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BY ANDREW CREELMAN
Hole in the Wall Hobbies sells Warhammer gures that can be customized with paint and used in games.
Owner Tom Colben (right) plays Warhammer with a customer.
PHOTOS BY ANDREW CREELMAN COMMUNITY IMPACT
Local hobby shop o ers community in Universal City
The business sells paint supplies for action gures at Hole in the Wall Hobbies.
store in 2023. The store sells action gures, Pokémon cards, board games and comic books. The shop also hosts weekly events, which makes the shop feel like home, Colben said. “You nd people that have similar interests, and I’ve seen so many new friendships form,” he said. One more thing Colben said he hopes to continue growing and making connections with the Warhammer and collectible community in Northeast San Antonio and surrounding areas. “This is your chance to relax in the world here, we know that everything else is so stressful,” he said.
There aren’t too many places with endless collectibles for Warhammer games and commu- nity playing sessions in the Northeast San Antonio Metrocom, Tom Colben—sole proprietor of Hole in the Wall Hobbies—said. “It’s an accidental hobby shop,” Colben said. “It was never supposed to be this big, but here we are.” The details As a lifelong interest in Warhammer and other table top games grew into an online eBay shop, Colben said that it kept growing to the point where he had to sell items out of rented storage lockers. Once Colben lled up the storage lockers entirely, he decided to open a brick and mortar
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