This quaint looking alley is called London Court and it is located in Perth's central business district and shopping centre. It is themed on an olde worlde style and feels a little bit like parts of York (UK) streets.
Tucked away in the basement of London Court is a friendly store known as Tactics. They sell a wide array of roleplaying and hobby merchandise ranging from Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, board games, miniatures, and (of course!) Games Workshop merchandise. There were M:TG tables set up near the entry as I went in and had quite a number of player engrossed in the games that were taking place at the time. But they also host events such as Settlers of Catan nights which look like they have a wide appeal.
The store is physically quite large and I spent a happy half-hour wandering around aimlessly checking out all their stock. Not only did they have the most recently released items for sale (e.g. Codex: Necrons), but they had a wide array of older sale items and things that have long been out of print (for example, I saw a copy of D&D/DarkSun: Marauders of Nibenay in its original shrink wrapping for sale in there!).
Contained inside some glass cases near the check-out there were also pre-assembled and painted (poorly for the most-part) second hand GW miniatures. For example, there were a number of Chaos Marine Possessed miniatures retailing for six dollars each. If I had more luggage space, I might have bought a unit of assembled Thousand Sons rubric marines as a mini-project to clean up and re-paint.
The staff were young: mostly university students working part-time jobs from what I could tell. But that was not a bad thing: on the contrary, they were very in to their jobs and very much knew the mindsets of their customers.
On the downside, the retail prices were the same as I would pay at GW (to explain: there are some stores such as Ace Comics in Brisbane that retail GW products at sub-recommended-retail prices). But I would certainly visit Tactics again -- the vibe of the place was terrific and I didn't feel as hassled as I sometimes feel when I walk in to a GW store.
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