Evolution of Toys R Us Geoffrey Giraffe - DIStory Dan Ep. 44
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- Geoffrey The Giraffe was a classic part of any visit to #ToysRUs for over 40 years! (Note: I mistakenly credited Ravenscroft with the Ghost Host instead of Grimm Grinning Ghosts. Sorry, my brain is weird and doesnt work sometimes.)
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Hey guys! I mistakenly credited the Ghost Host to Ravenscroft instead of Paul Frees. You’d think someone who has a Haunted Mansion Podcast would know this.... 🤦🏼♂️
@@EpicSonicBrosOfficial When I was younger I used to go to toy r us often
But he IS one of the singing busts so you're in the right ballpark 😂
Do an evolution of Elmo
And also do an evolution of Barney the dinosaur
Do a King Kong design King Kong and suit
I'm glad to know that the Geoffrey suits are salvaged. In fact, I even know some people that OWN a Geoffrey costume.
I am glad to see this as well! The store I ran my liquidator made sure the costumes were locked up for no one to sneak away. The Toys R Us company made us put them on a truck to send back to a warehouse. I have a sad video of putting the costumes on the truck and saying goodbye.
Maybe one of them was a furry who saw it as a “Free pre-made fursuit”.
Lol I own one
@@ThatWashTechKid I see, because your thumbnail shows it.
@Kai Keebler ?
I am a Toys R Us kid, because both of my parents worked there a long time ago.
So cool! Did they get any perks working there?🥰
I went there when I was a baby because they have a part where it is called (babys r us) witch my mom and famliy went too when I wa s born too get my stuff but I don’t remember going there
I went there a year before all the locations were closed :(
Oh wait there’s still toys r us in Canada and other places
@@babyjg3759Me too!
every single birthday i would look forward to receiving a voicemail from geoffery giraffe
I wonder if they still do that even though some of them closed
I never did that I just got like a 5 dollar gift card but to spend it you must spend like 20 dollar
And that sweet sweet gift card! Geoffery's Birthday Club, rise up!
Me too!
Voicemail from him and he was fun
No one:
DisneyDan: 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
His laugh gives me life
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😔
Can we get a Evolution of Ronald McDonald and Friends!
I totally agree!
If that happens I won't be watching, I have a clown phobia
Yes
No
@@bellaknightR597 Don't worry, Happy the current Happy Meal mascot is definitely more creepier.
Woody:"There's a Grifaffe in my boot!"
" I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys R us kid. " Man I miss toys R us, F in chat for it.
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I never met Geoffrey at any store, BUT the hospital I work in had a long-time partnership with Toys R Us and we have a GIANT two-story Geoffrey statue in our Lobby that kids and adults alike still get excited about.
Awww cool! 🦒
Toys R Us was my first job back in 2012 where I worked for one (1) whole month. We were told that if we were ever suspicious of someone in the store to call in a “code Geoffrey”
now I am imagining Geoffrey moves like the dummy from SCP and snaps the neck of a shop lifter
Casting Thurl Ravenscroft as Geoffrey the Giraffe is kinda fitting knowing the deep sounds giraffe make (it's somewhat disturbing). Although, I doubt the ad makers & casting directors knew it at the time, it's a relatively new discovery.
Toys R Us has come a long way, remember when it went bankrupt but later became a smaller business? Those times were crazy but I'm glad the company is still around. I miss the good old days when they played their theme song in commercials.
Yeah I kind of wish that the virus didn’t happen because I would’ve went to Canada just so I can go to a Toys “R” Us store
@@pink-a-palouza7888 Toys R Us is opening up in other countries :)
Toys r us is open in the USA it’s in west field mall
I wouldn't consider that "comeback" as something to applaud quite yet. Both times they attempted to re-open stand-alone brick-and-mortar stores-- only *two*, one in New Jersey and one in Texas, and *both* ended up closing after barely two years. Their "grand idea" to open 200 smaller stores across the United States never happened. They only have *one* physical store open, and it's located inside a Macy's-- _another_ retail company that has had to shut down many of *their* stores because they're not making enough money! That's like a kiss of death! What moron buys a bankrupt company and decides to partner with another company that has _also_ declared bankruptcy in very recent history?
@@cannibalisticrequiem toys r us is also in the american dream mall and various other macy's stores
Three years ago when Toys R Us was closing down, I decided to dress up as Geoffrey for Halloween, a giraffe onesie with an official Toys R Us employee shirt, and I walked around town with a Bluetooth speaker that played my 'Gone But Never Forgotten' playlist for hours. I'm forever a Toys R Us kid.
Yeah I feel you but it’s open in west field mall now so you can go in there now
I remember being MAD when they redesigned Geoffery in 2007. You can joke all you want about the realistic version, but I saw him in ads and on signs around the store my whole childhood. Then they flattened him? Made him boring? Turned his spots into stars??? That was NOT the friend who sent me birthday gift-cards every year!
YES! Ha I felt the same way lol
Same guys
The events of 9/11 temporarily made Geoffrey lose his childlike wonder
I like the 2007 one more ❤
I feel the same way
You singing the Toys R Us theme made my day
poor geoffrey went through the horror of 9/11 and he was never the same
That same year he became real
imagine if you went into a toys r us and geoffrey challenged you to find a way out over the speaker, i’d be terrified.
Got to meet Geoffrey several times. In fact, my husband and I did a "farewell event" dressed up as our Stormtrooper and biker scout as we are both in the 501st.
THE BEGINNING IS SO FUNNY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Just look at the sunset, you beautiful giraffe" might be one of my favorite out-of-context lines ever.
new rule; never drink water while watching a disney dan video, i ended up laughing mid-sip 🤣😭
I worked at Toys R Us during its final year. You honeslty wouldn't have thought they were going out of business. Every day was pretty full, and that's considering that this Toys R Us sat right next to a Walmart and a Best Buy. Pretty much its biggest competitors: Best Buy for video games, and Walmart for everything else. Also, throughout all my years, whether as a kid or as an employee, I had never seen Geoffrey at any TRU. They never brought him out, even during events. In fact, the closest that I got to Geoffrey is the fact that one time we had a "code Geoffrey" at the store. I can't really remember what it meant. It either meant "child is about to be abducted," or "potential thief." Either way, something was about to be taken against its will.
Of course 24 hours later they announce that Toys R Us stores are announced to be reopened. 🤣
Man I miss going to Toys R Us. I passed what used my local store every day on the way to school these past few years and it just makes me feel sad. The sign’s still up and everything, and it makes me wish I could’ve worked there.
Well it’s still here in the USA in west field mall so...
I love how passionate Dan is about Disney and mascots- you don’t see that much 😂✋!
😂 My mom and dad worked at TOYSRUS when they were young adults. My mom worked in the BOOKSRUS section of the store. Dad worked as a stocker. As kids we grew up with the TOYSRUS song not only in English but Spanish. As a family we were a bit sad when the stores started closing. But what a time! What memories! 🎉
So cool that they worked there!!
"FINALLY! I GOT THE LAST HOKEY POKEY ELMO!! I LOVE THIS MAN!" - Man in Toys R Us commercial
Oh geez. I remember the hyper realistic jeffery. They did hyper realism before it was in fashion
The events of 9/11 temporarily made Geoffrey lose his childlike wonder
“Hey grandma where did u get this cool toy it’s amazing?!”
Me: *sheds a tear* I’m gonna tell u a great story...
90s Geoffrey, my beloved... 🥺
(Great video, Dan!)
Sorry homework, I have more important things to do now, like watching this
Do ur homework sweetie
What?She just got 10000000000000+iq
This is a joke but seriously
She can do what she wants.
Toys r us is back!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Macy for bringing toys r us back
I never got to meet Geoffrey, and now I’m disappointed knowing other people did because I always thought the costume character was just for commercials. 😭😂
i vaguely remember the realistic giraffe costume being in the stores sometimes when i was a kid
I want to Toys “R” Us a couple of weeks ago ago it’s so so fun I just got this box bunny toy and more then I went to Claire’s it’s so fun I went to the mall
I don’t wanna grow up I’m a Toys “R” Us kid the guy has 1 million toys that I can play with
@@spongebobpopsicle4822 So you went to the only one that exists inside a Macy's in New Jersey?
It’s ok I never got to meet him either
I remember in like 2011, Toys R Us was attempting to be part of the video game craze heavily and that’s where you could go to digitally catch Pokémon legends
Try watching this video without crying or mourning....
One video later: Already tearing up! :'( RIP Toys R Us!
Although I do not remember seeing the Geoffrey mascot running around my local Toys R Us in the early 2000s, I do remember him calling my old house phone on my birthday every year lol.
I lost it when the two Geoffreys were walking around the closing store
I love the big tall old school 70s-80s one that had the two kids and a wife.
I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys R us kid
They got a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with
I don't remember this particular story when it happened, but apparently when I was really really young I was riding in the shopping cart through toys r us and "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" from Aristocats was playing over the speakers and I started singing except I sang "eh body, eh body, be cat". Our family still references that story to this day.
I really liked toys r us, it was sad to go inside the one I grew up with during its last week :(
R.I.P. Geoffrey.
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@Addroid 2014 It meant to pay respects
RIP):
All I remember from what my parents have told me, they lost me at toy r us when I was around 3 years old, “trying” out the beds in the furniture section of the store lol.
GEOFFREY! My mortal giraffe nemesis! I will defeat you one of these days Toy Tyrant!
I miss my childhood, but I always remember to be young at heart.
I met Geoffrey at a furry convention lol someone got one when they sold off the suits on ebay
that sounds like a fun little encounter.
I went to the Times Square Toy's R Us a couple of years ago or so, and I'm pretty sure there was the 2007 version of the Costume Geoffery but I don't think we interacted with him at all. I was so heartbroken when it closed.
It should be said, Toys R us isn't dead! They are trying to make a comeback! They already have 3 new stores in America Malls! Geoffrey is still alive!!! Also Toys R us is still in business at Canada!
And now they’re opening inside Macy’s around the US!
He sounds like 40 year old man and in 70s a 20 year old man in the 90s and 80s an 30 year old man in the 2000s and a 10 year old in 2010s.
I remember most of ALL these giraffe characters. Because I was born in 1976, I can remember seeing and hugging a few of the MASCOTS.
The Weather sidebar really hit home for me as young millennial discovering the internet.
I love that I always seem to wake up right when Dan posts ❤️
You can still find recent images of people with that Geoffrey Costume on twitter.
Always wanted to go to Toys R Us but we never had one in Ireland 😭
Awww😥 Have you ever been to one?
I had met Geoffrey with my little brother and we got to take picture with him.
I remember toys r us as a kid. (23 y/o here)
I used to get so excited whenever i did well in school and i got to get toys as a reward😂😂 and I remember every birthday I would get a phone call from Geoffrey saying ‘Happy Birthday’ to me.
Toys R Us as a kid is the best!! Such great memories!🥰🦒
2000’s Geoffrey may not be everyone’s favorite, but I grew up with him so he’s mine 🥰 looked forward to getting that Christmas toy r us catalogue every year
can't remember if I met him at a local store but I'm pretty sure we saw him when we went to the NYC store. god the realistic head one was unsettling.
Man I wonder how many times Tom Hanks has said "I wasn't the giraffe!! It was my brother!!"
My favorite part of all of your videos is when you cackle like a madman over nothing.
The confusion Aussie kids went through when Geoffrey and Healthy Harold existed at the same time.
Yeah I remember it took me a few days to realize it.
I sincerely HATE to be this guy; but the Ghost Host was voiced by Paul Frees....not Thurl. Thurl was the Singing Bust leader in the graveyard and a few other ghosts . Love the video still!!!
I’m glad someone pointed it out! I love the video but it bugged me too! 😂
I remember back in 2002, going to a very small, outta the way, shoved in the scary lookin corner of a shopping mall that always seemed to be under construction but never manifested whatever it is they were building...Toys R Us store.
I bought a finger puppet of Tigger and a VHS tape of Thomas and the Magic Railway.
“Meet Geoffrey!” Read a flimsy plastic sign that stood outside the door. He was never there, ever. I think they couldn’t be bothered to get the costume out of storage for whatever teen employee they planned to stick inside it to parade around a usually empty toy store, in a location nobody really went to.
So the sign stayed as a thing to get people in the store 😂
I don’t doubt they brought him out for the Christmas season, but he was just never there for the rest of it.
Great memories! Thanks for sharing!🥰
Ah yes, TATMR, I remember having a DVD copy of that movie with tons of other Thomas DVDs, then getting a second DVD copy of the same movie, with those same iconic models, remade in brass, with a few 2009 re-releases on DVD for the classic series, some with the OG opening with so much remastered footage and others with the remastered opening and new extended shots and remastered versions of the narrations from the VHS tapes at the time, now being remastered for DVDs.
TATMR is such a classic
I loved that intro song
They replaced my Toys R Us with a Big Lots 😢
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Hahaha I love this!! “ there’s a snake in my boot” I’m crying laughing!!
I was a Geoffrey! I only got to be in the costume for a week before closing, and somewhere on the internet there is a very blurry vertical video of me break dancing in the parking lot of the closed building! The head even falls off hallway through! My manager had been at the store so long, and was so bitter about the whole situation, that he was going to let me leave with the costume and claim it stolen. Sadly, I was living out of my car at the time and couldn't really store it. I miss that store, and that job. It was the best week I'd had, and definitely one of the best jobs, even though it came to a sad end.
I somewhat remember visiting Toys R Us at Times Square. I remember the farris wheel, a giant t rex, and their entire area dedicated to dolls.
As a 2000s kid, I loved the hyper realistic Geoffrey Giraffe. I had a 10in giraffe that laid down that I absolutely loved at about 7 years old
TO FIND A WAY OUT, HAHAHA
*Geoffrey -1980S*
I love how they put starts instead of patches on the newer version
Being a kid who grew up in the 2000s I still remember coming home on my birthday every year to a message on the answering machine from Jeffrey the Giraffe 🥺💕
Just one step closer to that DJ Dan album I've been waiting for
Now TOYS R US is r.i.p );
Not entirely, still exists in Canada and Australia
Yeah
I love your channel so much! I’ve watched your Elsa transformation video like 10 times! You are SO funny!
Toys R Us needs to bring back their retro commercials! 😍
Hey Dan, I'm making my own version of the evolution of Geoffrey the Giraffe which will be released around Black Friday. But I will be focusing more on the actual costumes and even plan on buying a Geoffrey suit on eBay. Will it be ok? Since I don't want people to think I'm ripping you off.
I also love that you're doing non-Disney characters, and may I suggest Chuck E. Cheese as a future edition to Distory?
You now have a new subscriber.
BTW, would you do a costume evolution on some of the Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, and/or even Michigan J. Frog?
Look at ElectricDragon505's vid on them.
Oh wait, I take it back: he only did them as animations. So did Dave Lee Down Under
Like, Six Flags or Knott's Berry Farm kinda thing?
@@RancidGravy Something like that.
I never got to go to a Toys R Us cuz they were always so much more expensive then everywhere else so my parents wouldn't take me, which is kinda ironic actually
That sucks, my parents used to take me there and not buy anything, we just went there to look at the toys
I meet early 2001 Geoffrey during Christmas time, the local Toys R Us did this Wish List thing where kids got this bar scanner looking device that would scan the barcodes of toys and send it to a computer. The computer would printed a list later on what we wanted and Geoffrey was there to help kids get the toys up higher with other employees. It was fun, my little brother and I got into a competition to have the longest list. Parents were glad when they found out about that.
I miss this place i remember making my mom and dad take my there on forth of July and on Mother’s Day I was such a brat but I’m thankful that I remember it
This was such a great video , your humor is amazing
Hey Disney Dan, Could you do Top 10 Disney Character Bunnies including Stella Lou added?
If I think of Geoffrey the Giraffe, I always think of the realistic 2000s one. That's the true Geoffrey to me. I know he was a logo, not a costume, but it's still worth mentioning. Although I never went to a ToysRUs, so I don't know why I even have a favourite. It's probably because it briefly appears in The Wild, I loved that film.
And I didn't know he was an animatronic! I thought he was just CGI!
I met my husband at TRU in 1986. He worked there for 37 years. We had real toys r us kids. Geoffrey came to our kids birthday parties. It was a sad day for us when they closed.
How about you make a candle that smells like toys"r"us stores
Oh my goodness lol
I’ve worked at a Toys “R” Us, even once wore the Geoffrey costume for the kids, there is no suck thing as a distinct smell to the store.
A wonderful for video for those with and without nostalgia.
The Realistic Geoffrey was amazing.
:0 As a kid, it offended me that we weren't actually allowed to play with the toys at Toys R Us. We got yelled at by employees and parents...
😂😂
After seeing that Geoffrey plush in that Evolution of Miss Piggy video, I was wondering if you would do that giraffe. It's comforting to see after I learned that tgey shut down the relaunched stores in NJ and TX (and learning that the building where my local TRU was torn down for a unnecessary medical center).
THANKS for looking at the set!
@@DistoryDan making Lego Mixels video
The start of the video I liked
I remember on like my 8th or 9th birthday getting a "phone call" with him and it's still a really fond memory
I remember going to toys r us for the first time, back in 2004 I was in the first grade, and it was my first time visiting Dubai, and I’ve got a baby born doll, good times. I’ve seen Geoffrey for the first and last time when I was 9, I was so scared of him so I didn’t get to take a picture with him
toys ''r" us
Actually Dan there is one Type of Troll in the DreamWorks Trolls franchise that Perfectly match your description of the Disco Fever Giraffes and that is the (Funk Trolls).
Accurate suggestion in thought a little ahead of its time.
Try rewatching the film and you'll see the similarities between the disco fever giraffes and the Funk Trolls.
An actuated suggestions a little ahead of it's time.
Yeah and I love them
@@Magiclove99Abby really you have a favorite mines R&B (Rhythm & Blues) from TrollsTopia.
@@enriqueramirez0615 Cooper he is my favorite along with the rest of the Funk Trolls
@@Magiclove99Abby yeah I like him too. He's... He's a good troll, a loyal friend and allie. No matter what troll type he is, or what tribe he came from, he will always be an official pop troll,
as an old saying for all trolls and other critters "Cooper Isn't Safe, But He's Good".
Weird, I never once saw Geoffrey when I went to Toys R Us. But we also didn’t go there too too much when I was a kid once Walmart started offering things for much cheaper. 😔 I miss Toys R Us, though. Walmart and Target just don’t have the selection that Toys R Us did, and you can’t physically go to Amazon and touch the toys and examine them before you buy them, you just get what you get, and if you’re scammed, then sucks for you. Me and one of my best friends used to go to Toys R Us just to walk around and so I could look at the dolls since I’m a bit of a doll collector, and I really miss that. You just don’t get the same experience at other stores. Our only real “toy store” is a toy store in the mall that’s run by this super creepy dude who just stares at you angrily while you walk around. Sometimes I go in there just to touch everything and not buy anything bc I know it makes him mad 😂 but it’s not nearly as fun as Toys R Us was.
When I was a kid in NPR, Fl there was a grand opening. I remember my dad took me. The only costume characters I remember are Jeffery and his family along with the ninja turtles! I was pretty excited about TMNTs. I also remember getting my.fist pair of rollerblades from that store later for the following xmas.
Paul Frees was the Ghost Host, not Ravenscroft.
You beat me to that.. I was like "Wait...nooo." lol
Sorry.
He's still in the Mansion though! Just as Uncle Theodore, the broken singing bust.
@@finleyjudge9458 I know.
Dark Fan Theory for what happened to Jeffrey's family. His son dissapeared first right? That's because he died. This tore the family apart and Mrs. Giraffe only stayed with Jeffrey until their Daughter was grown. So with their Daughter all grown up and moved away the two split. Leaving Jeffrey all alone.
Or maybe, Geoffrey was still a kid and he imagines his family.
Gonna be totally honest, the realistic Giraffe looked the cutest and most friendly in mascot form for me. It's so cute and huggable. It's eyes are just adorable, but the modern mascot is creepy AF. Its eyes are so derpy...no thank-you.
There was this massive Toys R Us in Times Square. Sometimes when you’d go in Geoffrey would stand there and greet you. Such a great store