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I'm aiming to take a day trip to Manchester next Saturday (we're down that way anyway) but I've only been down that way once in the city centre a few years ago when Games Day was still a thing at the NEC.

We'd found a model shop and some comic shops, but is there anything else to check out in the city centre area? Any decent FLGS or the like?

I would actually go to the GW store, it has a scale sized emperor titan which is about nine feet tall.

Can listen to the stories about how the IRA bombed the last store, and gave the life size space marines actual battle damage.

 welshhoppo wrote:
I would actually go to the GW store, it has a scale sized emperor titan which is about nine feet tall.

Can listen to the stories about how the IRA bombed the last store, and gave the life size space marines actual battle damage.

That would be fun to see. Do the Brit GW shops have a lot more going on than the U.S. shops do in the way of cool stuff?

Thanks, I think I'll try and check that out.

Relapse - some of the older GW stores have all sorts of cool random things like gaming boards. The new ones seem a lot more clinical - nothing you can't buy from GW currently.

Relapse wrote:

 welshhoppo wrote:
I would actually go to the GW store, it has a scale sized emperor titan which is about nine feet tall.

Can listen to the stories about how the IRA bombed the last store, and gave the life size space marines actual battle damage.

That would be fun to see. Do the Brit GW shops have a lot more going on than the U.S. shops do in the way of cool stuff?

Having never been to an US GW shop, I can't answer that. But some of older stores do have a lot of character.

Manchester is where the first UK computer got built, IIRC. There should be something there about that. Like here:
http://www.mosi.org.uk/

Or, this:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z34Dmwk0wtSo.kQWC7srGphzk&hl=en_US
From this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Geek-Atlas-Science-Technology/dp/0596523203

As got UK gaming stores, they're usually tiny, poky places, with little space for cool stuff.
Some do, but they'll be the bigger ones, in cities.