room for two nights will be another $300.00.
4. 3 days food & drink would be another very conservative $100.00.

3 days and $700.00 to have ONE day of gaming = NO FETHING WAY!

And I imagine this will be the case for most others.

Chicago could have drawn in people from Minneapolis, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit. That's 6 major cities in 5 states. It's a massively populated region of the country.
And the east cost... It's basically one continuous megalopolis from Boston to DC.

This store is not a tourist attraction. There are MILLIONS of people in that area and a very strong Warhammer scene.

**Daedalus81**

I voted to name it "The Warhammer Modeling Agency".

I don't think it will win.

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Dynas wrote:
Went with Segmentum Grapvine. That way when they build more its easy naming conventions. Probably wont win though.

Not really recognizable to their brand though.

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Lord Kragan wrote:
Duncan Donuts.

**Daedalus81**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
We have a (dull) name

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/08/warhammer-cafe-the-winning-name/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Warhammer Citadel Store & Café

(I said it was dull, not even a hint of a pun)

Well, they are a legitimate business after all.

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
WC's FB page wrote:There's been a lot of curiosity about the Citadel tables. On opening day we will have; 5 Featured Tables (very fancy...possibly pictures next week!), 6 Tables from the Warhammer Realms, 8 Warhammer 40,000 tables, and just for spice, a Blood Bowl Stadium. But wait, there's more. Most of tables in the Cafe are board games sized. More on that tomorrow. One last thing, our events will not be limited to the number of tables on site (and that's all I can say about that.). Here are some teaser pics of the tables we have worked on so far. There’s more to come, so stay tuned. Tomorrow we’ll talk about the Café #StormtheCitadel #Whatareweupto

So 14 tables in store, and the promise events are limited to those boards.

Reckon they'll be hiring venues local to them for bigger tournaments?

Also, how does 14 gaming tables compare to your average (is there such a thing?) FLGS?

14 is pretty good. We don't often go above 30 people in a tournament.