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Breaking the Silence

Hello everyone.

We are working behind the scenes and hoping to make announcements soon about registration dates for both Origins and Gen Con.

We will post on Facebook and in the Discord channel when we are able to open things up.

Be sure to get your badges for Origins and Gen Con!

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Origins Game Fair 2026

Badges are now available for Origins attendees. Get yours today!

Event registration is scheduled to open on April 25th.

Here are a few pics from the room last year – the humble beginnings of getting the Consignment Store back going again at Origins after many years away.

Consignment Store Registration opens soon – date to be determined.

  • Be sure to have your account created here
  • On your profile page, confirm our terms and conditions

Origins Registration Opens in March

Hello everyone. We are on track to open registration as planned on March (date to be determined). The Deadline to register items will be June 8, 2026.

Please review our FAQ page for any questions you may have.

  • One thing to be aware of – if you sold with us last year at Origins but not at Gen Con, you would need to create a new account. For convenience and less confusion, we have combined our two sites into one, however we are not able to migrate any Origins accounts to the combined database.
  • Let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns. You can visit us on our Discord Server where we can answer your questions very quickly.

Origins Game Fair is an annual tabletop gaming convention hosted by GAMA: The Tabletop Game Association, held annually in Columbus, OH. With 6,000+ gaming events scheduled throughout the week for attendees, a dynamic vendor hall, special events throughout the weekend and so much more, there’s sure to be something for everyone!

Happy New Year – 2026 is here!

Now is the perfect time to start going through your closets and collections – the Origins Consignment Store will be back for 2026.

New for this year:

  • Multiple day pricing will be in place – different prices can now be set for Friday and Saturday

What will be the same:

  • The location will remain the same
  • Drop off registered items will be on Thursday
  • Sales days will be on Friday and Saturday
  • Seller payout and unsold item pick-up will be on Sunday

Item pre-registration will open in March (date to be determined)

We are planning for Origins 2026

Hello everyone – hopefully everyone had a wonderful summer and are looking forward to the upcoming holiday season.

We are currently working on getting the website updated ahead of 2026 registration.

Look forward to seeing 2-day pricing for this year at Origins Game Fair 2026 – any other changes will be communicated in the coming months ahead of registration opening on March 1, 2026.

Tentative 2025 Live Auction schedule

Thursday 10 am to 11 pm


10:00 amBoard Games: Family / Sci-fi / Fantasy games
12:00 pmWargames: (SPI / S&T / general)
1:00 pmTSR RPGs: OD&D, AD&D, 2nd edition
2:00 pmSpecial event: The Tracy Hickman Collection
3:00 pmSci-fi RPGs
4:00 pmFantasy RPGs, including Mythos
5:00 pmWargames: (AH / MB / general)
7:00 pmBoard games: Sci-fi / Fantasy
8:00 pm Crowdfunding spectacular
10:00 pmAuction After Dark


Friday 10 am – 11 pm


10:00 amBoard Games: General
12:00 pmWargames: GMT / ASL / General
2:00 pmMiniatures: Pre-painted / Unpainted
4:00 pm Upainted miniatures and Games Workshop
5:00 pm Games Workshop
6:00 pmGames Workshop and painted miniatures
7:00 pmD&D 3.0 and up, plus general RPGs
8:00 pmCollector Section


Saturday 10 am to 11 pm


10:00 amBoard games: General
11:00 amBoard games: General / Train Games / LCG
12:00 pmCCGs
1:00 pmCCGs and Board Games: General
2:00 pmAny remaining RPGs and Board Games
4:00 pmTOVA (Toys, Oddities, Video games, Art)
7:00 pmCharity Auction (including Ace of Aces)

Waiver Process

Agreement:

In exchange for a faster auction check-in process you agree to the following:

  1. You shall advise us of any known items that were pre-registered but are not being dropped off.
  2. You recognize that we are not scanning each item individually.
  3. Should an item appear to be missing at the end of the auction, not being recorded as sold and not being among the items returned to the seller, the auction will be held harmless against the loss, since we cannot verify that the item was turned over to us.
  4. You are trusting the auction to do everything it can to prevent items from being misplaced.

Waiver forms can be signed onsite if electing to use this option.

We are extending registration deadlines by 1 day

Maybe we were looking at the wrong calendar year.

Maybe we were thinking it was a leap year.

Regardless – our intent each year is to give you all an entire weekend to get your items registered ahead of Gen Con.

  • Live Auction registration is now extended to end of day (23.59.59) on July 20, 2025.
  • Store registration is now extended to end of day (23.59.59) on July 27, 2025.

Please remember also that no one will be permitted to enter a registration line unless all items are tagged and ready to be processed.

We look forward to seeing you all in Indianapolis.

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