The feeling back then was amazing and now we want to relive it again, but it's gone all we can do and look at this in a past tense way and be thankful we got to be there when we did
To the person that recorded this you have no idea how many people out there you have made smile or cry getting to relive these moments again can’t believe how fast these times have flown by they really were better times
"The wages of sin is death.." Do you have the free gift of God? Which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord? Sin corrupts, it destroys, it is pleasurable for a season but ends in death and destruction. The Bible says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." We cannot earn heaven. Have you ever lied? Stolen? Used God's name in vain? Lusted? Dishonored your parents? These are some of God's ten commandments. We are guilty of breaking God's law, hell is where we would go to pay for these sins. But praise God! He has made a way for us! God sent His only Son Jesus, fully man and fully God, perfect and sinless, to die on the cross for your sin! Then He rose again the third day defeating death! We broke God's law, Jesus paid the fine! That's why He said, "It is finished." Right before He died! The debt has been paid! Now we must turn to Him in repentance and trust in Jesus! Turn from your own way that leads to destruction, and follow Jesus! He loves you more than anyone ever could, He will never leave you.
Back when we had to drive out to buy videogames... today we just download them and save a lot of time not having to drive out, browse a store, etc. And what do we do with all this extra time we now save? Scroll through social media endlessly. Our lives have become more convenient but the quality of our existence hasn't improved much.
Clearly intentional stock footage. Whoever did it was probably assigned to doing it and undoubtedly was compensated. I wonder what they do now. Imagine coming across the stock footage you yourself shot 30 years ago (and likely forgot all about).
Can't be double dippin' on a turtle purchase, nomsayin'. If I had unwrapped a duplicate turtle on Christmas morning I would have torn the house apart and then been all like, "But MeeEEEEeeeEEeEem I already have wacky action MichelangeloooOOooo!".
@@Religious_manyou don’t know how many kids only get as little as 1-2 toys per Christmas it’s naive to assume every parent there is showering them with gifts.
Seeing a whole wall of ninja turtles brings back great memories. Also, there was no better joy for me as a kid then seeing a video game slip in the sleeve, meaning that they had it still in stock, taking the slip out of the sleeve, and walking up to the counter, when your parents told you that you could get a game! Great times
Haha! That's right! I remember what I swear was like 4 aisles of these things in the early 90s - NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis, etc. Hundreds of video game slips.
It almost made me tear for a a second TMNT, GI Joes and Power rangers were my fav toys in the 90s... I'm so hmsad I won't be able to experience this with my son its heart breaking. As an adult with money I want Toys R Us to come back so I can spoil myself and my on with action figures lol but going to the store and finding them instead of having to buy them online. Being in the store looking through 100s of figures was so magical.
If only we could go back to this! I would’ve been 8 at the time. Those toys r us trips are some great memories! Look how many toys there were. Toys barely take up a few aisles now.
Federal minimum wage is only $3 more today than in 1991. Think about the prices of stuff you see in this video compared to now. And then think how little we earn compared to then. The 90's was a time where things shifted and it started to take two people to work to afford a home. Now it takes a lot more than just that.
Almost no one is paying minimum wage stop lying 😂 even mc Donald’s offers 13+ I haven’t seen below $15 and I just moved from Texas to wi and same thing.
Some prices are similar. Video games were 39-69 and aren’t more these days. Action figures have gone up, a 3.75” Star Wars figure would’ve been 3.99-6.99 and they’re about 12 now. So it’s hit and miss.
@@Countcho I mean, I can’t claim to be an expert. All I know is that I made $5.50 an hour in 1998. I paid $60 for N64 games and 29-49 for PSX games, and $5.75 for most toys
now cameras have been weaponized, people don't want to go viral for something negative 'This guy at the gym looked at me the wrong way! Let's get him cancelled!'
@@theguybehindyou4762- In defense of Cobra. I thought 80s era GI Joe was great. Along with Transformers. Cobra Commander and Starscream voiced by Chris Latta.
@@islandbee The concept could work if done right, I just never liked how Cobra has been handled. But then, I need my entertainment to be as believable and realistic as possible.
@@ScarlettEmeraldASMR they do, but that’s not exactly what I mean. There used to be entire aisles dedicated to say, the ninja turtles, or Star Wars. Not all of that stuff is on a few pegs all on just a couple of aisles.
This was back when Barbie dolls were AWESOME toys to have . Now due to folks with too much time on their hands being so " politically correct ", the Barbies on shelves now would make the knock-off Barbies from back then, look stunning . If folks that complained about issues back then could see how bad times are for us NOW, I GUARANTEE you, they would shut up, hug their families tighter and appreciate how good they have it . God, please turn back time for us . We'll even sacrifice the INTERNET, social media AND the Cellphones to go back in time and STAY THERE .
My relatives always bought me the wwf figure toys (hulk hogan, macho Man, ultimate warrior etc) at toys r us in the 90s. This store was like Disneyland for kids.
The peak age of toys and video games, everything a kid could want. Just the experience of walking into a toysrus with my parents was a dream. I cherish my memories.
Man, hearing the sound of those cash registers in the end. I haven't heard that sound in probably over 20 years, but I remembered it immediately. Brings me back to the good old days. I was 5 years old when this video was filmed and having had a Toys R Us right next to where I live, we'd make trips there fairly regularly. That Toys R Us got a few renovations over the years and then, sadly, closed down about 5 or 6 years ago. This also reminds me of all the other stores that no longer exist... Waldbaum's, Nobody Beats the Wiz, Radio Shack, Blockbuster...
50 dollar video games in 1991. That's similar to around 113 dollars today. Outrageous! I forgot just how expensive gaming was back then. Thank a parent if they were buying you these games back then, because it wasn't cheap!
1991 most Genesis games were $49.99. 1992 and on many Genesis games were $59.99 (a few later than that such as Phantasy Star IV had MSRP of $90-$100). PS1 (released in 1995) games were usually $39.99….CDs cheaper than cartridges.
Toys'R'Us was such an amazing place throughout the whole 90's, even here in my small city in Germany. I always loved the experience when we went there. Basically all my Toys back then came from there. My first real bike without the support wheels also came from there. Good times, good times. A few years ago the Toys'R'Us has closed, which says a lot about the times we're in right now😔
Even though you knew you couldn't have it all... being surrounded by it all held a mighty fine magic all its own alongside getting to choose those one or two items that were yours to take home. Sometimes we chose poorly but most of the time we got something we were pretty proud of. But my fondness is before the BrU box reset, just aisles that stretched on and on and up and up.
13:23 the infamous video game ticket wall. The worst possible way to sell games to people (get their hopes up they had the game, only for there to be no ticket for it!).
It was so exciting though. I remember grabbing a few tickets of games I hoped to buy (well, planned to get my parents to buy for me) which never got used. Somewhere I still have one for a Genesis game somewhere.
It was an effective LP measure, though of course, there had been occasions where TRU would run out of tickets for that one item, and that caused inconvenience. Though it was (and still is) common practice for video game stock to be hidden away, because of their high value and ease of stealing, even though most TRUs in the warehouse format had a rather convoluted entrance where there was normally push barriers and a customer service desk straddling the entrance and exit.
I remember the walk to that video game section. Felt like forever for a kid. Not knowing if the ticket would be there. Then the anticipation when you took it up to the little booth to finally get your game. Buying video games was like going to CVS and buying meds. I remember how bummed I was when Mario 2 was sold out for a few weeks. Kids today have no idea.
My children were born in 2014 and 2015 and we still had a Toys 'R' Us in my city, its just too dang bad that they were so young that they cant remember it now since they closed.
I used to love those figures.. TMNT, GI Joe and power rangers were my go to figures but man crash dummies were fun o was an action figure junky as a kid. Anything I could get my hands on I was bringing home if I didnt have it.. Got to the point where I was running outta figures to collect lol.
This is how I remember Toys R Us, toys damn near stacked to the ceiling. In its final years it just seemed a bit bare to me and I could just feel it was coming to an end. I’m grateful to had experience Toys R Us in its hay day.
I'd be happy to forget this era even existed. And once people realize how harmful raising kids on iPads and smartphones is, the old ways might make a comeback, and we may even see stores like this again.
My mom and I traveled all over town to find Bebop and the Foot Soldier and when we finally found them it was like finding gold. We went to Shoney's to celebrate!!
Man I remember my Gmom and my mom were out looking for Foot soldiers for me and they asked the sale person if there was any in the back bro brought a whole case out and my Gmom and mom bought the whole case for me lol.. We weren't rich but they loved making sure I had every figure under the sun lol.. I was so grateful even as a 5 year old never took what I had for granted. And made sure to help around the house doing whatever I could regardless of toys or not. But man I miss those days. I have a 5 year old son and so sad I wont ever get to experience a TRU with him.
The best part of Toys ‘R’ Us was the video game section….if you wanted a certain game, you had to take a slip of paper to the video game seller and someone would bring it out, it was such a magical experience!
I was 5 years old ......home alone hottest movie out .....ice ice baby biggest record out 😂 my little brother was born....all i had to do was wake up....food was ready breakfast lunch an dinner....just wake up an go play outside 😢
I turned 5 in 91 as well and now I have a 5 year old son lol I miss those days but wouldn't trade my life now for anything.. I get to keep living young through my son just sad I can't experience taking him to toys r us smh... Parents always told us "just wait til u have kids and take them in a store and they want everything" well wen I go to the store with my son we r both excited to go to the toy aisle and see what they got. Unfortunately the toy sections r bare now a days but he still leaves with something. Being an adult with money that can buy action figures for ur kid is a gift. I miss Toys R Us tho.
I'm 21 so this video was filmed over a decade before I was born. We didn't have a Toys R Us local when I was growing up. The closest one was about an hour away. Thankfully I still got to go a few times. I remember how magical it was. The Barbie aisle was my favorite!
This brought back great memories. Me , and my stepbrother used to go to Toys R' Us every Saturday with my stepfather to pick out toys. I miss the good old days.
I'll never forget it...standing in line with your ticket to get your video game behind the window....Toejam and Earl, Sega Genesis... Warwick, RI.....thanks, DAD, miss you
I remember this exact Toys R Us! Great times and great footage! My poor mom probably spent hundreds if not more on TMNT action figures, the movies, and just any TMNT related merch my 2 brothers and I could find. From 89 till about 92 we were obsessed. Around 93 I was 10 and becoming more interested in makeup and clothes and my brothers were nearly 13 and into skateboarding, girls and metal and all our childhood TMNT stuff was either donated or given away or possibly thrown out. Seeing those boxes of action figures again brought back memories of the excitement we'd experience when mom would take us to Toys r us to buy new ones. And that video game aisle! 😍
I was born in 1991 in Brisbane Australia. The 90s and the early 2000s was the best time to grow up in. I seen 2d video games transition into 3d. This was a huge era of gaming. Up to 2012 up to 2015 was good as well. Plus my grandfather fought in ww2 and all the Anzac parades we went to to (Veterans) gave me a sense of the old school life. The tv shows where much better back then too.
One of the things I miss most about these days is the amount of inventory they had available. Dozens of every single figure available. A pallet of playsets. I bring my son to target and there aren’t enough to go skeins and there is one figure hanging on the peg. It’s awful.
Because back then we had scalpers but 90% of the people buying stuff were actual parents buys for us kids.. Now a days its either scalpers or adult collectors buying everything... I have a 5 year old son and I would love to take him to find figures and stuff but there's nothing I gotta buy everything online for him and he's happy obviously that he gets his figure or toy but man being able to go in the store and find the 2 or 3 figures u were looking for and getting to take them home that day and not wait for shipping man it was magical and we took it for granted I feel.
Worth remembering this was someone with a conspicuous camera, not a tiny phone! I remember filming a friend at a passing out parade at this time, and not having power on site, we needed a backpack full of batteries! Like walking around with a hod of bricks!!! Seeing somone with a camera was a surprise back then, but if the camera was big enough to rest on the shoulder, I noticed people would sidle up behind you and whisper: "What's this for... Is it for the television?" Seems like a different planet now. Best wishes one and all 🇬🇧🎬🇺🇲
I was born in 1999, and never enjoyed the legos which came out when I was a kid. So I made it my goal to always collect the Lego sets from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and early 00s. What I loved about this video is seeing some of the sets I own back when Toys R Us initially sold them 😎
13:23 ladies and gentlemen, I give you...THE WALL. The Wall where we all hung out, just staring at all the games, flipping them up to see the screenshots, wishing we had every one of them.
The NCR 7052s in this video seem to have a very odd combination of a basic customer display pole and a sophisticated alphanumeric VFD for the checkout operator that displays more information than the customer pole. I wonder why they chose to do this given that the UK TRUs used an entirely different POS system (IBM 4683) which always had an alphanumeric green display.
And thats y i hope all those vintage toy stores go out of business... They aren't helping anyone they're just profiting off of our once magical childhoods. Can't even buy figures for my son anymore without paying ridiculous prices.. I just want my son to have an awesome childhood with the figures he likes nd sadly we don't have actual toy stores anymore.
yea, where it actually felt like a civilization... Everything feels much less communal now, less of a collective pulse on things, radio, tv, shopping... I do believe we share energy, a frequency, a vibration... we're tribal...so it's greatly missed
Look how well stocked and vibrant the store is. I loved going into Toys 'R' Us when I was young in the early to mid-90s. I remember just seeing rows and rows of action figures like in the video along with the Hot Wheels. Pity. Buying online definitely took away a chunk of humanity.
Everythign feels much less communal now, less of a collective pulse on things... I do believe we share energy, a frequency, a vibration... we're tribal...so it's greatly missed
I was -1 years old. But I like being able to see what stuff was like right around the time I was born. My nostalgia would be early 2000s but this also makes me feel some type of way.
This is the Toysrus I grew up on ,as a kid back in the 90s .Watching this video makes me feel like am a kid again ,going back to my childhood Toysrus.😭
0:14 the Monopoly Board Games At Toys R Us Cost $9.99 in 1991 Money, No Wonder Toys R Us Went Bankrupt because of how Expensive these Toys and Games and Bikes are (I mean Amazon is also responsible for Running my Childhood to the Ground so as Walmart and Target)!
Hey, thanks for the memories. At this time, I would have been 17 and at home prepping for the big dinner the next day because school would have been out for the holiday, but seeing people pre black Friday shopping, that's the best! And also, I had completely forgotten the way cash registers sounded back then.
Cell phones really have ruined alot. We don't answer the phone because we think everyone is a scammer, we don't answer the door because we can see who is there from our cameras, it's sad really
I think I'm the only person who doesn't care or have such technology. Nope! No Alexa, no Ring, no nothing like that. You don't HAVE to have those silly gagets
Loved watching this. Fun to see the stores before they had such a huge emphasis on the video games. I remember 1996 when the N64 came out that was probably the craziest retail year I ever remember
That Ninja Turtles section is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I remember being a kid and going into toys r us and seeing all the ninja turtles, gi joe, wrestling, and everything else filling the whole isle
I Would do. Literally anything... to go back one more time. with my Parents and Brother... knowing what i know now... just to have one more day with them.
As a dad I took my oldest daughter to Toys’R’Us when she was smaller and got her all kinds of toys and what was popular at her age at the time. Now she’s 16 and they closed the Toys’R’Us in Evansville,IN about 8 yrs ago or so and it hurts seeing an end of an era. I got a 5 yr old and she will never get to experience that in her life now.😢
I'm so heart broken that I can't experience this with my 5 year old son smh.. Man we had it so good back then. Today's society sucks. I miss the 90s and early 2000s and the 80s even tho I was born in 87' 😂.. I miss Toys R Us
Us Millennials (aka, GenY) complain how hard life was/is and we are partially right. But, we also had the best childhood. Nickelodeon, and affordable Disneyland, comic books, movies and video games that were targetted to us as teenagers, and aTOYS-R-US. We were the generation that were not "expected" to achieve anything - other than just having fun. Even now, the games and movies are made for us GenY. Thanks for this video to remind me of the good things i should be thankful for!
When I think "Millennial" I think birth of the woke movement, early social media (Aol) and the start of main stream cell phone use. Then I remembered I'm Gen-X and I felt better again😊
I never got to see ToysRus like this in 1991 as I was only 1 then, but it definitely got a lot bigger when I first started going there. It's also amazing hardly anyone is pushing around carts there and just carrying their things around. Such an interesting and simple life it was back then!
Ahhh, the good old days of taking the giant price tag up to the register and she would YELL at someone to go get the item for you while you waited and waited. Now we have Amazon.
I miss Toys 'R' Us , it really was a great store to shop in . I'm almost 53 and there is still a part of me that ' don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid' . At least I had a couple of years with my kids to get to shop at Toys 'R' Us.
I wonder if this was recorded for the purposes of consumer behavior research. Either way, it's really cool to have this archival footage from such a creative and colorful era - the 1990s! Everything in the 90s was vibrant and oozed attitude!
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That feeling being in a Toys R Us as a kid is indescribable
That's a description tho.
The feeling back then was amazing and now we want to relive it again, but it's gone all we can do and look at this in a past tense way and be thankful we got to be there when we did
The good old days!
@@ericcartmansstrengthandpow5960 No, it isn't.
The feeling for me was being too poor for my parents to buy us anything
To the person that recorded this you have no idea how many people out there you have made smile or cry getting to relive these moments again can’t believe how fast these times have flown by they really were better times
I wasn’t born then but I’m still filled with nostalgia
The man who filmed this worked for ABC News, so glad people like him kept unedited footage of things like this
What a sad life to feel you must live in the past.
@@akoww1000 found some other vids like this on here saw one with Sears and heard those old registers felt like I was a kid again
@jeltoninc.8542 u can keep the present times I want nothing to do it
It's a shame that when we are having the time of our lives, we don't know it until it's over.
You couldn't say it any better. Very true & can be painful to some of us.
NOW I've had the time of my life? No, I never felt like this before. Yes I swear, it's the truth…
Greatest comment ever 🎉
@@llorenstorrespr4409very painful
@@BuddyLee23😅
truly sad most kids will never understand the joys of running into a toy store!
the toy store was a happiest memory from my childhood!
"The wages of sin is death.." Do you have the free gift of God? Which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord? Sin corrupts, it destroys, it is pleasurable for a season but ends in death and destruction. The Bible says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." We cannot earn heaven. Have you ever lied? Stolen? Used God's name in vain? Lusted? Dishonored your parents? These are some of God's ten commandments. We are guilty of breaking God's law, hell is where we would go to pay for these sins. But praise God! He has made a way for us! God sent His only Son Jesus, fully man and fully God, perfect and sinless, to die on the cross for your sin! Then He rose again the third day defeating death! We broke God's law, Jesus paid the fine! That's why He said, "It is finished." Right before He died! The debt has been paid! Now we must turn to Him in repentance and trust in Jesus! Turn from your own way that leads to destruction, and follow Jesus! He loves you more than anyone ever could, He will never leave you.
I agree being an adult now with a son and money having a Toys R Us would make my day to experience that with him.
Back when we had to drive out to buy videogames... today we just download them and save a lot of time not having to drive out, browse a store, etc. And what do we do with all this extra time we now save? Scroll through social media endlessly. Our lives have become more convenient but the quality of our existence hasn't improved much.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Survival is about to become a top priority...
The digital era is destroying the gaming industry. It's just the beginning stages of you will own nothing and be happy. Sad times we live in.
Well how else would they get you to carry around a tracking device that transmits all of your personal data to them?
@@Moonlite.88yup and 2030 is right around the corner
@@Moonlite.88so glad I'm not the only one on these videos who is awake.
I LOVED watching this! Tremendous thank you to whoever took this back then. So grateful to see!
Nostalgia attack! 🤘☕️⚡️
Clearly intentional stock footage. Whoever did it was probably assigned to doing it and undoubtedly was compensated.
I wonder what they do now. Imagine coming across the stock footage you yourself shot 30 years ago (and likely forgot all about).
it feels like the closest thing to time travel
These poor parents - struggling to remember which Turtles toys they already bought.
Can't be double dippin' on a turtle purchase, nomsayin'. If I had unwrapped a duplicate turtle on Christmas morning I would have torn the house apart and then been all like, "But MeeEEEEeeeEEeEem I already have wacky action MichelangeloooOOooo!".
So what? F'em. Such "parents" have spoiled their children with that $hit. Why do people sympathize with the parents over the children?
@@Religious_manyou don’t know how many kids only get as little as 1-2 toys per Christmas it’s naive to assume every parent there is showering them with gifts.
@@ericcartmansstrengthandpow5960alright sweetheart, we'll take it back on boxing day and get you the dommy somthing one tomorrow....
Seeing a whole wall of ninja turtles brings back great memories. Also, there was no better joy for me as a kid then seeing a video game slip in the sleeve, meaning that they had it still in stock, taking the slip out of the sleeve, and walking up to the counter, when your parents told you that you could get a game! Great times
Haha! That's right! I remember what I swear was like 4 aisles of these things in the early 90s - NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis, etc. Hundreds of video game slips.
Yeeeep. The yellow slips. Damn. 😢
I wish I could shopping in that ninja turtle section again! And later the dragonball z then pokemon areas!
It almost made me tear for a a second TMNT, GI Joes and Power rangers were my fav toys in the 90s... I'm so hmsad I won't be able to experience this with my son its heart breaking. As an adult with money I want Toys R Us to come back so I can spoil myself and my on with action figures lol but going to the store and finding them instead of having to buy them online. Being in the store looking through 100s of figures was so magical.
feels like the closest thing to time travel
It is time travel 😮
If only we could go back to this! I would’ve been 8 at the time. Those toys r us trips are some great memories! Look how many toys there were. Toys barely take up a few aisles now.
This is literally a toy store though lol of course all the aisles will be toys.
Video games are the new toys
Federal minimum wage is only $3 more today than in 1991. Think about the prices of stuff you see in this video compared to now. And then think how little we earn compared to then. The 90's was a time where things shifted and it started to take two people to work to afford a home. Now it takes a lot more than just that.
And people wonder why everyone is miserable now. We’re literally being crushed to death.
Yes exactly. There are destitution wages. It's like watching a fiscal genocide....
Almost no one is paying minimum wage stop lying 😂 even mc Donald’s offers 13+ I haven’t seen below $15 and I just moved from Texas to wi and same thing.
Some prices are similar. Video games were 39-69 and aren’t more these days. Action figures have gone up, a 3.75” Star Wars figure would’ve been 3.99-6.99 and they’re about 12 now. So it’s hit and miss.
@@Countcho I mean, I can’t claim to be an expert. All I know is that I made $5.50 an hour in 1998. I paid $60 for N64 games and 29-49 for PSX games, and $5.75 for most toys
See the difference of people back then , you put a camera on there face they smile, you do that today, they want to ripp your head off!!!
now cameras have been weaponized, people don't want to go viral for something negative 'This guy at the gym looked at me the wrong way! Let's get him cancelled!'
Yeah but when everyone is walking around with a little camera its not the same as seeing 1 person holding a very large device in front of his face
Seeing entire aisles dedicated to one type of toy, it’s a bygone era for sure. I’m sad kids these days don’t have huge toy stores to get lost in
I miss the sections dedicated to GI Joes (the realistic kind, not the shit with Cobra).
@@theguybehindyou4762- In defense of Cobra. I thought 80s era GI Joe was great. Along with Transformers. Cobra Commander and Starscream voiced by Chris Latta.
@@islandbee The concept could work if done right, I just never liked how Cobra has been handled. But then, I need my entertainment to be as believable and realistic as possible.
They have the toy section in target
@@ScarlettEmeraldASMR they do, but that’s not exactly what I mean. There used to be entire aisles dedicated to say, the ninja turtles, or Star Wars. Not all of that stuff is on a few pegs all on just a couple of aisles.
Something about those old lego foldover-reveal style boxes feels so right.
My generation had it all…. Born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s and 90s😎
Absolutely
@@tedbell4416 Cheap housing, bills, food. You better appreciate how good you had it, and still do.
I was born in the late 80s but loved every minute of being a child in the 90s. If my life wasn't so good now I would love to go back 😂.
Just watching this, even the store smell comes back. Some memories just take you back to most of the senses.
Omg the Barbie aisle! I miss an entire aisle covered in pink! This takes me back. I got to be five years old again for a few minutes. Thank you!
This was back when Barbie dolls were AWESOME toys to have . Now due to folks with too much time on their hands being so " politically correct ", the Barbies on shelves now would make the knock-off Barbies from back then, look stunning . If folks that complained about issues back then could see how bad times are for us NOW, I GUARANTEE you, they would shut up, hug their families tighter and appreciate how good they have it . God, please turn back time for us . We'll even sacrifice the INTERNET, social media AND the Cellphones to go back in time and STAY THERE .
@@BooYah23-dh8oyWhy don’t we just sacrifice all that shit now?
As a boy when I reached the dreaded Barbie aisle it was time to turn back 😂
@@BooYah23-dh8oy Speak for yourself - I wouldn't sacrifice the internet for ANYTHING
My relatives always bought me the wwf figure toys (hulk hogan, macho Man, ultimate warrior etc) at toys r us in the 90s. This store was like Disneyland for kids.
Disneyland is Disneyland for kids.
8:11 God, the Lego Knights and Pirates in the background. My 2 favorite Lego sets of all time!
This is so painfully nostalgic. I remember the store in color and HD--this looks like an 80's VHS, but in person, it was spectacular.
The peak age of toys and video games, everything a kid could want. Just the experience of walking into a toysrus with my parents was a dream. I cherish my memories.
If memories could be sold for cash, I'd never sell.
I really crying right now .this reminds me when my grandparents was living .we always went here . watching this make me feel comfort
Man, hearing the sound of those cash registers in the end. I haven't heard that sound in probably over 20 years, but I remembered it immediately. Brings me back to the good old days. I was 5 years old when this video was filmed and having had a Toys R Us right next to where I live, we'd make trips there fairly regularly. That Toys R Us got a few renovations over the years and then, sadly, closed down about 5 or 6 years ago. This also reminds me of all the other stores that no longer exist... Waldbaum's, Nobody Beats the Wiz, Radio Shack, Blockbuster...
No idea how they kept track of everything. Baffling but they did it with a noisy old machine
When prices weren’t too crazy, things were easier, and people were nicer to each other.
50 dollar video games in 1991. That's similar to around 113 dollars today. Outrageous! I forgot just how expensive gaming was back then. Thank a parent if they were buying you these games back then, because it wasn't cheap!
Crazy!!
1991 most Genesis games were $49.99. 1992 and on many Genesis games were $59.99 (a few later than that such as Phantasy Star IV had MSRP of $90-$100). PS1 (released in 1995) games were usually $39.99….CDs cheaper than cartridges.
15:47 Cantonese speak
I bought phantasy star 3 for $70 from the mall. My dad thought I was nuts. Even worse, after I played it I 'loaned' to a kid who never gave it back
@@chillydawgg4354 double ouch! Time to collect, with interest! haha :cP
Great times. I was in 8th grade about to start high school in 1991. I would of been in the Sega Genesis aisle😊
11:33 if only they knew how much money they were looking at nowadays. Those soft heads TMNT go for $1700 each in pristine condition
People so notice the camera are embarrassed to be filmed. Refreshing.
Toys'R'Us was such an amazing place throughout the whole 90's, even here in my small city in Germany. I always loved the experience when we went there. Basically all my Toys back then came from there. My first real bike without the support wheels also came from there. Good times, good times.
A few years ago the Toys'R'Us has closed, which says a lot about the times we're in right now😔
Still open in Canada.😊
@@arwyn1025 Oh really. That's at least some good news👍
Every time when i see a video like this I always get that feeling that someone went back in time.
Even though you knew you couldn't have it all... being surrounded by it all held a mighty fine magic all its own alongside getting to choose those one or two items that were yours to take home. Sometimes we chose poorly but most of the time we got something we were pretty proud of. But my fondness is before the BrU box reset, just aisles that stretched on and on and up and up.
Man. The nostagia levels are very high. If you went there, you'd have the best time of your life. It's sad that things like this don't exist anymore.
13:23 the infamous video game ticket wall. The worst possible way to sell games to people (get their hopes up they had the game, only for there to be no ticket for it!).
It was so exciting though. I remember grabbing a few tickets of games I hoped to buy (well, planned to get my parents to buy for me) which never got used. Somewhere I still have one for a Genesis game somewhere.
It was an effective LP measure, though of course, there had been occasions where TRU would run out of tickets for that one item, and that caused inconvenience. Though it was (and still is) common practice for video game stock to be hidden away, because of their high value and ease of stealing, even though most TRUs in the warehouse format had a rather convoluted entrance where there was normally push barriers and a customer service desk straddling the entrance and exit.
I remember the walk to that video game section. Felt like forever for a kid. Not knowing if the ticket would be there. Then the anticipation when you took it up to the little booth to finally get your game. Buying video games was like going to CVS and buying meds. I remember how bummed I was when Mario 2 was sold out for a few weeks. Kids today have no idea.
Haha
I can barely watch these. The nostalgia makes me feel sad and nauseous 😢
This brings back, good memories, visiting my aunt in New Jersey, first stop the mall, then to Toy r Us, and Kaybee Toys stores!
My children were born in 2014 and 2015 and we still had a Toys 'R' Us in my city, its just too dang bad that they were so young that they cant remember it now since they closed.
I was 10 months old back then. Sometimes its cool to look up how things were when you were born. Great time travel.
I was boorn in march this year so you were older than me :D
@@JurassicGamer2I was also a March 91 baby.
I’m 45 now and this is a time capsule of paradise for me. Thank you
Can't believe I don't see The Incredible Crash Dummies anywhere in this video.....my absolute favorite. These were the days
that's an interesting pick, you don't hear that too often...super nostalgic, for sure.
I used to love those figures.. TMNT, GI Joe and power rangers were my go to figures but man crash dummies were fun o was an action figure junky as a kid. Anything I could get my hands on I was bringing home if I didnt have it.. Got to the point where I was running outta figures to collect lol.
That dot matrix printing sound, never forget it
This is how I remember Toys R Us, toys damn near stacked to the ceiling. In its final years it just seemed a bit bare to me and I could just feel it was coming to an end. I’m grateful to had experience Toys R Us in its hay day.
If you were to walk around recording like this in today's world in a toy store all hell would break loose
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I'd be happy to forget this era even existed.
And once people realize how harmful raising kids on iPads and smartphones is, the old ways might make a comeback, and we may even see stores like this again.
@theguybehindyou4762 i sure hope so they just hand them that stuff cause it's a easy way to shut them up and keep them entertained
@@slicktmiNot everyone should have kids.
@@theguybehindyou4762 exactly.
My mom and I traveled all over town to find Bebop and the Foot Soldier and when we finally found them it was like finding gold. We went to Shoney's to celebrate!!
I loved Shoney's, always had to have a strawberry shortcake for dessert.
Man I remember my Gmom and my mom were out looking for Foot soldiers for me and they asked the sale person if there was any in the back bro brought a whole case out and my Gmom and mom bought the whole case for me lol.. We weren't rich but they loved making sure I had every figure under the sun lol.. I was so grateful even as a 5 year old never took what I had for granted. And made sure to help around the house doing whatever I could regardless of toys or not. But man I miss those days. I have a 5 year old son and so sad I wont ever get to experience a TRU with him.
To go back to this time even for 1 day . I would’ve been 10 . 😢
The best part of Toys ‘R’ Us was the video game section….if you wanted a certain game, you had to take a slip of paper to the video game seller and someone would bring it out, it was such a magical experience!
I was 5 years old ......home alone hottest movie out .....ice ice baby biggest record out 😂 my little brother was born....all i had to do was wake up....food was ready breakfast lunch an dinner....just wake up an go play outside 😢
I turned 5 in 91 as well and now I have a 5 year old son lol I miss those days but wouldn't trade my life now for anything.. I get to keep living young through my son just sad I can't experience taking him to toys r us smh... Parents always told us "just wait til u have kids and take them in a store and they want everything" well wen I go to the store with my son we r both excited to go to the toy aisle and see what they got. Unfortunately the toy sections r bare now a days but he still leaves with something. Being an adult with money that can buy action figures for ur kid is a gift. I miss Toys R Us tho.
I'm 21 so this video was filmed over a decade before I was born. We didn't have a Toys R Us local when I was growing up. The closest one was about an hour away. Thankfully I still got to go a few times. I remember how magical it was. The Barbie aisle was my favorite!
This brought back great memories. Me , and my stepbrother used to go to Toys R' Us every Saturday with my stepfather to pick out toys. I miss the good old days.
I gotta ask which toys did you get?
@@philstewart345 TMNT , He - Man , G.I. Joe , anything related to 80's and early 90's.
I'll never forget it...standing in line with your ticket to get your video game behind the window....Toejam and Earl, Sega Genesis... Warwick, RI.....thanks, DAD, miss you
That pallet of TMNT Technodromes would be worth about $20,000 today.
I couldn't afford it then and I surely couldn't afford it now. LOL
Thought the same when he zoomed in.
@@cancel.lgbtq.6892 Totally agree with your profile name... how sad this world has become these last couple of decades especially.
This is why this society sucks everything is literally all about money smh..
To whoever made this video....THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Can't believe we don't have toy stores anymore.
I wish toy companies would sell that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles variety nowadays. I never knew having a big selection would disappear.
Is the mom around the 13ish minute mark writing down her son's holiday wishlist as he tells her? So cute 😭
I showed my 72 year old mother and you could see the sadness in her eyes from those good times
I remember this exact Toys R Us! Great times and great footage! My poor mom probably spent hundreds if not more on TMNT action figures, the movies, and just any TMNT related merch my 2 brothers and I could find. From 89 till about 92 we were obsessed. Around 93 I was 10 and becoming more interested in makeup and clothes and my brothers were nearly 13 and into skateboarding, girls and metal and all our childhood TMNT stuff was either donated or given away or possibly thrown out. Seeing those boxes of action figures again brought back memories of the excitement we'd experience when mom would take us to Toys r us to buy new ones. And that video game aisle! 😍
Toys R us always had the biggest selection of Nintendo games. If there was a game you couldn't find anywhere else, Toy R us would have have it.
hello beautiful 😍
I was born in 1991 in Brisbane Australia. The 90s and the early 2000s was the best time to grow up in. I seen 2d video games transition into 3d. This was a huge era of gaming. Up to 2012 up to 2015 was good as well. Plus my grandfather fought in ww2 and all the Anzac parades we went to to (Veterans) gave me a sense of the old school life. The tv shows where much better back then too.
One of the things I miss most about these days is the amount of inventory they had available. Dozens of every single figure available. A pallet of playsets. I bring my son to target and there aren’t enough to go skeins and there is one figure hanging on the peg. It’s awful.
Because back then we had scalpers but 90% of the people buying stuff were actual parents buys for us kids.. Now a days its either scalpers or adult collectors buying everything... I have a 5 year old son and I would love to take him to find figures and stuff but there's nothing I gotta buy everything online for him and he's happy obviously that he gets his figure or toy but man being able to go in the store and find the 2 or 3 figures u were looking for and getting to take them home that day and not wait for shipping man it was magical and we took it for granted I feel.
Worth remembering this was someone with a conspicuous camera, not a tiny phone!
I remember filming a friend at a passing out parade at this time, and not having power on site, we needed a backpack full of batteries!
Like walking around with a hod of bricks!!!
Seeing somone with a camera was a surprise back then, but if the camera was big enough to rest on the shoulder, I noticed people would sidle up behind you and whisper:
"What's this for... Is it for the television?"
Seems like a different planet now.
Best wishes one and all 🇬🇧🎬🇺🇲
Those legos sets are very sought after now. Love watching these type of videos of people leaving their homes to go shopping
I was born in 1999, and never enjoyed the legos which came out when I was a kid. So I made it my goal to always collect the Lego sets from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and early 00s. What I loved about this video is seeing some of the sets I own back when Toys R Us initially sold them 😎
Dude, this was back when Springdale Mall in Mobile, AL was just a shopping mall with McRae's and Gayfer's and Toys R US was still inside the mall.
0:39 Seeing all of those now vintage lego sets sealed in box on shelves just hit me in ways I can't describe.
For a good two years of my childhood that wall of ninja turtles was the only thing that mattered to me lol
TMNT and GI joes in 91 when I was 5 and then Power rangers joined the figures as my 3 go to.
13:23 ladies and gentlemen, I give you...THE WALL. The Wall where we all hung out, just staring at all the games, flipping them up to see the screenshots, wishing we had every one of them.
The glorious days of owning physical copies of video games.
That wall of TMNT was glorious! If I was able to go back for 1 day, I would clean house.
The NCR 7052s in this video seem to have a very odd combination of a basic customer display pole and a sophisticated alphanumeric VFD for the checkout operator that displays more information than the customer pole. I wonder why they chose to do this given that the UK TRUs used an entirely different POS system (IBM 4683) which always had an alphanumeric green display.
Bro i was thinking the exact same thing
They probably were gay, that’s why they chose such a stylish and superior design. Cishets in this era were cringe at tech.
Most of the stuff in this video is now sold for quadruple the original retail price at vintage toy stores.
The TMNT stuff and games, yes. Barbie didn't hold it's value.
because they can't come up with anything original or worthwhile anymore..the culture is borrowing from past culture
And thats y i hope all those vintage toy stores go out of business... They aren't helping anyone they're just profiting off of our once magical childhoods. Can't even buy figures for my son anymore without paying ridiculous prices.. I just want my son to have an awesome childhood with the figures he likes nd sadly we don't have actual toy stores anymore.
I miss our old civilization.
yea, where it actually felt like a civilization... Everything feels much less communal now, less of a collective pulse on things, radio, tv, shopping... I do believe we share energy, a frequency, a vibration... we're tribal...so it's greatly missed
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Look how well stocked and vibrant the store is. I loved going into Toys 'R' Us when I was young in the early to mid-90s. I remember just seeing rows and rows of action figures like in the video along with the Hot Wheels. Pity. Buying online definitely took away a chunk of humanity.
Everythign feels much less communal now, less of a collective pulse on things... I do believe we share energy, a frequency, a vibration... we're tribal...so it's greatly missed
1:06 chick hid her face like Deuces, and bounced to KB Toy stores 😂😂
Watching Cashiers ring in things by hand instead of using scanners lol Oh and the old way of using a credit card was nice to see again
I was -1 years old. But I like being able to see what stuff was like right around the time I was born. My nostalgia would be early 2000s but this also makes me feel some type of way.
Best of times I'm so happy I was a kid in the 70s 80s and a teenager in 90 it was awesome
Aww this makes me sad… those were the best years of my life 😢
Sure was 😢 everybody we knew was alive
This is the Toysrus I grew up on ,as a kid back in the 90s .Watching this video makes me feel like am a kid again ,going back to my childhood Toysrus.😭
0:14 the Monopoly Board Games At Toys R Us Cost $9.99 in 1991 Money, No Wonder Toys R Us Went Bankrupt because of how Expensive these Toys and Games and Bikes are (I mean Amazon is also responsible for Running my Childhood to the Ground so as Walmart and Target)!
Monopoly now a days is like 15-20$ along with all the other boardgames.
Hey, thanks for the memories. At this time, I would have been 17 and at home prepping for the big dinner the next day because school would have been out for the holiday, but seeing people pre black Friday shopping, that's the best! And also, I had completely forgotten the way cash registers sounded back then.
I can see the people were a little creeped out by the dude filming. It's still nice to see no cellphones or masks.
when i saw that wwf big boss man wrestling buddy...my heart dropped. i miss toys r us for my kids. do kids even play with toys anymore?
BACK WHEN CUSTOMER SERVICE WAS ACTUALLY A THING
Skipped the race track isle, damn. Its right there. That was my favorite isle to go down and stare at the great wall of race tracks, slot car sets.
8:32 1991 LEGO, I have no words. 😍
No swarms of people running in and stealing whatever they can get their hands on. People actually paying for their items…
Amazing isn't it
We used to be a high trust society, but due to the lowest common denominator, we're not anymore;
The LEGO section was my favorite. Thank you for sharing.
Cell phones really have ruined alot. We don't answer the phone because we think everyone is a scammer, we don't answer the door because we can see who is there from our cameras, it's sad really
100%
I think I'm the only person who doesn't care or have such technology. Nope! No Alexa, no Ring, no nothing like that. You don't HAVE to have those silly gagets
Loved watching this. Fun to see the stores before they had such a huge emphasis on the video games. I remember 1996 when the N64 came out that was probably the craziest retail year I ever remember
That Ninja Turtles section is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I remember being a kid and going into toys r us and seeing all the ninja turtles, gi joe, wrestling, and everything else filling the whole isle
I Would do. Literally anything... to go back one more time. with my Parents and Brother... knowing what i know now... just to have one more day with them.
They say: “youth is wasted on the young “
I miss when toy/videogame store shelves were full, not post-apocalyptic.
As a dad I took my oldest daughter to Toys’R’Us when she was smaller and got her all kinds of toys and what was popular at her age at the time. Now she’s 16 and they closed the Toys’R’Us in Evansville,IN about 8 yrs ago or so and it hurts seeing an end of an era. I got a 5 yr old and she will never get to experience that in her life now.😢
I'm so heart broken that I can't experience this with my 5 year old son smh.. Man we had it so good back then. Today's society sucks. I miss the 90s and early 2000s and the 80s even tho I was born in 87' 😂.. I miss Toys R Us
Us Millennials (aka, GenY) complain how hard life was/is and we are partially right. But, we also had the best childhood. Nickelodeon, and affordable Disneyland, comic books, movies and video games that were targetted to us as teenagers, and aTOYS-R-US. We were the generation that were not "expected" to achieve anything - other than just having fun. Even now, the games and movies are made for us GenY. Thanks for this video to remind me of the good things i should be thankful for!
When I think "Millennial" I think birth of the woke movement, early social media (Aol) and the start of main stream cell phone use. Then I remembered I'm Gen-X and I felt better again😊
The mom at 10:28. I think we all can relate.😂
I never got to see ToysRus like this in 1991 as I was only 1 then, but it definitely got a lot bigger when I first started going there. It's also amazing hardly anyone is pushing around carts there and just carrying their things around. Such an interesting and simple life it was back then!
I wonder what the resale value of that store's inventory would be today.?!!
14:00 Just moms unboxing Gameboys in the store. NBD.
Ahhh, the good old days of taking the giant price tag up to the register and she would YELL at someone to go get the item for you while you waited and waited. Now we have Amazon.
I miss Toys 'R' Us , it really was a great store to shop in . I'm almost 53 and there is still a part of me that ' don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid' . At least I had a couple of years with my kids to get to shop at Toys 'R' Us.
I wonder if this was recorded for the purposes of consumer behavior research. Either way, it's really cool to have this archival footage from such a creative and colorful era - the 1990s! Everything in the 90s was vibrant and oozed attitude!
Please take me back to 1991 😢