A Tour of the HQ

by Crazy Ivan

Among the many must-see destinations in the greater New York area is Myachi's own little slice of the universe, the Myachi HQ.  Like any company, we need a place to operate and through the years that's evolved from Myachi Man's basement to the back of the Myachi Mobile to the dining room at the House of Skills and finally to an actual legitimate office.

We've needed a place to headquarter our operations for quite some time but the financial priorities were always elsewhere in the past.  More important things like making more Myachis, travelling to the trade shows and eating always took precedence.

All of that changed in Spring of last year when one of our partners found us a groovy little spot in Long Island.  It used to be a gym and before that it was a birthday party place so it definitely had some Myachi-mojo already.  We're all about partying and getting people in shape, after all.  We moved in May of 2010 but there was still a lot of work to do.

Even now there's plenty of work to be done.  We have grand plans for the headquarters over the next year or two, but it's already become something of a destination and we've welcomed a bunch of long-term Manaics to tour it.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of the people who would like to see it don't exactly live close enough to come in and take the tour.  Which brings us to this blog...

So imagine that you've just arrived at Myachi HQ.  You got lost along the way because pretty much everyone does.  You had to call Pinky on your cell phone and she just talked you in.  You pulled into the parking lot and you see this sign:

So basically which ever way you go, it's going to be fun...

You're not sure which way to go, but gameroom intrigues you so you follow the arrow to the right.  You walk in (the door creeks really loudly as it scrapes open) and you step into this massive room with a half wall and a game room beyond.  The first thing that hits you is the smell of Myachis, so you look to your left and see this:

Can you say "give me two of everything?"

Now, your instinct is to grab all the Myachis and knock out whoever stands between you and freedom, but you resist the urge.  After all, you saw an air hockey table in the corner and you don't want to make your escape before you have a chance to play it once or twice.  You do, however, want a refreshing and reasonably price Coca-Cola beverage so you drop a buck on that.  Then you take in all the commons, rares and licenced sacks and turn your attention back to the gameroom:

And somehow, with all of this less than 50 yards away, I'm writing a blog...

Looks pretty cool.  Then you hear that all the games are set to "free play" and you can play as long as you want.  Now it looks really cool.  You run around the hockey wall and start showing off your hoop skills.  You try to beat Crazy Ivan's high score on the pinball game but realize that it would take super human reflexes. 

It's about this time that you notice this sound coming from the other room.  It's an unmistakable rhythmic bouncing sound.  A sound that could be made by only one thing...



We've submitted this picture for Webster's use under the entry for "fun".

You might ask yourself why we would have a ping-pong table in our office, but you probably don't have to.  You probably know it's because every office in the world should have a ping-pong table.  In fact, most offices should probably have a row of them, but our office is small enough to make do with only one.  I can see it from my desk and yet somehow I manage to get work done from time to time.

The small window that you see in the midst of that awesome mural?  That's the office just beyond it.  On your tour you're too fascinated by all the cool stuff around you to worry too much about what's in the office but you see Pinky hard at work in there and figure it would be rude not to come in and say "hi".  So then you walk in and you notice all the triple-stitches on Kid's desk and instead of saluting Pinky you make directly for it and get a better look:

So how long did it take you to notice the big Plexiglas pillar full of Myachis on the left?  Oh and, "Hi, Pinky!"

You marvel at all the rares, the old packages, the prototype products that I can't picture here and the sheer Myachi-ness of the room around you.  "Wow... there's so many Myachis!" you exclaim.  Pinky smiles (actually, she was already smiling) and rounds her desk.

"That's not a lot of Myachis," she says, beckoning you to follow her.  "I'll show you a lot of Myachis."

You follow eagerly.  You go past this awesome hallway:

Any chance to sneak in a pic of the mural...

Then you turn this awesome corner:

Now you stay here, I'll go on the other side and toss a Myachi
through the window and you catch it.  Ready?

And into this warehouse full of tens of thousands of Myachis:

Like the Myachi equivalent of the final scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

Now, Pinky explains that there are over 20,000 Myachis in all of those boxes and that there were three times as many in there right before the holiday season, but still you're a bit disappointed.  Sure, there's a lot of Myachis in that picture above, but all you can see are cardboard boxes.  You're just taking Pinky's word for it that they are filled with Myachis.

Strangely, Pinky seems to sense your disappointment.  Now, since this is a magical, "virtual" tour, she doesn't have to worry too much about insurance regulations so she can walk you through the warehouse without getting in any kind of trouble.

"You see that red door?" she asks, pointing deep into the boxes.

"Yeah," you say. 

"Go through there," she invites.

You have to turn sideways and squeeze past a few boxes to get through, but you make it.  You swing open the door and as your eyes rise to the wall of Myachis beyond, you can almost hear an angelic choir filling the air around you:

Actual Myachis on this wall when you come in may vary.

Now, satisfied that you've seen the whole place and happy that you made the trip, you snatch that Yellow Jacket on the top row and that Argyle Lime four in from the left and three up from the bottom, hand Pinky a few bucks for them and head back out to play some ping pong.

Monk is waiting there to challenge you.  He beats you 21 to 6.  Other than that it's a really good time.