Friday OT - I Wanna Be a Toys R Us Kid
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I didn't have a Toys R Us near me growing up but I had a KB Toys! Loved going in there to waste time while my parents were shopping
I LOVED M.A.S.K. as a kid and had some of the toys. I thought they were amazing.
I think there was a KB in North Grand Mall in the 90s, as well as in the Fort Dodge mall! I was trying to remember the name and couldn’t.
I still remember where the KB was located in Crossroads Mall in Waterloo. Could probably walk there with my eyes closed. I think by the time Waterloo finally got a Toys R Us, I had aged out of that genre
Not as a kid, but I remember as a father, my wife dragging me there. We would do the majority of our kids Christmas shopping on a designated night. ToysRUs was one of the required stops according to my wife, so I spent most of the time arguing that it's too expensive and they will play with it twice before it eventually gets donated.
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And folks....this is how Festivus got started.
My town didn't have one. But when this bad boy showed up it was on!
My transformers would have kicked the **** out of your puny M.A.S.K. squadI LOVED M.A.S.K. as a kid and had some of the toys. I thought they were amazing.
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While utilizing one of those end-cap displays full of big inflated balls in nets, my unsupervised friends and I had an impromptu kickball game inside a Toys R Us once. We had bases around the store and everything. It was a blast until we were asked to kindly leave by a red-faced manager.
Trying to remember what toy store was where main ames hyvee is now. I think it was KB but not sure.
I think there was a KB Toys in Valley West Mall when I was growing up. I just remember going to Toys R Us and seeing all kinds of cool stuff that I know I'd probably never get, lol. It was like taking a kid to a candy shop but telling them we're only there to buy a pack of gum.
Oh believe me, I got a lot problems with you people...
That show was the bestI LOVED M.A.S.K. as a kid and had some of the toys. I thought they were amazing.
No R-Us or the like near us. Much of my childhood toy-shopping (more accurately, "toy-wanting") occurred at Ben Franklin and Bomgaars.
Not a toy store but we'd just hit the toy section at CR's Target store. This was late 70s-early 80s, before Target got Midwest bougie, it was closer to a KMart in status at that time. We couldn't afford the really cool toys and stuff, but it was fun playing with them while there.
