Wow! Steps with the lyrics to the “I’m a Toys R Us Kid” song on them. Warms my heart with nostalgia. I hope they can come back everywhere! This is a great comeback 🙂 Great video WallieB!
I grew up with thornsberry and toys R us. They were huge toy stores, thornsberry was around until 1983 then went under they had a monkey as a mascot, toys R us had that graff. Thornsberry was a long time store for years since the late 1940s after WW2 like toys R us was.
It sadly I don't think your average everyday town is going to get a Toys R Us at all because I think Toys R Us now as a company has this idea that they're only building these new Toys R Us stores in certain areas and if your state or your area never gets one then they think oh well an that's the way I they're thinking
Toys R Us kid for life here, grew up in Brooklyn NY. I was lucky, there was one right near my house ( the building is still there , it's a sad reminder ... Can still see it on Google maps ). The website is actually up and running, the plan is to open up inside of certain Macy*s
Thank you for that walkaround! I'm not ashamed to say that I'm a 50 yr old Toys R Us Kid! Toys R Us was a magical place for me as a kid and continued to be into my adulthood as I took my nephew and let him experience it. He has kids now so hopefully the magic will continue!
I live in NJ and haven't been to the American Dream Mall. There was a huge Toys R Us when I was younger ten minutes from my house. I loved a trip there. I have to go now to this one!
Hi Wallie and Kayla, I,enjoyed the video of Toys R. Us Store. I, remember Toys R. Us when I was working at Kmart and Meijer. The, Toys R. Us tour, just bought the kid out of me.
From NYC right now I'm in Chicago but maybe when I come back I want to see that mall in New Jersey it looks nice big like the one in Minneapolis Minnesota
Man the stairs with the stores song on it brought me back. I’ll never forget those old commercials and memories of picking out a toy on my birthday. Glad to see them coming back
Toys R US was always cool. I used to save up my Birthday money and Christmas money and would spend it there. I bought video games and mainly Lego's. So many good memories. 😊
Thanks for the tour of Toys R Us! How exciting is that you both can be experiencing and going back into time. Hopefully that Toys R Us will make a comeback. Love this 😀
Plz can you make a videos about the abandoned toys"r"us in Pittsburg California & the abandoned sears at the somersville towne center mall in Antioch California?
Thank you for the memories great to see toys r us back again,now if Kiddie city and Childrens Palace would come back .went to them every xmas at Great Northern Mall North Olmsted Ohio.
Wallie, I apologize for not knowing your name but, THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR FILMING THIS❣️I haven’t had Christmas in years, I don’t have family but, this made me feel a feeling that I haven’t felt since I was 8❣️Thank You!! 😃
I was saddened to see Toys R Us go under. I am happy to see this store. We need more of these stores. I used to shop this store all the time for my nephew when he was growing up!
It’s cool to see Toys “R” Us coming back I cannot believe how much stuff They can put in a small location I’m hopping they more Locations can be Built I Remember when I was a kid shopping at Toys “R” Us Going through I’ll to I’ll Shopping for video games Games and other things Toys “R” Us remind me of my childhood Those were some good times Hoping they can come back to my area
I wasn't a Toys R Us kid, but I grew up with its predecessor. What I miss are stationery and bookstores. My favorite toys were pens and books. Any of those stores you could find? Hello Tokyo is one such place that seems to have multiple locations.
Thanks Wallie and Kayla for doing the Toys R Us video. Now I'm feeling the magic and I'm not even close to there and now I'm so happy that I'm tearing up it because I'm a Toys R us Kid inside!
Well at least it appears the American Dream Mall seems to be doing fairly well lately (knowing how long it took for this place to be completed which started almost 20-years-ago!) Let's hope for the best for this mall.
I really want to go to the American Dream Mall but it's kinda far away where I live in Connecticut but I've been to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson New Jersey and that's only about 200 miles away.
I went to that store every time I visited New York. I don't think they'll ever be able to open there as New York has the worst retail space prices I've seen. It's insane seeing so many closed/boarded up shops and buildings because the rent has priced everyone out.
Thats just the direction retail has moved lately. More stores have adopted the open air displays and less of the familiar yet droll long straight aisles we grew up with.
This updated look TRU seems wonderful (I was a customer of both TRU and Kay Bee in the '80s and '90s), but being the new operators have so few stores of this size (I believe as of 4/2022 the NJ store is STILL THE ONLY ONE), as all the others are the "store-within-a-store" inside Macys, which itself is in not-so-solid financial condition, so I don't expect much positive results anytime soon. It's not just us as consumers (and ex-TRU Kids) that need them, but THE TOY MAKING COMPANIES need them EVEN MORE, as online sales and toys sold in Walmart and Target are not enough. The reason is THE REAL TRU bought in a way different from other toy retailers and department stores... Everyone programmed purchases through the year to have for the Holiday Season (a real problem now that most toys come from China and their supply chain is CHOKED for various reasons), but TRU made ANOTHER PURCHASE CYCLE to be delivered much closer to the Holiday Season. This guaranteed that TRU wouldn't run out of toys in the last week or so before the end of the Season, unlike everybody else. And parents KNEW that and went straight to TRU if they couldn't find their choices elsewhere. That's the difference... You "could" buy it cheaper, but TRU made the purchase possible. And, be honest, most of what TRU sells are "impulse purchases", something you can't do online or on Target or Walmart. We need HUNDREDS of well positioned (and stocked enough) TRU stores and a well managed central office (that won't incur in EXCESSIVE CORPORATE DEBT, as the last owners did). FOR OUR AND OUR KIDS SAKE... (let Lego, Mattel and Hasbro "hitchhike" from this)
Did you know in the United States Macy's has Toys R Us inside I dare you to check it out for yourself cuz I did and oh my God I was super freaking excited
I used to work for TRU from 1996 til 2004 and I like smaller size so far----easier to keep clean and stock. I can tell that they have gone back to their roots and made it a store for KIDS and families , instead of catering to the collectors, with fewer peg items and more boxed products.
Why can't the Marshall Field's/Macy's vacancy at Water Tower Place, be filled with a Toys R Us store like this one? I still don't understand why the alderman and city of Chicago rejected a Target store, going into that former Field's/Macy's space myself.
Toys R Us (the original chain) was originally part of the same company as TOPPS discount department stores! TOPPS was actually NOT related to the baseball card company with the same name. There were TOPPS stores scattered all over America in the late 60's, but the chain went out of business in 1974. They were in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, and even in parts of IOWA but never had very many stores in any of those regions. The Philadelphia and Chicago metro areas both had only two of the stores, and in both of those regions, the pair of stores were about 40 miles apart from one another. Sadly the two Philadelphia stores were only open from 1970 to 1972! Both of them were turned into S KLEIN department stores (S KLEIN was a New York chain which was very similar to the legendary EJ KORVETTE chain) but then the S KLEIN chain went out of business in 1975 anyway! Such a shame that Walmart and Target are the only true American "discounters" that exist today! There were DOZENS of discount department store chains in America (especially in the Northeastern states) back in the 60's, but gradually they all went out of business (usually after bankruptcies) finally ending with the closure of AMES almost 20 years ago. Ironic that KMART (which historically was a FIERCE competitor that helped put MANY of their rivals out of business) has become almost extinct, joining all those old competitors in the graveyard! Even though Kmart waited until 2002 to declare bankruptcy (the FIRST time, before their disastrous merger with Sears) they actually had come close to bankruptcy in 1995. Kmart closed over 70 stores in 1995, including some stores which were fairly new at the time (there was one in Texas which was only open from 1992 to 1995!) Considering the explosive growth of both Walmart and Target in the 80's, it really was a miracle that Kmart didn't go out of business in 1995! Ironically, Kmart left CANADA in 1998 (despite WOOLCO lasting much longer in Canada than in the USA) even though they logically should have gone out of business in the USA, while staying in Canada instead! Anyway, maybe TARGET would have had better luck in Canada if they had bought the Kmart stores in 1998 (similar to how Walmart entered Canada by buying WOOLCO in 1994) instead of buying the ZELLERS chain, and failing miserably in Canada soon afterwards! Maybe the AUSTRALIAN Kmart chain (which STARTED as part of the American Kmart/Kresge chain, but was sold to a local Australian company in the 80's) can come to Canada someday, and eventually America too! The Aussie Kmart would seem to fit nicely in England too! That would be a great alternative to the British ASDA stores which are owned by Walmart!
I would love to see this incorporated into dying malls to help them trigger more foot traffic. It wouldn't completely solve their financial struggles but it would help. I miss Toys R Us so much. Fond memories. Except this one stepped foot into the 21st century!
Wow! Steps with the lyrics to the “I’m a Toys R Us Kid” song on them. Warms my heart with nostalgia. I hope they can come back everywhere! This is a great comeback 🙂
Great video WallieB!
I grew up with thornsberry and toys R us. They were huge toy stores, thornsberry was around until 1983 then went under they had a monkey as a mascot, toys R us had that graff. Thornsberry was a long time store for years since the late 1940s after WW2 like toys R us was.
We need more toys R us stores like this. Walking into a toy store make me feel like a kid again.
It sadly I don't think your average everyday town is going to get a Toys R Us at all because I think Toys R Us now as a company has this idea that they're only building these new Toys R Us stores in certain areas and if your state or your area never gets one then they think oh well an that's the way I they're thinking
It's going to take a long time.
Toys R Us kid for life here, grew up in Brooklyn NY. I was lucky, there was one right near my house ( the building is still there , it's a sad reminder ... Can still see it on Google maps ).
The website is actually up and running, the plan is to open up inside of certain Macy*s
Thank you for that walkaround! I'm not ashamed to say that I'm a 50 yr old Toys R Us Kid! Toys R Us was a magical place for me as a kid and continued to be into my adulthood as I took my nephew and let him experience it. He has kids now so hopefully the magic will continue!
Love that they had the precise number of steps to do the entire toys R us jingle
It's cool to see Toys-R-Us back even if it's just the one store. Hope they're successful and are able to expand in the future.
I hope they expand 😀
They're gonna just wait
It's gonna be a long time until they expand tho lmao
Just opened up in every macys
@@RB0345 I Have Seen A Toys R Us Inside My Local Macy's
Thanks Wallie and Kayla It's Looks Organized Store Tour, I Hope You Guys are Doing Awesome.
I always loved going to Toys *Я* US as a kid back in the day. Always bought my Nintendo games there. 🙂
That is awesome that you are in a toys r us I miss this store
I live in NJ and haven't been to the American Dream Mall. There was a huge Toys R Us when I was younger ten minutes from my house. I loved a trip there. I have to go now to this one!
Come visit here in Canada wallie, we still have the same old toys r us
I love toy r us i grow up with toy r us im so glad they are back
Hi Wallie and Kayla,
I,enjoyed the video of Toys R. Us Store. I, remember Toys R. Us when I was working at Kmart and Meijer. The, Toys R. Us tour, just bought the kid out of me.
I miss the old stores from my childhood
It's a nice store but I still prefer the old ones which were like a giant supermarket of toys.
Wonder if they have any Masters of the Universe stuff in there? Always loved picking out a new He-Man figure as a kid in the mid 80s at Toys R Us.
Can't wait to see a new generation worth of Toys R Us kids!
We need another one of these out west.
Very cool toys r us hope you guys are having a great Easter weekend
From NYC right now I'm in Chicago but maybe when I come back I want to see that mall in New Jersey it looks nice big like the one in Minneapolis Minnesota
Man the stairs with the stores song on it brought me back. I’ll never forget those old commercials and memories of picking out a toy on my birthday. Glad to see them coming back
Toys R US was always cool. I used to save up my Birthday money and Christmas money and would spend it there. I bought video games and mainly Lego's. So many good memories. 😊
Thanks for the tour of Toys R Us!
How exciting is that you both can be experiencing and going back into time. Hopefully that Toys R Us will make a comeback.
Love this 😀
Wow I miss Toys R Us
That is so awesome.
4 years later they finally returned
Just in time for another great Wallie video!
Good to see toys r us back
Plz can you make a videos about the abandoned toys"r"us in Pittsburg California & the abandoned sears at the somersville towne center mall in Antioch California?
5th like
And my cousins daughter cried when they closed but goes to target now and watch oh shiitake mushrooms video on toys r us
That toys r us looks similar but the toys r us in Pittsburg California has a babies r us instead of a kids r us
I be glad when toy’s r us open in Southern California. I enjoy this video it reminds me back in the past.
They still sell real balsawood airplanes here at hobby lobby near Pittsburgh
WOW! Awesome They returned
The abandoned dollar tree in cleveland Ohio was a building
I miss toys R us! I really wish they were still in business and open!
I think a new owner is trying to reboot the company
Shopped at the Greensburg Pa store years ago for my granddaughters. Very good video, enjoyed so much . Thank you, I can tell you loved it.
Ahh! duude this is amazing!! I can't wait for Toys R Us to make their full recovery!
That's one advanced building design. Hope they make more Toys r Us. Thank you for the amazing tour. Glad you bought slime. Cool.
Thank you for the memories great to see toys r us back again,now if Kiddie city and Childrens Palace would come back .went to them every xmas at Great Northern Mall North Olmsted Ohio.
Awesome Wallie
Fantastic video ! Thanks for sharing ! Have to admit, when you were walking up the stairs reciting the jingle, I got a little teary eyed.
Wallie, I apologize for not knowing your name but, THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR FILMING THIS❣️I haven’t had Christmas in years, I don’t have family but, this made me feel a feeling that I haven’t felt since I was 8❣️Thank You!! 😃
I was saddened to see Toys R Us go under. I am happy to see this store. We need more of these stores. I used to shop this store all the time for my nephew when he was growing up!
Only thing wallie ,needs now in the store. Is a little daughter or son walking around with a big smile on there face...
I’ve been waiting for this
Wow 👌 awesome video
Brings back so many memories.. thank you for sharing this.
Nice To See That Toys R Us Is Back.
This video gives me a Toy-gasm! it's nice to see Toys R Us back in the mall, i hope they open more of these stores.
I live not far from American Dream Mall. Yes it is exciting having a Toys R Us back.
Back in the day, Lionel playworld was an amazing toy store! Floor to ceiling, isle of matchbox and same with hot wheels......
It’s cool to see Toys “R” Us coming back I cannot believe how much stuff They can put in a small location I’m hopping they more Locations can be Built I Remember when I was a kid shopping at Toys “R” Us Going through I’ll to I’ll Shopping for video games Games and other things Toys “R” Us remind me of my childhood Those were some good times Hoping they can come back to my area
Loved Toys R Us . Growing up it was them & Child World then Child World closed & it was just Toys R Us. Hope they make a complete comeback.
I miss Toys R US always went to one as a kid now I'm 28 I wish I was a kid again
So much Nostalgia vibes, Great video My friend!❤️📺🎶👍🏻#ToysRUs
I wasn't a Toys R Us kid, but I grew up with its predecessor.
What I miss are stationery and bookstores. My favorite toys were pens and books. Any of those stores you could find? Hello Tokyo is one such place that seems to have multiple locations.
I went to American Dream and I Went inside of That exact toys R Us, I was so happy to go to a Toys R Us in 2022
That was cool! I'm happy you guys get to experience this again! Hoping it will make a definite comeback over the next years!
Thanks Wallie and Kayla for doing the Toys R Us video. Now I'm feeling the magic and I'm not even close to there and now I'm so happy that I'm tearing up it because I'm a Toys R us Kid inside!
Best commercial they could ask for great video
Well at least it appears the American Dream Mall seems to be doing fairly well lately (knowing how long it took for this place to be completed which started almost 20-years-ago!) Let's hope for the best for this mall.
Wow that video makes me feels like kid right there that is awesome :)
They could add one to the hulen mall here in Fort Worth where sears use to be or where Disney store use to be.
Ooooooo ours in Canada never closed and now Its nice to see a location in the states still.
Calico critters are so hard to find. You walked passed a whole section of them and I freaked out! And yes I am 58 years old!!
Great video!! I love this store. I worked at 1 for about 3 years. My mom worked in the factory for 25-30 years.
Wow that was awesome it mad me cry of joy
I enjoy this very much loved to see the way it was when I was a kid thank you wale b
Happy Easter 🐰🐣💓🙏👍 Wallie and Kayla. Hope you guys are enjoying your day!
👋 I miss toy r us I remember the way it was.❤️❤️❤️thank you wallie for bringing this video.
That's was so cool 😎
Wow 😮! I hope 🤞 they make a comeback. I hope they come to Springfield Missouri.
I really want to go to the American Dream Mall but it's kinda far away where I live in Connecticut but I've been to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson New Jersey and that's only about 200 miles away.
That's cool that you found a TRU in the States! We still have ours (Eastern Canada) which I am grateful for!
Great Job Wallie. This Toys “R” Us reminds me of the one that I went to in Times Square back in 2010. Keep up the great work. Love your videos.
I went to that store every time I visited New York. I don't think they'll ever be able to open there as New York has the worst retail space prices I've seen. It's insane seeing so many closed/boarded up shops and buildings because the rent has priced everyone out.
Toys r us best place ever
I’m getting some Five Below vibes
Thats just the direction retail has moved lately. More stores have adopted the open air displays and less of the familiar yet droll long straight aisles we grew up with.
hopefully due to this comeback we might get something similar to the Toys ‘R’ Us store in Times Square in the future
This updated look TRU seems wonderful (I was a customer of both TRU and Kay Bee in the '80s and '90s), but being the new operators have so few stores of this size (I believe as of 4/2022 the NJ store is STILL THE ONLY ONE), as all the others are the "store-within-a-store" inside Macys, which itself is in not-so-solid financial condition, so I don't expect much positive results anytime soon.
It's not just us as consumers (and ex-TRU Kids) that need them, but THE TOY MAKING COMPANIES need them EVEN MORE, as online sales and toys sold in Walmart and Target are not enough.
The reason is THE REAL TRU bought in a way different from other toy retailers and department stores... Everyone programmed purchases through the year to have for the Holiday Season (a real problem now that most toys come from China and their supply chain is CHOKED for various reasons), but TRU made ANOTHER PURCHASE CYCLE to be delivered much closer to the Holiday Season. This guaranteed that TRU wouldn't run out of toys in the last week or so before the end of the Season, unlike everybody else. And parents KNEW that and went straight to TRU if they couldn't find their choices elsewhere.
That's the difference... You "could" buy it cheaper, but TRU made the purchase possible. And, be honest, most of what TRU sells are "impulse purchases", something you can't do online or on Target or Walmart.
We need HUNDREDS of well positioned (and stocked enough) TRU stores and a well managed central office (that won't incur in EXCESSIVE CORPORATE DEBT, as the last owners did).
FOR OUR AND OUR KIDS SAKE... (let Lego, Mattel and Hasbro "hitchhike" from this)
LOVE ALL OF THIS
Bring back one in Houston TX please 🙏 😢 I love this store
Happy Easter Eve 🐇
Did you know in the United States Macy's has Toys R Us inside I dare you to check it out for yourself cuz I did and oh my God I was super freaking excited
Whoops you said that they weren't the same sure because it felt like Toys R Us
I used to work for TRU from 1996 til 2004 and I like smaller size so far----easier to keep clean and stock. I can tell that they have gone back to their roots and made it a store for KIDS and families , instead of catering to the collectors, with fewer peg items and more boxed products.
Toys “R” Us is back
To bad they don't have train sets in there I could see you purchasing one of those
Happy Easter Wallie
Thank you … grew up with toys R Us. This store is higher technology. Lol
I hope they have action figures and a big selection of die cast cars.
I’m a toys r us kid too
Love to see Toys R Us come back to the Pittsburgh area! Who knows what the future holds?
Why can't the Marshall Field's/Macy's vacancy at Water Tower Place, be filled with a Toys R Us store like this one? I still don't understand why the alderman and city of Chicago rejected a Target store, going into that former Field's/Macy's space myself.
The Internet: "Oh...I thought you were dead."
Geoffrey: "My death was greatly exaggerated."
Wow, very nice and cool 😀
Wallie is this a museum toys R us or can you really buy the games/toys in this store, or are they display items.
Thanks for the new toys r us wale b 26
Toys R Us (the original chain) was originally part of the same company as TOPPS discount department stores! TOPPS was actually NOT related to the baseball card company with the same name. There were TOPPS stores scattered all over America in the late 60's, but the chain went out of business in 1974. They were in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, and even in parts of IOWA but never had very many stores in any of those regions. The Philadelphia and Chicago metro areas both had only two of the stores, and in both of those regions, the pair of stores were about 40 miles apart from one another. Sadly the two Philadelphia stores were only open from 1970 to 1972! Both of them were turned into S KLEIN department stores (S KLEIN was a New York chain which was very similar to the legendary EJ KORVETTE chain) but then the S KLEIN chain went out of business in 1975 anyway! Such a shame that Walmart and Target are the only true American "discounters" that exist today! There were DOZENS of discount department store chains in America (especially in the Northeastern states) back in the 60's, but gradually they all went out of business (usually after bankruptcies) finally ending with the closure of AMES almost 20 years ago. Ironic that KMART (which historically was a FIERCE competitor that helped put MANY of their rivals out of business) has become almost extinct, joining all those old competitors in the graveyard! Even though Kmart waited until 2002 to declare bankruptcy (the FIRST time, before their disastrous merger with Sears) they actually had come close to bankruptcy in 1995. Kmart closed over 70 stores in 1995, including some stores which were fairly new at the time (there was one in Texas which was only open from 1992 to 1995!) Considering the explosive growth of both Walmart and Target in the 80's, it really was a miracle that Kmart didn't go out of business in 1995! Ironically, Kmart left CANADA in 1998 (despite WOOLCO lasting much longer in Canada than in the USA) even though they logically should have gone out of business in the USA, while staying in Canada instead! Anyway, maybe TARGET would have had better luck in Canada if they had bought the Kmart stores in 1998 (similar to how Walmart entered Canada by buying WOOLCO in 1994) instead of buying the ZELLERS chain, and failing miserably in Canada soon afterwards! Maybe the AUSTRALIAN Kmart chain (which STARTED as part of the American Kmart/Kresge chain, but was sold to a local Australian company in the 80's) can come to Canada someday, and eventually America too! The Aussie Kmart would seem to fit nicely in England too! That would be a great alternative to the British ASDA stores which are owned by Walmart!
What a great place 🤗🤗🤗
We all still need it to be back to the normal way in the future in Buffalo ny
I would love to see this incorporated into dying malls to help them trigger more foot traffic. It wouldn't completely solve their financial struggles but it would help. I miss Toys R Us so much. Fond memories. Except this one stepped foot into the 21st century!
I wish I can go there!
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