We've Been Slacking.....

but we've been really busy.  The electric work is complete.  Just waiting on the Pepsi fountain to be installed.  Also the sandwich prep cabinet is needing work.  Hopefully both get taken care of soon!  Pepsi said within 3 weeks, which would be August 12/13 per the day they came to look things over.  Ice cream toppings are on the way and this week we will be ordering ice cream and the other stuff for sandwiches etc.  Coffee (lattes) stuff is here and waiting patiently.

We're Nearly Finished!

The floor is almost finished!  We just have the section under the pool table to scrape and paint.  That will be completed next week.

 We had our gray water system installed last week.  Running water and a drainage system. 

We have electric work yet to be done, a little painting and other little things that are last minute.  Apply for a food license and order food.  We are getting so close!  We are excited!  We can't wait to see everyone again.

MTG Tournament Night

Last Saturday we had a Sanctioned Tournament sponsored by The Candy Basket, a local candy store here in Parsons.

First place won our Avacyn stand-up from the SOI prerelease.

 We also had a mini tournament for the younger players.  They got a free ready to play deck as their prize and to play their tournament with.

Only 2 more Friday Night's left this month and yes, we're playing MTG!  We have a $15 SOI Draft coming up this weekend, and next weekend is open play.  Bring your cards and your fellow MTG friends and play some magic at The Castle!

More Floor Work and Fountain Critters

We made some major floor progress this past week  11 squares total!  We have been averaging 3-4 a week.  WOO!  Puts us right at or a few squares over half way.  Next step after the floor is the plumbing in the kitchen up front and the electric work up front.  Our new target date, since April 1 has already slipped past, is June 1st.  WE can do this!  We WILL do this!

I've wanted to add something to the fountain.  It was just so plain.  I found these cuties at the dollar store.  Me Froggy and Me Turtle.  Aren't they just adorable!

The weekend MTG at Cosmic Castle we will be hosting 2 Headed Giant for Friday Night Magic and Shadows over Innistrad Game Day on Saturday.

Kitchen Progress Update

Since we decided to take the carpet up we have been making progress on getting the floor painted.  Scraping the carpet glue up is sometimes a pain but it has to come up.  This past week we painted right in front of the door

 and we also secured one of the bars and put some bar stools out.  

We are getting there.  It's coming along slowly.

This Week at Cosmic Castle

Ok so I'm running a little behind since Thursday is almost over, but here goes anyway......

Thursday
7:00 pm Dungeons & Dragons for the Thursday group.
If there are enough MTG players we will also play some Magic.

Friday
7:00 pm Friday Night Magic.  We are going to have a Pointy Finger of Doom fun night.  No charge to play.

Friday at 9:00 is The Portal, a get together for young adults.

Saturday
7:00  Dungeons & Dragons for the Saturday group.
7:00 Yarn Club
7:00 Magic the Gathering

Coming up next week......SOI Game Day on Saturday!

Here are our current event flyers:

We have also added several new cards to our gaming web store this past week.

This Week at Cosmic Castle and Video Finished

Hey everyone!  I finally finished the video from prerelease weekend.  You can watch it on our YouTube Channel.  Don't forget to subscribe so you can check up on me in the next one to make sure I spell everything correctly.  Yes, I goofed.  Oh well I never said I was perfect.

Coming up this week at Cosmic Castle:

Thursday
7:00 pm Dungeons & Dragons for the Thursday group.
If there are enough MTG players we will also play some Magic.

Friday
7:00 pm Friday Night Magic.  We are going to play our version of MTG Win Lose or Draw. Don't be late. It's gonna be lots of fun!  Here's a hint to help you with the game.

Friday at 9:00 is The Portal, a get together for young adults.

Saturday
7:00  Dungeons & Dragons for the Saturday group.
7:00 Yarn Club
7:00 Magic the Gathering tournament sponsored by The Candy Basket (Facebook event link).  $5 entry  with prizes for winner(s)

April Magic the Gathering

April is a busy month for MTG at Cosmic Castle.

We started the month out with the newest prerelease, Shadows over Innistrad.  Friday Night Magic has been planned as well as a few Saturday Events!

Friday Night Magic #FNM this month:

SOI Prerelease night

SOI Launch Weekend

MTG Win Lose or Draw (yes I know it's spelled wrong on the poster)

Pointy Finger of Doom Fun Night

2 Headed Giant

Saturday Events:

April 16th A Modern Tournament sponsored by the local candy store, The Candy Basket.

April 30  SOI Game Day  

I'm almost finished editing the video from our Prerelease night......watch for it coming to our YouTube channel.

This Weekend at Cosmic Castle

This weekend at Cosmic Castle is going to be a BLAST!

Thursday evening starting at 7:00pm we have Our Thursday Dungeons & Dragons group heading back into the dungeon.  We are open 5:00 to 9:00 pm

Friday evenung we have Friday Night Magic.  Bring your cards and play with us.  No particular format this week since it's Prerelease weekend.  Magic is from 5:00 pm to 9:00pm  The Portal is from 9:00 until Midnight when the Shadows over Innistrad MTG Prerelease begins.

Saturday into the wee hours of the morning (in the past it's been 6am) the prerelease continues.  Saturday afternoon we open again at 3:00pm.  There is a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament saturday afternoon at 3:30.  Dungeons & Dragons Saturday group will be heading back into the dungeon around 7:00.  Also there is MTG happening all afternoon/evening, and Yarn Club meets 7:00 to 9:00.

What a crazy fun weekend!  Hope you can join us!

New How To Video Posted

We have posted a new "HOW TO" video on our YouTube channel.  Go watch it, give us a thumbs-up and subscribe to our channel.

Moving Along

We are still saving for the electric work we will need done for the kitchen. In the mean time we have decided to take up all the carpet and paint the floor. #1 It will probably make the Health Inspector happier when they come to approve our restaurant license request. #2 Might as well do it now instead of later so there isn't any reason to close down later. #3 It will look and smell better in the long run. #4 It will be easier to keep clean and clean up any spills or messes. I could go on but I think you understand. For the next few weeks, please be patient with the mess and the dust. Eventually it's gonna be.....WOW.....in here. How can you help? We are saving aluminum cans. Bring a bag of aluminum cans (during business hours please) and be entered in a drawing for a free sandwich, once the kitchen is open. Come play arcade games. Come play Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Dungeons & Dragons and purchase gaming cards, dice, sleeves, etc from us. You can also subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Watch and "LIKE" our videos (we plan to have a how to video out later this week).

Here are some pictures of  the carpet removal process.  We hope to have it all up by Thursday.

over half way here

most all of this was dirt swept up from under one section of carpet we removed.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel!

Parsons Cosmic Castle MTG Shadows Over Innistrad Prerelease

We are getting ready for the latest MTG Prerelease! It's happening at 12:01 am on Saturday April 2nd.

 

Parsons Cosmic Castle Kitchen Progress

We are making progress towards the new kitchen. We are getting close! We have also decided to take up ALL the carpet and paint the floor. It will be much better for everyone. Check out the progress video below, and while you're at it subscribe to our YouTube channel.

It's been almost a year!

Yes I can believe We have neglected to keep the blog up.  Does that mean we have been busy?  Yes, it does.  Here is a quick highlight of the past year.

We got off to a rough start in our new building.  Everything was going good until we turned the water on.  We ended up with a water leak under the sidewalk.  Yes, on our side of the meter.  Finally got that fixed.

During the summer we started hosting "The Portal" which is sponsored by Chris and Melinda.  The Portal is a time for young adults (teen to early 20's) can come in and enjoy spending tome together playing games, chit chatting, and having fun.

In August we got set up with Wizards of the Coast to sell Magic the Gathering cards, decks, etc.  We hosted our first ever prerelese in October.  It was a grand event!  We just made the requirements just in time.  Our Wizards rep was quite impressed with our numbers considering the size of our town and that we were an arcade.  :-)

In October we participated in the Monster March.  Handed out a lot of candy to the local kids.

In December we participated in the Christmas Parade......and came away with an honorable mention with our "PacMan Fever" entry.

Did you see our video of Then and Now?  If you haven't here it is.  Pictures of the building right after we got it and pictures 1 year later.

Since then, we have been working on  temporary kitchen up front.  It will be a while until we can get the back fixed the way we want it to have our dream kitchen.  We will share more about that in our next post.

What A Mess!

What a Mess!  Last Sunday we finished moving the big stuff to the new building.  Thanks a bunch to the family and friends who came to help.  We moved everything while it was snowing.

The Bars.....that's where they will be permanently. 

One of the guys helping brought a trailer.  That was a HUGE help.  It made many trips in to few.  WE were able to move the bars much easier.

and the shelving from the kitchen/storeroom area.  Not to mention we piled boxes on there and much much more.  Assembly lines were common.  Teamwork!

Good Bye 1800 Main!  Thank you for giving us a start.  Next chapter is 110 South 18th Street (just a half a block south and on the left).  We can't WAIT to be open!  Lots of fun things planned while we work on the kitchen, and once we get the kitchen ready......Look Out Parsons, it's going to be AWESOME!

More progress

The "secret room" isn't so secret anymore.  You can see it's location from down below.  It's still a ways from being finished and accessible.

Current new spot for our rocket!  

At the new building we will not be serving our regular menu at first.  There are regulations with the Kansas Department of Agriculture on what can and can't be served without a restaurant license.    We can serve a limited amount of prepackaged foods though.  This is part of our "temporary new kitchen".  We will have our drinks refrigerated and we also have some other treats that aren't pictured.

Friday February 20 will be our last day open at 1800 Main

Watch our Facebook Page, our Twitter, g+, or sign up for our newsletter on our web page for announcement of when we will be opening at our new location, 
110 South 18th Street

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Just down to the necessities

Just down to the necessities now.  Much of our decor has been taken down and moved.  Plumbing has been fixed and water should be on at the new building tonight.  For now we only have a toilet, but that's better than nothing right?  We will have to tear out a wall or part of a wall to fix the broken water lines that go to the bathroom sink.  That hopefully will be done by February 21st for our Sock Hop.

We have started stocking our pre-packaged foods and canned/bottled sodas at the new building.  Starting out we won't be able to serve our menu, because we don't have the new kitchen built yet.  However we will have GAMES!  We will be all moved, by March 1st, if not a little before then.  When we get all moved, we will be open in the evenings.  Watch for more details.

Estimated 5 Ton removed from new building

We finally have the upstairs cleaned out!  Now we have room to store some of the "not often used" things like the Coffin and the Throne of Bone, and some things you've never seen before.  LOL!

We have recycled a lot of the metal stuff that was up there, which totaled about 2 Ton.  We rented a big roll-off dumpster for the non recyclables, and it weighed in at 1.9 Ton.  We estimate probably another Ton worth of just trash and other things that we could put in the regular dumpster.  So an estimated 5 TON of junk and stuff taken out of the upstairs.  The building is probably feeling much better.

Here are a couple of the floors we [literally] uncovered.  They look AMAZING!  We will be storing the extra things in these 2 rooms (that we cleaned the floors in) for now.

More progress downstairs as well.  This is more of that "secret room"  We have the wall frames up and a door installed.  Next will be Sheetrock.

We do have a Sock Hop coming up on the 21st of February.  You can view our Event and let us know you are coming, or planning on coming either on g+ or on Facebook.  We will be updating with the final information real soon.

And this is something neat we found upstairs cleaning.  It's the Top 40 for the week of January 7, 1968.  Our new building used to be Newkirk's Music Store.  This was in a record bag, and both are in really good shape.

Pre-Packaged

At the new building when we are opening in the evenings, we can sell pre-packaged foods and drinks.  We have some of these items available for sale at our current location as well.  Cinnamon rolls and chocolate chip m&m cookies.  We also have hot & spicy chex mix and chocolate caramel chex mix.

Ready for Our First Game Night

We are super excited!  Tonight We will have the New Building open.   Come check it  out  and play some games. Maybe even some POOL. Race some horses or do a little flying.  110 South 18th street. We will have it open between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. Snacks and Drinks will be available.

This is just the first or many more game nights before we actually have everything set up.  Watch our Facebook page and/or sign up for our E-Newsletters.  Each time we have the new building open we will share both of these ways.