Green and black with a splash of red - must be Eventide!
Fan Boy Three is under threat of imminent Invasion!
Skrulls and Magic Players have been reported in great numbers congregating around Central Manchester's famous games store.
Their intent is obvious: to play in some of the biggest and best release events going in one of the biggest and best venues in the UK, and bag some fantastic bargains on the latest Magic and HeroClix releases!
(Like Eventide boosters at £65 a box plus six free boosters, a weekend's worth of top notch Sealed Organised Play for just £30 or a Clixbrick of the latest Secret Invasion set for just £50).
DON'T stay in your homes!
DON'T turn on your radio!
Instead, walk - don't run - to your nearest branch of Fan Boy Three and join in the Not-So-Secret-Invasion today!
Thanks to Fan Girl Dans you can now check out exactly what came in store this week at Fan Boy Three by clicking Check out our complete here.
2008 at Fan Boy Three
Eventide releases this week, and what better way to get your deck in shape for the Nationals than by winning the cards you need down at Fan Boy Three! Plus, you can get in all the serious Shadowmoor block draft testing you know you crave.
For thirty quid you can play in all three release events - two sealed events and a draft - and you can use your prize boosters to offset the price of any side event drafts over the course of the weekend. That's Fan Boy value!
But that's not all! Go Skrull-crazy at the Fan Boy Three Secret Invasion Release event this Sunday! We'll have secret surprise guests from all over the country
Tuesday July 22nd
(6pm) Helldorado plus Warmachine
(7pm) roleplaying
Thursday July 24th
(1pm) Yugioh Summer Cup V (£3)
(5pm) Yugioh Hobby League Week Four (FREE)
(5pm) Yugioh Advanced Hobby League (£3)
(7pm) Magic: Standard decktesting throughout Nationals season
(7pm) roleplaying
Friday July 25th
(7pm) Naruto Learn2Play
(7pm) Friday Night Magic: Eventide Release event I (£7.50, draft)
(7pm) Shadow's Fall - our new D&D 4E campaign - continues here!!!! (£2)
Saturday July 26th
(10am) Pokemon league
(noon) Eventide Release Event II *** M-FEST FEEDER TOURNAMENT *** (£15)
(1pm) Pokemon Tournament (£3)
(1pm) Axis & Allies War At Sea: Task Force Release Event (£20) - lots of A&A prize support including free boosters, promo figures and more!
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Sunday July 27th
(noon) Eventide Release Event III (£15)
(1pm) The HeroClix Not-So-Secret-Invasion Sealed Spectacular Launch Party! (£12 buys you two boosters of the brand new HeroClix set. You know you'll go green with envy if you miss this one, as the winner is walking away with their very own clix brick of boosters! Cakes, spot prizes, convention exclusives, and more more more.)
(1pm) Infinity makes a welcome return to FB3 in our demo day spectacular
(7pm) Magic: Eventide Drafts of Praise (£6)
GP MADRID
Welcome to the launch of the Fan Boy Three Warmachine Summer Rampage, with big Warmachine/Hordes events every two weeks until September! Grab your favourite faction and play like you’ve got a pair to dominate the continent of Immorren.
It's also the Magic and Warcraft Nationals in but a couple of weeks, and we're ramping up the pressure after getting four of Team Fanboy into the Top 8 at the Realms a few months back. If you've not qualified for the WoW Nats yet, this Saturday will be your last opportunity.
Already qualified? Why not think of this Saturday as the best deck testing session money can buy against probably the greatest number of top Warcraft players you're likely to see in one place before the Nationals!
Tuesday July 29th
(1pm) Yugioh Summer Cup VI (£3)
(6pm) Helldorado plus Warmachine
(7pm) roleplaying
Wednesday July 30th
(1pm) Pokemon League
(6pm) Casual Magic/Gateway
(7pm) Warcraft: Standard
(7pm) L5R
(7pm) roleplaying
Thursday July 31st
(1pm) Yugioh Summer Cup VII (£3)
(5pm) Yugioh Hobby League Week Five (FREE)
(5pm) Yugioh Advanced Hobby League (£3)
(7pm) Magic: Standard decktesting throughout Nationals season
(7pm) roleplaying
Friday August 1st
(7pm) Naruto Learn2Play
(7pm) Friday Night Magic: Shadowmoor/Eventide draft (£7.50)
(7pm) Shadow's Fall - our new D&D 4E campaign - continues here!!!! (£2)
Saturday August 2nd - DAVE & ROSS?
(10am) Pokemon league
(11am) World of Warcraft: NW Regionals II (£5, Standard) - your last chance to qualify for the UK Nationals. Or, if you're already qualified, this will be your last chance to decktest with the Warcraft Wunderkinds of Team Fanboy - as the UK Nationals are in but three weeks!!!
(noon) Yugioh Summer Cup VIII (£5)
CONTINUUM @ LEICESTER
PTQ BERLIN @ READING
Sunday August 3rd - PHILL & DAVE
(noon) the return of bi-monthly Warmachine events, as our Summer Rampage kicks our Warmachine Organised Play program up a notch. And best of all - we’re making Summer Rampage ABSOLUTELY FAN BOY FREE! (500 points Hordes/Warmachine)
(1pm) D&D Miniatures (£2, 500 point epic using Against the Giants!)
(1pm) HeroClix Secret Invasion Week One (£12, 300 points Sealed)
(2pm) Dragonball Z TCG Release Event (£15 - from the makers of Naruto!)
(7pm) Magic: Eventide Drafts of Praise (£6)
CONTINUUM @ LEICESTER
GPT COPENHAGEN @ COVENTRY
Team Fanboy
Congratulations to Fan Boy Three's very own Tomas Kasinski who won our UK Nationals Qualifier outright. Lee Houldsworth (again!) romped in second, and the following Manchester players also qualified: Lee Houldsworth, Joe Davis, Shifeng Teng, Nick Lote & Glenn Lloyd.
Congratulations to Sam Gibbs, Ross Silcock and Alex Mardsen who all made the Top 8 in the World of Warcraft Regionals, and double congratulations to Lee Houldsworth, who lost out in the final to finish second.
Congratulations to Yie Yie Xie, our top performing Yugioh player at this year's UK Nationals with a Top 8 finish (and brickbats to Simon Ho, who overslept and missed his train!)
Congratulations to Jacky Yu - the first ever Steel Champion of L5R. He'll be playing off against the Spirit Champion at the Spirit and Steel Storyline event later in the year!
Peter Dun beat Michael Hebky to win PTQ Hollywood - the biggest Magic tournament held in Manchester in the last eight years!
Congratulations to Vince Turner, winner of the first ever Fan Boy Spectral Safari!
We're proud to call William Tseng the Manchester City Yugioh Champion 2008, after he triumphed over UK Nationals 2006 winner Wayne Pinkney at last week's Fan Boy City Champs. Well done Will - and well done Wayne for a truly dynamic return to form after only dropping one match all day.
Congratulations to Steven Hutchinson, winner of the 2008 Fan Boy Three Winter Cup, and to both Simon Ho and Anthony Tiplady for top eight-ing in last week's Pharoah Tour Final - the biggest Yugioh tournament the country has EVER seen (and it happened here in Manchester!) Simon finished top on points after the swiss rounds, but lost out to Jamie Stafford in the final.
Congratulations to Jem Perks for coming third at the UK Pokemon nationals last month.
Want to join Team Fanboy? Your Fan Boy card is a one stop shop - we'll keep a track of your DCI, UDE or DGMA number, WizKids or RPGA player ID and update your results on line.
We'll need your name, address, age, e-mail, and details of any organised play programs you currently have an identity for. Register for your own Fan Boy Card online and start playing in our in store events today.
Getting There
Situated at the heart of Manchester's transport hub, literally a stone's throw from Picadilly Station, it's easy to reach us by road, rail or coach.
Newton Street is situated at the edge of the Northern Quarter, and it's readily accessible right off the A6 ring road. There's local on street parking off Newton Street, but we recommend the Dale Street Car Park as it's £4.50 for the entire day.
Opening Hours
Fan Boy Three is open when you want to shop, then open again for Fan Boy Three card holders when you want to game.
Mon - Closed (Except Bank Holiday Monday)
Tue - Noon to 7pm, then organised play 7pm to 11pm.
Wed - Noon to 7pm, then organised play 7pm to 11pm.
Thu - Noon to 7pm, then organised play 7pm to 11pm.
Fri - Noon to 7pm, then organised play 7pm to 11pm.
Sat - 10am to 7pm (Evenings for special events)
Sun - Noon to 6pm. (Evenings for Sunday Night Boardgaming every week!)
Credits
We'd like to take the time to thank everyone who've helped turn our dream of an independent central Manchester based games shop and national level organised play venue into reality. Check out our Credits Page for more details.
It's never too late to play your part. Promote your favourite games, donate us demo copies, sign up as a card carrying Fan Boy and join us on the quest to make your fun our serious business.
