Hope you guys are enjoying your school holidays. We are having a chill afternoon if anyone wanted to come play some lazer tag. Here is a completely irrelevant photo of a paint spot that looks like a hamster just because he looks chill.
we close at 5pm
Myra and the zone crew
12/01/2025
Community information post Looking back over town it looks like its building up- stay safe
**the BOM has cancelled the severe thunderstorm warning for the north west coast and central plateau. This post won't be updated again,**
Update 8.27pm - Severe Weather ⛈️Heavy rainfall - north west coast and central plateau.
☔Flood Watch and Act: Fingal and surrounds. The BOM says- moderate peak expectedalong the South Esk at Fingal tomorrow morning.
📷 What does it look like at your place?
👉 The BoM says severe thunderstorms with heavy rainfall - north west coast and central plateau.
⚬ heavy rainfall may lead to flash flooding
⚬ 76 mm was recorded at Monameta in the 6 hours to 12:39 pm.
ℹ️ More Information
⚬ ABC Emergency: https://ab.co/ABC_TAS
⚬ Bureau of Meteorology: https://ab.co/BOMTAS
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08/01/2025
2025 What's going to happen?
Lots is the simple, grammatically and not fully fact checked incorrect answer.
League will be back - we will run several shorter ones across the course of the year with something for the serious to social player once the summers heat is a bitter memory. May even look at running a school/ family/ workplace competition.
Ladies nights - Hoping to kick these off towards the end of March, bit of friendly, social competition followed by a refreshing drink afterwards at a local venue. We also plan to run a few family nights over the next school holidays
Work is underway to partner with another organisation to run several silent discos over the Easter/ winter school holidays. Always keen to look at ways of giving back to the NW community.
Hoping to provide the option of on-line booking for the laser tag side of things.
Escape rooms. We're just reaching the testing stage on our next two offerings. Once these are open to the public we will be opening later on a Friday Saturday night and offering corporate escape room challenges. Not sure of an exact date yet as sometimes what appears to be the simplest step is actually the hardest.
Art- have already got two projects lined up once classes resume, and we plan on giving a few spots a coat of paint as well. Still got plenty of walls that would make a great project.
One thing for certain is that we all have low expectations of Ray's Dad jokes improving any time soon.
We are excited for the zones 10th year - going to be massive.
04/01/2025
Welcome back for 2025.
Lights are on, Slushy machines is filled and we are ready to go.
School Holiday trading -
Monday / Tuesday Closed
Wednesday- Friday 10.00-5.00
Saturday 10.00-6.00
Sunday 12.00-5.00.
Hope everyone had a great New Year and managed to get some rest and relaxation in. More details about 2025 will be released soon once we get the details worked out.
21/12/2024
Hi all. That's a wrap for 2024
Merry Christmas Everyone- have a safe, joyus break and two things:
A: 2025 is going to be great.
B: We are closed for the rest of 2024 and we will see you from the 4th of January 2025.
From all the Zone staff
20/12/2024
Quick easy last minute gift idea- experiences are far better than cheap plastic things.
Doors are open now, till 6.00 tonight and open 10.00-6.00 on Saturday, before we close for the Christmas New Year break..
18/12/2024
Vouchers, Get your Laser tag Vouchers.
Last trading day will be Saturday and closed until the 4th of Jan.
Escape rooms will close on the 20th.
Hope everyone is doing well at this crazy time of year.
14/12/2024
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our wonderful customers.
Zone will be closed from the Close of Business on the 21st and reopening on the 4th of January. During this time we will be a bit harder to contact, but Ray and the crew, deserve a bit of a break before what is going to be a big year.
Will be open for voucher sales and earlier bookings this Wednesday- Friday.
Stay safe and enjoy this time of year.
Ray and the Zone crew.
09/12/2024
At In The Zone we have just added a top line electric scooter into our cutter machine.
Who will be the lucky person to take this home?
A few posts back we mentioned that we have a lot planned for 2025- we've managed to make the first happen.
Stay tuned.
06/12/2024
While spot the cow has moooved on, we have plenty of laser tag vouchers for that thoughtful experience based Christmas gift.
06/12/2024
The new record holders for the quickest escape from Dystopia chilling with a non competitive game of laser tag after their fine effort.
Just a quick heads up the loading zone opposite us ( formly outside Anita Dow's office) has been changed into a 30 minute park while the loading zone has moved down near Toyworld. Rumour has it a few have already been booked.
Have a great weekend.
20/11/2024
Happy 9th Birthday for Just thought to mark the occasion I'd post a few photo blasts from the past. Hope to put a few more up tomorrow.
Also a big shout out to all the customers that have come through the doors over the past 9 years. Cant even do the Triple top mountain run without running into some of you 😂😂
I would like to publicly thank all those that made and continue to make this place possible. It has taken a lot of work, worry, sleepless nights and grind over many years.(with a few jobs to still tick off) to make this happen.
Hoping the rest of 2024 goes well but have a feeling 2025 will be huge....
(some of these images were taken before my time, if you want any removed just ask ).
Ray and the rest of the Zone team
17/11/2024
A couple of new pinball additions to the zones arcade and Gizmo has found a new home (probably shouldn't mention that we were feeding it after midnight)
01/11/2024
Busy week so far, had the Burnie Christmas Carol mob in for a few games and one of their organising meetings. Also Smithton High grade 11 and 12, Hellyer and Indie schools sport and rec groups as well.
Good time to start looking at a few games of Laser tag for the end of year celebrations.
Few spots (both Laser tag and Escape room) available this Saturday and Sunday. Will be closed Monday.
Ray and the Zone crew.
01/11/2024
Have thrown the doors open early on Friday the 1st. So if you are in town for the Student free day or after the Grade 12 Marist Assembly come in for a game.
26/10/2024
A couple of likely characters that successfully got through our Dystopian escape room, with not a lot of time left.
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New Pinball machine went in today.
New lighting setup for the maze. Looks better when your playing tho.
Great day for some family and/or friend fum- Open 10.00-6.00 Saturday and 12.00-5.00 Sunday.
Just a few words that I’ve tried to write a few times but struggled to find the right combination of letters that make sense. March 24 seems so long ago now when we had to close the doors due to government regulation - but it was time. Before long the entire coast was in lock-down with the hospital closed and things were looking pretty bleak for us in the Northwest. But this passed, due to the hard work of the health system, leadership and us, as in all of us working together. All those community groups (grow gather and give, Salvos to name but a few working behind the scenes done some amazing things in an uncertain time. All those front-line service workers who often remain invisible were putting their own safety on the line - the cleaners, the shop assistants to ensure things kept ticking over. The health staff who had to isolate, the teachers (and their students) who was thrust into the world of on-line learning. There are so many that done so much for us all, that got us to where we are now.
Gradually things got better, as the virus wave receded the lock down got lifted in stages. We were busy behind the scenes hopeful that we would soon reopen.The odd message of support was greatly appreciated As things eased we were busy planning how to run a COVID safe business amidst serving packs and the odd splash of paint. But at the same time we were worried about what the economic problems meant for business across the coast including us.
Then it was time to open, to put those plans into action- and opening day was a tough day. It took longer to get things happening, longer to disinfect the packs that I thought. But from that long Saturday we learnt and we think we’ve found the balance between safety and having a great time. Its hard to describe the joy on the face of a young child hanging out for a get together at the zone with his mates, that long awaited catch up that could now happen. Down the track we will start running the family nights again, a date night (for those who want to leave the kids to some else devices) student league and a few other special events as well. But sadly as I finish typing this, the ABC Blog has just said 238 new cases in Victoria, so its not over yet.
Special thanks must go to our landlord who understood where we were at, to those working behind the scenes and most of all to you the customers who have come back. Your support is what puts a smile on my face when I come into work.