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08-23-2011, 02:48 PM | #1 |
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Nostalgia Spotlight - Toy Aisles of the 80's
Here's one I have been wanting to do for a while. I wanted to try to compile more images before I posted, but then I thought I could make this more interactive by throwing it out there and seeing what pictures the rest of you may have access to! The toy aisles of the 80's sure were something. You really don't get the same feeling walking into a Toys R US these days. Maybe it was because I was a child, so I was smaller, and everything else around me was so much more imposing. But I remember the excitement just seeing the outside of a Children's Palace or Toys R US as a kid, and becoming practically breathless standing at the end of the toy aisle looking down at the mountainous rows of Transformers and G.I. Joe toys that lined the shelves to what seemed like the heavens. I know there has to be more pictures of these beautiful sights out there somewhere! Whaddya got? Last edited by Deefuzz; 08-23-2011 at 02:52 PM.. |
08-23-2011, 03:06 PM | #2 |
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Have to say, these photos are pretty rad.
Stompers! G.I. Joe Headquarters & a fleet of Skystrikers! Castle Grayskull! M.A.S.K.! Metroplex, Jetfire, Megatron, & Dirge! Thundercats Thundertank! That sweater & glasses combo! Sooooo much want! Last edited by hrothgars; 08-23-2011 at 03:11 PM.. |
08-23-2011, 03:27 PM | #3 |
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thats awesome, the 80s, and 90s were the decades when toy isles were packed not just a single isle like they are now and toys r us's were packed full of figures, vehicles and playsets!!!! god I miss those days!!!!!
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08-23-2011, 03:31 PM | #4 |
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wow. kids back then didnt have to worry about selection huh? I grew up in the 90s and I dont remember if i had it as good.
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08-23-2011, 03:58 PM | #5 |
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the 90s were great too we still had kaybees and all, now stores like walmart or target have barely one isle for boy toys and figures and toys r us is like half the size too.
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08-23-2011, 04:05 PM | #6 |
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yeah i had kaybees in all the malls but they all kinds blew. instead, i dont know if it was regional or not but they had a sister store called Toy Works. better prices than toys r us. I remember the days when beast wars toys were as plentiful on the shelves as the movie toys are now.
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08-23-2011, 04:24 PM | #7 |
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Beautiful. Just beautiful. Those pics brought a tear to my eye. *sniff*
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08-23-2011, 04:27 PM | #8 |
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Really takes you back. I can remember when there were fewer lines but each line was represented in full. Play sets, vehicles, figures, and accessory packs. Take GI Joe, There's like one peg maybe two of Joe's at my Toys R Us. It used to be 1/4th of a aisles. Too much crap these days.
Back in the late 80's and early 90's I could walk down one aisles and nothing but Joe's, Turtles, Thunder Cats, He-Man and Some marvel and DC. The good old days... |
08-23-2011, 04:50 PM | #9 |
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I can remember spending hours just looking at all of the things shown in those pics.
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08-23-2011, 05:21 PM | #10 |
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WOW, the good old days, before toys became an adult/scalper/variant driven market.
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08-23-2011, 05:28 PM | #11 |
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I used to love those days! I now have proof that they existed!!!
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08-23-2011, 06:06 PM | #12 |
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the best kaybees were the outlets man I remember getting so many sweet buys from the one back home.
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08-23-2011, 06:10 PM | #13 |
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Great first post and welcome! Awesome thread and pics to go along with it. Hope to see more eventually.
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08-23-2011, 06:49 PM | #14 |
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I agree I hope we see more these pics bring back some great memories!
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08-23-2011, 06:54 PM | #15 |
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I often wonder if there is some dark and dusty forgotten warehouse out there, filled with these goodies.
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Wouldn't it though.
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Holy Lord, Child World in Cranston, RI. It was like a Sams Club or a Big Lots. It was like there was absolutely zero aesthetic to it. It was basically a building crammed with as much sh*t as you could fit in one store. Action figure aisle? 2nd aisle from the left in the back. Never forget it. I'll occasionally dream of it, or what my mind remembers of it. It was bliss. Absolute f**king bliss. http://fogetaboutitri.blogspot.com/2...ild-world.html
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yeah this is great stuff right here. You see, I think what drives many of us now is just that...NOSTALGIA!!!
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08-24-2011, 12:03 AM | #22 |
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I never remember it being hard to find a toy back then, there were no limited editions or short packs. The only thing that was limited were the mail aways. I remember using the joe points to buy old toys from the little catalog you'd get when you bought a vehicle, you could get a killer whale for $20 bucks and 50 joe points.
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08-24-2011, 02:57 AM | #23 |
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Back in the 80's large superstores didn't really exist in the UK, and so it was all about the shops in the centre of town, Beaties, Woolworths, even WH Smiths and John Menzies had nice toy sections. (Any other UK'ers remember those?)
My best memories are floor to ceiling Thundercats, rack after rack of Transformers, entire aisles devoted to Lego, and that was in the town centre! With the possible exception of comic shops, maybe Argos and the Entertainer I think you'd be hard pushed to get a decent toy in any town or city centre nowadays. What's with the solitary aisle of shelf-warmers in most stores we get nowadays!? (Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda, I'm looking at you!) Thank god for the internet!
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It's true what they say that youth is wasted on the young. If only to be an adult in the 80s and 90s where I can drive to TRU and just spend my paycheck away.
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