Amazing Toys R Us 1980 Star Wars Kenner Footage 

Hell ya!!! It was amazing being a kid in the early 80’s!

Yes it was bro! I was 6 in 1980 myself..the cartoons, the sitcoms, the video games, man I wouldn't trade it for the world!!

I was eleven. Saw Star Wars opening day at the Chinese Theater, Empire opening day at the Egyptian, quarters lined up on Pac Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark just around the corner... my kids will never know how good we had it.

@@misterarkadin Yes Sir I understand that!

I think being late 80’s was even better to be a kid because I also had He-Man Mask Transformers and GI Joe 😁😍😍😍

It’s so sad now a days, my local Toys R’ Us is gone, and the Star Wars area in say, Target is absolutely minuscule. And Walmart? Good luck finding _any_ figures there. Very sad.

@andyalpha68 amen brother! If you wanted to make a kid starry eyed back then you went down the aisle with Star Wars toys at Toys r Us

@andyalpha68 Sucks I missed out a lot, my mom never had a driver’s license and pop’s was so greedy he never let me have toys, would rather throw his money on booze and gambling. I know this was random, just it really sucked seeing other kids get stuff and I never had anything though it was available.

I would have shared with you, man. I had some doubles of stuff because of Christmas! In 1980 I was 9 and by that time I think I had every figure sometimes times 2 and almost every spacecraft and playset. I was the Black kid whom the other Black kids called the Star Wars nerd LOL@@Mr.Obongo

Exactly. As a kid I remember even young teenagers working knew what was up. Now you go into most box stores and the workers are brain dead 💀 lol. Like zombies. I have definitive memories of the ROTJ era as a kid. The funny thing is when Star Wars stock was dumped on the market in the middle 80’s and later some over stock they would sell out at lightening speed. Funny how they say it tailed off. GL should have released some spin offs in the late 80’s. We looked to Captain Power and other genres but they never panned out for what ever reason. They missed out on billions.

@@darthwizzywizard G.I.JOE was a great back up for me and TRANSFORMERS was there to fill in the SPACE but STAR WARS was still wanted way after the last Figure shipped, they pitched a spin off line but Lucas declined.

@@AudioAndroid I bought them all too as well. It’s weird though how they even shut down the lines on those. Because the demand was still there. Less production was all. As kids in Christmas’s time we all talked about this stuff. In 1990 etc. we still wanted them even older gens but for the box art.

Professionally dressed and speaking proper standard English.

@@coloneljackmustard Mr Mustard knows his Mustard! 🏆🇬🇧

...that was back when parents were parents....not pals.

I read that as "peasant children".

Not to mention, non of that whiney uptalking tone that has possessed everybody these days except Noah and His family.

back when the cost of living was such that a single income family could afford somewhere to live, food and even have some left over for toys.... and there was probably a pension in there too somewhere..... and I'll bet you they weren't shopping with plastic!.... not much of that exists these days for the majority of people.

That's all you took from this video? You need to watch church sermons instead

sadly I never saw a toys r us until about 1986, when I was mostly out of toys until I got back into them in the 90s :(

I was 10 in 1980 too. Walking into a Toys R Us or Kay Bee or even a drug store and seeing the SW aisle was kids' heaven. Amazing time. Have a huge vintage 77-84 collection. Can't seem to part with it.

I was only three years old in 1980 but it must have been something out of this world experience for a kid yes .

Man I was born in 1978 so by the time I started playing with action figures. Started with He-Man and then in 83-84 they dropped G.I.JOE ! And that was my thing for the rest of the 80’s and early 90’s! Go Joe! ..........cccccoooooooobbbbbbrrrrrrraaaaaa!..lol” well it’s g I Joe against cobra and Destro fighting to save the day!”.......” now I know, and knowing is half the battle!” And that kid isn’t buying his little brother toys...lol thy are his! Stop lying little dude

@@theviking6052 I was born in 78 like you, He-man, shorty followed by Transformers and G.I.JOE and I am still obsessed with all 3. Toy City and Toys R US were magical places and you just don't find that sort of abundance and display like those days.

That kid was all worried his classmates would see him on the news buying star wars "dolls"... "No these are for my little brother!" That wouldve been me lol

You're never too old for Star Wars, or anything you love from your childhood fot that matter. Most fans actually pass down their love for Star Wars to their children. I know it was my case, my dad was a kid when he first saw Empire and Jedi in theaters, and he showed me the movies when I was little. I'll most definitely do the same with my kids someday.

That is me at 50. 🤣

You ain't lying! I'm 46, and collect the heck out of Black Series! Awesome franchise and time!

Yeap, this was even before Toys R Us would rip you a new one when you bought something!

No doubt he was lying. Probably was thinking about school yard retribution if he admitted that he was playing with them. Bullying was real in the 80’s.

Funny story, some of us that were starting to find caches in the late 80s and early 90s were starting g too that sort of thing.

Well they aren’t worth that much in 99.999999% cases. But they were that four word: *FUN*

@@nicholasdickens2801 I beg differ. Unopened pieces still in their packages can actually bring thousands (even tens of thousands of dollars, on select pieces) when put through the right auction houses. Unopened die cast tie bombers, Tatooine luke Skywalkers with the telescopic lightsaber, or vinyl cape jawas can easily pay off a small home.

We had nooo idea that those figures would be worth so much today. If we knew then what we know now, we would have bought two of each.🤔

@@officespace7777 Even as a kid (born in 1970) everyone already talked about them being worth a lot in the future. For months I kept the (empty) card-backs until my parents insisted it was stupid. Not that thez would be particularly valuable, but I knew it was wrong. (I have only kept my originals and not much in for more collection. )

I was wondering where the video was recorded, thanks for the info.

Yes sir! The good ol Ass whipping days! Lol..remember them quite well!

Kids were well behaved beck then because they had something called....what was it now..? Oh discipline. Not allowed now cos it’s politically incorrect.

What my years at Wal-Mart taught me was this: the parents and grandparents are 1000x worse than the kids. I still remember a mother berating me for telling her kid not to play on the gate that kept customers out of our tobacco register area, and this was right after she'd already gotten done disciplining the kids. I often said the kids were nice because a 12-year-old never threatened to kill me for something I never did while a grandfather did, a kid never accused me of trying to kill their elderly mother for trying to enforce buying limits due to the pandemic but a grown woman did, a kid never threw a tantrum over a few cents but I lost count of how many adults I saw do that. They don't learn it from not being disciplined, they learn it because they see their parents do it and believe that they only have to listen to and respect their parents and no one else

They had that but they also had fear. Fear of parents that overused phisical discipline. Some will argue it was too much, I agree. But this video brings some much joy, that I'll Leave that argument for another time and place. Man, that news reporter is a real tool! Lol Hilarious!

Every kid and adult in the video is thin, normal weight. Before the days of seed oils and high fructose corn syrup.

Well, now it is a bit more dangerous to let your kids play outside.

I agree, the 80's was the best time to be a kid.

Not just toys but the whole era. Especially if you had lots of bank. It was glorious, buying gun cars, drugs were cleaner etc. lol. People were more real till the fake 90’s came.

I always say, if I could build a time machine and drive through to the 80's with a huge u-haul and fill it up and drive back through ... heck, i would just stay there.

Yeah that is annoying. Not sure if it’s the old audio or just how it was.

Yeah I recently hit the local Walmart’s. It’s always empty. WTF happened. If they are not selling then why is everything sold out.

all we had as kids were cartoons and the movies, so maybe that's why we were entranced by the toys? also, toys, toys are awesome, kids today have the internet and cable and computers and video games, toys might not have the draw to them like they did for us, or it's just that parents are either cheap or don't have the selection like parents did back then

Enough stars wars figures to stock 25 wal marts or more.

Walmart are a bunch of fucks they hold on to stock way to long and charge out the ass on it years later. People should get a hint and up charge themselves now.

I'm a 90s kid... for clarity to my response here; I recall the pegs being absolutely filled at Walmart and Target. Toys R Us, being a massive fan of TRU, was of course always stocked. Now today, Walmart and Target could NEVER have filled or overflowing pegs like those back in those days. God I wish I experienced the 80s just to witness these overflowing pegs and beautifully stocked stores.

That R2 drove me nuts just hearing it during this video.. Imagine parents hearing it for hours on end lol!

it did me too man. especially when that child was gazing upward at all those future memories to be had.

I'd go back in time, take his place, and say "until Disney owns it and completely destroys the property, then they won't sell even in a dollar store."

Without knowing what we know now, what intel did this guy have? 25 years worth of action from a galaxy far, far away after only 2 films in the can. Shame that's where the Disney films belong...in a can or trash compactor.

yes, he was . i was surprised to hear that

At least they were sentenced at a decent price. I can't hold myself staring at star wars action figures for 13-14 dollars a piece or the retro being priced at a bellow range of ten dollars a piece. I like that price but it's not the type of price I see for how they were originally priced back in 1978-1983 & so on. The millennium falcon that came out during that type was forty dollars just like that child's toy mission fleet variation that came out lately in 2020-21. Same price but if you look at the reissued bigger millennium falcon that goes for $400.00 dollars a piece just for that giant toy nobody can afford. Same goes for the x wing fighter but lower. Almost a hundred dollars for Luke Skywalker's x wing in the TVC. But comparing it to the vintage it was lesser. Than today. I'm happy I'm not looking for the falcon & x wing they were hard pain to find. Except now I gotta find boba Fetts slave 1 & then find the rancor because of those awesome scenes that were shot in the finale of the book of boba Fett. I like the rancor seems like this beastly creature could possibly put up a good fight with the original 1933 king Kong. Because of the reference made to Kong in the episode later.

LOL, that's what I was thinking👍🏻

Same here. It really was an incredible time to be that age back then.

Exactly, and didn't have to compete and worry about damned scalpers!

Ebay totally ruined everything. I wish we had toy collecting without ebay.

It's because at the time they were released, Fisher Price had a line called Adventure People which were also very popular.

My mom used to call them 'Little men'. "Pick up your little men!" Nostalgia.

😂

lol, so was Dengar. With all the remakes today Dengar is still a peg warmer.

That lady was like "Get off my back!"

I don't know...she says they don't have the big units at home...maybe she was alluding to her husband.....

they is a reason the vintage Star Wars look is still copied today... it was a masterpiece of merchandising art

"Um, I don't buy this stuff" it's alright, you can admit you like action figures. There's no shame😁

Lol thats a little kid what the frick

@@famousbowl9926 That guy was soo eager to use the N word...nerd.

I was ready for him to say something like, "Nah, I don't peddle the stuff." Like he was doing some back alley action figure dealings.

I instantly saw that...I had that red fighter. Draco?

I noticed that right away too. It’s next to the Princess Leah 12’ doll.

I hear ya bro! I was 6, so I REMEMBER little bits as well.

I thought it was east coast too lol

Me too lol, I'ts a good cry though. Filled with so many emotions. I just hope my child doesn't come in and see dad crying while looking at a utube video of star wars toys. In today's world he would never understand.

I was born in 1980. But remember vaguely 82, 83 to 86 I remember vividly.

I buried mine in the backyard.

Amen

Yeah this statement says it all. The West is fucked. The Carano interview is coming out tomorrow on Shapiro show apparently. I know junkman try’s to stay non political but it’s impossible now. Something is really off with most Fortune 500 US companies. All these people act like complete crazy people. Kathleen Kennedy is fucked. Lol.

He's the toy salesman (in some B-reel footage from some local newscast), of course he wants everyone to buy them.

@@themonkeyhand no. Things were different back then. Not saying you can’t great service but it was more professional back then.

She's definitely a Sith lord. Just waiting for someone to strike her down.

A couple $1000 at least.

@@darthwizzywizard nope.....$100 worth of Tatooine Lukes in the package (i.e. about 35 of them) sent through a good auction house today could bring 8-10k a piece. Or...your could look for other goodies like tie bombers, etc, etc.

@@thegreatbamboozler4837 depends what you call a decent retirement lol.

@@darthwizzywizard touche....👍, we might need to throw some vinyl Cape jawas into the mix 😁 . Can you loan me a little investment mo ey???

You will need to make sure to go back in time with old bills, I do not think they would take the new ones. 🤣