Might be Funner

I've always had the dream of getting alot of people and flat out buying a Home Depot or Lowes; the building and everything in it. Then splitting up into teams and taking anywhere from a week to two weeks to take anything and everything to design and build a fort on seperate sides of the place. Both teams have equal access to everything so creativity and resourcefulness would be the biggest variable. I just always imagined while walking through the different ways to use the aisles with whatever they held in so many different ways to add a cool aspect of play you wouldn't usually have in a typical game. And the battle ultimately after both sides had finished building would be epic. That would be fun.

Yeah same here. I always thought about buying a big apartment store and having a giant paintball war.

sounds fun

Get all the forumers to pitch in. 

I think it would be more than that. The huge racks probably add up some cost and all the heavy equipment such as lawnmowers.

t_hop wrote: The Guy wrote: any idea how much a building that size costs? I priced it out because i was looking at renting an old Sam's Club to build an indoor field, they wanted $400,000 a year. ya and thats not even including all the merchandise. If somebody was to buy a complete Lowes or Home Depot fully stocked with the building I'm sure it could be close to a half a mil.

Umm, guess again guys.  Home Depot stores average $36 million in sales per year. The buildings alone run $3-4 million. I am not sure of the exact figure, but based on sales figures and estimating approx retail mark up, I would guess an average store probably has between $3-6 million in on hand inventory at any given time.

 

ya and i don't have to chip in cuz it was my idea...

Let me know how finding 500 people with an extra $10k just lying around goes for ya.

I realize, it is just a day dreaming kind of thing and yeah, it would be cool, but in practicality....

dude aim lower try buying out something that would only be temporary, I wonder if the schools would be up for letting us put plastic bags all over walls n stuff then using it for like 3 weeks then cleaning up and paying them a nice fee and we donate some money and make the school look good for holding "fundraiser" and making this sick afterschool program, we hype it up even more all over and they feel happy for making cash and getting better rep?

Or maybe even use reball, youd have everyone not calling hits but it would still be alright.

I'm with you! I have always wanted to play Urban Paintball just to see how it feels like. Like you know, SWAT style. A big building, 2 teams , 1 to defend and hold the hostages or important items (laptop, bags, documents, etc) and 1 to attack and rescue the hostages or steal the important items, of course, there would be a certain amount of time to finish up the mission!