To the person that recorded this you have no idea how many people out there you have made smile or cry getting to relive these moments again can’t believe how fast these times have flown by they really were better times
Can't be double dippin' on a turtle purchase, nomsayin'. If I had unwrapped a duplicate turtle on Christmas morning I would have torn the house apart and then been all like, "But MeeEEEEeeeEEeEem I already have wacky action MichelangeloooOOooo!".
@@Religious_manyou don’t know how many kids only get as little as 1-2 toys per Christmas it’s naive to assume every parent there is showering them with gifts.
Back when we had to drive out to buy videogames... today we just download them and save a lot of time not having to drive out, browse a store, etc. And what do we do with all this extra time we now save? Scroll through social media endlessly. Our lives have become more convenient but the quality of our existence hasn't improved much.
@@theguybehindyou4762- In defense of Cobra. I thought 80s era GI Joe was great. Along with Transformers. Cobra Commander and Starscream voiced by Chris Latta.
@@islandbee The concept could work if done right, I just never liked how Cobra has been handled. But then, I need my entertainment to be as believable and realistic as possible.
Seeing a whole wall of ninja turtles brings back great memories. Also, there was no better joy for me as a kid then seeing a video game slip in the sleeve, meaning that they had it still in stock, taking the slip out of the sleeve, and walking up to the counter, when your parents told you that you could get a game! Great times
Haha! That's right! I remember what I swear was like 4 aisles of these things in the early 90s - NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis, etc. Hundreds of video game slips.
If only we could go back to this! I would’ve been 8 at the time. Those toys r us trips are some great memories! Look how many toys there were. Toys barely take up a few aisles now.
My relatives always bought me the wwf figure toys (hulk hogan, macho Man, ultimate warrior etc) at toys r us in the 90s. This store was like Disneyland for kids.
Cell phones really have ruined alot. We don't answer the phone because we think everyone is a scammer, we don't answer the door because we can see who is there from our cameras, it's sad really
Clearly intentional stock footage. Whoever did it was probably assigned to doing it and undoubtedly was compensated. I wonder what they do now. Imagine coming across the stock footage you yourself shot 30 years ago (and likely forgot all about).
50 dollar video games in 1991. That's similar to around 113 dollars today. Outrageous! I forgot just how expensive gaming was back then. Thank a parent if they were buying you these games back then, because it wasn't cheap!
1991 most Genesis games were $49.99. 1992 and on many Genesis games were $59.99 (a few later than that such as Phantasy Star IV had MSRP of $90-$100). PS1 (released in 1995) games were usually $39.99….CDs cheaper than cartridges.
This brought back great memories. Me , and my stepbrother used to go to Toys R' Us every Saturday with my stepfather to pick out toys. I miss the good old days.
Federal minimum wage is only $3 more today than in 1991. Think about the prices of stuff you see in this video compared to now. And then think how little we earn compared to then. The 90's was a time where things shifted and it started to take two people to work to afford a home. Now it takes a lot more than just that.
Almost no one is paying minimum wage stop lying 😂 even mc Donald’s offers 13+ I haven’t seen below $15 and I just moved from Texas to wi and same thing.
Some prices are similar. Video games were 39-69 and aren’t more these days. Action figures have gone up, a 3.75” Star Wars figure would’ve been 3.99-6.99 and they’re about 12 now. So it’s hit and miss.
@@Countcho I mean, I can’t claim to be an expert. All I know is that I made $5.50 an hour in 1998. I paid $60 for N64 games and 29-49 for PSX games, and $5.75 for most toys
The peak age of toys and video games, everything a kid could want. Just the experience of walking into a toysrus with my parents was a dream. I cherish my memories.
I was 5 years old ......home alone hottest movie out .....ice ice baby biggest record out 😂 my little brother was born....all i had to do was wake up....food was ready breakfast lunch an dinner....just wake up an go play outside 😢
My mom and I traveled all over town to find Bebop and the Foot Soldier and when we finally found them it was like finding gold. We went to Shoney's to celebrate!!
Toys'R'Us was such an amazing place throughout the whole 90's, even here in my small city in Germany. I always loved the experience when we went there. Basically all my Toys back then came from there. My first real bike without the support wheels also came from there. Good times, good times. A few years ago the Toys'R'Us has closed, which says a lot about the times we're in right now😔
13:23 the infamous video game ticket wall. The worst possible way to sell games to people (get their hopes up they had the game, only for there to be no ticket for it!).
It was so exciting though. I remember grabbing a few tickets of games I hoped to buy (well, planned to get my parents to buy for me) which never got used. Somewhere I still have one for a Genesis game somewhere.
It was an effective LP measure, though of course, there had been occasions where TRU would run out of tickets for that one item, and that caused inconvenience. Though it was (and still is) common practice for video game stock to be hidden away, because of their high value and ease of stealing, even though most TRUs in the warehouse format had a rather convoluted entrance where there was normally push barriers and a customer service desk straddling the entrance and exit.
I remember the walk to that video game section. Felt like forever for a kid. Not knowing if the ticket would be there. Then the anticipation when you took it up to the little booth to finally get your game. Buying video games was like going to CVS and buying meds. I remember how bummed I was when Mario 2 was sold out for a few weeks. Kids today have no idea.
Even though you knew you couldn't have it all... being surrounded by it all held a mighty fine magic all its own alongside getting to choose those one or two items that were yours to take home. Sometimes we chose poorly but most of the time we got something we were pretty proud of. But my fondness is before the BrU box reset, just aisles that stretched on and on and up and up.
I remember this exact Toys R Us! Great times and great footage! My poor mom probably spent hundreds if not more on TMNT action figures, the movies, and just any TMNT related merch my 2 brothers and I could find. From 89 till about 92 we were obsessed. Around 93 I was 10 and becoming more interested in makeup and clothes and my brothers were nearly 13 and into skateboarding, girls and metal and all our childhood TMNT stuff was either donated or given away or possibly thrown out. Seeing those boxes of action figures again brought back memories of the excitement we'd experience when mom would take us to Toys r us to buy new ones. And that video game aisle! 😍
Man, hearing the sound of those cash registers in the end. I haven't heard that sound in probably over 20 years, but I remembered it immediately. Brings me back to the good old days. I was 5 years old when this video was filmed and having had a Toys R Us right next to where I live, we'd make trips there fairly regularly. That Toys R Us got a few renovations over the years and then, sadly, closed down about 5 or 6 years ago. This also reminds me of all the other stores that no longer exist... Waldbaum's, Nobody Beats the Wiz, Radio Shack, Blockbuster...
13:23 ladies and gentlemen, I give you...THE WALL. The Wall where we all hung out, just staring at all the games, flipping them up to see the screenshots, wishing we had every one of them.
This is how I remember Toys R Us, toys damn near stacked to the ceiling. In its final years it just seemed a bit bare to me and I could just feel it was coming to an end. I’m grateful to had experience Toys R Us in its hay day.
I was born in 1999, and never enjoyed the legos which came out when I was a kid. So I made it my goal to always collect the Lego sets from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and early 00s. What I loved about this video is seeing some of the sets I own back when Toys R Us initially sold them 😎
I was born in 1991 in Brisbane Australia. The 90s and the early 2000s was the best time to grow up in. I seen 2d video games transition into 3d. This was a huge era of gaming. Up to 2012 up to 2015 was good as well. Plus my grandfather fought in ww2 and all the Anzac parades we went to to (Veterans) gave me a sense of the old school life. The tv shows where much better back then too.
So crazy and sad to think kids don’t have the joy of getting to experience this anymore. It’s now all just electronic things that young kids want. But real toys are just irreplaceable smh
I was -1 years old. But I like being able to see what stuff was like right around the time I was born. My nostalgia would be early 2000s but this also makes me feel some type of way.
Hey, thanks for the memories. At this time, I would have been 17 and at home prepping for the big dinner the next day because school would have been out for the holiday, but seeing people pre black Friday shopping, that's the best! And also, I had completely forgotten the way cash registers sounded back then.
I'm a child from the 60s to the 70s and my younger brother and I would jump out of the station wagon and run into the Kmart or whatever department store and go straight to the toy department! Oh my goodness that was so much fun. Looking at each toy that we wanted to have. Our mom instructed us to stay there together until she comes for us. Toy departments now are so depressing. Where are the toys? Anyway at 63 I am a kid at heart. Have a good day all!❤
Loved watching this. Fun to see the stores before they had such a huge emphasis on the video games. I remember 1996 when the N64 came out that was probably the craziest retail year I ever remember
Ahhh, the good old days of taking the giant price tag up to the register and she would YELL at someone to go get the item for you while you waited and waited. Now we have Amazon.
My children were born in 2014 and 2015 and we still had a Toys 'R' Us in my city, its just too dang bad that they were so young that they cant remember it now since they closed.
Look how well stocked and vibrant the store is. I loved going into Toys 'R' Us when I was young in the early to mid-90s. I remember just seeing rows and rows of action figures like in the video along with the Hot Wheels. Pity. Buying online definitely took away a chunk of humanity.
I’m more nostalgic of this toys r us location, I went there between 1992-1996 and didn’t know how lucky I had it 😍 There’s a shoe store there now, but riding the escalators and seeing toys stacked all the way the ceiling was the pinnacle of toys. Incidentally the Macy’s store across this old location has a toys r us floor there 🤓
I was eight. Every other week we would drive half an hour to Toys R Us. I could stay in that store for hours at a time. I'm so happy that I was able to take my first born to Toys R Us a few times before they closed.
The best part of Toys ‘R’ Us was the video game section….if you wanted a certain game, you had to take a slip of paper to the video game seller and someone would bring it out, it was such a magical experience!
Back in the day, Toys 'R' Us was awesome. It is unfortunate that the company took on too much debt, and despite the good times it went bankrupt. Toys 'R' Us had the biggest collection of bicycles for boys and girls. My community Walmart took over, and it stocks extra bicycles each year when parents buy them. Thank you for the memories.
I wonder if this was recorded for the purposes of consumer behavior research. Either way, it's really cool to have this archival footage from such a creative and colorful era - the 1990s! Everything in the 90s was vibrant and oozed attitude!
My mom gave me a price limit and I had to run around the whole store looking for the toy I wanted 😢 even browsing was fun and wishing I had that toy. Damn the last time I went toys r us is back in 2006 or 2007 before it closed down and bought my 3 sisters the Nintendo DS’s and couple of games since I could afford it and barely joined the military.
I'd be happy to forget this era even existed. And once people realize how harmful raising kids on iPads and smartphones is, the old ways might make a comeback, and we may even see stores like this again.
