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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #135 on: September 02, 2016, 03:20:33 AM »
Its been a good week for Carc collecting, its been a while it seems.

Flew back to town today to find this happy package!

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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #136 on: September 02, 2016, 02:01:22 PM »


Just bought this.

And these -



I spent a day in Madrid and found 2 games shops.

I also found these (but didn't buy them)



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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #137 on: September 02, 2016, 03:24:39 PM »
I spent a day in Madrid and found 2 games shops.

Was one of them Atlántica Juegos? I've done quite a bit of board game hunting in Madrid and that's probably the best one I've found. Plus it's in the area we usually stay in, so I always get to make a sneaky visit while the wife isn't looking. The next one will be in November :)

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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #138 on: September 08, 2016, 01:18:58 PM »
Just stumbled upon a copy of "The school" in a Comic Shop in Nuremberg.
I knew, that the shop has some games like Catan, Carc, Dominion, Dixit and so on. I was able to buy a copy of the Phantom last year. So I went there today, to look, if they have something for me...  8)
They have boxed editions of Carc II and some copies of the Halflings, Windroses, German Cathedrals and Sheriff, Friday....
"My" copy of "The School" was the last, so I was very lucky today. Blue teacher (looks like a phantom) and yellow meeple on the bag.

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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #139 on: September 09, 2016, 06:39:04 AM »
I spent a day in Madrid and found 2 games shops.

Was one of them Atlántica Juegos? I've done quite a bit of board game hunting in Madrid and that's probably the best one I've found. Plus it's in the area we usually stay in, so I always get to make a sneaky visit while the wife isn't looking. The next one will be in November :)
No they were both near to Retiro tube station .

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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #140 on: September 20, 2016, 08:21:52 AM »
Yep. I even went as far as planning a kickstarter to make them print 1000 set of many of the old expansions. x_x

Plan was to sell them to people that still wanted them, cheap and keep the rest. 100.000 tiles next game...
I would back that  :D ;D

In the meantime I'll be in London from 14 to 15 next month, is there any local store worth visiting? Preferably in the Wimbledon area.
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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #141 on: September 20, 2016, 04:42:43 PM »
In the meantime I'll be in London from 14 to 15 next month, is there any local store worth visiting? Preferably in the Wimbledon area.

:(

Normally I would have offered to have met up with you but I'll be in Essen when you're in London. But anyway, it's not a boardgame shop as such, but if you have a chance to visit somewhere where you can sit down and play a few games you could do worse than to visit Draughts (although it's in Hackney rather than Wimbledon).

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« Reply #142 on: September 21, 2016, 08:34:56 AM »
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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #143 on: September 21, 2016, 08:56:27 AM »
Yep. I even went as far as planning a kickstarter to make them print 1000 set of many of the old expansions. x_x

Plan was to sell them to people that still wanted them, cheap and keep the rest. 100.000 tiles next game...
I would back that  :D ;D

In the meantime I'll be in London from 14 to 15 next month, is there any local store worth visiting? Preferably in the Wimbledon area.

There's a small games store called 'Orc's Nest' not far from Covent Garden which has a surprisingly large amount of games considering its size (though 'London' prices :P). Probably a little far if you're not straying away from Wimbledon, though I thought I'd suggest it in case :)

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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #144 on: September 21, 2016, 12:52:07 PM »


Just bought this.
Great. I also bought that one last week. A used copy for 10€ in a local store in Vienna. I needed a game to play with a co-worker, who is only used to trick-taking games and considered Shanghaien a "really complicated game rules-wise".

I tried "Penguinos" out first on yucata.de (it's called there "Hey, That's my Fish" or "Packeis am Pol"), and thought, this is sure a game, he can't blame of having complicated rules. Turned out, it really was a winner with him.
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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #145 on: September 25, 2016, 07:13:24 AM »
I picked this up at SF Bokhandeln in Stockholm yesterday:


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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #146 on: September 25, 2016, 05:59:28 PM »
I picked this up at SF Bokhandeln in Stockholm yesterday:

...and today, needing to get rid of the last of my Swedish currency, I had just enough for this:



I'd call that a successful weekend!

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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #147 on: September 25, 2016, 07:25:24 PM »
I picked this up at SF Bokhandeln in Stockholm yesterday:

...and today, needing to get rid of the last of my Swedish currency, I had just enough for this:

I'd call that a successful weekend!

Isle of Skye! Sweet buy. It's weird I get so happy when people buy this game. :D
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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #148 on: September 25, 2016, 08:06:53 PM »
Hehe, I was super keen on it a few months ago but somehow it fell off my radar a bit. Looking forward to the unboxing tomorrow. :)


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Re: I love the local store...
« Reply #149 on: September 25, 2016, 08:16:05 PM »
Hehe, I was super keen on it a few months ago but somehow it fell off my radar a bit. Looking forward to the unboxing tomorrow. :)


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Enjoy!

Too bad you couldn't make it to Gothenburg, or I was able to travel to Stockholm. Could've sat down for a game in a café.


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