Then there was the shopping. First we hit Chinook Hobbies! All I can say is WOW! I had been there once before, 2 years ago. IT was cool then. It is freaaking AMAZING there now. The pics below are of a dio Shaun Priddle ( I hope I spelled your name right) An emplyee at the store did. I forgot to ask who did the massive Star Destroyer. This store was amazing. They were kind enough to let me take pics an gave me permission to post them here. So here they are.

This is the massive Star Destroyer. It greats you as you walk in the store.

Yes that is the Millenium Falcon up there

Here is a pic of Hardcase01 and Cdn_Rhino. I wanted the pic of the case behind them. They thought I was taking a pic of them. Actually, I just missed where the camera was focused. It focused on Yoda instead of the guys.

The staff at Chinook were very helpful. They had a real passion for their store, as you can see. Thanks to everyone that helped make this weekend a success!

 

great pics guys,that store looks great. say do the engines on the giant star destroyer light up? they lool like they do

 

nice pics...great store.

 

Wow what a shop !

Great pics

 

Hey HP...

Lucky are u to have such a wonderful store at your disposal.. here on the east coast (NJ /NY) we can only wish to have such a thing. It is by far a mystery to me why with all the weatlh ..that no one has thought of establishing themselves. Any how Thank you for showing us the such a wonderful establishment. You have done them justice by posting pic's.

I thank you for this!!!

Long live our hobby and those whom promote it!!

Regards,

Echo 7

 

So what do they sell at that shop anyway?

 

Looks like you guys enjoyed a nice holiday. Wish I could've been there, heh. :thumb

 

Great Picts!

 

So what do they sell at that shop anyway?

It's a hobby shop that sells everything from slot cars, train sets, model kits, toys and they're a Sideshow distributor, so if it's licensed SST or HT that you're after it will pass through these doors (sadly, they don't bother carrying any of the military HT stuff, but there's an impressive amount of Medicom as well).

It's been refreshing seeing a visitor's POV. I've been so jaded by this little treasure trove that I really have taken it for granted.

 

I love the set up with the mangles Ewok!!!!!

 

heyyyy, you finally got the pics up. Where's the group shot? And I know you weren't trying for Hardcase and myself. You were trying to shoot the handsome green dude just behind us. You forgot about Comic-Kazi and Phoenix. I haven't been to the former in a long time, and it was good to go in and look around.

Yes, it's a nice little shop. When you have access to a place like this, you forget that some people don't have that access. And we some times complain. I gues I'll just stop that silliness now.

Pivot, you forgot about all the Huge amounts of Star Wars stuff in all its glory. This is also the place where I get the styrene and other suplies for my bashes and models. They also carry great ref books, latest hobby magazines, die cast, lots of other cool sci-fi and horror stuff, G.I. Joes, old toys and rare HTF stuff.

Irish 70 - yes the engines light up. They have moved its position a few times, so I think the electrical is the issue right now. The engines are lamps.

Jester - you should have come down.

PrivateNoClass - you can't see it from the pics but the ewoks eyes are popped out from the one angle. Nasty, but funny little detail.

 

If we only had stores like that here...

I love that Endor dio!

 

The Star Destroyer is great,but I don't see alot of 1/6 in the 1/6 filled labor day weekend

 

I didn't bother to take pics of all the stock thay had. I was more interested in the dio's. That is why you don't see too much CorranJ. But as Cdn_Rhino stated, They had DML stuff, SST and HT stuff. They had every Pred fig and Alien ans USCM. Plus all the modelling supplies. And I did forget Kamikaze and Pheonix. Kamikaze had some sweet vintage GI Joe stuff and all the same stuff was at Phoenix. But those places didn't have dios set up so I didn't pull out my camera there.

Then there was the viewing of Clays amazing collection and his OCD organization of every loose item he had.

Then 38 Oliver's stunning MIB collection of EVERY bbi modern figure, his vintage Joe stuff and his perfectly organized Joe/ACE kitbashed stuff.

I just didn't take pics of that stuff. I thought it best to leave that honour to the owners of said collections.

 

Jester - you should have come down.

Would've liked to. Maybe some other time.