Weekender XLBS: What Makes The Perfect Hobby Store?
October 21, 2018 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday mate!
Happy Sunday lad 🙂
Ace announcement!
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday 🙂
But I thought Seven ate Nine?
https://youtu.be/wPh_6_u98tI
… I’ll get my coat…
Happy Sunday …. THIRD BABY YEAH !!! (somehow this seems less than impressive … I don’t know why )
happy sunday all o/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiW43ld-_Y
Happy Sunday!!
This has certainly been a rough week. I was sure I had lost my mind, but it turns out it had just fallen under the driver’s seat. 😛 😀 😛
lol
Good morning backstagers!!! Sun is just rising here in Wiesbaden Germany and the family is still in bed. Just me and my killer attack dog (Yorkie) down in the war room for some XLBS!
Based on the picture there is no question that Sam has balls!
Got a four person game of Flames of War Scheduled for 1000 today, probably my last big game here in Germany! Starting of with XLBS followed by a day of gaming! Life is good!
sounds awesome mate!
Allies won by a narrow margin! I’ll get em next time!
happy sunday how was the rye
My vote would be you don’t have to re visit every topic, I’d only pick those insights you received from folks that really changes you mind or gives you a perspective that has not already been discussed. I think you guys are probably busy enough just getting the content out that you do on a regular basis. The direct feedback in the comments is fine for the majority of the comments. It is nice to hear though a comment repeated that really strikes you as different as I often don’t have time to read everyones’ comments. Just my two cents!
Justin, If you wear that wig at Essen Spiel one day I’ll bring you some extra Mountain Dew!!! Classic!
lol Everyone will think he in a Solomon kane cosplay 😉 (or an early version of Joan of Arc 😉 lol)
good morning everyone from Belgium. happy Sunday ?
I think broad range is best that brings in all types of people. Like what Ben said about wide range and ability to order. Friendliness and openness is probably my number one criteria and they can’t be critical of what you like to do. Multiple gaming tables for miniatures (8 that are 6×4 at least) and other games like cards is key also, so they don’t have to compete for space. To have a range of terrain for the miniature games available is also important.
Again the people behind the store is the #1 consideration!
I feel that gaming tables can easily be 4′ x 4′ max in a gaming store. People don’t have time for big 3+ hour games generally in stores (or clubs for that matter) Dividing a 6×4 into two 3×4’s would probably work just as well. This is still a 2+ hour game of AoS, 40k etc. I only buy 4×4 mats for our club now because people would set up a 6×4 and then be dismantling it by turn 3 to get packed up. Seems pointless. Also it makes to terrain money stretch further. Easier to fill smaller tables to… Read more »
About the numbers and the chaos gods of 40k, every chaos god has his favorite number. Slaanesh 6, Nurgle 7, Khorne 8, Tzeentch 9. In one of the codex versions they worked this in so if you took a squad with their favorite number or a multiple thereof you would get a bonus.
Spot on Justin about separating the gaming space from the retail space, a buddy of mine that runs a game store in NC moved to a new location and did just that and it really made a difference in the store dynamics and really improved business for him!!!
I’ve found that the gamers tend to police their own as far as ‘Assholes’. They get shunned and go elsewhere after a time.
I would like to return to subjects. A favorite segment of a channel called Watchitplayed would do something akin. They focused on board game topics, but honestly they were abstract enough to include wargames too. The presenter would start with his thought on the subject then throw it to the community and later come back with new comment provided viewers. I like the open and connected way that this was done there and I think that it could be made to work here too. In a way I feel some solidarity with the group now, as I too have almost… Read more »
@warzan No Coasters!!!!! Now I have to cringe through the whole episode as you guys slurp and possibly stain that lovely mat. I thought you loved mats but in truth your just one of those people who pretends to love mats to fit in. I’m so disappointed in you all right now :'(
I am now looking to find a link to report you to the RSPM. 🙂
PANTS!!!! Can I hide behind the excuse ‘it’s the studio managers job!!!’ @dignity
Hangs head in shame lol
Nice, sloping shoulder action there. I blame Justin too! 🙂
Happy Sunday all. Perhaps it is just me but I’m increasingly suspicious that we never see Sam and Gerry in the same video. I think there is a Michael/LaToya thing going on.
We have asked @avernos to take care where he sits when @dracs is about 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brh0z3t8DTM
not an image I needed at any stage of the day let alone first clip on a sunday morning
Wait that explains why Sams hair was slicked down that time and why he was crying and shaking in the corner, whilst Gerry on the other hand had a huge smile on his face and had adopted a much wider rolling gait when he walked.
Revisit topics yes, but not every topic, the ones that proved most interesting or the ones were the perspective changed most drastically, or there is the most disagreement with what the community believes, would be the most interesting candidates.
I think the best store I’ve been in was strategy and tactics in New York. No idea if it’s still there
With the internet now by and large established and the experts say it looks like it’s going to be here for a while and given the massive range of games and figures out there do we really need gaming stores anymore? Or would it be better using these physical spaces to get better gaming clubs where gamers can meet that just sell paints and brushes and a few dice for the club members?
First Justin insists on Castrating all his minis, then he comes on Camera wearing fake nails and now he’s wearing a wig. If he’s in a dress next week I think we can all get the message. General Douglas MacArthur never said that in 1955. It’s a made up quote from a speech that never happened. The Truman Quote. Also totally fake there was no press conference on April 4th 1950 and he never said anything like that. MacArthur did say something to the effect of “Well we’ve all got nukes now so we won’t have another world war so… Read more »
The following is self evident but mention it for the more uncouth lower classes who have in some mischievous and no doubt underhand way gained access to the internet.
You need nice cushions at the club as all the games would be played on the floor with 2″ high figures ( or 54mm if your strange) and there would be an endless supply of condiments so you could recreate your finest battles and tactics on dining table while the port is being passed
Hear Hear @torros
@warzan In a wig = 90s Meatloaf!
lol
I thought he was the opera guy off Britains Got Talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4
ohh you didn’t just go there?!??!?!?
yup… yup you did XD
git!!! lol
Don’t be like that buddy, you have a lovely singing voice…..
Justin in a wig: Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap
NO COASTERS!!
For an ideal hobby store I think I’d want to be able go I want play game ‘x’ and whatever it was there would be somebody or somebodies that play it.
I know what you mean with not wanting to play some games with certain people. In the gaming group I am in there is one guy who is an absolute meta gamer and he can’t help it but it can be frustrating some times especially when you are playing co-op games. If you let him get his way it is one guy playing and the rest are there just to move the pieces. On perfect hobby store: I don’t want that much. No matter what you play or what your interests are you have to feel that you are treated… Read more »
Happy Sunday one and all. Hope yer’ll having a great one 🙂
loving life matey