Open Pod Nights Spring 2024
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.
The Kalamazoo BattleTech VR pods returned to the Marmalade Dog gaming event hosted by the Western Michigan Gamers Guild at the Bernhard Center March 17, 18, and 19. This event (free to WMU students) is an annual gaming event and originally served as the "test event" for our mobile pod operation. We are grateful to again be ...
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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, ...
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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.
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 ...
In an effort to better inform and educate our VGL community, the official BattleTech Pod Tracker is online at http://podtracker.battletech.com
21 pods at GenCon 2018, a new record!
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 ...
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New 'tech at Origins
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...
Step into the cockpit at Fallout Shelter Arcade
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.
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.
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 ...
According to the Super-Secret FaceBook Tesla Cockpit Owners Group, BattleTech Firestorm 5.07d is out for testing and evaluation.
You can play it ...
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Contrary to what the internet trolls may tell you.
We are not dead yet!
Along with 4 independently operated public sites in Michigan, ...
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