Forbidden Planet

PostForbidden Planet by **Fishfingers** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:12 am

While in London last week a friend made me find this store for him. It's probably the most bizarre shop I've ever been to in my life.

There were a bunch of fully grown adults in there looking at toys, and downstairs there was a library of books which were back to front. Now, I know there are certain types of people who like this sort of thing and fair game to them, but the thing which shocked me most was the sheer amount of people in there who looked perfectly respectable (and in one case, dare I say it, physically attractive).

Do you guys visit this shop? I got the impression some of the people in there actually lived in the bookcases after dark.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Skarjo** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:15 am

You're asking people who are browsing a gaming message board at quarter past midnight on a school night whether they've ever been to Forbidden Planet?

Website · PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Tragic Magic** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:19 am

Is there anything you actually like or do you whine about everything?

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Fishfingers** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:21 am

Tragic Magic wrote:Is there anything you actually like or do you whine about everything?

I didn't whine at all in this topic.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **bear** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:25 am

Fishfingers, have you seen Psych! ?

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Midtown** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 1:28 am

There are stores in Glasgow and Edinburgh, shops for losers.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Fatal Exception** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:35 am

I've been to quite a few of them. They are great

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **HrC** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:11 am

Which Forbidden Planet are you talking about? There are two Forbidden Planet companies in the UK.

Also, they are good shops, the only time I have been disgusted to be in that shop was when a bunch of Naruto Cosplayers descended on the store :fp:

. I have also met Stewart Lee in Forbidden Planet and that guy is cool.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **St Nick** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:15 am

I am a loser. 8-)

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Nibble** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:19 am

More of an A1 Comics man, myself.

Corazon de Leon · PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Corazon de Leon** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:22 am

Midtown wrote:There are stores in Glasgow and Edinburgh, shops for losers.

Nice one.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Exxy** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:57 pm

I went to the London one, it was alright. Didn't buy anything and got bored pretty quickly.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **JNR** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:02 pm

Are these the shops full of tat?

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Cuttooth** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:05 pm

JNR wrote:Are these the shops full of tat?

Pretty much, yeah.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **JiggerJay** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:15 pm

Dodems wrote:I went to the London one, it was alright. Didn't buy anything and got bored pretty quickly.

I was there today aimlessly tracing round after a mate, i was getting piss bored of london to be honest, it's so strawberry floating easy to get lost!

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **LewisD** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:30 pm

They sell some good star wars merch.

PostRe: Forbidden Planet by **Cal** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:17 pm

FishFingers wrote:While in London last week a friend made me find this store for him. It's probably the most bizarre shop I've ever been to in my life.

Forbidden Planet was the highlight of my first ever visit to London when I used to live down in sunny Devon. I was barely 18 - yes, that's how long FB has been in the business (I'm 45 now). Of course, it used to be in New Oxford Street (just past Tottenham Court Rd, around the back of Centre Point), but they moved a few years ago to a swanky new place just down the road. The old shop really was a fanboy's den of iniquities - only the truly brave - or foolhardy - ventured downstairs to the darkened, dungeon-like realms of the comic collections, videos and film tie-in magazines. I picked up quite a few great magazines from there back in the day - long before all this videogame stuff rolled into town to distracted entire generations from the simple pleasures of reading Cinefex or Fangoria. How times change... And then when I lived for a year or two in Sarf London, imagine my delight to find that only a short train ride away in Croydon FB had a franchise. Happy days!

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