Friday, April 23, 2010

Hobby Spots in Bangkok

Sawaddee krap! I took the day off yesterday to scour around Bangkok for any potential hobby spots. My search was not in vain as I managed to locate 2 great hobby places along the Sukhumvit line (to be exact Sukhumvit 101/1, Soi Piyabut) The great thing about Bangkok was that they have an excellent LRT (they call it BTS Stations) and MRT services. It's convenient for me as the BTS Station is so near to my apartment. All I need to do, hop on the train and stop at On Nut E11 BTS Station and take a short bus or taxi ride to the destination. Oh, I forgot to mention that the 2 hobby spots are adjacents to the other. How cool was that.

I'll start with the first one. It's called Battlefield Bangkok. As you can see from the pics below, it's more of a hobby store, selling card games, board games and some GW merchandises (though not that extensive). They also carries other miniature hobby such as Warmachines, Anime and etc. Currently it has one big table for gaming and they have enough terrain pieces for gaming utilization. The Thais over at BB speak excellent English and I even have a long chat from hobby to work topics with two of the store patrons Krit (pronounce Grit in Thai) and Nat. They are super friendly and we can have our gaming activity anytime except Monday and Tuesday which the store closes. The store has numerous crowds from 40k to Fantasy and board game enthusiast. The store kinda reminds me of Wolf's place back in Malaysia. Here's the link to their website http://www.battlefieldbangkok.com/. Beginning of May, BB will relocate to a bigger and better location which is not far from the current location, and like they always say, the bigger the better. I couldn't have come at a better time. Check out some pics below.

The second location is called Slice and Dice (400 metres away from BB) Now, this store is not like BB in any way or resemblence, but it has high concentration of 40k and fantasy crowd. Basically this place breeds and breathe 40k and Fantasy. The place has at least 6 beautifully built gaming tables complete with terrains, ruins, and etc. It even has a huge 40' Full HD TV with Playstation console and a comfy looking couch to relax on. I hung out for awhile with the folks at S&D and got acquinted with a guy called Wayne. Again they guys over there speak excellent English and no problem gaming with them. Wayne is like the local favorite at S&D and have a myriad of armies ranging from 40k to Fantasy. I managed to peek at his IG Deathkorp regiment and it's anything but stunning. Jeff would've loved to see his army. The store itself has excellent collection of armies on display. They frequently have 40k and Fantasy tourneys, which I'm very keen to join later. Right now they are planning for Spore Con and most of them are interested on attending. We'll see how it goes. Check out their website at this link http://www.thaitabletop.com/. Here's some pics of S&D.

Well, that's it for now. I heard there's another store at Siam Center, at the famous Ratchaprasong intersection, but currently the Red zealots of Khorne have taken over that intersection and most shopping mall there are close until further notice. Will update more once things starts to clear up. Till then 'lar korn'.

13 comments:

  1. good to hear from you, and glad to know you're safe from all the "khorne" tide happening over there.

    so, i bet you'll start gaming soon with this new found gaming spots, especially with Khairol's imminent arrival to "court-martial" a certain imperial commander...

    keep us posted of your hobby activities, dude. keep well.

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  2. Slice and Dice sounds pretty cool dude- thanks a lot for taking the time to post some pics and tell us all about it. Be sure to get from them their schedule of events so we can post it up on the Legio calendar. Maybe we could get together a few Legionnaires and fly up there for a tournament. Provided, of course, the gathering cults of Khorne have dispersed lol...

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  3. Good to hear from you! That S&D place looks really nice. Maybe you guys can get them to run BKKcon or something, and we'll get some Legio guys up there!

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  4. I'm doin fine here guys, no worries! Its just hard for me to do any hobbying since I'm not properly moved to my permanent apartment yet due to the red shirts, and until I move, all my armies and hobby tools are in my moving box at the movers storage warehouse somewhere in Bangkok.

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  5. @Deathkorp: Sure thing dude, I will keep legio update on their tourneys and events. I did mention to them that we have an excellent club and asked to check out Legio's website at the same time. It will be great to see u guys over here!!

    @spunkybass: a great idea dude, perhaps me and khairul later can influence them on doing a Con or something.

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  6. Doesn't have to be as big as a con- just a tournament is cool

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  7. they are having a 40k tournament at S&D tommorow, goin to check it out if i got the time..

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  8. Bro!!!! Slice and Dice looks cool! Our new hangout away from home?

    On another note, i received instructions from our Thai office that all travel to bkk is to be suspended until further notice. So unless we get the green light within the next few days, my flight on the 29th looks to be cancelled till further notice :(

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  9. Oh man, but on the other hand its better to put off ur trip here until things get better. I heard the military goin to have a crackdown on the Red Shirts by tommorow. We even moved to a safer service apartment in front of US Embassy, away from the protesters. To get to your apartment in Sathorn will be difficult coz the Red Shirts already put up blockades near the Silom area.

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  10. Oh, Slice and Dice a bit far from home, but to get there is easy, take the train and a short bus or taxi ride. Havin a car would be better, hehe

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  11. So next time I get there be sure to take me to these places....of course after the 'foot' massage.

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  12. @Doc: Foot massage? Body massage la, so u can roll dices better, hehe..of course dude, me and khairul will be glad to take u..

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  13. that looks awesome! i must visit one day.

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