Grew from a 400 sq ft room to a 3,200 sq ft Independence card shop running 20+ events a week, with a hard anti-scalper stance on Pokemon releases.
Gamers Getaway started in 2020 as a group buy. Pandemic-era scalping had made Pokemon product impossible to find at MSRP, so the founders got access to a wholesale distributor and started ordering for friends. In summer 2022 they took what they call a huge leap of faith into a 400 square foot storefront. In July 2025 they moved again — this time into 3,200 square feet on 40 Highway, with seating they say handles up to 128 players.
Note that the older 1218 S Noland Rd address still floating around directories is dead. The current shop is Suite F at 17601 E US Highway 40, a clean, spacious room in a commercial strip with surface lot parking, and roughly half of it is given over to event tables.
Owners Todd and Steve run one of the deepest game-line lineups in eastern Jackson County: Pokemon at the core, plus Magic, One Piece, Star Wars: Unlimited, Riftbound, the Gundam Card Game, Union Arena, Flesh and Blood, Sorcery, and Disney Lorcana. Singles are listed through a TCGplayer Pro storefront with same-day in-store pickup, and there is a case of graded cards alongside sealed and preorders. They advertise more than twenty events per week off a live calendar on their site.
Two policies are worth knowing before you drive over. First, this shop is aggressively anti-reseller — reviewers consistently praise a release-day approach built around getting product into players' hands, and the shop breaks booster boxes to sell packs individually rather than letting one buyer clear the allocation, which is exactly the thing a couple of negative reviews complain about. Second, they do not pay cash. Their own contact page states plainly that they are not in the business of providing cash for cards or collectibles; trade-ins come back as store credit only.
Closed Tuesday and Sunday. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday run noon to 8PM; Friday and Saturday open at 10AM and go to 9PM, which is when the room is fullest. And yes, the 1973 Dodge Challenger on their About page is real — they traded Pokemon cards for it and named it Scyther.
