A retrospective on one of my all-time favorite retail stores for movies. PATREON: / movieswithmark TWITTER: / madness_mark WEBSITE: movieswithmark.com #Suncoast #VideoStore #HomeVideo
Ah I love Suncoast, sorry to hear they took out the palm trees now as I remember those clearly. I had a membership with them, I also would go the Southdale location all the time, there was a dude who was cross eyed and I always felt like he was looking somewhere else when talking to me but he was super cool. I would go there for Anime as well and buy all the Pride Fighting Championship tapes on VHS. Those were the good ole' days... wish they were still around as I would still support them.
Suncoast was my anime haven. Since it was 40 miles away from where I lived I would have to beg my uncle or someone who was heading in that direction to take me there. I remember praying that I didn't break the bank and buy a lackluster 3 episode DVD volume. Those were the days.
I here you, man. I bought most of my Universal/Hammer Horror films at Suncoast. Whatever they didn't have, Media Play did. These two stores had such a good selection. I have so many nostalgic memories wrapped up in these 2 stores. Ah, those were the good ole days. If I'd have known that they'd one day be regarded as such----I'd have slowed down to savor them a bit more. That's the thing: when we're experiencing it in the here and now, we're not aware of the future nostalgia that'll be held for what we're presently involved in. This gives me a profound reason to pause, and reevaluate my "here and now". Because who knows: *now* may one day be regarded as *the good ole days* .
I worked at a Sam Goody and Suncoast combo store when I was in High School. I loved working there great co workers and customer's. Today the Sam Goody is an FYE but the Suncoast still stands. It is one of the few remaining. Going in there makes me so happy and brings back great memories. However I know it's only a matter of time.
Cool little history lesson. Suncoast was my favorite place to visit in the mall throughout the mid to late 90's. (Before that, it was Kay-Bee toy store.)
It was a simpler, more enjoyable time for home entertainment. I remember the Suncoast in my town had an Arnold Schwarzenegger/Terminator bust. With half the face the exposed metal and one glowing red eye. $500!!! But I happened into the store when they entered their final month in the mall. 50% off everything. Some things even 70-80% off. Yours truly bought that Terminator bust I had been lusting after for more than 3 years. $199. A bargain. Still have it but currently not displaying it.
I remember spending hours in this store as a kid. I hadn’t been there in about 3 years when I decided to go back in 2010. The storefront was nothing but a wall when I got there. 😔
I used to go to Saturday Matinee, which was converted to a Suncoast. It was amazing, but buying anime on VHS was so expensive.When Suncoast stores near me were going out of business they had massive sales and I bought a lot of anime.
It was ridiculously expensive. So high-priced were these tapes that I kept my entire collection in a shoe box. I still have some of my tapes from those days. Kids today have no idea how lucky they are that anime now comes in seasoned boxed sets and that they don't have to choose between dubbed or subtitled for their purchase.
Yes! You were lucky if the tapes had 4 episodes. I've been able to buy a whole series now for what the cost of one tape was. I started buying anime in the late 90's. I can't imagine the costs prior to that or the costs for laserdiscs.
I loved they selection of anime. My elementary school was predominately Asian so my lil' friends would always talk about _Dragon Ball_ and _Sailor Moon._ Still a fan of those right here, right now.
That's pretty much how I got my start in Anime. 1998, I was buying all the Tenchi Muyo vhs tapes I could along with the Dragon Ball Z tapes. The golden age for Anime in America for me personally was the late 90's to about 2005-2010ish. Going to Suncoast and picking up the latest DVD's. Once more and more websites started streaming Anime, it kind of lost the luster of going hunting for physical copies.
I remember buying those anime at Suncoast on vhs 📼 first but switching to dvd’s later on and I would spend hours at the mall shopping and looking around. Those were the days of being a kid 👦
I bought most of my Universal/Hammer Horror films at Suncoast. Whatever they didn't have, Media Play did. These two stores had such a good selection. I have so many nostalgic memories wrapped up in these 2 stores. Ah, those were the good ole days. If I'd have known that they'd one day be regarded as such----I'd have slowed down to savor them a bit more. That's the thing: when we're experiencing it in the here and now, we're not aware of the future nostalgia that'll be held for what we're presently involved in. This gives me a profound reason to pause, and reevaluate my "here and now". Because who knows: *now* may one day be regarded as *the good ole days* .
I only ever went to one Suncoast, the one in the Mall of America, but I'll always remember that experience and buying a few uncut DBZ VHS tapes, specifically the end of Goku's fight with Frieza!
I remember venturing out to MoA Suncoast. I went there a lot in college since I was in Minneapolis and took the lightrail down. I started doing that once the Sam Goody in Minneapolis shut down.
Sales were rare so you pretty much had to sign up for the rewards program to save any money. I dug the program though since it came with a catalog and coupons.
@@MoviesWithMark I get that man about the rare stuff. But the stuff that was at other places like Walmart or blockbuster where high kind of like how best buy would make a movie 39.99 but 20%off. But still love the place and the video I still have stuff I bought from there.
i used to pour over the anime section, then, eventually, i branched out into the foreign film section - the video store in my very bland small midwestern hometown would only stock fairly mainstream titles and if you wanted anything slightly weird or risque, you'd have to buy the tape yourself. suncoast was a godsend for cinephiles & dorks in the flyover before e-commerce really took off I don't miss paying $20-40 for a tape with only two to three episodes, though
I worked at Sam Goody/Suncoast back on 2001 to 2003 and sold so many Dragon Ball Z movies and people would reserve the next one that would come out. And oh yeah sold the hell out of those Replay Cards lol!
Thursday, July 20, 2006 I bought the DVD, "By Dawn's Early Light" for $9.99 in the Suncoast store in the Willowbrook Mall, Wayne NJ. The cashier was Allyson K. I still have the DVD and store receipt. Sad that retail stores appear to be a dying breed.
That comment about idolizing retail employees really resonated with me - as a kid I remember thinking that working at a Suncoast, Best Buy or Software Etc. in a mall would be heaven on earth. now - not so much
I bought some anime VHSes there back in the day but I mostly loved to go there for the merchandise and when I needed something that was harder to find. I got Interview with the Vampire posters and t-shirts from there, for instance. But there was a lot more.
Dragonball Z Uncut, Golden Boy, Neon Genesis Evangelion, i purchased hella VHS tapes from A.D.V. Then they started selling horror action figures and South Park merchandise. Toyfare and Fangoria magazines. Damn..... Suncoast was the shit! It may be different times and obsolete today but i still prefer physically tracking down rare shit.
The suncoast that we use to have here. Had a good selection of anime. We use to call it lil Tokyo town. Because it was at the back of the store. From dbz gundam trigun and many more!!! It's crazy but some how i still remember the smell of the video store lol
Sad days when the last Suncoast around me closed 😒. It did however last pretty long it just closed a year or 2 ago, which is even more remarkable since it was in a completely dead mall as well!! #deathoftri-countymall☠️☠️
Many of my laserdisc came from a Suncoast video... Camelot Music as well. I'll never picking up my Definitive Star Wars laserdisc box set (think around '94 or '95) for over $230. Still well worth it. Malls are not the same sans Suncoast stores.
Having been a suncoast manager,you were lucky your store had employees with anime knowledge..walk into our and my limited amount of info on the subject was the best you were getting..most of the employees i knew in our store and others barely knew any movie information that was helpful.
It would be less video oriented though. I've seen a few anime merchandise stores pop up here and there which do okay but they don't carry Bluray/DVD and their stock is quite limited. Physical media is sadly far less common in retail considering only the most serious of collectors will come out for stuff like the Criterion sales at Barnes & Nobles.
there rewards program was always a little confusing to me so I never really got into that but, that didn't stop me from buying a SHITLOAD of anime from there my entire tenchi and gundam wing and seed collections where bought between there, fye and bestbuy,
Thats okay for the most part unless you spent a lot of money in the store it wasnt worth it..you could go into best buy and buy the same movies much cheaper and negated any benefit from the reward program.What was funny even when the company was owned by best buy you still hd the same high prices ..i could with my employee discount go to best buy and save much more on the movies than i could even in my own store.
3:47 I see nothing wrong with idolizing retail employees. It's better than idiolizing Justin Bieber. I used to idolize my garbage man for how quickly and efficiently he could put the trash in his garbage truck. I also used to think that the garbage truck was a self-driving vehicle. But that's a different story.
So many factual error: • Musicland stores stocked movies, even before the Suncoast. • Sam Goody and Media Play both carried instruments, not just On Cue. • It wasn't "department stores" that hurt video sales, it was big box discounters like Wal-Mart and Target that wold sell new titles below cost as a loss leader to drive traffic. Electronics stores like Best Buy and Circuit City were also using DVDs and CDs as loss leaders to drive traffic. • Best Buy purchased Music Land in 2000, not 2001. • Sun Capital didn't "buy" music Land, it was given to them for $1, if they took the liability and debit. • Sun Capital had no real intention on saving the chain, they looted it for what they could, and let it go bankrupt. • The final bankruptcy was filed in early 2006 not 2005. They began shutting down all Media Play stores in 2005. • Transworld didn't buy the Music Land company, only approx 300 select stores and the web site. The actual Music Land Group inc. was dissolved. All other stores were liquidated under the bankruptcy. Employees who worked at the purchased locations were officially hired by Transworld as new employees.
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UPDATE: Sadly, the palm trees were removed from the Southdale Mall after the game store moved locations, that spot now replaced with a music studio.
Ah I love Suncoast, sorry to hear they took out the palm trees now as I remember those clearly. I had a membership with them, I also would go the Southdale location all the time, there was a dude who was cross eyed and I always felt like he was looking somewhere else when talking to me but he was super cool. I would go there for Anime as well and buy all the Pride Fighting Championship tapes on VHS. Those were the good ole' days... wish they were still around as I would still support them.
Suncoast was my anime haven. Since it was 40 miles away from where I lived I would have to beg my uncle or someone who was heading in that direction to take me there. I remember praying that I didn't break the bank and buy a lackluster 3 episode DVD volume. Those were the days.
This was literally the only place you could find a variety of anime around here in the 90's
So that's what happened. My desire to go to the mall died when suncoast closed. Me and my best friend went there every week to buy anime.
I have to drive all the way to Beaumont, TX from Houston (86 miles from my place) just to shop at a Suncoast now!
I here you, man. I bought most of my Universal/Hammer Horror films at Suncoast. Whatever they didn't have, Media Play did. These two stores had such a good selection. I have so many nostalgic memories wrapped up in these 2 stores. Ah, those were the good ole days. If I'd have known that they'd one day be regarded as such----I'd have slowed down to savor them a bit more. That's the thing: when we're experiencing it in the here and now, we're not aware of the future nostalgia that'll be held for what we're presently involved in. This gives me a profound reason to pause, and reevaluate my "here and now". Because who knows: *now* may one day be regarded as *the good ole days* .
I worked at a Sam Goody and Suncoast combo store when I was in High School. I loved working there great co workers and customer's. Today the Sam Goody is an FYE but the Suncoast still stands. It is one of the few remaining. Going in there makes me so happy and brings back great memories. However I know it's only a matter of time.
mrgrillsmg where is this at?
Leda Sierra The Mall at Fairfield Commons in Beavercreek, Ohio.
I remember Sam Goody,good times
I worked in Suncoast for years. One of my favorite jobs. Thanks for this!
Cool little history lesson.
Suncoast was my favorite place to visit in the mall throughout the mid to late 90's. (Before that, it was Kay-Bee toy store.)
It was a simpler, more enjoyable time for home entertainment. I remember the Suncoast in my town had an Arnold Schwarzenegger/Terminator bust. With half the face the exposed metal and one glowing red eye. $500!!! But I happened into the store when they entered their final month in the mall. 50% off everything. Some things even 70-80% off. Yours truly bought that Terminator bust I had been lusting after for more than 3 years. $199. A bargain. Still have it but currently not displaying it.
I remember spending hours in this store as a kid. I hadn’t been there in about 3 years when I decided to go back in 2010. The storefront was nothing but a wall when I got there. 😔
I used to go to Saturday Matinee, which was converted to a Suncoast. It was amazing, but buying anime on VHS was so expensive.When Suncoast stores near me were going out of business they had massive sales and I bought a lot of anime.
It was ridiculously expensive. So high-priced were these tapes that I kept my entire collection in a shoe box. I still have some of my tapes from those days. Kids today have no idea how lucky they are that anime now comes in seasoned boxed sets and that they don't have to choose between dubbed or subtitled for their purchase.
Yes! You were lucky if the tapes had 4 episodes. I've been able to buy a whole series now for what the cost of one tape was. I started buying anime in the late 90's. I can't imagine the costs prior to that or the costs for laserdiscs.
I don't know who you are but you did some great research! Thanks for adding the Southdale crew. You made our days!
I loved they selection of anime. My elementary school was predominately Asian so my lil' friends would always talk about _Dragon Ball_ and _Sailor Moon._ Still a fan of those right here, right now.
That's pretty much how I got my start in Anime. 1998, I was buying all the Tenchi Muyo vhs tapes I could along with the Dragon Ball Z tapes. The golden age for Anime in America for me personally was the late 90's to about 2005-2010ish. Going to Suncoast and picking up the latest DVD's. Once more and more websites started streaming Anime, it kind of lost the luster of going hunting for physical copies.
What's wrong with idolising retail employees?
I remember buying those anime at Suncoast on vhs 📼 first but switching to dvd’s later on and I would spend hours at the mall shopping and looking around. Those were the days of being a kid 👦
I bought my Red Dwarf and Are You Being Served? collections at Suncoast!
I bought most of my Universal/Hammer Horror films at Suncoast. Whatever they didn't have, Media Play did. These two stores had such a good selection. I have so many nostalgic memories wrapped up in these 2 stores. Ah, those were the good ole days. If I'd have known that they'd one day be regarded as such----I'd have slowed down to savor them a bit more. That's the thing: when we're experiencing it in the here and now, we're not aware of the future nostalgia that'll be held for what we're presently involved in. This gives me a profound reason to pause, and reevaluate my "here and now". Because who knows: *now* may one day be regarded as *the good ole days* .
Same! I bought the Nightmare on Elm Street movies when they were reissued in '99!
Suncoast always had all the Godzilla movies,I loved that store
I remember going to Southdale, getting Arby’s, and then walking around Suncoast all fulla beef. Good times.
Used to buy my WCW and WWF tapes there in the mid 90's.
Think I still have a copy of Spring Stampede 1994 buried somewhere at my parents house
I really miss suncoast they were such an awesome store
I only ever went to one Suncoast, the one in the Mall of America, but I'll always remember that experience and buying a few uncut DBZ VHS tapes, specifically the end of Goku's fight with Frieza!
I remember venturing out to MoA Suncoast. I went there a lot in college since I was in Minneapolis and took the lightrail down. I started doing that once the Sam Goody in Minneapolis shut down.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I worked/managed A few Suncoasts from 1996 till my store closed in 2010.
One of my most loved childhood places. The problem I had was the prices and sells where few and far between at least the one I went too.
Sales were rare so you pretty much had to sign up for the rewards program to save any money. I dug the program though since it came with a catalog and coupons.
@@MoviesWithMark I get that man about the rare stuff. But the stuff that was at other places like Walmart or blockbuster where high kind of like how best buy would make a movie 39.99 but 20%off. But still love the place and the video I still have stuff I bought from there.
That's why I went there!!! I was first turned onto "Pet Shop of Horrors" there. I miss Suncoast. 😭😭😭
Suncoast my jam!!!! I remember it we have store in Towson Maryland up until 2004. Sad it's gone now.
The last suncoast is open in New Jersey. Monmouth Mall. 😊😊
i used to pour over the anime section, then, eventually, i branched out into the foreign film section - the video store in my very bland small midwestern hometown would only stock fairly mainstream titles and if you wanted anything slightly weird or risque, you'd have to buy the tape yourself. suncoast was a godsend for cinephiles & dorks in the flyover before e-commerce really took off
I don't miss paying $20-40 for a tape with only two to three episodes, though
I worked at Sam Goody/Suncoast back on 2001 to 2003 and sold so many Dragon Ball Z movies and people would reserve the next one that would come out. And oh yeah sold the hell out of those Replay Cards lol!
There’s still one in a mall near me in NJ, I love this place!
Thursday, July 20, 2006 I bought the DVD, "By Dawn's Early Light" for $9.99 in the Suncoast store in the Willowbrook Mall, Wayne NJ. The cashier was Allyson K. I still have the DVD and store receipt.
Sad that retail stores appear to be a dying breed.
That comment about idolizing retail employees really resonated with me - as a kid I remember thinking that working at a Suncoast, Best Buy or Software Etc. in a mall would be heaven on earth. now - not so much
I bought some anime VHSes there back in the day but I mostly loved to go there for the merchandise and when I needed something that was harder to find. I got Interview with the Vampire posters and t-shirts from there, for instance. But there was a lot more.
Dragonball Z Uncut, Golden Boy, Neon Genesis Evangelion, i purchased hella VHS tapes from A.D.V. Then they started selling horror action figures and South Park merchandise. Toyfare and Fangoria magazines. Damn..... Suncoast was the shit! It may be different times and obsolete today but i still prefer physically tracking down rare shit.
There is still a Suncoast where i live. Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. They still sell Anime and New and Used movies
No VHS though
@@jasonwb6884 Damn, now where am I going to get another copy of "Turner and Hooch"?!...lol
The suncoast that we use to have here. Had a good selection of anime. We use to call it lil Tokyo town. Because it was at the back of the store. From dbz gundam trigun and many more!!! It's crazy but some how i still remember the smell of the video store lol
I remember the one in Chicago at the Hip Mall
Great video! very interesting information. I remember being infatuated with Suncoast and buying my first anime OVA's as a kid.
Which was your first? I remember my first purchase from them was the first volume of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Man, i miss this place.
Ah, we had an On Cue in my home town. No one I know remembers that store.
I miss Suncoast doin my grandmother used to take me there to and get all my horror movies
I feel you 100%
Sad days when the last Suncoast around me closed 😒. It did however last pretty long it just closed a year or 2 ago, which is even more remarkable since it was in a completely dead mall as well!! #deathoftri-countymall☠️☠️
Many of my laserdisc came from a Suncoast video... Camelot Music as well.
I'll never picking up my Definitive Star Wars laserdisc box set (think around '94 or '95) for over $230. Still well worth it.
Malls are not the same sans Suncoast stores.
George,Chris,Marcel,Scott,Rebecca
There still a Suncoast where I lived
They also great Kung Fu movies that when I got my 1984 copy of iron monkey
I used to buy anime a lot from Suncoast
Ranma 1/2 nice!
Having been a suncoast manager,you were lucky your store had employees with anime knowledge..walk into our and my limited amount of info on the subject was the best you were getting..most of the employees i knew in our store and others barely knew any movie information that was helpful.
There is a suncoast in nj as well.
Nice video my dude
AS OF 2022 there are now 3 locations left in the U.S.
Idea: they should rebrand to an anime exclusive store. Anime is becoming more and more popular now... it could work.
It would be less video oriented though. I've seen a few anime merchandise stores pop up here and there which do okay but they don't carry Bluray/DVD and their stock is quite limited. Physical media is sadly far less common in retail considering only the most serious of collectors will come out for stuff like the Criterion sales at Barnes & Nobles.
Theres one by me still in nj
In assuming there was a big fat cease and desist from paramount pictures.
They were like FYE
there rewards program was always a little confusing to me so I never really got into that but, that didn't stop me from buying a SHITLOAD of anime from there my entire tenchi and gundam wing and seed collections where bought between there, fye and bestbuy,
Thats okay for the most part unless you spent a lot of money in the store it wasnt worth it..you could go into best buy and buy the same movies much cheaper and negated any benefit from the reward program.What was funny even when the company was owned by best buy you still hd the same high prices ..i could with my employee discount go to best buy and save much more on the movies than i could even in my own store.
3:47 I see nothing wrong with idolizing retail employees. It's better than idiolizing Justin Bieber. I used to idolize my garbage man for how quickly and efficiently he could put the trash in his garbage truck. I also used to think that the garbage truck was a self-driving vehicle. But that's a different story.
I always go to the one in NJ for all my weeb needs..
2:36 hot girl from the 90s!!!!!!!
So many factual error:
• Musicland stores stocked movies, even before the Suncoast.
• Sam Goody and Media Play both carried instruments, not just On Cue.
• It wasn't "department stores" that hurt video sales, it was big box discounters like Wal-Mart and Target that wold sell new titles below cost as a loss leader to drive traffic. Electronics stores like Best Buy and Circuit City were also using DVDs and CDs as loss leaders to drive traffic.
• Best Buy purchased Music Land in 2000, not 2001.
• Sun Capital didn't "buy" music Land, it was given to them for $1, if they took the liability and debit.
• Sun Capital had no real intention on saving the chain, they looted it for what they could, and let it go bankrupt.
• The final bankruptcy was filed in early 2006 not 2005. They began shutting down all Media Play stores in 2005.
• Transworld didn't buy the Music Land company, only approx 300 select stores and the web site. The actual Music Land Group inc. was dissolved. All other stores were liquidated under the bankruptcy. Employees who worked at the purchased locations were officially hired by Transworld as new employees.
one i eastgate ohio was replace by f.y.e wich liquated and closed in 2020
Those Best Buy, and Suncoast commercials were pure cringe.
I bought hentai from there and my mom seen it. Lol it was night shif5 nurses, the original ones.
3:17
VHSDude, how old are you again?
Early 30s.
They were pricey.
Box of anime vhs 20$
How dare you idolize retail employees!
Place was a ripoff. I remember them selling CDs for north of 20 bucks in the late 90s.
What’s wrong with idolizing a retail employee? You’re the dork in there looking for anime 😂