I've passed this store a million times and never felt the compulsion to enter it, as my days of smoke shops ended over a decade ago in Austin with the mother of all smoke shops, Planet K. Luckily, we are in Houston where there are no zoning laws and the adult toy shops don't attract weekly vice raids demanding to hand over the dildos and inflatable sheep along with the "water pipes".
My friend was looking for a pipe and they had an incredible array of art glass pipes, including local handmade ones in the $100-$250 range which were shaped into Yoda, pit bull dogs, a blue squirrel, a hot dog and a hamster complete with tiny pink nub tail and feets. Awwww, light up and pass the glass hamster on the left hand side, bra! While he was looking for whatever it was in particular (I don't smoke), I was looking at the deluxe adult toy case full of Lelo brand items, which are the gold standard in silicone toys. While none of the stores carrying Lelo price them as low as online retailers such as babeland.com, Fantasy has them at a good deal cheaper than Erotic Cabaret but the other items one finds at EC are certainly lacking, along with EC's great customer service. I can't really expect the half-stoned dude at Fantasy to give me an honest opinion on which Lelo product will best (blank) my (blank) when he's not a cute alterna lady like myself or the EC staff.
Warning: if you cannot produce an ID in Fantasy, they will tell you to leave the store. My friend didn't have his and asked to buy some sort of herbal product, which sparked an interest from the clerk in suddenly proving his age or whether he was vice or something, which was odd considering that he & I have been in several 18+ places without such questioning. Friend slunk out of the store and the clerk asked if I still wanted the pipe, which was a bit ridiculous as I was NOT the one looking at the pipes in the first place, so that sort of meant that the clerk really didn't care about under aged persons using the product, just didn't want someone without ID in the store. Had he let my friend finish shopping, it would've been to his benefit as we simply went to another smoke shop to finish buying the accessories to the tune of another $100 or so. I do understand the importance of underage people not being in the shop but if a cop walked in, seems like the clerk could simply say that he hadn't had a chance to check IDs yet and my friend has enough facial piercings & tattoos to be mistaken for Pinhead so it could easily be overlooked as to age. I'm obviously a grizzled old hag thus no one asks for my ID anymore.
Fantasy is wall to wall crammed full of smoke stuff, a "meh" collection of adult novelties outside of the Lelo items, lots of stoner toys like action figures of famous people (Poe, Shakespeare, some pope, etc), hula dolls and topless gals to stick on your dashboard, retro repros of signs, cards, etc, sort of like a Spencer's without all the Linkin Park stuff. Or maybe it was there, buried under the coconut bongs and Grateful Dead roach clips, I dunno.
In conclusion, have ID when you go to pick out your "water pipe" that looks like Spongebob or a sea cucumber or an alien smoking a bowl. If you want a Lelo product *now* but don't want to wait to have it shipped, this is also a good choice though I caution you that many of the items are sold straight out of the display case, meaning you need to wash it thoroughly before use more so than if it were in a sealed package. Unless that's part of the thrill for you, honey.
Lots of cig brands, again not a smoker of anything other than Djarum cloves on occasion so can't quote whether the prices are lower than Hollywood or any other surrounding shop. Not the friendliest service but at least he got his pipe. read more
