Game changers
Features added to arcade, laser tag arena and outside area
Brickopolis in Bricktown has added new features to its laser tag arena and other improvements as it continues to build its business.
Brickopolis is all about fun.
And owner Chris Johnson hopes to add to customers’ enjoyment of the entertainment center with various improvements he’s made for this year.
From the operation’s Laser Tag Arena to its arcade, customers will find new ways to enjoy themselves at the center, 101 S Mickey Mantle Drive.
Johnson also added two new features that are sure to be hits with people on the entertainment center’s canal corner location.
In addition to the 18-hole miniature golf course and sluice mining attractions, Johnson installed a “Klime Wall” that includes ascent timers and an ultimate bungee jump ride.
“They (kids) love that (the bungee jump) more than they do the Klime Wall,” Johnson said. “We are going to actually going to add another one— we’ve got room.”
Brickopolis’ building includes about 25,000 square feet of space. On the entertainment center’s canal level, it offers a small retail space and group party facilities.
On the street level, across from the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, it offers a burger bar, cafe and a full-service bar with some outside seating overlooking the canal.
On Brickopolis’ top level, the building’s north half is the entertainment center’s main arcade. The south end is the center’s Laser Tag Arena, which Johnson has upgraded with new features that make the course more challenging for players.
Essentially, he’s added alien fixtures that players can both shoot at and be shot by, in addition to battling combatants from opposing teams. He said 28 players can simultaneously participate in laser tag, splitting into two or more teams.
Lateria Allen, Brickopolis’ general manager, said the center brought the enhanced laser tag improvements online in March, and that they’ve been well received.
“We wanted to make it more interactive,” Allen said. “With the targets, you are able to shoot at them to get points, but they can shoot back at you and take you down.
“So, you are not just playing against a team, you also are playing against the arena. Everyone enjoys it, because they are not just in here tagging each other.”
Allen said a typical laser tag session lasts about 20 minutes, with half that time being used to give players a pregame briefing.
Arena customers, she continued, vary from youths to corporate staffs, and said even grandparents often play, competing against the youngsters they bring there to have fun.
Brickopolis also has added several new arcade games.
Johnson said traffic counts at Brickopolis are outstanding on weekend days and evenings, and said customers are appreciative for the family entertainment it offers.
“On spring break, we surpassed what we did the first year we were open,” said Johnson, noting the business has been open about 20 months, “and we are hoping that we will do better this summer than we did a year ago as well, now that people know that we are down here and that we are adding these new attractions.”
But there’s room for his business to grow, Johnson said, adding that’s why the company spent about a quarter-million dollars this year to make the improvements.
“I believe we will have room to offer a lot more fun to people.”