Open Pod Nights 2026 Dates

2026 Pod Dates Saturday February 28th (This might take place at WMU for Marmalade Dog, More to come) Saturday March 21st Saturday April 18th Saturday May 16th (Pending Spring Invasion Weekend) Usual schedule / weather caveats apply.

GenCon 2024 is a GO!

Catalyst Game Labs is bringing the original "Chicago 8" Virtual World Tesla II BattleTech pos to GenCon to be part of the 40th BattleTech Anniversary Celebration

Bring pods to YOUR next event

Contact PropWash@MechJock.Com to see how we can help elevate your attendee experience with 6-12 Virtual World Entertainment Tesla: II cockpits featuring BattleTech: Firestorm and Red Planet.

Our Patreon is live! Help keep them flying!

https://www.patreon.com/VGLUKalamazoofeaturingtheVWEBattleTechCenterCockpits/membership

Pods back in Kalamazoo

Pods were first.

Chris "Lynx" Chapman in association with Virtual World Entertainment LLC is currently producing a series that aims to tell the real story of Virtual World and The BattleTech Center. Who better to tell the story than those who were there and created it all! Featuring: Jordan Weisman, L. Ross Babcock, Mort Weisman, ...

More legacy BattleTech Center footage found on You Tube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSFgU_Cvz8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1pum371FEdugLndC4D_t9mb-2wNKRv2ROjmriIaKLamssn807Uqmuda2U

Spring Invasion 2019 Announced

The VGL Pod Bay in Grand Rapids, Michigan will again host the sort-of annual weekend-long open pod event starting on Friday, May 31st and will end on Sunday June 2nd. This will serve as the final scheduled "Large Open Event" until BroctoberFest in the Fall.

Were back!

The annual BroctoberFest event returned to its glorious form at the new VGL site in Grand Rapids, MI and saw over 60 attendees from 5 states. Attendees included long-time Chicago BattleTech Center employees and fans from around the MidWest. The new(and private) site is the closest thing to the original "BTC vibe" we've ...

Talk Smack. Kick Butt. Keep Score at Dragon*Con!

Where are they now? BattleTech VR Pod Tracker

In an effort to better inform and educate our VGL community, the official BattleTech Pod Tracker is online at http://podtracker.battletech.com  

That makes 21

21 pods at GenCon 2018, a new record!

GenCon, ACEN, Montreal, Oh My!

So much news, so little time. 1: GenCon: Big Kids Games, MechJock, and The Fallout Shelter are joining forces for GenCon 2018 to bring you the largest VWE Tesla Cockpit deployment EVER. The GenCon deployment will feature 21 Tesla II cockpits with both Red Planet and BattleTech: Firestorm. We have also learned that you will ...

PropWash speaks!

Virtual World Entertainment attends MechCon 2017 for big MechWarrior Mercs Announcement!

MechCon 2017 See the Piranha presentation MC'd by our friends at "No Guts No Galaxy" [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hmksMrWJBE[/embedyt]https://www.youtub...

Record Setting 14 pods at GenCon

Rooster Teeth Expo

Out with the old, in with the new

New 'tech at Origins

Get your 5.07 Mech Sheets

The BattleTech Center Experience is back on the road again!

For the 8th year consecutive year, our cadre of seasoned Tesla II cockpit operators will again be bringing the BattleTech Center experience to conventions around the United States. MechCorps: Mobile Armored Division : Southern Region CyPhaCon, Lake Charles, LA. April 7-9 MechaCon, New Orleans, LA. July 28-30 Dr...

Fallout Gets Love

Step into the cockpit at Fallout Shelter Arcade

Tesla II Cockpits getting custom MFD LCDs

Pod site Operator Frank "Cyd" Galatis, of the Fallout Shelter Arcade in Minneapolis, Minnesota has started shipping new turn-key LCD kits to replace the CRT based MFD monitors. Look for more information on this new and exciting development.

5.07d

According to the Super-Secret FaceBook Tesla Cockpit Owners Group, BattleTech Firestorm 5.07d is out for testing and evaluation. You can play it at the MechCorps site in Houston, the Fallout shelter Arcade in Minneapolis, or Big Kidz Games in Grand Rapids.

Were not dead yet!

Contrary to what the internet trolls may tell you. We are not dead yet! Along with 4 independently operated public sites in Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Texas, Virtual World Entertainment, LLC. still supports and coordinates the efforts of a cadre' of cockpit owners who appear at various pop-culture, anime, and ...