Amazing store for comic collectors, or hunters! The staff are super Friendly! And it's family oriented aswell! To pokemon cards or magic to yugi oh ,or war hammer any coliseum has it all !! As a former employee they are also great to work for,if your a fellow comic collector and people person!! Also you can always take a picture with the super hero statues that they have!! You can trade in your own collections or attend a event if one is taming place there!!! Always a great time at Coliseum!
Ok, I've taken a long time to review my local shop... Let's start with the good, and there's a fair amount: Staff. All employees here are genuinely attentive, helpful, nice, and easy to talk to about whatever you're in there for. The best part is that they will eventually try and learn your name if you're even somewhat regular. I stop by for weekly and am always greeted by first name. Even to the point they learned my tastes as well as my wife's, and make great recommendations and jokes that fit us. For a larger chain it is touches like that for me that really bring a warmer quality to shopping here. Selection. The Coliseum stores do a good job of trying to cater to all aspects of the biggest, and sometimes even niche, fandoms. You're going to find Magic, Pokemon, board games, tabletop games, comics, manga, graphic novels, gunpla, and more; so there us likely something here for everyone. Location. For years they've had a few different spots around town, but their most recent has been the best. A mere three minutes off of the parkway, they are more accessible now. They are near enough to downtown you can get there easily, adjacent to several restaurants and fast food, also Publix, you can quickly grab a bite nearby. Plus, the shopping plaza provides ample parking compared to their last location, as well as more space for actual gaming and events. Events. They are constantly trying to bring more events to the store. From actual campaigns, card games, model painting, etc. They might not have the space or time to host outside games and events, but making a good effort to have their own. Loyalty program. Stamp cards for subscribers as well as frequent visitors. Ten stamps, 15 or 10 off respectively. One stamp per 10 spent. Easy. Special sales. Multiple times a year they hold month long sales with different benefits every day. This can be an easy way to increase your collections for less. Warehouse sales, from time to time twice a year I think you can visit their Kissimmee warehouse to buy stuff at heavily reduced prices. Ok, I hesitate to call it the bad, so we'll call it not as good. Hours. To be clear, this one is a mix, they operate on mostly normal daytime hours approximately 11-6, give or take. The issue is that while kids might get out of school and be able to get there, it's definitely a bit harder for adults working 9-5. The good news is that they have evening events that allow them to operate later than normal, I would just call ahead to confirm. I wish corporate would let them operate a little later regularly given the nature of gamers and nerds as night owls - though the employees all have lives too, I appreciate what they put into the store. Prices. This one isn't so crazy, but yes prices are a little higher for certain items. It's to be expected in a collector market, and they do several things to help that, like the loyalty program and month long sales events, as well as warehouse sales. If you want comics especially at lowest prices, you can easily check eBay, but I will say they recently adjusted wall book pricing to market values. They will also consider store trades to help or give credit. They're better than some Orlando shops, but maybe not at good as the old Fantasy Factory r.i.p. Assortment. Sometimes the variety in store isn't the most exciting, but quite big, but they will try to get you what you want. I do wish they would allow Lakeland to expand to an even larger space and try to make it a flagship store, considering the citys plan for growth. This store gets picked much lower on the list of all the stores I think due to location, but I'm guessing. Social media. This is the weakest aspect to me, constant changing Facebook pages that now are all summed to one singular Coliseum page boo and a really sad TikTok/Insta presence with a bland representative. Each store should get to manage their own social, Lakeland would be very fun! Overall, give them a shot, let them win you over like they did with me. I'm not affiliated with the store in any way, just enjoy my Spider-man books.
Lots of good choices. Warhammer to mtg to comics. Very well stocked. A lot if miniatures and paints too.
I'd be wary of the new management. Big companies always do what they want, pushing around their employees. Sometimes there's nothing you can do, but you can vote with your wallet.
Best place you can go to for anything MTG. Great staff. Treat yourself and stop by. MTG tournaments are alot of fun with some great people.
Great selection of Funko Pop! Including “Chase” varieties. They also have an awesome and extensive comic collection, of course!
Friendly staff and customers. Excellent pricing, I tried to "shop" them online and their shelf items are basically the same price almost down to the penny. My friends and I are now playing D&D, I showed up for a starter set. Not only did the staff help me but the patrons helped me as well. Awesome community, they invited me to stop by the next day Sunday for some D&D action they run every week. The next day I stop by to learn more as DM, and within 30 minutes Justin The DM answered several questions my group and I had from previous sessions. This is my new one stop shop for everything D&D.
Very poor approach towards potential patrons. Standing by the door and policing parking spots, despite their store being empty. I was planning to stop by and buy some MtG cards after purchasing some baked goods, but the approach by the girl working the store completely turned me off. Decided to take my business elsewhere. I hope they rethink their approach for the future.
I've never even seen a comic shop and a gaming store smashed together like that before!!
Extremely huge selection of comics and TPB. Friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable staff.
