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12.31.2003  
WOTC to close all retail stores

Full story here.

So I'd wanted to go back to the Wizards of the Coast gaming store at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi for a while now, and I got Dann to come along with me. Before we left, I did some research -- the one in Twelve Oaks? GONE. So we looked up the other locations on the Wizards web site and headed for the other one I knew about in Sterling Heights.

Well, suffice it to say that that one is gone too.

So we come back dejected, and an hour later or so Dann laughs. Fark has a story about how Wizards is closing all their retail stores. I must have just missed them posting it before we left.

Overall, this blows. Not because I loved WOTC or anything, but their stores had the best collections of games (board, card, and otherwise) of anything else around. I love the Underworld and Ryders, but they're out to sell comics and models, respectively -- not games.

If lucky, one of the other three store may still be open for another sixty days. I'd like to get one more shot at them before they go away for good.

1:38 AM

 
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