Going to toys r us as a kid was magical to me even if I didn’t get anything, just going in there was enough for me. Wish I could relive those memories at least one more time
Me too man...when I visited Virginia not long ago we were at a hotel. When I looked across the street I realized that we were directly across from my childhood 80's Toys R' Us. But it was gone. My childhood...was gone. And I can never have it back.
The only thing more magical than Toys R Us as a kid for me was the comic shops , and we had one of the best with tons of the coolest and most valuable comics and It felt like an underground dungeon full of treasure. But yeah In the mid - late 80's especially Toys R Us was pure heaven!. I've noticed since the end of the 90s how nothing was ever really the same , or as normal , or as exciting , from going to previously fun destinations like the toy stores , arcades , malls , to just technology itself. It all became fake and disconnected with smartphones and over-reliance of social media. It's like the adventure and surprise In life that we naturally experienced , just died. Life feels so damn Inhuman and artificial nowdays... sad man.
Yeah, shopping at Toys R Us (and Children's Palace) was a blast as a kid! I often got Darkwing Duck action figures whenever we shopped there (Also got the Gas Gun and Airplane on my birthday) bargain bin Hanna Barbara VHS tapes and Incredible Crash Dummies toys! (I also got the Real Ghostbusters firehouse one time) Sorry, I rambled on a bit there. 😅 Life as a kid in the late 80's/early 90's was awesome!
Thanks to whoever filmed this. It reminds me of walking around in Toys R Us as a kid. I also remember it being really expensive for most toys. One time I went in with like $7 and all I could afford was a Ghost Busters toy, but I was happy
God, I remember this era... Shelves that were stocked with pegs and pegs of figures, tons of lines to buy, no shortage of stock, and the figures were $6 each. Not $20 or $30 PER FIGURE... I hate now. So much. Just drop me off in 1980 and let me spend my retirement years in the 80s and 90s and die in the 2000s before shit started to REALLY suck...
This was a lot of fun to watch. I especially liked seeing the Aliens toys at 2.26. Back in the 80's & 90's, my mother would take my sister and I to a Toys R Us somewhere in Marin county. San Rafael area I think... anyways, fond memories. Thank you, Cousin Dave. ✌️♥️
I miss the days when toys could kill a kid lol.. Even before the 90s.. Thats why toys now a days, we make them "darwin" proof, so dumb kids don't die from toys, and our toys are limited :(
@@emerje0 90's was good videogame-wise. Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Sonic The Hedgehog are to this day household names and are 90's creations. Even Maximum Carnage had Carnage who was a 100% 90's character.
Its nuts how much barney stuff was back then. And to think my nana bought us every barney toy and vhs tape there was. Her house was pretty much our day care and barney kept us quiet lol!
The Jurassic Park and Batman toy lines were the best thing ever. Kenner was at the top of its game. And it's a curious view not seeing Star Wars flooding the aisles. The franchise wouldn't be back until two years later.
I know exactly what you mean. I just traveled back to my hometown and found a box with the original jurassic park copound playset that I got on mega clearance back them. the batteries still worked but were almost dea. I pressed the button and it says in a choppy, glitchy voice, "jurassic park compound, secure".
We need some late 95-96 footage to see the Star Wars POTF2 line when it was released. I’d love to see some 1978-1983 footage of the original lines as well.
When the original SW trilogy got re-released in theaters in 1997, that’s when the sudden resurgence of SW based toys made a comeback. Then 2 years later when Episode I came out...then it never really stopped after that.
Great video, thanks for sharing! Those 12" G.I Joe figures by Hasbro became the new Action Man line in 1994. I still have my first figure, 27 years old and still intact with great quality heavy plastic and rubber that hasn't perished in any way! They don't make toys in as good quality any more.
the 90s reminds of how japan has their products displayed behind a glass cabinet everywhere. I missed the 90s and early 2000s. Things are never going to be the same.
Oh my goshh all the jurassic park toys!!!! This is great footage .great times although i was born in 92, this place was still great 6 years later when i was in it
1993. I was 9 years old and my beloved X-Men the animated series was in its second season. That's where you would find me. Buying up all the X-Men action figures and the Super NES games.
This footage is awesome I wish there more footage of this from the 1990s from Toys R Us KB Toys and Blockbuster abs game stores so we get to see all the awesome toys and gamers threw out the 1990s even some 1980s ones would be awesome
I see a few toys my brother and I had. Especially the nerf bow n arrow and the Aladdin stuff. Great times for sure. I miss them a lot. Thanks for the video.
Can’t believe all those Jurassic. Park j angle explorer vehicles stacked on the shelves back probably like 25 bucks a live back then! Currently on eBay a sealed in box one is like almost a 1000$ bucks.. insane!
This just brought a tear to my eye 😢. I had the street fighter 2 edition gi joes, all the Jurassic park toys with all the gear to go back to school. Damn I even had that star trek set. Seeing the SNES on sell is nostalgic
Wow, aisles filled with toys! You can't find that at Wal-Mart these days. They can't stock their pegs to save their lives. You'd be lucky to find a single peg filled with action figures...let alone the whole aisle. And those prices! I would love to be able to buy up all those Batman, Marvel and Street Fighter figures. I miss the days of $3.99 figures. Those would go for $10 easy today.
Wow memories of Jurassic Park ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I was 6 when these toys came out. Couldn’t afford many as a kid, and now I almost have no space to put them. This was humbling to watch 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Man I can imagine Layne Staley ( from Alice In Chains ) coming to Toys R Us and buying Toys there. I be damn happy if he collected one of Todd Mcfarlanes Spawn figures. 🖤
going to toys r us in the 80s was so much different to me then going to toys r us in the 90s. the 80s had some of the best toys. in the 90s there wasn't really anything good in my opinion. but either way I miss toys r us from both decades just for the simple fact that toys r us had toys stacked from the floor to the ceiling. you don't see that anymore these days
Those are some of the most realistic toy guns on sale I have seen! Are those toy 1:1 rifles at 5:50??!?!? As a kid i would love to play with something so realistic!
i swear i miss the crap out of toys r us back in the day , walk in go to the video game section see what u want and make sure they have the little slips and pull one off take it to the front and walk out w ur game
I was 10 then I remember getting nothing but Jurassic park toys that year. By then I was displaying them on a shelf in my room I remember that year very well
get your kid a toy uzi lol man it was a different time. funny thing too is in 93 theres no discrete filming, this guy had one of those massive cameras that you hold on your shoulder like a boom box lol surprised by the lack of ninja turtles stuff but those nintendo displays looked really cool. would have liked a close up of those games.
4:13 - 4:31 I had that when I was a toddler... for some reason, seeing it drove my parents nuts, and my dog always found her way onto setting it off in the middle of the night. XD
Meanwhile, today Walmarts and Targets barely stock action figures. Their aisles are perpetually empty. No one has truly filled the void left behind from TRU.
You can see Titanus in the very edge of the shot at around 2:50. Given the 80s nostalgia focus on Transformers and Batman, seems like it might have been a cameraman that didn’t know that MMPR was exploding at the time with kids.
Wow there’s actually toys on pegs... enough for everyone. Not bare pegs in 90% of the toys youd actually want to buy, and the odd box of 6 figures in the back that is scalped before it even hits the floor; That the employees are inconvenienced to have to go look and see if they have it because their online stock shows that they do. Except those numbers are all wrong. Toy hunting today is tragic.
I am just glad Back then I bought 2 of each of every transformer. I still Have one sealed & one loose. But of course the sealed ones, I got a lot on clearance prices. KB toys had the best sale prices. I got G2 Megatron & dreadwing sealed there $9.99. I bought 2 laser primes from there for $14.99 each from $44.99. So I got 2 for the less price of one.
This was back when "loss leader" actually meant something in the console market. These days they try to make as much as they can off the consoles too and they take forever to drop the price, long after they become profitable.
I growed up with the Jurassic Park 3 line. But it's sad that kids these days want these toys, and there much harder to find as the time goes on. And I just want to be honest from the get go Mattel is either lazy or does not have confidence. Mattlel barley has any human figures and focuses on dinosaurs, each wave its just the same dinosaur with repaints.
@@awesomefanger That's pretty awesome. Man I wish someone would make a website dedicated this kind of nostalgic stuff. up until about 3 years ago my girfriend and I would plan our "date day" around dinner, movie, and Toys R us. wed fill our basket with toys and the cashier once asked us " how many kids do you have?". we were like, we ARE the kids, we get to be when we're here. she laughed and was like " who are all these for then?" I'm like , "our inner child?"
Going to toys r us as a kid was magical to me even if I didn’t get anything, just going in there was enough for me. Wish I could relive those memories at least one more time
Man I hear ya, I remember being so exited to look at the Xmen and aliens figures.
Me too man...when I visited Virginia not long ago we were at a hotel. When I looked across the street I realized that we were directly across from my childhood 80's Toys R' Us. But it was gone. My childhood...was gone. And I can never have it back.
The only thing more magical than Toys R Us as a kid for me was the comic shops , and we had one of the best
with tons of the coolest and most valuable comics and It felt like an underground dungeon full of treasure.
But yeah In the mid - late 80's especially Toys R Us was pure heaven!. I've noticed since the end of the 90s how
nothing was ever really the same , or as normal , or as exciting , from going to previously fun destinations
like the toy stores , arcades , malls , to just technology itself. It all became fake and disconnected with smartphones
and over-reliance of social media. It's like the adventure and surprise In life that we naturally experienced , just died.
Life feels so damn Inhuman and artificial nowdays... sad man.
Yeah, shopping at Toys R Us (and Children's Palace) was a blast as a kid!
I often got Darkwing Duck action figures whenever we shopped there (Also got the Gas Gun and Airplane on my birthday) bargain bin Hanna Barbara VHS tapes and Incredible Crash Dummies toys! (I also got the Real Ghostbusters firehouse one time)
Sorry, I rambled on a bit there. 😅 Life as a kid in the late 80's/early 90's was awesome!
I would give almost anything to be able to jump into that store just to walk around.
Some things never change 😁
The good ol days when the toy aisles were full,had variety and stuff wasn't $20 for one figure.
Now it's you get the action figure for $20 and the accessories come separate. You want the guns? That's another $5.
Yet Barnie was $34.99 each lol
Thanks to whoever filmed this. It reminds me of walking around in Toys R Us as a kid. I also remember it being really expensive for most toys. One time I went in with like $7 and all I could afford was a Ghost Busters toy, but I was happy
God, I remember this era...
Shelves that were stocked with pegs and pegs of figures, tons of lines to buy, no shortage of stock, and the figures were $6 each. Not $20 or $30 PER FIGURE...
I hate now.
So much.
Just drop me off in 1980 and let me spend my retirement years in the 80s and 90s and die in the 2000s before shit started to REALLY suck...
Not enough time spent in the Jurassic Park section! Memories... ❤️
Thank you for recording and uploading this. I was 5 years old in 1993. This video brought back so many great memories.
I was too.
Thank you for bringing back some great memories! Awsome video.
Memories...
I miss Blockbuster too
This was a lot of fun to watch. I especially liked seeing the Aliens toys at 2.26. Back in the 80's & 90's, my mother would take my sister and I to a Toys R Us somewhere in Marin county. San Rafael area I think... anyways, fond memories. Thank you, Cousin Dave. ✌️♥️
The best video! I was born 1990 so this is right up my alley! I miss this toys r us ! 😭 bless this guy for recording this footage !
Cousin Dave do you have more videos ?! Haha I’m sharing with my collector friends on twitter and they LOVE IT ! This really made my day
Man. I miss the 90s! And a fully stocked Toy R Us.
90s toys will always be the best. The packaging, artwork, something different and unique about them!
I miss the days when toys could kill a kid lol.. Even before the 90s.. Thats why toys now a days, we make them "darwin" proof, so dumb kids don't die from toys, and our toys are limited :(
80s was better. All the best original stuff came out in the 80s, the 90s didn't have a lot of new ideas, it was largely movie tie-ins.
@@emerje0 90's was good videogame-wise. Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Sonic The Hedgehog are to this day household names and are 90's creations. Even Maximum Carnage had Carnage who was a 100% 90's character.
@@WALDENSOFTWARE I don't thing there has ever been a bad decade for gaming, even the 70s had some great games.
Its nuts how much barney stuff was back then. And to think my nana bought us every barney toy and vhs tape there was. Her house was pretty much our day care and barney kept us quiet lol!
The Jurassic Park and Batman toy lines were the best thing ever. Kenner was at the top of its game. And it's a curious view not seeing Star Wars flooding the aisles. The franchise wouldn't be back until two years later.
I know exactly what you mean. I just traveled back to my hometown and found a box with the original jurassic park copound playset that I got on mega clearance back them. the batteries still worked but were almost dea. I pressed the button and it says in a choppy, glitchy voice, "jurassic park compound, secure".
1980s actually
I remember asking for star wars toys for Christmas during these years and my mom telling me no one carried them anymore. Crazy to think that today....
We need some late 95-96 footage to see the Star Wars POTF2 line when it was released. I’d love to see some 1978-1983 footage of the original lines as well.
When the original SW trilogy got re-released in theaters in 1997, that’s when the sudden resurgence of SW based toys made a comeback. Then 2 years later when Episode I came out...then it never really stopped after that.
Great video, thanks for sharing! Those 12" G.I Joe figures by Hasbro became the new Action Man line in 1994. I still have my first figure, 27 years old and still intact with great quality heavy plastic and rubber that hasn't perished in any way! They don't make toys in as good quality any more.
The zoom in on Ren is so modern humor lol 4:07
the 90s reminds of how japan has their products displayed behind a glass cabinet everywhere. I missed the 90s and early 2000s. Things are never going to be the same.
Thank you for this man! You made me come back to that time!
Wish you got the WWF hasbros on tape! They were right there by one of the other sections
I was watching for the WWF Hasbro too
Me too
Thank you Sir for taking us back in time!
I really miss the 90’s and early 000’s 😕
Oh my goshh all the jurassic park toys!!!! This is great footage .great times although i was born in 92, this place was still great 6 years later when i was in it
1993. I was 9 years old and my beloved X-Men the animated series was in its second season. That's where you would find me. Buying up all the X-Men action figures and the Super NES games.
This footage is awesome I wish there more footage of this from the 1990s from Toys R Us KB Toys and Blockbuster abs game stores so we get to see all the awesome toys and gamers threw out the 1990s even some 1980s ones would be awesome
Darn, this is the Toysrus I grew up with . Thanks for uploading this.
BACK WHEN TOY SHELVES WERE ACTUALLY STOCKED!
I see a few toys my brother and I had. Especially the nerf bow n arrow and the Aladdin stuff. Great times for sure. I miss them a lot. Thanks for the video.
Man… seeing that stocked up Jurassic park isle made me choke up.
The time when you could walk into a store and find full stock of quality items.
Really enjoying watching these. We didn't have a toys r us in our country but i've seen numerous commercials about it on CN.
Can’t believe all those Jurassic. Park j angle explorer vehicles stacked on the shelves back probably like 25 bucks a live back then! Currently on eBay a sealed in box one is like almost a 1000$ bucks.. insane!
Great video!!! Like a time machine! =) Thanks for uploading!!!
I was only five years old in 1993 guys this brings back some good memories when the toys were amazing
This just brought a tear to my eye 😢. I had the street fighter 2 edition gi joes, all the Jurassic park toys with all the gear to go back to school. Damn I even had that star trek set. Seeing the SNES on sell is nostalgic
Wish the Crash Dummies and Power Rangers that were visible got filmed. As well as a little bit more of the Marvel/X-Men. Thanks for this though.
I was looking for Teddy Ruxpin myself. Lol!
How in the world has this now been 28 years freaking years ago , wow !
Good gracious, that brings back a lot of memories.
Wow, aisles filled with toys! You can't find that at Wal-Mart these days. They can't stock their pegs to save their lives. You'd be lucky to find a single peg filled with action figures...let alone the whole aisle. And those prices! I would love to be able to buy up all those Batman, Marvel and Street Fighter figures. I miss the days of $3.99 figures. Those would go for $10 easy today.
Wow memories of Jurassic Park ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I was 6 when these toys came out. Couldn’t afford many as a kid, and now I almost have no space to put them. This was humbling to watch 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I hardly got to go to Toys Ur US because of the prices on the toys.
Wow...79 cents for Hot Wheels! That's even less than what Dollar General asks for them.
Man I can imagine Layne Staley ( from Alice In Chains ) coming to Toys R Us and buying Toys there. I be damn happy if he collected one of Todd Mcfarlanes Spawn figures. 🖤
4:50 i haf this.
Didnt know it was a hot wheels.
I already forgot it.
Thank you so much
It sure brings me back.
THEY'RE COMING BACK! CAN'T WAIT!...BECAUSE THESE OLD VIDEOS ARE KILLING ME!
Back when people could afford to buy toys for their kids.
going to toys r us in the 80s was so much different to me then going to toys r us in the 90s. the 80s had some of the best toys. in the 90s there wasn't really anything good in my opinion. but either way I miss toys r us from both decades just for the simple fact that toys r us had toys stacked from the floor to the ceiling. you don't see that anymore these days
Those are some of the most realistic toy guns on sale I have seen! Are those toy 1:1 rifles at 5:50??!?!? As a kid i would love to play with something so realistic!
6:44 that sealed Super Mario Bros would go for about 2/3 of a million like it did recently, probably more in the years to come.
When he said that this is the last Toys R Us he had no idea how much that was true.
I was born in 1992 so this is cool. I was wondering a about that Jafar toy I had as a kid. 4.99. Haha
Was hoping you got some micro machines on video but still very cool
i swear i miss the crap out of toys r us back in the day , walk in go to the video game section see what u want and make sure they have the little slips and pull one off take it to the front and walk out w ur game
Omg I remember Battle Trolls and thinking man they'll make anything out of trolls now. Lol
I had the 'Trollminator' one! 😀
OMG is Jurassic Park!!!
“I had that and that and that and that”. - us.
i miss toys r us
I MISS TOYS R US!🙄😞😞😞....I MISS IT SO MUCH! I dreamed of finding a job in one of the stores after High school, but they were gone.😞😞
I was 10 then I remember getting nothing but Jurassic park toys that year. By then I was displaying them on a shelf in my room I remember that year very well
I owned every one of those aladdin action figures and that jafar staff! Good memories.
get your kid a toy uzi lol man it was a different time. funny thing too is in 93 theres no discrete filming, this guy had one of those massive cameras that you hold on your shoulder like a boom box lol surprised by the lack of ninja turtles stuff but those nintendo displays looked really cool. would have liked a close up of those games.
4:13 - 4:31 I had that when I was a toddler... for some reason, seeing it drove my parents nuts, and my dog always found her way onto setting it off in the middle of the night. XD
Not enough time in X-men marvel section
my childhood 😭
That nerf bow and arrow was sweet!
How did we reach a point where there are hardly any toy stores left for kids to marvel at and enjoy?
Meanwhile, today Walmarts and Targets barely stock action figures. Their aisles are perpetually empty. No one has truly filled the void left behind from TRU.
Just two years before I started working there. The days of when G.I.Joe was on their way out, so sad...
this is awesome, for sure though zoomed too much in it woulda been cool to see just a regular shot
omg those barnies
@5:48 I remember the gun racks but being more interested in the newer plastic guns
THANK YOU
I never knew that Street Fighter and GI Joe crossroaded.
I like GI Joe, Transformers G2 and ETC!
The month i was born in the year i was born!
Jafar’s snake staff...I got that Christmas ‘93.
4 Days Til Toys R Us Will Close For Good.
Alvin Hylton what did u buy there?
Good riddance
I used to own a talking Barney toy when I was a kid!
Someone get this man an ice cold beer for filming all those classic toys on shelf
Or you can just throw out the shhitty beer...
Those “Trolls” toys (logo) looks EXACTLY like the modern day Trolls movies logo.
pain
Batman animated series is the best!!!
Toy guns...times were definitely different.
Thank u for this. No Power Ranger stuff tho. It came out in August. I would assume that was the hottest toys and had its own section.
You can see Titanus in the very edge of the shot at around 2:50.
Given the 80s nostalgia focus on Transformers and Batman, seems like it might have been a cameraman that didn’t know that MMPR was exploding at the time with kids.
Wow there’s actually toys on pegs... enough for everyone. Not bare pegs in 90% of the toys youd actually want to buy, and the odd box of 6 figures in the back that is scalped before it even hits the floor; That the employees are inconvenienced to have to go look and see if they have it because their online stock shows that they do. Except those numbers are all wrong. Toy hunting today is tragic.
This was when they started to make the kids guns in the neon and stripes bc of accidental shootings by cops
I completely forgot that there was a time when there were actual rifle racks at TRU and KB.
The world just sucks now.
i am so very jealous of how many transformers G2 there is, i really want them to reissue
I am just glad Back then I bought 2 of each of every transformer. I still Have one sealed & one loose. But of course the sealed ones, I got a lot on clearance prices. KB toys had the best sale prices. I got G2 Megatron & dreadwing sealed there $9.99. I bought 2 laser primes from there for $14.99 each from $44.99. So I got 2 for the less price of one.
Omg for a second you can see crash test dummies toys i have the whole set mint in box in my attic right now 😆
8 bit nintendo price was still 87 dollars even in late 1993 wow!!!
This was back when "loss leader" actually meant something in the console market. These days they try to make as much as they can off the consoles too and they take forever to drop the price, long after they become profitable.
I have most of all those toys And guess Where my dad bought it for me toys r us I have all those Batman toys.
Any single one of these are collectors items that go for big bucks.
Were the Batman returns action figures on clearance?
4:07 Ren & Stimpy
Today everything is reduced to own an Iphone...
Where This Toys"R"Us Toy Store Is Located
Sacramento. maybe Citrus Heights.
Thanks
One thing as it looked the part where the entrance is I mean how it looked the whole part where the entrance is
0:00: Kenner!
I growed up with the Jurassic Park 3 line. But it's sad that kids these days want these toys, and there much harder to find as the time goes on. And I just want to be honest from the get go Mattel is either lazy or does not have confidence. Mattlel barley has any human figures and focuses on dinosaurs, each wave its just the same dinosaur with repaints.
5.99$ for a regular to small size Batman fig in 1993?! Fuck that, thats extortion!
BT
That's nearly $11 today with inflation, that's not too bad.
@@emerje0 yeah, ill pass.
What store is this??
I'd swear that was Sara's voice at 5:10 and she says Nancy, which could have been our HR person.
Sacramento, ca. 1993
Awesome!
I worked at 5807 on Arden way 1998-2005. Any other footage from this? I know a lot of people from this store!
@@awesomefanger sorry that's all I shot back then. What you see is the raw footage from what was exactly shot.
Either way thanks for uploading this! Looks like the store on greenback and Sunrise in the last shot.
@@awesomefanger That's pretty awesome. Man I wish someone would make a website dedicated this kind of nostalgic stuff. up until about 3 years ago my girfriend and I would plan our "date day" around dinner, movie, and Toys R us. wed fill our basket with toys and the cashier once asked us " how many kids do you have?". we were like, we ARE the kids, we get to be when we're here. she laughed and was like " who are all these for then?" I'm like , "our inner child?"
Okay who is going back in time to get these videos and would you take me along with you