"The old world and a broken workshop" Topic

May have broken a staffer.

I walk out to hear "Kill me now!" Being shouted.

It was probably about something else…

I guess they must get a lot of people commenting how things are going with the company V the past.

Last two times now,a year apart, I go in and one of two says hello, sales speak, I half ignore, half give generic replies. Mostly because I'm deciding whether to appear like a guy with no idea to just test them out, or not.

Then I talk to the other guy in a half debate half reminiscing type of way for a while.

Then I decide I'd best buy the paint I came in for, no 2 hit me with an offer this time so that dragged things out while I chose paints.

Then I left.

I just find it odd that both times, possibly more,there is one guy with the sales talk then the other you can have a conversation with and end up buying from.

Is this a regular staff setup?

In my defence, the paint is about the only good thing in the shop, so conversations about the stock will always go south. In a good way, I like to think.

So that's one thing.

The other is that they only had a few new release TOW books and then the TK and Brits boxed sets on the last chance racks. No orcs even.

What gives?

AOS and 40'kay much as you don't like.

They didn't seem optimistic, but I'm more hopeful.

I've always been fascinated at the Miserabes that come
Into a Warhammer Store and complain.

It very much the same: I've played for years, this is the last straw, I'm thinking of getting out.

I'm like dude step 1 is admitting you are powerless over Warhammer and your spending is unmanageable

What are you comparing to?

The stores seem much like they have been for 20 years or more (it is more….)

Probably the staff don't enjoy hearing about how GW was a decade or two before they were born….it's not like they can do anything about it, even if they wanted to.

Talking about how great GW was in the 1970s (and, of course it was!) is a bit like back then talking about how things were just after WWI.

Time has rolled on.

20thMaine did you visit the only GW shop to exist in the '70s? 1 Dalling Road? It was annoyingly just outside the central zone on the tube. Meant you had to jump off, a stop or two before to buy a ticket for Ravenscourt Park.

Whilst 1 Dalling Road has a place in gaming history, it was a tip. The second GW shop to open, Manchester in '81 I think, was much much nicer. (Even if the corporate colours were bright yellow and red!)

Went past 1 Dalling Road a couple of years ago, the outside doesn't appear to have changed much.

There's a Monty Python sketch about "Is this the room for the Argument", isn't there?

Afraid I can't see any mileage in going into a GW shop to bend the ears of the staff about how it was when I were a lad.
I haven't been in since Id finished getting LOTR figures-another model shop in the city centre stocks their paint!
I used to get the sales pitch, well its their job, asking what army I was collecting, and as it was WW2 British it couldnt really go further.

I did indeed shop at Dalling Road, and whilst it was "ramshackle" it was such a treasure trove of imported games and figures and, quite important at the time, D&D fanzines that I enjoyed every visit. The "only" problem was lack of money….

I read recently that the building was being demolished…

Was the second store Manchester? I seem to recall that whilst Dalling Road was still open a store was opened at Hammersmith (but I never visited)

asking what army I was collecting, and as it was WW2 British it couldnt really go further.

I think the last time I had that conversation I was adding to my ACW forces….

"I've always been fascinated at the Miserabes that come
Into a Warhammer Store and complain."

I wasn't complaining, just talking about TOW and how it sits and how I thought they could have done it differently. Like a revamped TK skeleton sprue less the gothic bits and leftie bowmen, if anything needed an adjustment… But they do a bone dragon half the people wanting a boxed set probably don't want.

"It very much the same: I've played for years, this is the last straw, I'm thinking of getting out."

That boat sailed long ago. Just paint now, which I should be buying elsewhere anyway.

"What are you comparing to?"

Mostly TOW v FB minis. Like the TK mentioned above and how the orc range is not consistent and the reasons for that.

Trying to talk rationally to the GW machine. Went well!

"Is this the room for the Argument"

You'll see the Warhammer sign out front. I wouldn't call it an argument though.

"I used to get the sales pitch, well its their job, asking what army I was collecting, and as it was WW2 British it couldnt really go further."

I did mention I was possibly going to paint napolionics, the chap was quick to point out possible paint options. I thought he was going off script doing so, which was good to see.

"read recently that the building was being demolished…"

Sounds like a good Kickstarter to buy it and deck it out as was, charge admittance.