My daughter has booked us a visit to Forbidden Planet

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

London's top comic shop, second day of the holidays...
Anyone want to pay for an army to be painted before we go so that I can afford it!!! 

[Aksu]

Hullo,
Maybe you need to do some therapeutic browsing at Orc's Nest on Earlham Street while in the area to calm your nerves..? For you daughter Gosh! Comics is also nearby, on 1 Berwick Street.
Cheers,
Aksu (used to work in Soho... in a design studio, not one of the other places... honest!)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 
Thanks Aksu. That would see me filing for bankruptcy!
I would love to, but my mother will be in tow,?and wants to do culture at the British Museum too!

[fsn]

Ah! Happy days in the 1980s when my Saturdays comprised a trip to "town" to troll around the comic shops.  There were about 5 on my route, including one stuck in a back alley at the top of Tottenham Court Road which had the best back issues. IIRC Virgin used to have a big comic department. I mean the comics there were HUGE!

I was young, massively overpaid and spent a lot of time reading! Ah! How times have changed. 

Enjoy, Lemmey.

[Techno]

Yep....Have a great time, Will.

Cheers - Phil

(Nobby....Go and get your coat.  )

[d_Guy]

fsn in the days of his youth enjoying a huge comic book. He has just be asked if he going to sit there all day or actually buy something:


Enjoy the time with your daughter, Mr Lemmy, and my your wallet be ever in you favor!

[O Dinas Powys]

Thanks Aksu. That would see me filing for bankruptcy!
I would love to, but my mother will be in tow,?and wants to do culture at the British Museum too!

There used to be a nice game shop on one of the roads leading directly away from the museum front. Games, etc possibly 

(Posh) chess sets and trading cards on the ground floor, board and role-playing games down in the basement...

Have fun!

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's still there!

[DaveH]

There used to be a nice game shop on one of the roads leading directly away from the museum front. Games, etc possibly  :-

(Posh) chess sets and trading cards on the ground floor, board and role-playing games down in the basement...

Have fun!

Meirion

Games etc has been gone a few years now, which is a pity as I did like it more than Orc's Nest. Gosh is pretty much opposite the British Museum though.

[slugbalancer]

Ah! Happy days in the 1980s when my Saturdays comprised a trip to "town" to troll around the comic shops.  There were about 5 on my route, including one stuck in a back alley at the top of Tottenham Court Road which had the best back issues. IIRC Virgin used to have a big comic department. I mean the comics there were HUGE!

I was young, massively overpaid and spent a lot of time reading! Ah! How times have changed. 

Enjoy, Lemmey.

I also remember going up to TCR during the late 70s/early 80s.  Visiting a board wargame shop (The Games Centre?) in Hanway St at the back of TCR then onto Forbidden Planet in Denmark Place for my SciFi hit and finally onto Foyles for military books.  All within around 200yds of the station.

Happy days.