tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283315887973123007.post7410847497721348319..comments2024-03-28T18:53:54.518-07:00Comments on Realm of Chaos 80s: Retail Detail: What GW shops were like in the 1980s!Orlygghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01590080915486192175noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283315887973123007.post-37062911369880260272014-08-22T08:34:47.408-07:002014-08-22T08:34:47.408-07:00Can you bear to repeat why? Is he one of the custo...Can you bear to repeat why? Is he one of the customers....or someone who led you astray? Sorry, lack frame of reference over here across the pond......but well shun him for you! ;)Kaleb Hordeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18279279669165070169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283315887973123007.post-28678443094437598662014-08-22T08:32:32.068-07:002014-08-22T08:32:32.068-07:00You know, I always loved it when they highlighted ...You know, I always loved it when they highlighted the stores. Its what drove me from "wouldn't it be cool" to I want to work there. The energy and pulse of a gaming store has long been with me, first as a neophyte seeing worlds opened before me, then as an employee in hs/college, then as a manager, then going to Baltimore, then going out west and gettingvinto a store again, to returning to the tundra and helping a friend with his store. Over 30 years now and i have seen a ton of them. Took a ten hour trip to Toronto just to get to a GW lead sale once. Was so mad they only had stores on east and west coast when i was younger. And so thrilled to visit them in Europe, first Germany and then England. From dingy holes in the wall, to ecclectic piles you never knew what youd find, to dingy comics stores that might have something, to train stores that carried enough to let you know they could get it, to full-on wargaming stores that made you drool and your allowance seem so paltry, their is a certain vibe, an essence to them. Conversations are the same, each store had one stereotype after another, and just the joy of even sitting in one and chatting while painting or playing, or just watching the owner/manager opening the new shipments (or being the one everyone is waiting on). So much that the newer Gw stores seem to lack. I got to work and play at Fairfax a little bit, but Id still love to go back and spend an afternoon at Nottingham back then. But I'm old....and happy :)Kaleb Hordeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18279279669165070169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283315887973123007.post-78896415527673384482014-08-21T16:07:55.311-07:002014-08-21T16:07:55.311-07:00I've said this before but it bears repeating: ...I've said this before but it bears repeating: I can't abide Ben Elton.Warlord Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06477146670213381976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283315887973123007.post-70652690381795818022014-08-21T14:47:06.037-07:002014-08-21T14:47:06.037-07:00After I get through reviewing the WHFB 3e rulebook...After I get through reviewing the WHFB 3e rulebook on my website, <a href="http://www.thewordofstelios.com/l" rel="nofollow">The Word of Stelios</a>, I might have start researching what exactly happened with GW over the years and how they started alienating their fanbase. The first (and last) time I visited a the nearby GW store, I wasn't impressed at all. I was expecting more painted miniatures to be showcased, and more gaming tables (there were just two). <br /><br />Just lots of expensive product and no "soul" to the place. Maybe its different elsewhere, though. Stelios V. Perdioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05466676702515521939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3283315887973123007.post-43292594883678410012014-08-21T11:15:22.254-07:002014-08-21T11:15:22.254-07:00I think I miss most the energy every store seemed ...I think I miss most the energy every store seemed to have, and how they felt like more of an open community space, back when there were more different games available of course, and so a little more variety, even unpredictability in what might be going on when you turned up. Also, and it's more abstract, it seems there's more of a sense of the game worlds in a column of blister packs than on a shelf of boxes, because you can see not only the actual mini inside, but the mini nearly complete. The possible variation in the actual contents made it more tactile too, needing to rummage a bit to compare.Porkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.com