New Year, New Mimic's, but it's the same Mimic's so don't worry
Do people still wear glasses with the year number on them? What would that be like for this year? Is the zero one round lens but the 4 is like a triangular lens? It’s just not reasonable.
We’ve only been open 4.5 months but boy howdy it’s felt like a full year getting Mimic’s up and running, so I’m counting this as our first year roundup.
We’ve already grown so much. Our stock of products is denser and more varied and it’s become a nightmare to organize. Our events started with one shaky, confused Netrunner tournament and now we’re having tons of open RPG games, weekly magic drafts and format tournaments, a Pokemon League. We’re starting to really ramp into Warhammer events. What else? We finally got Lorcana cards! We put in shelves and tables and a neon sign and ramp, and we’re looking forward to a big lighting installation in the next week!
We’ve made so many friends and had wacky times and learned valuable lessons about–I don’t know–being honest with our feelings?
I’m just so grateful we were fortunate enough to bring together people and have the opportunity to accumulate this community around the store as a vague centerpoint.
It’s the people that come and play the games and care intensely about the games, they are what has made this come together at all. Bloomfield has been the perfect area to settle in and grow the tabletop gaming scene. There’s tons of enthusiastic, warm and friendly people here and every day more folks are finding out about us. Word is still spreading and the tabletop scene is still growing!
I could gush for another couple paragraphs about everyone we’ve met and the comunity we’ve formed.
Thank you everyone, for everything.
January Events!
I don’t have much else to say for this newsletter. I’m sure once it warms up and we get growing we’ll be very hyped to write here about tables we’re going to have at big events and festivals or cons. Something like that
But for now, it’s another round of events!
Changes this month
- Magic format-rotating tournaments moved to Saturday evenings, FNM is still draft-focused
- Commander League is back! Starting on the 7th, every Sunday
- Now that we’ve got Lorcana, we’ll have some Open Play nights every other wednesday just to start building steam.
- Warhammer on mondays, we’ll alternate Mini Painting meetups and Kill Team Demos weekly. Plus on the 20th we’ll be pushing the tables together to get some full-size maps! So see if you can prep a 2000-point army for that!
Not much else to say this time. I think we’re all pretty worn out by the Holiday Season busy-ness. Shouts out to Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse entering the public domain. It’s an election year, that’s gonna be something.
Let’s all have a nice rest for a while. Stay warm, folks!
-Jay
Mimic’s Market
4707 Liberty Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15224