Neopets Mall Tour!!! -10 cities across the US

Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:08 pm

You have to see this! I found it on neo-collectors.com last night.

RENTON, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2004-- Wizards of the Coast Creates Fun for All Ages with Larger-Than-Life Interactive Displays

Open to all visitors, the Neopets Trading Card Game Mall Tour is designed especially for those who have not yet played a trading card game. The tour set brings the online mythical world of Neopia to life. Attendees will experience a 3,100 square foot interactive set complete with theatrical features, elaborate displays, and murals to illustrate the Neopets Trading Card Game. The mall tour is all about fun, and will provide an engaging offline experience based on the exciting Neopets Trading Card Game and website, Neopets.com.

Visitors to the Neopets TCG Mall Tour are invited to participate in live action demonstrations with oversized cards, learn-to-play clinics (receive a FREE two-player starter game valued at $9.99), and much more. Kids can also pick up a passport and journey through the mall to gather special hand-stamps in their passport entitling them to spin the Wheel of Excitement for a chance to win prizes. In addition, artists from Neopets will be on hand to sketch pets and sign cards. TCG players are welcome to compete in on-site league play to sharpen their skills or enter the trading zone to trade with fellow Neopets fans.

True Neopets enthusiasts are invited to create their own Neopets trading card and enter a contest to win prizes including the grand prize of airfare, hotel and passes for two to Gen Con So Cal, the annual consumer fantasy, sci-fi and adventure game convention for the gaming industry and the general public. Gen Con So Cal will take place December 2-5, 2004, at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim, California. The winning cards will also be displayed on the http://www.wizards.com/neopets website. For complete contest rules and more click here.

The mall tour will start in Los Angeles and work its way across the United States, stopping at various Simon Property Group malls, to end in Massachusetts. The Neopets TCG Mall Tour is currently scheduled to stop at the following Simon Property Group locations which can be viewed here.

To check out the full article in the Business Wire and for more information on this event you can visit this website by clicking here. For in depth info officially announced by Wizards of the Coast about this event and its activities click here.

Official Wizards of the Coast Info: link

Cities with their respective malls:
Location City State Dates
Westminster Mall Westminster CA July 17-18
Santa Rosa Santa Rosa CA July 24-25
Lakeline Mall Austin TX July 31-Aug 1
Tyrone Square St. Petersburgh FL Aug 7-8
Independence Independence MO Aug 14-15
Orland Sq Shopping Cntr Orland Park IL Aug 21-22
Wolfchase Galleria Memphis TN Aug 28-29
Rockaway Townsquare Rockaway NJ Sept 4-5
Viginia Center Commons Glen Allen VA Sept 11-12
Northshore Mall Peabody MA Sept 18-19

I'll so be at the Florida one, and it's only a 45-minute drive, yay! I can't believe they haven't put this on the news yet!!!

~Maria

Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:14 pm

Not really interested because they're not even coming close to where I live unfortunatly.

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Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:14 pm

Wow, that sounds really, really cool! I wish they would do some more stuff in England, trading cards games are always popular here but no-one knows enough about Neopets.

You can spin a REAL wheel of excitment!

Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:16 pm

AHHHHH! I can probably go to one of those! 25 minute drive!

Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:23 pm

I just wish they would take the Neopets Trading Card Game events global(inculding wishing they would take to the UK since Neopets was started in the UK) to give everyone a chance to take part in a Neopets Trading Card Game event.

Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:35 pm

They do flordia, but not Georgia? Bah....guess iw on't have to care about this then. :cry:

A Yurble/Buzz/Korbat Sketch from one of the artist would have been so cool.

Never played TCG though. *looks at her 8 cards* I have a booster pack!

Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:02 pm

With Rune on this one. I read about this in the newest issue of the magazine last night. They're coming nowhere close to me *shrug*. Guess they don't like my city

Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:58 pm

Gah, I wish they would come to my state. :cry:

Sat Jul 10, 2004 6:09 pm

Aww, and I'm not in the US this year for any reason (Was hoping I could fix the dates so I was in the country at the time. I'd be some leather clad adult walking in getting excited over cards and neopets. fun!

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Sat Jul 10, 2004 6:58 pm

Argh. Actually, i live in Quebec, Canada. No neo there.

Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:12 pm

-dies right on the spot- I MUST GO!!! Omg! Its coming to Massachusetts! If my mother doesn't take me then I will take a bus there but I have to GO! Even thoug Peabody is like an hour from here... Why not a Simon's mall nearby like Braintree, o_O

Oh well. ITS STILL COMING! Thanks so much for this! The 18 and 19 is now going to be booked on my calendar!

-jumps up and down-

Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:29 pm

This whole thing brings me to a question, why isn't there a TCG section here on the PPT forums? I checked all of PPT's linked sites, and none of them have a TCG theme, so it's not as though it would be imposing on them, and I could *really* use some help on my deck. There's a forum linked from the site I mentioned above, but the forum's basically dead, hardly any activity. I know I'm not the only person who wants to learn how to play the TCG.

Just wondering

~Maria

Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:37 pm

The closest to be would be Virgina. Hello...Adam? Donna? Ever think about the neopians in SC?

Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:39 pm

What about us Canadians? :cry:

Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:23 pm

Great. More TGC stuff. I really should get into it since TNT seems so keen on it.

Even if I was into it though the closest place would be VA, which is over an hour away.