Docking Bay 94 Comics and Games

My first time here and I’m impressed. Clean and brightly lit. Logan was incredibly helpful and he even gave me a bit of a deal since I was from out of town and it was my first time there. I walked out with some comics to fill holes in my collection and my wife even came out of there saying how much she liked it. If I lived in the area I’d certainly come back.

Nice small comic book store. Many gamers playing and newer comics. Not a large selection of older comics & collectibles.

Love this place!!! My daughter is a major Pokemon fan, I’m so happy I’ve found a place to take her to interact with other kids who love the game as much as she does. The staff are awesome, so nice!!! Our family is so happy we found this place!!!

Hands down my favorite comic shop. Blows all the others out of the water. Has a nice small business feel with a very friendly and helpful staff. If they don’t have something you want they can order it you. I wouldn’t dream of shopping anywhere else. Always having fun events like magic the gathering and comic culture club (club is every Tuesday 8:30). Best comic shop around.

Not too bad of a shop. Prices are fair, space is limited and tight. Get there early to avoid parking issues. Store is clean for the most part. Odd thing that the restroom is behind the desk in their back room. Event started on time for the most part and was kept on time.

This is my friendly neighborhood comic book store. It’s a great place to meet other people into comics and games. The owner is very nice and helpful.
It has the feel of a neighborhood store. It might be small but it has everything I need. If I want something that’s not in stock they order it. I’m new to Magic and the staff and gamers are always helpful.
Great store!!!

This is also known as DOCKING BAY 94.
Literally stocked from wall to wall of comic books, action figurines, and game trading cards. This may be a little small to some people as it is roughly under 1000 sq ft, but they’ve rearranged the store floor plan to create more table space for those who want to play card games and other board games. The employees are boisterously nice and friendly.
Location is great for those who live in Boca and surrounding towns as it’s out west on 441 just north of Hillsboro/​WalMart. But parking is very limited as some people will be forced to park on the unpaved grounds in front of the store or not be able to park anywhere at all. The store is kind of tucked away and does not display the actual name that everyone (and on FB) knows it as «Docking Bay 94», so instead it has «Comics & Games» in big red letters.
The audience of players and customers are usually the younger crowds ranging from 11 to early 20s. There are some older gentlemen and a few that are very competitive. They have reasonable prize support, do store credit, and have a ton of singles on display for Magic the Gathering. They have a ton of comics and probably do most of their business in comics.

I’m far from a comic book aficionado. I don’t even think I’ve ever read one from front to back, but as a kid I remember collecting them (for the artwork). My Silver Surfer, Spidey and X-​Men game is thick. Lost Realms might not even be the name of this store anymore because I keep seeing something called Docking Bay 94 in the same location. 99.9% of the world’s population would have no idea what that name means, but for those who aren’t in the know, it’s a docking bay in Mos Eisley (Star Wars). Talk about obscure geek references.
But geek is okay. Geeks don’t waste tax payers money. Geeks don’t pan handle. Geeks don’t make your insurance premiums sky rocket. Geeks don’t steal car radios. Geeks read comics and invent stuff like iPODs, Facebook and hack into the most sophisticated databases in the world.
This past weekend I spent all of 15 minutes inside this store. I got my geek on. It felt good too because comic book stores are not pretentious like a lot of music stores. You won’t find guys like Jack Black from High Fidelity questioning your every move. There are fanatics and then there are novice dudes. I happened to stop in there because I was in need of some protective pages for sports cards, yet another really geeky thing to be doing at my age. Geeks don’t know the acronym YOLO but it applies for everything, even comic book store shopping.
I’m a digger so when I go to places like record stores in NYC I can spend hours. I collect shit. Shit I can’t take with me when I’m 6 feet deep, but for some reason my drug is collecting things. I’m not a hoarder. I don’t collect garage sale shit. I collect shit that allows me to relive my wonder years. You smoke that sticky icky, I collect baseball cards and records. Too each his own.
Anyways, this store is one of the few left. In fact, it may be the only comic store in a 50 mile radius. It provides an outlet to a specific demographic. Their actual comic selection isn’t that deep and it looks that that Pokeman card stuff has taken over this culture. The store is literally filled with kids trading cards. The point of this review is, if you collect these cards or comics or just want a place to go to where you can look at comics and all that jazz– this is it. Get your geek on and feel welcomed by the very friendly and helpful staff.
It’s okay to be a geek. They rule the world and created Unilocal for us too!

I cringe and chuckle at the thought of visiting this or any comic book store. Not only are comics not my thing but the stereo-​typical kids congregate here that are not part of the «in-​crowd». Those were my first thoughts but a rare thing occurred, I was wrong. I was with a friend who asked if I minded making a quick stop after lunch; of course he didn’t mention it was a comic book store. We pull up and I had proof that the kids (and adults here are outcasts). The store clerks (roughly aged 20 to 35 years old) were all dressed as different super heroes. The store was littered with little kids asking them questions with that look a kids has when they talk to their idols. I started to realize, yeah, they do march to the beat of their own drum but it was nice to see people not putting on a front or act to hide who they are. I stand corrected and as goofy as it is, I think it was kinda interesting how happy these «adults» seemed and how it seemed like they had real pride about what they were doing. It also didn’t hurt that superwomen was rather hot.
If you’re looking for new comics, old collectable comics, super hero figurines, kiddy card type games (like Pokemon) or want to debate Stan Lee trivia, then this is your place. If you are pretentious, snobby, arrogant or egotistical, then stay away and let these happy free-​thinkers continue with their own «in-​crowd»

Great place awesome games comics and collectibles.
I love this place, they run good deals and offers specialy if you are a subscriber, ti helps to get the deals when you collect alot of tittles, they run frequent tornaments video games magic pokemon heroclix just to name some.

Good old, Johnny! I think he’s good to his loyal regulars. I stop by when I’m in town.

This started off as a response to Heather S., but it looked so much like a Unilocal,I thought I’d just go ahead and post it.
The new location is alright. I’m more of a gamer: card games like Magic, and went there for a city champs event. I don’t play often, but like to stop by and play every once in a while.
When I first moved to Boca, they were in that really big space in Sandalfoot, but no one came. Now, they have more of a used bookstore feel, as it is like an old house with different rooms. An office-​y room that is not for the public, and the main room when you enter.
They still have a full wall of comics, and a case or two of busts, figurines, etc. There was one girl working there, but I didn’t catch her name. Everyone was very friendly. I guess the Magic tournaments are run by someone else (Josh) and not always at this store. Still, there were two rows of tables and plenty of room

It’s been years since I’ve visited the store, which recently moved to its new Pompano Beach location. Moving was one of my first suggestions when I became manager of the store in 2005. For a while, I was afraid that the store wasn’t going to survive, especially with competition from the newly opened and highly organized Boca Comics on Federal Highway. Surprisingly, several months after I moved from Boca Raton to Upstate New York (I’d stopped working at the store a year and a half beforehand) Boca Comics bit the dust, and it seems that Lost Realms is doing very well for itself. Because of the owner John’s obvious commitment to keeping his store in synch with good business management, I give the store four stars, and urge you to visit and review the new store.