This is some good news! Local board game creators and enthusiast (and close, personal friends of Toys on Fire) have started their Kickstarter project for the board game FrankenDie: The Party Game for the Madly Insane! Marquis, Lucas, and Al have put together a very professional looking product here, although I wouldn’t expect anything less from these guys! So if you want to support some local guys, or just enjoy the horror theme, then give these guys some of your cash!
Seriously though, these are a really nice bunch of dudes who try to improve the board game community around Ottawa. You can’t go wrong!
The Ottawa Children’s Festival is coming soon and Toys on Fire will be there at the Family Games Tent once again! The boys and girls from Game Summit will be there as well with lots of cool games and activities for everyone. This is a really cool opportunity to have some family fun down by the War Museum as the weather gets warmer and there really is something for everybody. We hope to see you there! Admission is FREE!
Here is some cool footage of the games tent area from last year!
Have not heard of the Festival? Here’s a little background from their website:
About
The Ottawa International Children’s Festival was established in 1985 and is an annual celebration of the best in live performing arts for children. For over two decades the OICF has presented an abundance of award-winning artists from around the globe and made wide-eyed children out of attendees of all ages. The festival has experienced a steady – and encouraging – increase in attendance over the last several years. Festival attendance has increased from 5,000 in 2001 to over 20,000 in 2010 – an increase of more than 15,000 visitors in 9 years.
Our mandate is to create a variety of programs for children aged four to fifteen, focusing on enriching school curriculum and promoting the arts as an integral part of children’s education.
We offer a five-day festival in early June, hosted on the grounds of Lebreton Flats Park and we use venues at the Canadian War Museum. We also present a season of family programming during the fall and winter at various locations throughout the city.
The OICF provides a unique opportunity for children and their families to experience the rich heritage of other cultures right in their own backyard. We strive to present work that excites and challenges audiences of all ages, and the festival prides itself on developing and producing award winning programming that comes to us from across Canada and around the world.
What Makes the Festival Unique?
For five magical days, local, national and international artists create an extraordinary cultural community for children.
We have hosted performers from Brazil, Kenya, Peru, Holland, France, England, Germany, Denmark and China, as well as artists from around Canada.
The atmosphere is family-friendly and relaxed with a variety of times and dates.
The festival is designed to accommodate trips made by school classes as well as families. Weekday performances take place during school hours when there are thousands of students and their teachers in attendance, with plenty of great seats also available for the general public.
What we’re most proud of, though, is the high quality of professional and international artistry featured in the Festival– adventurous performances that stir the imaginations of all ages. The OICF is the only performing arts festival dedicated to young people in central and eastern Ontario.
The Festival has been awarded:
The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the arts (2002)
The Community Recognition Award from the Council for the Arts in Ottawa
Honourary patronage by Her Excellency Governor General Michaëlle Jean (2006)
A tradition since 1985, this cherished regional festival continues to flourish. We continue to run a successful event and have been recognized for enriching the cultural experiences of thousands of young people, their families, and community groups over the years.
Well this past Weekend was the Game Summit, a convention here in town for board games, and I had the pleasure of running our seventh Beyblade Tournament right there at the convention on Sunday! I’d like to thank all the parents and especially all the kids who came out and made this event such a success, and also congrats to our winners!
We hope everyone had fun, and we really hope to see you all back here at the store for our next tournament on March 6th!
P.S.: Keep an eye out for our next newsletter, which may feature video taken at our tournament this past weekend!
I hope you are ready to let it rip because we have finalized the details for the February 20th Beyblade Tournament at Game Summit. Please see the details below:
What: Toys on Fire’s 7th Beyblade Tournament Date: Sunday, February 20th, 2011 (Final day of Game Summit) Time: 1PM -- 3PM (Show up 10-15 minutes early if possible) Where: Nepean Sportsplex Hals A & B (Rear entrance) Admission Fee: $15 (Must be pre-payed at Toys on Fire before the 20th) Requirements: BYOB (Bring your own Beyblade)
Admission fee includes two (2) Sunday Day-Passes to get inside Game Summit for the whole day(1 Child, 1 Adult) and includes participation in the Beyblade tournament(1 Child). This is a very special deal we have worked out for you lucky Beybladers as normally admission to get into Game Summit for two costs about $25.
Please call or visit us to register and we can get your name on the list. Payment can be made by coming by the store with $15 or we can process credit cards over the phone. Unpaid registrants spots will begin to be given to paying registrants on the waiting list on February 12th. This is a much larger venue for the event so we will be taking up to 30 registrants. You will be competing for some Toys on Fire prizes as usual, and the more registrants we get, the better the prizes can be.
Also know that you are welcome to come to Game Summit for the full day as there are many activities and fun stuff to do. Game Summit is open from 9am-7pm. See below some of the benefits of the included Sunday Day-Passes.
1. Access to free activities in all 3 gaming areas (War Room, Casual Gaming, RPG Den)
2. Miniature figurine painting lessons (tokens required)
3. Sunday is the Garage Sale (find some cool out of print board games, Lego sets, gaming books, etc.)
4. Door prizes announced every hour at Game Summit
5. Each participants is also receiving a bag filled with coupons and other goodies
6. Other special activities are available for the cost of tokens
7. Get 2 free tokens if by bringing along a Game Summit postcard. (included with registration)
Hope to see you all there!
Game on!
-Gray
P.S. Check out this cool video of some Game Summit action!
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Happy New Year! Now get ready, Ottawa’s upcoming gaming event is just over a month away: Game Summit is back for its fifth and biggest event ever, February 18th, 19th and 20th at the Nepean Sportsplex in Ottawa. Bringing more to the table than ever before for dice-throwers, role-players and war-gamers alike, Game Summit is the place for good times this winter.
For the first time, Game Summit is opening its doors on the Friday night (5pm – 11pm) for an evening of open gaming in all three areas.
In the Pavilion, what about some big expansion games, example: Settlers of Catan with all its popular expansions and the maximum players.
In the Arena war tables are available for historical and specialist gaming: Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, Inquisitor or anything else you’d like to plan with your friends.
In the Den reserve a table and run any RPG with your friends or pass the word around and plan a CCG / TCG event.
Let us know what you have in mind and how we can help.
Sunday’s Tri-Game-A-Thon
We’ve got the Great Canadian Board Game Blitz (GCBGB) on Saturday, then on Sunday, Game Summit is hosting its Tri-Game-A-Thon Tournament with the help of the Kanata & Ottawa Games Clubs. Play three different games and you could win tons of other great prizes! Each of the games will be available to play all day on Friday and Saturday, so you can learn to play and practice up for Sunday. This year’s selected games are:
The final selection of the three games will be announced at the event. Be sure to register online in advance to reserve your seat!
Munchkin Invasion
If you’re a Steve Jackson Games addict, our next event will fill up your prescription. We’ve got demos and open gaming of Stars are Right, Frag , Revolution and dice games all weekend + the following main events (but not limited to):
Fri 18:00-22:00: Munchkin + All Expansions Game
Sat 12:00-16:00: Zombie Dice Mini-Tournament
Sat 14:00-18:00: Revolution Mini-Tournament
Sat 10:00-14:00: Munchkin Quest + All Expansions Game
Sun 10:00-18:00: Munchkin Tournament
Sun 14:00-18:00: Zombie Dice Mini-Tournament
Thanks to everybody who came and had fun at our last meeting. Also a big thank you to Marquis and Game Summit for bringing some sweet prizes for our attendees. I guess I will be seeing most of you at game summit this coming weekend at the Sportsplex. It looks like Steve might even bring his Warhammer army and get jiggy with the 40k tournament.
Below are the details for our next meeting!
Next Meeting: Monday July 5th 6:30PM – 10:00PM. (If attendance keeps on increasing we will be switching to bi-weekly soon!)
Last Meeting we got to play: Railways of Mexico, Last Night on Earth, Small World, Space Dealer, Zombie Dice, Coliseum, Catacombs, and a whole lot of Neuroshima Hex!
The Setup: Again we will have 4 large tables setup with potential seating for 16-20 people indoors. As the warm summer nights are on the horizon, we are considering a partially outdoor setup involving gazebos/lights for some more tables at a future meeting to accommodate larger numbers of people.
Food / Drink: We have cold cans of pop and water bottles available for $1.00 each and microwave popcorn available for $2.00 and assorted candy/gum for those who don’t want to bring their own. (Please refrain from snacks that could be damaging to the board games like cheetos etc.) Crackers, chips, cookies, veggies etc are fine.
One final note: While we want as many people to play the games they want to play as possible, it does mean we may not have either enough interest or players to play certain games. If you come with the intention of playing a specific game, please do not be discouraged if we do not play it this time. We want everyone to have an open mind about trying new games they haven’t played before.
Hope to see you all There!
Please RSVP and let us know any questions/suggestions you might have in this thread.
Toys on Fire joined in with Game Summit and many other organizations in making a fun filled weekend for children over at Lebreton Flats (near the War Museum). Here are some pictures of the event that went from May 19th-30th.
This weekend Toys on Fire has special agents everywhere. The majority of our staff is at Anime North (probably Canada’s largest Anime convention) but we also have people at the Ottawa International Children’s Festival with Game Summit and of course two of us here at the store!
So come on down to the store to enjoy the Chris & Dave show all weekend long! It’s a laugh riot!
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This is some good news! Local board game creators and enthusiast (and close, personal friends of Toys on Fire) have started their Kickstarter project for the board game FrankenDie: The Party Game for the Madly Insane! Marquis, Lucas, and Al have put together a very professional looking product here, although I wouldn’t expect anything less from these guys! So if you want to support some local guys, or just enjoy the horror theme, then give these guys some of your cash!
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