Hobby Shops near Wahiawa, HI

“My friends and I have visited this shop several times to buy a variety of items, including Pokémon booster packs, Magic: The Gathering sets such as Wilds of Eldraine, Bloomburrow, and Foundations. The store also offers dice, Dragonshield sleeves, and other card storage and protection products. Parking is limited in the front, but street parking is available along the side of the building.”

“The shop is small but packed full of ungraded and graded RC's. Baseball, football, basketball, etc. They sell sleeves and top loaders for you collectors and they even have starter boxes with a mix of things for beginners. Friendly staff and good prices!!”

“Welcoming place for all levels of R/C enthusiasts with friendly staff and a good selection of replacement/aftermarket products in addition to the many RTR vehicles they have to offer. A great place to visit if you wish to speak to knowledgeable hobbyists. Ohana is where my friends and I semi-regularly go to for our R/C needs and questions as we are still relatively new to the hobby ourselves.

The only reason why I chose to rate four stars instead of five is due to a recent visit to the store. Over a span of a few months, we've purchased Lectron Pro 2S batteries and Lectron AC-DC chargers in-store. The batteries and chargers have all performed flawlessly, except our most recent purchase of a brand-new Lectron 2S battery. Once we were home, we plugged in the battery to charge it, but an error message appeared on our charger. We repeated the process with the other Lectron batteries we had, and the charger worked perfectly fine, so we believed the battery was at fault. We returned to the shop a few days later and explained the issue to them. When they tested the battery for us, they found that it only held a 1% charge out of the box, whereas it's other factory-new counterparts come stored with higher percentages for the battery's health, much like the exact same Lectron 2S batteries we had purchased from them in the past. This was the reason why the charger wouldn't read the battery terminals; there wasn't enough power stored in the battery from the factory to initiate a charge cycle.

However, the two gentlemen insisted that we had been playing with the battery in our R/C trucks, and were extremely adamant that Ohana R/C doesn't sell batteries with 1% charges out-of-the-box, when in fact we received a faulty brand-new battery.

We simply believe that, from a professional standpoint, the Ohana staff could have at least considered that they POTENTIALLY sold us a bad battery instead of jumping straight to the conclusion that we had wrongly used the battery and accusing us of doing so. My friends and I completely understand that batteries have an all-sales-final policy at Ohana, and completely agree with that policy wholeheartedly given the usage of R/C batteries. No company can guarantee a 100% success rate with each product that leaves the factory, and we received a faulty battery from Lectron/Common Sense RC that just so happened to be on the shelf of Ohana's store. We were not seeking to return or exchange the battery due to Ohana's policy, we simply wanted some pointers and tips in the right direction for some help with our issue, but were immediately met with false accusations. It was this short exchange we had with the Ohana staff that left us slightly frustrated with their customer service aspect. It's NOT Ohana's fault that the battery was faulty, it's the rude way they handled the situation that left us dissatisfied.

Nevertheless, the Ohana staff were extremely helpful in resolving our battery issue in-store by charging it at their charging station to allow enough power to be restored for our charger to be able to read the battery, and they helped with hooking up the battery to our personal charger to ensure our battery would work for us in the future.

We will definitely continue to support them as we still believe they're one of Oahu's best hobby-grade R/C dealers who offer great help and products. We appreciate the staff and all that they do for the R/C community in Hawaii, and although we may have had a slightly unpleasant experience this time, we will continue to support their business regularly and happily.”

“Dragons Lair is an absolute institution in Mililani, and despite recently moving an hour away I still make the drive to check it out. Luke and Catie are both incredibly helpful and are awesome people to talk to.The vibe is relaxed and there’s some communities for table top gaming around! Warhammer 40K, Magic The Gathering, it’s all sweet! Their selection of comics, volumes, cards, and collectibles are great and the prices are always worth the visit.Honestly just be chill and don’t be disrespectful, it’s a chill place!”

“Absolutely fabulously friendly people.
First, Google Maps, please update the pin location. Its a whole row off.
The store is on the last row, by the water. Spent a good amount of time chatting and comparing items, coming out with more than I intended, but definitely satisfied.
A good place to get yard art, wall art, and maybe a gift or two for friends and family.
I'll be returning for any more flag or banner items I need.”

“Customer service is excellent. Ryu is a very nice n helpful guy. I bought nitro gas for my rc truck. Without having to ask, Ryu explain to me about the difference between the nitro gases. I didn't let him know that even if I already knew what he was talking about, it showed what an excellent customer service.”

“The staff member and store were nice. One of the largest selection of warhammer products on island. They even had some boxes that are sold out everywhere like the christmas battleforce boxes. They are also the only store on island with a used/discount bin. Some of the sets in there are worth it but others are not. For example there were 10x infernus marines at $90 whereas the msrp (and price on their shelf) for new in box is $60. Otherwise all their new in box sets are priced exactly at msrp as on the Games Workshop website, which still may be a saving considering shipping costs to Hawaii, but is nowhere near the average 15% discount from an online discount retailer or Amazon I was hoping for. That is on par with other stores on island, though. As such will be giving 5 stars as they are the best on island source, but will likely continue to order from online.

Tldr; Nice store and staff. Best selection of warhammer on island. Sold at GW prices. Will be returning to look for discount/used bin savings and hard to find sets.”

“This place is a gem. The owner is a good person, and really helped me with my deck build. I don't want to blow this place up, but dudes gotta get a positive acknowledgement. Can't wait to go back.”

“I have never been here before. But I happened to pop in on Black Friday (11.25.2022). My son recently got into collecting Pokémon cards, and saw my collection neatly in a binder, so naturally, he wanted to do the same. I stopped at Long's and walmart looking for the plastic card protectors, they werebout of stock at both places! Ugh! Since I was in the area, I stopped in thinking they might have some, but they didn't either. I ended up ordering from Amazon. Anyway, long story short... Such an interesting place to end up in on Black Friday. But I'm glad I did! Mostly everything was 50% off! I ended up with 6 packs of Pokémon cards (4 of which were Japanese packs) for only $16!! What a deal! Still, their prices are good. So I'll be back for more when my son is ready to expand his Pokémon card collection. Yay!”