Games Workshop

I make an hour trip to here weekly. Why? Because the store is a nice place to go. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful and always answer whatever questions that may come up. Since I started Warhammer 2 years ago, I’ve had nothing but good experiences with this store. There are tables for people to play on as wells as contests usually going on to keep things interesting. The customers that play here are also friendly and easy going. It’s a great place to hang out and play a friendly game.

Great store! Small, but a fantastic location with a very helpful and friendly staff! Fantastic stock with all the latest Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, and Hobbit products! I live on Lake Forrest so this place is less than a mile away and it’s wonderful! HIGHLY suggest checking this place out or bringing your army and playing a game with someone on a weekend!

This is a wonderful store that sells a great product. The manager works very hard to maintain it’s appearance and is very friendly. They carry the full range of products, and what they don’t have in stock they can get a hold of easily. They have several tables to play on, and there are frequently customers to play with.

This is in part a review of the Games Workshop store itself and then more generally the Games Workshop brand as a whole.
The GW store is pretty much exactly what you’d expect — a store that sells GW merchandise. For those who are unfamiliar with the brand, Games Workshop makes the Warhammer family of gaming products — these are essentially little tiny models of knights and orcs and stuff like that. You buy bunches of these little plastic dudes and then you have your army of plastic dudes fight your friend’s army of little plastic dudes. It’s more than just banging a robot and an elf together and making grunting noises, there are enormous rulebooks (we’re talking «phonebook for a midsized town» here) full of all the different things you have to do before you can safely say that the blue elf shot the food. It’s like playing army men, but with the federal tax code keeping it all under control.
There are a couple of catches here, though — they change the rules every so often, and they constantly release new little plastic dudes that can totally kick the crap out of the previous generations of little plastic dudes. Therefore, you have to buy a whole new set of little plastic dudes every so often. It’s kind of like World of Warcraft or something, except you need a bunch of Tupperware containers to hold your sadness instead of a really big hard drive.
I don’t actually care about the little plastic dudes or the stories that are related to them or the game that you play with them. What I *am* interested in, however, is the various paints and modelling supplies they carry (did I mention that you have to assemble and paint the little plastic dudes yourself? Because you do.)
Games Workshop sells modeling paints (well, a subsidiary or somehow related company, Citadel, makes the paints, but GW is their distributor). That’s pretty much my entire interest in the GW experience. Usually, you can find the paints and stuff at your local comic shop or other nerd-​friendly retailer, but every once in a while, it’s worth the trip out to see the GW store, because it’s such a oddball thing. Miles and miles of shrinkwrapped elves and space monsters and robot tanks and things like that, like the Dragoncon costume contest got washed on the hot cycle for too long and now it’s all shrunken and dinky (and REALLY expensive. Obscenely expensive.)
Two stars because THE FRONT OF THE STORE LOOKS LIKE A CASTLE. Still, guys have been in business for 30 years or so now, so clearly, armies of tiny plastic monsters are making money for SOMEONE.