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SPECIAL EVENTS
We have a special room for events! This is a comfortable place to play games or meet other collectors. We have three tables of terrain for miniatures games, plenty of chairs and tables for card tournaments, lockers to protect your stuff. If you have a game you want to run, let us know!
Store locations and telephone numbers are here.


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24 Hour Comics Day in Spenard was a kick!!

Eight artists started at 10 am Saturday Oct. 3. 5 hung int to the end.
Click that link to go to our official page for the event and follow the twitter updates at the left on the main page.


Dakota and Derrick enjoy burgers at our Memorial Day BBQ.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


D&D 4th Edition released
June 6, '08.
We had a special adventure the evening of June 5. Here you see Peter Newman leading the way.

 

Joshua Demain was the first person to buy D&D 4th Edition at the stroke of midnight at BOSCO'S in Spenard.

To jump to a list of announced D&D 4th releases, click here.


Wednesday is new comic day! Click here to find out what's on the way!

(Click the event for more info.)

For all sportscard related events, click here.

Hero Clix with Big Mike

Join RPG Alaska to play various board games on Sundays

Yu Gi Oh at Spenard Tuesdays at 4:30

Click here for Magic: The Gathering.

BOSCO'S Cup Magic: The Gathering page 2009 Results to date are posted!

MTG: Worldwake This new set releases Feb 5, '10

Scroll down for a list of our regularly scheduled events.

Highland Renaissance Group Sword Classes

Sports Card Trade Night & "Pack of Everything" Drawing First Wednesday of every month!

World Wake Paunch Party and BOSCO'S Cup '10 #1 February 6

Senshi-Con March 20&21

More Future Events. Some for sure, some tentative.

BOSCO'S YouTube page.


BOSCO'S is sponsoring Woody & Wilcox's Beat the Geek contest on Thursday mornings on
The Fox 100.5!

Over the years, they have on occasion referred to BOSCO'S in an unenlightened way. But we're not angry folk (unless we're playing Warhammer or slaying dragons) and the show is pretty funny. You should listen to these guys and if you are reading this page, you are probably able to Beat the Geek and win one of the huge prizes BOSCO'S is giving them.


What kind of game store doesn't sell Monopoly? A game store like BOSCO'S!

Click the picture of Catan to get to a story from Wired that explains the difference between the board games BOSCO'S sells and the mass market games we've all been accustomed to.

You'll never buy Park Place again.


Click that zombie to learn the ugly truth about zombies at BOSCO'S!



Here are the lucky card collectors of the week!

Tom Simmons pulled an Upper Deck Piece of History 3 color patch card of Troy Tulowitzki #24 of 25. He bought 4 packs and got 2 insert cards.

 

 

 

His brother Nick pulled an Upper Deck Piece of History Box Score Memories 2 color patch of Jeff Francoer #4 of 25. He also pulled an autograph card 1 pack later. Only bought 7 packs and got 2 inserts.

These happy kids have the mojo working for them!

If you are a sports card collector, you deserve to be on Pat Moe's sports card email list. He sends info on special sales and drawings via email.

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email list

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Cliff Jenkins bought 2 packs of World of Warcraft Drums of War at the Dimond Center BOSCO'S and got 2 loot cards. The first card is "Slash Dance" and the second is the super rare, super cool "Red Bearon" Bear Mount card.

 

 

 

Regular events
happening every week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


What's this? Did BOSCO'S go postal? Click that pic for more info.

 


 
Monday

Want to run an event on Mondays? email Store manager Eric Helmick at erich "at" boscos.com


Tuesday

Yu Gi Oh Tourneys!
Learn How to Play!

Where: BOSCO'S in Spenard
When: Tuesday 4:30-6pm
Cost: $6 (usually)

Let's Duel! Bring those Yu Gi Oh cards to Spenard for tournaments and demos!

Cost is usually just $6 and offers great prizes with exclusive cards. We may have an occasional "draft" or sealed deck tournament with a higher charge to cover the cost of the cards you play with.


Wednesday
A regular group comes to play Warhammer 40k on Wednesday afternoons.

No regularly scheduled events. Bring some friends, plays some games.
Want to run an event? email Store manager Eric Helmick at
erich "at" boscos.com


Thursday
No regularly scheduled events. Bring some friends, plays some games.
Want to run an event? email Store manager Eric Helmick at
erich "at" boscos.com


Friday
No regularly scheduled events. Bring some friends, plays some games. Want to run an event? email Store manager Eric Helmick at
erich "at" boscos.com

 


Saturday

Saturday Afternoon
Magic Casual Play and Tourneys

Where: BOSCO'S in Spenard
When: Saturdays 12:30 pm - done

There is usually a group of people playing Warhammer 40k on Saturdays. They usually have an extra army or two so you can come empty handed and join a game.


Sunday

Board games with RPG Alaska
A variety of games is played. Bring your favorite or come and try out some new games.

Warhammer 40k Sundays
Where: Spenard BOSCO'S
When: Sundays 12-6pm
Cost: Free
We have open tables and lots of terrain ready for you to play. (Except for the rare occasion we schedule another event that day. Check the rest of the schedule!)

 


Yu-Gi-Oh Tuesdays at Spenard! What a great way to get out and enjoy Alaska's great outdoors! (We usually play indoors. This was a special treat day!)


Time to shop folks!
BOSCO'S eBay Store!


Click that picture to see more pics of our 10th Annual Big Bash at the Secret Stash!

 

 

 


We buy used games!
Clear out those closets! Bring those games you haven't played for years to BOSCO'S in Spenard!


The Spenard BOSCO'S has a huge selection of sports cards. In its own special room, it has a selection and pricing that matches the best sports card stores in the country.


 


 


 


We bet it made Charles' day when he won this basketball signed by 30 NBA rookies from the '06-07 year. We're glad he buys his basketball cards at BOSCO'S.
It looks like he is too!

 

 

 

 

 


George Foster from the Big Red Machine at BOSCO'S on Spenard June 2007.


 

Check out this crowd waiting out front DAYS before we opened our new location in the Dimond Center! Yow! Take a number!


Becoming a part of the closely linked BOSCO'S team only hurts for a moment.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Saturday Afternoon Magic

Where: BOSCO'S in Spenard
When: Saturdays noon - close

Cost: Free. We may run a tournament that costs a few $'s if you choose to participate.

CASUAL PLAY

Bring a deck and friend!




HERO CLIX WITH BIG MIKE!


Where: BOSCO'S Spenard
When: Saturdays
Cost:varies


BOSCO'S Cup '10 #1
Magic: The Gathering Tournament
Saturday Feb 6
Registration 12:30-1:00
Event begins at 1:00.

Where: BOSCO'S Event Room in Spenard
Cost: $25

This will be aSealed Deck tournament using the new Worldwake cards. Test your decks at our Saturday Casual Magic gatherings.


BOSCO'S Cup Tournaments Page
Champions for 2009 are other standings are posted!


Typical Supplies/Prize Layout for
Magic: The Gathering Tournaments:

Draft Tournaments: 3 Booster packs per person for deck construction, 2 Booster packs in the prize pool, 1 pity pack awarded to each player.

Sealed Deck Tournaments: 1 Tournament pack and 2 Booster packs per person for deck construction, 2 Booster packs in the prize pool, 1 pity pack awarded to each player.

Standard (Type 2) Tournaments: Players bring their own decks, abiding by the banned/restricted list on the MTG website. 1 Booster pack in the prize pool, 1 pity pack awarded to each player.

Typical Prize pool distribution:

1st place receives 1/2 of prize pool, rounded(if necessary) to the nearest number of packs suitable to support half of remaining packs in prize pool to as many places as possible.

Thus if there were 18 packs in the prize pool, 1st place would get 9 packs, 2nd place would get 4 packs, 3rd place would get 2, fourth would get 2, and fifth would get 1. On top of that, all players would get a pack for playing, held aside from the prize pool.

BOSCO'S reserves the right to change formats but we'll try not to.


RPGAlaska

Sundays at Spenard. Bring your favorite games. A variety of board games are being played.


SPORTS CARD TRADE NIGHT

We will host a sportscard trade night about once a month. . (Check our Sportscard Collectors page for updates.)

Bring your extra and unwanted cards to trade with other collectors.

In conjuction with that, we are running a super promotion. We will give away a prize containing one pack of virtually every sportscard product that comes out between now and then.

To participate, all you have to do is buy sportscard packs and you ought to be doing that anyway. For every $5.00 spent on sports cards singles, packs, boxes and sets, we will give you one ticket. The more you spend, the more tickets you get. Then on trade night, we will draw ONE ticket and give you a few minutes to search through your tickets. If someone produces the matching ticket, they get all the packs accumulated. If nobody has the matching ticket, the packs will carry over to the next trade night and we will add the next month's packs to it. All tickets issued prior to the drawing will be thrown away.

Trade night drawing rules

1. Must be here to win
2. We will draw ONE ticket only.
3. We will give everyone present FIVE minutes to look through their tickets.
4. If the winning ticket is present, then we give away the incredible package to the lucky person.
5. If nobody claims the prize package, we will carry over the packs to the next trade night while adding even more packs as they come out.
6. All tickets issued prior to the drawing will be tossed out.

 


Magic BOSCO'S Cup '10 #1 and WorldWake Launch Event
Where: BOSCO'S Spenard Event Room
When: Saturday Feb 6. Sign up at noon. Play at 1pm.
Cost: $25


Highland Renaissance Group
Sword Classes

The HRG will be offering Historic Fencing classes via the Anchorage Parks and Rec again this winter at the Fairview Rec Center. The city only charges a use fee at the desk for the classes. It's a whooping $3 per visit. They do not charge an instructor fee for the classes. They have lender gear for beginners.

This Winter's offering will be:

18th Century Highland Broadsword
Thursdays @ 7PM- 9PM (Classes will restart this week) Fairview Rec Center Class size is limited to 14 (8 returning students) Students learn the use of the baskethilted broadsword. Instructor: Matt Cacy Ph 903-8886

14th& 15th Century German Longsword
Friday @ 7PM- 9PM (Classes will restart this week) Fairview Rec Center Class size is limited to 16 (10 returning students) Students learn the use of the 2 handed longsword as the base weapon of the German system. This year the class will work with the core system as applied to unarmed, dagger, arming sword, spear, and poleaxe as the winter progresses.The HRG's longsword program has formal ties to the Selohaar Fechtschule system of Christian H Tobler. http://www.selohaar.org/fechten.htm Instructor: David Teague Ph 632-0056

Study Groups
The study groups have been able to use the aerobics room of Powerhouse Gym (when not in use by a scheduled class). Powerhouse does charge non-members to use the facility, still 5 dollars at the front desk. At this time we have permission to return for the winter. Messer
class is the only one scheduled so far, look for a notice on the I.33 group soon.

The HRG will also be studying other weapon styles in the study group format.This winter/spring plans include a I.33 group, 14th century Messer group, 18th century small sword group, and 19th century Bartitsu group. http://www.bartitsu.org/

Messer Study Group
Powerhouse Gym 7:40- 9PM (Starting Jan 20th) This class will shift week to week from Weds to Thurs around the floating night of the Krav Maga class now being offered at Powerhouse Gym. (For more info on Krav Maga, go to http://www.israelikravmagaalaska.com/ ) Messer Class size is limited to 6 (4 returing students) Students learn the use of the medieval central European "Long Knife" (A sword length machete like weapon) Lead Student: David Teague Ph 632-0056

Possible Weekend Seminar
Bartitsu TBA All day Sat & Sun Late March Instructor:Tony Wolf.
There is a strong chance that the HRG will be able to bring the renowned Bartitsu Instructor Tony Wolf, to Alaska to teach a 2 day seminar on E.W. Barton-Wright’s “New Art of Self Defence”. He combined 19th century jiujitsu, scientific boxing, street savate and walking stick defence into one of the first modern MMA. Unlike our normal offerings, this would be a fee based class.

 

In May of 1984 a comic loving hippie from Fairbanks rolled down the highway in a beat up Dodge van filled with comics!

He found a parking spot in Spenard and staked his claim!

BOSCO'S was born.

 


  In case you haven't figured it out yet, BOSCO'S is a full service and fully stocked Games Workshop retailer. We carry the minis, the army boxed sets, all the rule books, paints, terrain .... all you need including space to play!

 

 

EVENTS FOR UPCOMING MONTHS
(These may change.)

We'll add some as we think of them. Any suggestions?

May 2010 Celebrate the birthday of Joe Spenard!



David Peterson, creator of Mouse Guard, will be a speaker at next year's AkLA conference March 4-7 in Anchorage. If his schedule allows, he'll spend some time at BOSCO'S.

Mouse Guard and the Mouse Guard RPG are among our most recomended books to new comic readers young and old.


Senshi-Con
March 20 and 21
UAA Student Union

 

Free RPG Day Saturday June 19th.

Magic Rise o/t Eldrazi PreRelease events April 17-18 and Launch Parties April 23-25

A DND Monster Manual 3 release event has not yet been announced, probably about June 19th if they do one.

July 3 Warhammer 40k Tourney.

Magic 2011 Core Set (Releases 07/16/10) PreRelease events July 10-11?? Launch Parties July 16-18?

Magic Big Fall Set "Lights" September ??

Maybe September for a DND DMG3 event if there is one?

WOTC is also starting some short Wednesday night DND events, more on them later.


BOSCO'S YouTube page.

 

 

 

 

 

BOSCO'S is working with the Major League Baseball Players Asssociation to help Scouts get merit badges and achievement awards. Click here for more info.

 

 

 

 

We'll teach your group how to play the games we sell! Here's a group from the local Boys & Girls Club visiting to play a Magic: The Gathering Booster Draft Tourney. Most of these kids were beginners, and things went great! If you have a group that would like some lessons in games we sell, give us a call!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are pleased that Anchorage's Channel 2 News covered this important issue on its evening news shows on July 16, 2001. Bret Clark, former Chairman of BOSCO'S Committee for Pop Culture was interviewed. He made a clear case for making the name change. All we have to do now is get 51% of the people living on Lois Drive to agree to this sensible change!

To see a clip from the news program, click here!

Superman & Lois Lane!
They have been part of American culture for sixty years! The feisty Lois Lane has been a role model for millions of strong and independent women! Anchorage has an opportunity to pay tribute to this heroine by simply changing a poorly named street in Spenard from "Lois Dr." to "Lois Lane"

This Spenard roadway was clearly named by an uncultured person. As the comic reading elite, it falls on us to right his wrong.

To learn more about our campaign to rename Lois Drive, click here!

 

 

 

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