I guess the way it works is that if you don't have a dedicated team in each sport before you get…read moremarried, you adopt your person's team when you do get married (or get serious). Or at least, that's what happened to me in my marriage. My husband is a die hard Magic fan, probably since birth and since Montreal doesn't have a basketball team, I was like (meh) sure *shrug*! It keeps the house in harmony. The things you do for love LOL. But, don't worry, it's all good. I've got hockey covered. Go, Habs, go!
After spending some time at Lake Eola Park, my husband took us to the Orlando Magic Team Shop (OMTS) to look around and see if there were some things we liked.
- Parking -
It was mid-afternoon on a Friday and there was street parking right in front and it was free!
- Vibe -
Located at the corner inside the Amway Center (and for you non-Magic fans, it's their home arena), if you can't find the fan gear you're looking for, for the Orlando Magic here, I don't know where else you are going to find it! I found the store layout to be a little awkward, more specifically the back section where there is a door that connects to the arena. It was pretty narrow and full of merchandise with a cash register right next to the door. I can't imagine what a bottleneck it must be on game day.
- TLC -
We were greeted upon arrival and there were at least 3 employees working and they were pretty chill. They stayed behind the counter in the main cash register area for the duration of our visit while patrons were coming and going.
- My thoughts -
Like I said, whether you are a seasoned fan or you just joined the club, there is a section for every person or thing, furry or not, in your fan club. Men, women, kids, babies and fur babies, you name it, they have it. The selection was quite extensive in each category too. They even swapped out the blue team colors to pink for the little girls. I personally like the blue better though. They had the cutest things for the little babies like full track suit, onesies, branded binkies, sippy cups and Mickey & blanket combo. Lots of Stuff merchandise too and for non-fans, it's the Orlando Magic's mascot, Stuff, the Magic Dragon haha. I always thought that that was so clever. My only thing with the store were the prices! But I guess since I am a fan by marriage, I don't understand the full value of the investment? T-shirts were reasonable, but there were some polo shirts that were priced at over $150 dollars and I wondered if Nikola Vucevic had made it himself. The shirts really weren't anything special. For that price, at the very least, I would expect embroidered logos or something?
All in all, it was fun browsing the store and checking out the variety of Magic merchandise available. We can't really find any Magic merchandise in abundance outside of FL, so we make it a point to visit whenever we are in town and pick up another item to sport for the season, now that we live this close.