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Do you remember Lionel Playworld ? I still remember the whole thing that my Shera talking toothbrush said 😆 " Im Shera, Princess of Power I protect Crystal Castle every day every hour To stay fit for my task I eat food that is right And I brush my teeth morning, noon and night So follow my lead and I know you will be Healthy and smiling and happy like me " 🤣🤣🤣
@@hoursintheattic5325 Lionel Playworld, also known as "Kiddie City", was at one point the second largest toy store chain in the country. Their slogan/song used to be: Let Lionel Playworld turn that frown.... upside down. In the TV commercial the kangaroo would jump on a frown and turn it into a smile while the jingle played. We can't forget about the most popular toy store at the mall.... "KB Toy Store".
As soon as you mentioned a "familiar whiff" i knew you were talking about the bike tires. Could always smell those aisles away. We rarely went to the store. And we bought something even less often. But I still remember loving it. And I could have killed for one of those shopping sprees.
I worked at TRU in the mid 90s. When I think of all of the store-related tickets, coupons, flyers, etc I used to fish out of my pockets at the end of a shift and throw in the trash... Man, I wish I'd held on to some of it. Took me a long time to get past my horrible work memories and get back to my great childhood customer memories.
Being a kid in the 80s was amazing! I miss the vintage design of the striped buildings. There was something magical about it. I always left with colored soap spray for the bathtub. It was always at the entrance.
I was born in 1967. My childhood was spent going to our local 🦒Toys🦒R🦒Us🦒. We had one right down the road from our house, off South 27th Street and Howard Avenue. It was the most special place a kid could go to! I got my MEGO Superheroes Action Figures back in the early to mid 70's. Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Tudors Electronic NFL Football!, TYCO & AFX🚗🏁🏎Slot car racing, and Star Wars figures, ships, playsets, and other necessities.....lol. It was THE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS of a childhood. Hearing Mom or Dad say, "Do you want to go to Toys R Us?" You couldn't get changed or ready fast enough! Even into my 30's, 40's, and 50's I'd still get that chill, that excitement feeling that you'd get when you'd walk in. When they closed for good decades of memories, gone. It was and still is DEVASTATING!
I am almost 70 and still a Toys R Us kid. In fact I worked at one building bicycles in 2012. It was a pretty good job. The toy sections in Walmart & Target are pathetic compared to what Toys R Us had. I was sad to hear that they were closing down.
we had a pretty amazing toys r us near us growing up. i pretty much got all my toys from there into adult hood. Loved when the seasonal stuff would come out.
I used to work at Toys R Us. I was employed there for a little over a year. I worked through two Christmas seasons. That kinda ruined all the magic for me. :)
Hazlet NJ was the one near me. It was a Child World before that, OH yeah, you bet. When I was 19 I worked there seasonally for Christmas. Many memories. Great video!
I hated their video game slip system. Even if you were lucky enough to find a slip for the game you wanted, there was always the likely chance they were still out of stock when you gave them the slip at the checkout. I can't count how many trips there ended with disappointment in not getting the game I wanted. Still loved the store overall though. Also, I'll never forget one Easter when I was little. My mom randomly took me to Toys R Us without me even asking and I ended up getting an entire full set of Monster In My Pocket figures. That was such an amazing day.
This might be my favorite episode....only bc I lived and breathed TOYS R US - especially those slips. Love the homage to the best cartoon ever lol I spent every weekend at TOYS R US when I was a teen with my friends - we were mall rats at toys r us just to hang out. and ride the biks. Pull the bikes off the top shelves and ride them aroudn the store and get ein trouble lol I also loved the toys r us holiday catalogue. Action figure aisle + bikes + video games. Thats where I was. The video game demo kiosks were the best lol
I do miss Toy R Us. Growing up in the 80s it was exciting times when my brother and I got to go to Toys R Us. We had all the popular toys that they still make this very day. Star Wars, TMNT, Power Rangers, and Gi Joe and we are both avid collectors. I have a mini Toys R Us at my house from all the toys I have collected over the years. My brother the same. You can say we are always going to be Toys R Us kids. So it was really tough seeing the downfall of a great embodiment of our childhood go down the tubes. Sure you have these small sections or remnants of Toys R Us in Macy's stores in the US, but it's not the same. You don't have that same feeling as you had when walking in the big stores. I am happy my kiddos got to experience a little magic before it disappeared from existence. I think Toys R Us would be very successful with big stores again because Walmart and Target really struggle with setting up their toy sections. They have limited space and some collectibles are on the back wall and not very organized. It's just a mess and it's the same at Walmart. So much is scattered. I have some really good marketing ideas for Toys R Us and I believe it can lead to a successful resurrection of the greatest Toy Store ever...
Growing up in Oregon, we had one but it was over 3 hours away. Only got to go a handful of times. Was overjoyed when as an adult we moved to Texas and had one in town. Was able to take my kids a few times before it closed. But was heartbreaking telling them that it wasn't coming back.
I worked there in the mid-late 90's as a "ticket writer", the person you gave those little yellow slips to at the desk to pick up your video games. I still have all the swag the national marketers for Nintendo and Sony would give me when they visited the store to service their merch and displays. All manner of branded Pins, buttons, pens, toys, shirts, hats, etc. On top of that, I also kept a ton of the promotional 34 x 34 wall posters, standers and displays. It's all back at my parents house up in the attic. No one wanted that stuff then and it was all destined for the dumpster so I took it all.
Ahh... so many memories packed into this video. I loved Toys R Us. Infact, even as an adult I loved being able to go their to shop for my kids. When they closed, it really did crush me a bit.
This one hurts. My kid just discovered TRU right before shut down. I used to get the mystery comic packs when I was a kid. 50 or 100 in a pack. This is what happens when these hedge fund companies “invest”. See also: Sears Penny’s KB Borders and oh Barnes and Noble has one circling now.
Still have Toys R Us here in Canada, though as a kid I my parents would take me to Zellers, The Hudson Bay Company (The Bay) and sometimes Wal-Mart, my family and I would only go to Toys R Us if my siblings and I were well behaved...or out of boredom.
I remember going to a toys r us when i was 4 and it was amazing for me. so many toys and games and they even had a console set up with mariokart on it, it was incredible! due to it being an hour away in a different city i didnt go there very much. Then one day about 3 years ago we where getting birthday presents for my brother and one of our stops was toys r us, but by then we could tell it was ending. it was just so sad, there where no set up consoles, no cool lighting and nothing that was cool about it anymore. There where emty shelves of stuff wich i thought where sold out toys but they where actually bits where suppliers had stopped shipping goods to the store. Due to the new big and hip toy store on the other side of the city the toys r us was losing business and because of that, losing sales. The building was just so old compared to this new one that it just couldnt keep up with the times. It closed a few years after and replaced by a charity store that only uses like a quarter of the space so you can still see the old remnants. What funny is that due to it being next to the road and one of the sides is on a glass panel (it was built with a new car park) for safety reasons it cant be taken down, and the other sign on the front of the store the charity shop doesnt have the money to take the other one down so the sign still remains there as a reminder of what used to be in that very building
I don't remember going to Toy R Us all that often .. most of my toys came from K-mart, TG&Y or Wal-Mart when they became a thing. I seem to remember stuff was more expensive there, and you could get the same stuff in other stores .. eventually anyway.
The handheld game section with handhelds,watch games and tabletop games was a favorite section of the store for me,also loved the STAR WARS aisle/those were the best memories that I will nerver forget/great fun times
The picture at 1:44 is the exact same location i went to as a child in the 2000s in alabama. It still had its old 80s look all the way until it closed down in 2018.
Man I miss TRU 😥. I was super thankful we kept having extended family have kids because I would always go to TRU for the feels and the toys. I never caught a character visit there but I did get some specialty TRU box give aways.
I was born in November 1984 R.I.P : blockbuster video , Hollywood video - other movies rented places / Toys R US , Kmart , Sears / Other regional stores - places are no longer open
I remember the matchbox toy cards and the hot wheels. Always transformers and power rangers and lego as well! Then Yu-gi-Oh and Pokemon Jesus christ......what a trip! xD !
34, grew up in NJ in Passaic County. I grew up about 20 minutes from the headquarters in Wayne, NJ. The one that I have the fondest memories of are of the one on Route 4 in Paramus NJ. This and (No Body Beats) the Wiz defined my childhood.
@@NerdOutWithMe Oh wow! The legendary Pine Barrens! Toys R Us is back in paramus (in very watered down form - a small store in Garden State Plaza - this was the case at least about a year ago.) I know there is a toys r us now also in the American Dream Mall in the Meadowlands
WHOA!! WHOA!! WHOA!!! There would not be a Toys R Us without Child World Toy Store and the Peter Panda mascot!!! (I sadly worked at Child World the year they tanked. It was very sad. And to put salt in the wound - was literally taken over and converted to Toys R Us. Bitterness toward that giraffe!!! )
I went to ToysRUS once every week or two during the 80s and into the early 90s, Atari and Intellivision on through the Super NES, Transformers, GI Joe, so great. Actually the store manager was murdered in the store at my ToysRUs a few years back, yikes!
When I was young, we didn't have anything like TRU in my town. Instead, on special occasions my mom and I would make the long drive to the nearest Lionel Playworld. It wasn't until the later '80s that TRU finally opened a store where I lived, but by then I was in high school and didn't care much about toys anymore. I ended up getting a job there, but it wasn't a great experience -- especially during Christmas.
I remember going to the grand opening of our toys R us store somewhere in the mid 80s I believe and there was a big parade of different characters as a kid it was pretty awesome. Always wanted to win the sweepstakes to spend 5 minutes grabbing anything in Toys R us, I signed up to the contest once or twice and my goal if I won was just making a beeline to the video games and clearing out the consoles and the games.
Dude... i have a near Photographic memory of my Toys R Us... i was the only child my Parents had, until we Adopted my Cousin as my brother when i was around 13 or 14, but every Saturday my mom would give me $10, which id split with my then just cousin "like i said we adopted him later, but at that point he'd come stay with us every summer, and then later he'd start staying every weekend, then finally stayed for good lol" but id split that $10 with him, and we'd both get a Ninja Turtle.. and that is some of the happiest memories of my life...
You should do a video about going bowling with your friends when you were young and going to the arcade after. At Hollywood Bowl getting to pay £1 for 3 songs on the juke box.
TRU died to me when they switched the aisle configuration and cannibalized large portions for BRU. It became just a frenetic mess boxing the sections in. The last thing I bought was Smash Bros for Gamecube. The owners destroyed TRU starting in the early 90s with so many poor decisions. They refused to merge alongside other companies as well as create friendlier stores and shopping experiences and a decent online presence so by 2000 it was barely recognizable and just a dying company. I met individuals I knew from HS around the shopping center where you'd either hang out or have lunch that were working there in the 00's and they would tell me it was the most miserable experience of their lives.
Super cool to be a kid in the 80’s and 90’s. It was the last era where you could have an actual Hans on shopping experience. Not like the boring, lame online shopping for the lazy today. Sad
I admit, I have no nostalgia for Toys 'R Us. The one we had here was usually a disappointment any time I went. We had Children's Palace and two Kay Bee stores for years before TRU came along. I have much more fond memories of them. I'm sorry it just wasn't a big thing for me.
I was talking to Chicken Dynasty about it recently, and he said the same. I guess it mastered were you grew up and such. Maybe I need to do a Kaybee store episode!
Yeah, I'm sure many of the Toys 'R Us stores were great, ours just wasn't. My memories of Children's Palace mirror yours of TRU. I can close my eyes and picture the layout of the store completely. And a Kay Bee episode would be cool.
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