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The Geekery is an independent game and hobby store at 12616 W 62nd Terrace, Suite 117, in Shawnee, Kansas, trading as the Kansas limited liability company The Geekery, LLC. It sells miniature wargames, trading-card games, role-playing books, dice, paints and hobby supplies, and runs a play space that carries a seven-nights-a-week event calendar — Warhammer 40,000, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, Marvel: Crisis Protocol, Judgement, Flesh and Blood, Digimon, Lorcana, Union Arena and more. Unlike some of its metro peers it is squarely in the trading-card business: it sells Magic singles, sealed and Commander product, and buys cards over a value threshold at TCGplayer market prices. It is a WPN Premium store in the Wizards of the Coast retailer network, and it hosts the annual Perils of the Geekery Warhammer 40,000 grand tournament.

Description

The Geekery sells itself in one line on its own home page: “Your nerd getaway. Hobby, Paint, Play.”1 The store occupies Suite 117 of an office-and-retail building at 12616 W 62nd Terrace in Shawnee, a Johnson County suburb west of the state line, and it is the only Shawnee entry on the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City’s local-game-store roster.12

The retail floor is organised around four things the store puts front and centre on its own navigation: Warhammer 40,000, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel: Crisis Protocol and Judgement: Eternal Champions, plus paint, hobby supplies, card supplies and Dungeons & Dragons.1 The online catalogue is broader than the marquee — Warhammer 30,000 and Games Workshop specialist games, BattleTech, Flesh and Blood, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, KeyForge, UniVersus, WizKids figures, RPG books, dice sets, and paint from Citadel, Vallejo, The Army Painter and Scale 75.3 Its own paint pitch names the same brands and adds Two Thin Coats: stock “perfect for taking your models from a pile of shame to the battlefield or display case.”1

Where the store draws a line is on buying, not selling. It publishes a card-buying policy — “We do not currently purchase bulk cards. Standard cards must be valued at over $2, and non-standard cards must be valued at over $5… Our buying prices are based on TCGplayer market prices” — and a parallel one for miniatures: sell your unbuilt backlog for store credit or cash, and buy from a previously-owned section at 50% off retail.1 This distinguishes it sharply from TableTop Game & Hobby in Overland Park, whose founder built that store around not doing collectible cards at all. The Geekery’s Magic business is real: the Lightspeed store carries Singles, Booster Packs, Commander Product and Pre Constructed as separate categories, and the store is a WPN Premium member of the Wizards of the Coast retailer network.34

Two services fill out the model. The Loyal Minion Program, described first-party as “our longest-running service,” is a loyalty subscription that takes 10% off at checkout.1 Locker rental — $7.50 a month for a small locker sized to a Battle Foam 720 bag, $15 for a large sized to a 1520 — is aimed at “wargamers who don’t want to carry their army around all day, or card game players at tournaments who need secure storage for their valuables.” Renters supply their own lock and leave a spare key with the store; there is a signed agreement form and no automatic recurring charge.15 The store also sells cold drinks, snacks and hot food, and says outright that customers may bring their own.1

The play space is the reason the calendar is dense. The store’s own September 2026 events grid ran an event every single day of the month, with a stable weekly spine: Monday 40K/GW Game Night and Hololive TCG; Tuesday Yu-Gi-Oh Advanced; Wednesday MTG Commander Game Night and Wednesday Night Legacy; Thursday Marvel: Crisis Protocol Game Night, YuGiOh Genesys Tournament and Flesh and Blood Tournament; Friday Judgement: Eternal Champions and Disney Lorcana League Night; Saturday competitive tournaments including 40K, Digimon and MTG Pauper; Sunday Union Arena Locals, Yu-Gi-Oh Edison and Shadowverse.6 Several Saturdays carried five to seven additional listings the calendar view collapsed behind a “more” link.6

Above the weeklies sit named tournaments. Perils of the Geekery is the store’s Warhammer 40,000 grand tournament; the fourth edition ran 12–13 April 2025 at the store address.7 The store also posts monthly 40K tournaments and drew 38 players to its first 11th-edition 40K event.7 Judgement play at the shop is rated on the Longshanks tournament platform — “January Geekery Judgement,” 25 January 2025, six players.8 Going further back, the official BattleTech forums carry a 25 August 2019 announcement for a BattleTech tournament at the store, posted by a Catalyst Demo Team agent.9

This page is not The Geekery SLC (Salt Lake City), Geekery Games, or the personal Instagram account @thegeekeryonline; and it is not Level One Game Shop in the Kansas City, Missouri City Market or TableTop Game & Hobby in Overland Park, the two other KC-metro tabletop stores already in the Registry.2

Ownership and history

The owner’s full name was not located this pass. Yelp’s business-owner attribution on the store’s listing reads “Meet the Business Owner: EJ H”, and Yelp reviewers refer to “E.J.” as the person behind the counter.10 No first-party page names an owner: the website carries no About or team page, and the site’s only human-facing contact is a Gmail address and a phone number.1 The SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program records for the entity report an individually owned business — race White, ethnicity not Hispanic or Latino, male owned, non-veteran — with 3 jobs retained.11 Together these establish owner-operation and a single individual owner, but not a name.

The legal entity is The Geekery, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company. The name appears first-party in the Lightspeed storefront’s own branding (the-geekery-llc.shoplightspeed.com, page title “The Geekery LLC”) and in the federal loan record, which files it under both “The Geekery LLC” and “The Geekery, LLC” at 12616 W 62nd Ter Ste 117, NAICS 423920 (Toy and Hobby Goods and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers).311 A mirror of Kansas business-entity data gives the entity number as 8928046, type KANSAS LTD LIABILITY COMPANY, status ACTIVE AND IN GOOD STANDING, formation 2 September 2018, with the resident agent being the LLC itself at the store’s own suite — i.e. no outside agent service and no other party of record.12 That mirror could not be independently re-fetched (see Current standing), and the Kansas Secretary of State’s own search returned HTTP 403.

The founding year is unresolved, and the sources are printed here rather than merged.

  • 2014. Yelp’s business listing states “Established in 2014. Opened November 12th.” That text is owner-supplied on Yelp and is the only place a specific opening date was found.10
  • 2018. The Kansas LLC’s formation date is 2 September 2018, four years later.12
  • Pre-April 2018. The store’s first PPP application, approved 28 April 2020, reports business age as “Existing or more than 2 years old” — which places the business’s start no later than April 2018 and is compatible with either reading.11
  • August 2019. The earliest independently dated third-party evidence of the store operating at all is the BattleTech forum announcement of 25 August 2019.9

The reconciliation this page does not assert but flags for a later pass: an LLC formed in 2018 is entirely consistent with a business that opened in 2014 under a different structure — a sole proprietorship or an earlier entity — and later reorganised. No source confirming that was located, so both dates stand unresolved above rather than being stitched together. The 2014 date is the one the business itself publishes; the 2018 date is the one the state record carries.

Relocation history: none found. Every source located this pass — first-party, federal, retailer-network and directory — places the business at 12616 W 62nd Ter, Suite 117, including the 2020 PPP record.11141314 No earlier address surfaced, and no move was reported anywhere. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.

The pandemic record is documented. The Geekery, LLC took two PPP loans through The Central Trust Bank: $11,200 approved 28 April 2020 (loan #6469517206) and $13,432 approved 23 March 2021 (loan #7133178600). Both are reported by the SBA as “Paid in Full” — a status that covers both repayment and full forgiveness. Both applications reported 3 jobs retained and proceeds allocated entirely to payroll.11

Network standing has been earned over time. The store is a WPN Premium member of the Wizards of the Coast Store & Event Locator (store ID 5988) — the higher of the network’s two published tiers — and one of only three WPN Premium stores inside a 10-mile radius of its own address.4 It is a listed store for Riot Games’ Riftbound under the Physical Retailer / Organized Play designation, and it appears on the store roster of the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City, the metro’s tabletop nonprofit.152

No press coverage of the business — Shawnee Mission Post, Johnson County Post, The Kansas City Star, KCUR, Startland or Visit KC — was located this pass. The only editorial listing found is a KC Parent venue entry filed under Board Games & RPG / Indoor / Johnson County.16

Sources

Footnotes

  1. The Geekery — official site home page, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200; Wix. Page title: “TheGeekery: 12616 W. 62nd Terrace, Suite 117, Shawnee, KS. Your nerd getaway. Hobby, Paint, Play. Warhammer 40k, Magic, and more.” Asserts: address “12616 W 62nd Terrace #117, Shawnee, KS 66216”; phone 913-261-9694; email geekeryshawnee@gmail.com; hours “Mon - Fri: 11am - 12am / Saturday: 10am - 12am / Sunday: 11am - 8pm”; social links to facebook.com/Geekery.Shawnee and instagram.com/geekerykc; an “Order Online!” link to the-geekery-llc.shoplightspeed.com with “free next day shipping on orders over $150” and the Loyal Minion Program described as saving 10% at checkout; brand sections for Warhammer 40,000, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel: Crisis Protocol, Judgement: Eternal Champions, paint, hobby supplies, card supplies and Dungeons and Dragons; the paint line “top brands like Army Painter, Vallejo, Games Workshop, and Two Thin Coats… from a pile of shame to the battlefield or display case”; the Loyal Minion Program as “our longest-running service… a loyalty subscription program”; locker rentals “for both short-term and long-term”; “We provide cold beverages, snacks, and a several hot options. You are welcome to bring your own food if you prefer”; the card-buying policy “We do not currently purchase bulk cards. Standard cards must be valued at over $2, and non-standard cards must be valued at over $5. We can negotiate higher rates for high-end cards. Our buying prices are based on TCGplayer market prices”; and the used-model policy “Sell your items to us for store credit or cash… check out our previously owned model section for 50% off retail prices!”) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. Role-Players Guild of Kansas City (RPGKC) — “Local Game Stores,” accessed 2026-09-08. URL (Asserts: “The Geekery — Shawnee, KS,” linked to geekery.biz, on the Guild’s roster of KC-metro tabletop game stores, alongside Collector’s Cache, Dragon’s Hoard, Game Cafe, Game Nut, Gators Games and Hobby, HobbeCharge, Larry’s Game Store, Level One Game Shop, Love Counts Hobby Shop, MindGames and Magic and both Mission: Board Games locations. The Geekery is the roster’s only Shawnee entry. Used as local-community corroboration that the store is an operating metro game shop.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. The Geekery LLC — online store (Lightspeed eCom), accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Page and logo both branded “The Geekery LLC” — used here as first-party corroboration of the legal entity name. Asserts: a live category tree covering Miniature Games (Judgement, Warhammer 30K, Warhammer 40K broken out by faction, Marvel: Crisis Protocol, GW Specialist Games, BattleTech, Miniature Transport / Battle Foam); Dice and Counters; Card Games (Magic The Gathering with sub-categories Singles, Booster Packs, Commander Product, Pre Constructed; KeyForge; Flesh and Blood; UniVersus / My Hero Academia; Digimon; Yu-Gi-Oh; and card accessories — deck boxes, binders, sleeves, playmats, bulk storage); Role Playing (WizKids figures, D&D books, reference cards, accessories); and Hobby Supplies (basing material, magnets, glue, brushes, and paint from Citadel, Vallejo, The Army Painter and Scale 75).) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Wizards of the Coast — Official Store & Event Locator, “The Geekery - Shawnee,” store ID 5988, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: the store is a WPN Premium listing; address “12616 W 62nd Terrace, Shawnee, KS, 66216, United States,” rendered elsewhere on the page as “12616 W 62nd Ter, Shawnee, KS 66216-1811”; website geekery.biz; phone 913-261-9694; and upcoming events “Wednesday Casual Commander,” Wed Sep 9, 06:00 PM, and “Magic Presents: Heart of the Mountain Commander,” Wed Sep 9. The same search view lists the nearest other stores — Mission: Board Games - Mission (4.4 mi), Victory Road - Overland Park (4.7 mi), Collector’s Cache (6.0 mi), Topdeck Treasures (7.9 mi), Larry’s Game Store (9.1 mi) and Spanky’s Card Shop (9.3 mi) — of which only Spanky’s and The Geekery carry the WPN Premium badge.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. The Geekery — “Locker Rental,” accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: “$7.5 for a small locker per month: Measures: 15 x 17 x 17 (can fit a Battle Foam 720 bag)”; “$15 for a Large Locker per month: Measures: 15 x 17 x 27 (can fit a Battle Foam 1520 bag)”; a downloadable locker-agreement form to be emailed to geekeryshawnee@gmail.com or handed in; “Please provide your own lock and give us a copy of the key for emergencies”; payment monthly or in advance, in store or online, with “Payments do not recur automatically”; and “Don’t delay as space is limited.” Also repeats the sitewide address, phone, email and hours block.) ↩

  6. The Geekery — “Event Calendar,” accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: a live September 2026 calendar grid with the “Today” marker on 8 September 2026 and events on every day of the month, extending through 11 October 2026. Recurring weekly listings: Monday “40K/GW Game Night” and “Hololive TCG”; Tuesday “Yu-Gi-Oh Advanced”; Wednesday “MTG Commander Game Night” and “Wednesday Night Legacy”; Thursday “Marvel: Crisis Protocol Game Night,” “YuGiOh Genesys Tournament” and “Flesh and Blood Tournament”; Friday “Judgement Eternal Champions” and, from 11 September, “Disney Lorcana League Night”; Saturday tournaments including “40K Competitive Tournament” (5 September), “Digimon Tournament,” “MTG: Pauper Tournament,” “Digimon Store Championship Season 2” (26 September) and “Marvel: Crisis Protocol Tournament” (3 October); Sunday “Union Arena Locals,” “Yu-Gi-Oh Edison” and “Shadowverse Tournament,” plus a “Union Arena Re:Zero Release Event” on 13 September. Several Saturday and Friday cells carry a further “2 more” to “7 more” collapsed listings not expanded in this fetch.) ↩ ↩2

  7. The Geekery — Facebook events and posts, read from the search index only (Firecrawl declines facebook.com; none of these pages was fetched). Asserts: “Perils of the Geekery,” an event at “12616 W 62nd Ter, Ste 117, Shawnee, KS,” 12 April 2025 8:00 AM – 13 April 2025, indexed with the text “Join us for our Fourth Perils of the Geekery GT” — URL. A later edition, 18 April 2026 9:00 AM – 19 April 4:30 PM CDT at “12616 W 62nd Ter, Shawnee, KS 66216-1811,” is indexed as hosted by a separate “Perils of the Geekery” page rather than by the store account — URL: facebook.com. A store post reads “We have our first 11th edition 40K tournament today. Event starts at 9am and will run till approximately 7pm” — URL: facebook.com — and a companion photo post is indexed as “The geekery is rolling deep with 38 players at our first 11th edition 40K tournament… We run 40K tournaments every single month” — URL: facebook.com. The 2025 GT date and the 38-player figure are as indexed; neither was confirmed against the pages themselves.) ↩ ↩2

  8. Longshanks — tournament record, “January Geekery Judgement,” Event 22389, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: a rated Judgement tournament held at “Geekery, Kansas, United States” on 2025-01-25, hosted by ©INFAMOUS, 6 players, status Finished, with the event description “5v5 Veto 3-4 rounds depending on turnout. Geekery, Shawnee, KS 10-1030 registration pairings at 1030. Lunch after round 1.” Used as independent, dated, third-party confirmation that organised Judgement: Eternal Champions play runs at the store.) ↩

  9. BattleTech official forums — “BattleTech Tournament at the Geekery - Shawnee, KS (Kansas City),” topic 66649, started by user Scotty, 25 August 2019, 21:20:58, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (Posted in Challenges and Gatherings by a poster signing as “Catalyst Demo Agent #679.” Asserts: a BattleTech tournament being organised at The Geekery in Shawnee — 1–4 ‘Mechs, 5000 BV, canon units only, Total Warfare rules and equipment, three games (Standup Fight, Extraction, Breakthrough), two-hour timed rounds, lunch break 1–2 pm, entry fee funding store-credit prizes, pre-constructed forces available for walk-ups. Used as the earliest independently dated third-party evidence located of the store operating, and as corroboration of BattleTech play at the shop.) ↩ ↩2

  10. The Geekery on Yelp, Shawnee. URLs and the mobile view m.yelp.com (Read from the search index only — the page itself was not fetched; Yelp returned HTTP 403 to a direct fetch and Firecrawl declines yelp.com. Asserts, as indexed: the owner-supplied About text “Established in 2014. Opened November 12th. Meet the Business Owner: EJ H”; address 12616 W 62nd Ter, Ste 117, Shawnee, KS 66216; phone (913) 261-9694; website geekery.biz; price band $$; categories Hobby Shops and Tabletop Games. Rating figures are inconsistent across indexed views of the same listing: one shows 4.7 with 10 reviews (“Updated August 2026”), another 4.4 with 11 reviews, and a listing title reads “Updated May 2026 - 11 Reviews.” Reviewer text indexed from the listing refers to the owner as “E.J.” — “Met E.J. and was pleasantly surprised… how immediately welcoming and nice.” This is the only source located that names an owner at all, and it gives an initialism, not a name.) ↩ ↩2

  11. FederalPay.org — SBA Paycheck Protection Program records for The Geekery LLC / The Geekery, LLC, Shawnee, KS, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (Asserts: two PPP loans totalling $24,632 against the same address, 12616 W 62nd Ter Ste 117, Shawnee, KS 66216. Loan #6469517206 — $11,200, approved 2020-04-28, lender The Central Trust Bank, 3 jobs retained, proceeds $11,200 to payroll, status “Paid in Full or Forgiven” (last updated by SBA February 2021), business age “Existing or more than 2 years old.” Loan #7133178600 — $13,432, approved 2021-03-23, same lender, 3 jobs retained, proceeds $13,431 to payroll, status “Paid in Full or Forgiven” (last updated September 2021), business age “Existing or more than 2 years old.” Both records give entity type Limited Liability Company (LLC), NAICS 423920 “Toy and Hobby Goods and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers,” owner demographics Race: White · Ethnicity: Not Hispanic or Latino · Gender: Male Owned · Veteran Status: Non-Veteran, and location Johnson County, KS, SBA Office 0709, Congressional District KS-03, urban, not LMI, not HUBZone. FederalPay republishes SBA data unmodified under FOIA.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. city-data.com — mirror of Kansas Secretary of State business-entity data, record for “THE GEEKERY, LLC.” URL (Asserts: business entity ID 8928046; entity type KANSAS LTD LIABILITY COMPANY; formation/registration date 2018 Sep 02; status ACTIVE AND IN GOOD STANDING; resident agent THE GEEKERY LLC at 12616 W 62nd Terrace Suite 117, SHAWNEE, KS 66216. How this was read, and its limits: the record was retrieved on 2026-09-08 by an automated Firecrawl browsing run against this URL. A direct re-fetch of the same URL from this session returned HTTP 429 behind a “Are you a human?” verification challenge, so the values could not be re-read by hand. The Kansas Secretary of State’s own entity search at sos.ks.gov returned HTTP 403, and the Kansas Business Center entry point at kansas.gov redirects to a general businesses landing page. The entity ID and the 2018-09-02 formation date are therefore single-sourced through this mirror and are flagged for confirmation; the entity’s name, LLC form and address are independently corroborated first-party and by SBA records.) ↩ ↩2

  13. CardShows.io — shop listing, “The Geekery — Shawnee, KS,” accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: “12616 W 62nd Terrace #117, Shawnee, KS, 66216”; phone (913) 261-9694; website geekery.biz; hours Monday–Friday 11:00 AM–12:00 AM, Saturday 10:00 AM–12:00 AM, Sunday 11:00 AM–8:00 PM — matching first-party day for day; and “4.6 on Google · 286 reviews,” described in the page body as “a 4.6-star rating from 286 Google reviews.” Filed as a “Hobby store.” The page’s Google Maps link resolves the store to 39.0162818, -94.7324872. The page carries its own disclaimer: “Information may be incorrect. Be sure to verify details on the official website.” Used here as the source of the Google rating figure and as hours corroboration.) ↩

  14. The Geekery on Yellow Pages, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (Asserts: 12616 W 62nd Ter, Shawnee Mission, KS 66216; (913) 261-9694; website geekery.biz; categories Games & Supplies and Toy Stores; the building name “Monterey Office Park” under More Info → Location; and hours Mon–Fri 11:00 am–12:00 am, Sat 10:00 am–12:00 am, Sun 11:00 am–6:00 pm — the Sunday close conflicting with the first-party 8:00 pm and not used. The listing is unclaimed (“Is this your business? … Claim This Business”), carries no reviews and no photos.) ↩

  15. Riftbound (Riot Games / UVS Games) — official store locator entry for The Geekery, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: “12616 West 62nd Terrace, 117, Shawnee, KS, 66216, US”; phone 9132619694; email Geekeryshawnee@gmail.com; website geekery.biz; and the store designation “Physical Retailer / Organized Play.” The page’s Google Maps link resolves the store to 39.0162818, -94.7324872.) ↩

  16. KC Parent — venue listing, “The Geekery,” accessed 2026-09-08. URL (Asserts: address “12616 #117 W 62nd Terrace, Shawnee, Kansas”; phone 913.261.9694; website geekery.biz; the description “The Geekery specializes in non-electronic games and hobbies. We sell miniatures, collectible card games, hobby supplies and more. We focus on creating an atmosphere for fun!”; and categories Board Games & RPG, Going Places, Indoor, Johnson County. The venue’s own KC Parent events feed was empty on this fetch — “0 events found” — which reflects KC Parent’s submission pipeline, not the store’s calendar. The only editorial-publication listing located for this business this pass.) ↩

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