I’m from 92. In 2001 the day before 9/11 I went to toys r us and my grandma bought me a creepy crawler bug maker set. Still remember like it was yesterday. The next day 9/11 happened and we got picked up from school early due to the attacks and I spend the next few days playing with my set and N64 and eating Burger King since some stores closed. I needed more goop to make my insects and toys r us was open but was so empty it was Erie. I’m 31 now. These kids in this video are all parents now I bey and have families of their own

I was working at Toy R Us in 2001 while I was in High School. I can't believe this specific era was caught, so cool! This video hits me in the heartstrings though. 22 years ago honestly does not feel that long ago, sigh.

Imagine we could time travel, but only see what we were doing from a third-person perspective

Thank you for posting this. 2002-2003 Toys R Us are some of my earliest memories and this is the closest thing to it.

I was working on the seasonal overnight crew during the Christmas 2001 season. Harry Potter was huge at the moment and I still remember the Monsters Inc display at the front of the store. Another huge seller that Christmas was the new at the time, Razor scooters. They had 1 or 2 other brand names but Razor is the only one I remember. Also, those shoes with the built in roller skates were VERY popular that season!

All those kids you see are now old enough to have their own kids.

The Christmas music playing on the radio makes this 10x more *nostalgic* man I miss being a kid

Jacob really doesn't want to be a cashier lol. Thank you for these videos, they're nostalgic gold!

What a time capsule for sure. I remember I used to have the red-headed What's Her Face doll, one of the best toys I got that year. Thank you for the memories.

Even though I was born in 99, I used to go to my local toys r us all the time when I was a kid until they shut down in the mid 2010s. From going and looking at original xbox to getting games and accessories for my ds/dsi, a true trip down nostalgia lane. Being stuck in the Lego and superhero section to riding the "open" bikes, skateboards, scooters, and rip sticks in the back of the store. Thank you for this trip

My inner child is screaming at you *" Go to the video game/ action figure section dammit"*😆 I WANNA GO BACK

We all grew up ❤️

I had so many of the toys shown in this video. Only thing missing was a clip of the Power Rangers aisle 🤣 Thanks for all these uploads, it's such a nostalgia trip seeing these toy and electronics sections from my childhood, so many hours spent in them waiting on my mom to finish grocery shopping.

I was a full grown adult when this video was made. So nostalgic even as an adult. I did have fun being a kid and going to Toys R Us. Sad knowing all the stores have closed down.

The Bratz doll! OMG ICONIC 💙

I remember doing Christmas shopping for my kids back in 2001. We would do the shopping so that Santa didn’t have to do it. My kids wanted that Gameboy advance thing the year it came out.

I wish that I could have recorded things when I was a kid. I still have dreams about massive amounts of Gundam merch in stores, like how I remember it in my local Toys-R-Us.

This video makes me emotional for so many different reasons. This was hands down my best christmas you dont even understand the amount of games and dragonaball z/anime toys/merch i got. God i would do anything to go back to those times. now heres the bittersweet part. Even though that was my favorite christmas i personally know for others it was the worst.. Im born and raised in New york.....and. being that this was from 2001........ Its so surreal to see 9/11 being so fresh in society. It hits so close to home because my classmate lost her older cousin and the people in my town lost loved ones too. Infact we were so close and yet far we could even see the smoke from afar. Luckily my dad worked uptown and wasnt down town that tuesday. Man im so conflicted, cause tho i loved this christmas holiday looking back as an adult i could only imagine what my classmate and others were going through.

Shame there was no footage of the action figure aisles. Even into the early 2000s, they had Terminator 2 and POTF2 figures taking up space. At least in central Ohio.

For me it's the Rescue Heroes at the beginning. Most underrated (and mishandled) franchise of all time. A toy line marketed to preschoolers, but a movie & TV show (especially season 1) that were AMAZING and could only be fully appreciated by older kids & adults. But most have no idea because Fisher-Price logo dissuaded them from seeing it.

I had got pretty much every single one of those Harry Potter figures for Christmas that year in 2001. Thanks for the memories

Thank you for uploading this!! I've spent years trying to find any media/photographic evidence of that Monsters Inc display!

I wish I could've experienced this era of being a kid old enough to remember things. I was 1 at the time of this video, so I don't believe I remember anything that happened before the year 2003. Seemed like a cool time to be a young kid and go into the store w/ you parents and pick out the toy you've been seeing on the tv commercials

I was six at the time of this recording man. Had quite a bit of these toys (and might still have a few stored). Used to go to our TRU a lot after dinner at the IHOP right up the road. Miss these times a lot. Thanks for the upload man.

This must be my prime toy time because I recognize A LOT of this stuff... I had that Rescue Ranger at 1:13! 4:47 The most attention that has ever been paid to Mike Wazowski's poorly represented eye. I had Dr. Drill and Fill and all those Bob Lego sets at around 7:00, it made me tear up a bit. I had the Home Depot set at 12:00, I remember putting together the birdhouse with my dad. Another great video, this is my Toys R Us just like I remember it. Thank you so much.

What a time to be a kid! I was 4 years old when this video was made. I remember some of these toys and I even remember playing with that Jurassic park playdoh set at 6:20. It's crazy to see it in the box and for sell brand new

OMG BRATZ 🥺❤️

Wow, all the memories of playing with Bionicles and Rescue Heroes I was 4 here, about to turn 5

This was really interesting. TY for sharing it. Most of the children were well-behaved for being in a toy store. It was an interesting period of time.

The Christmas music in the background with people talking and looking at the toys is so nostalgic to me

That huge Sully is sickkk. I bet that’s just cool chillin in someone crib

Thanks for showing us a full tour of what it was like ,inside a 2001 Toysrus Store. We will never have a Toysrus like the one show here again.Accept for the ones located inside of Macy's.

How did you even get Ahold of this video!? Thanks for this video! Its so awesome its like having a time machine. wish they would of showed more of the action figures/video games. But ill take it!

oh to be a kid in 2001 again!! I was 4! this brings back so many memories.

YOU have some excellent footage. I wish I could see footage of Peeples and Woolworth's at Pembroke Mall in VA Beach, VA back around 1980-1990.

Wow I miss toys r us. This place and Chuck E. Cheese were my favorite places to go as a kid

Amazing how modern everything looks. If you told me this was filmed this year, I would believe you.

back in the day when Nick didn’t care about paw patrol

incredible camera quality for the time, seems like a nice tripod too! were you gathering footage for a news package?

This is peak childhood 🥲 I specifically remember this Christmas!

i lived long enough to have to watch videos about one of my favourite places to go to

Holy crap, I remember that giant Sully display. Although the one at my local Toys R Us was on the ground, not up top a shelf. I even remember that the sign said something to the effect of "Please don't touch, Sully scares easily."

7:58 The Dream…

7:58 Bionicle man that was my childhood it’s coming back next year!

The McDonald's ice cream machine toy is hilarious! They did it to themselves 😂

Worked at Toys R Us around this time in Signal Hill California brings back memories. Best of times worst of times especially during X mas

I was born in '03, but seeing this still makes me nostalgic, especially seeing footage of Harry Potter, Monsters Inc, & Lord of the Ring toys when they were new in stores.

I'm glad toys r us is slowing making a comeback. I celebrated my first birthday there.

They immediately showed my childhood favorite toys (rescue heroes). I shouldn't feel emotional but damn man

It was nice seeing the car aisle. Thats where i spent 90% of my time at Toys r us

I was 4 years old here. I didnt have many opportunities to visit toy stores as a kid, this is my idea of window shopping in the past ❤

When kids actually want to play with toys not their iPads.

So much selection!

Jacob, get to your register already. It's Christmas shopping time, buddy.

this is exactly as how I remember it, seeing as I worked at my local TRU from 96 til 04, although this one looked a lot better stocked than mine was

I remember going here as a little boy and always wanting to go down the pink aisle to get bratz dolls😭

This is a wonderful video i wish toys r us is still a thing because i love looking at the video games section and pick out the ps2 games! With my mom amd grandmother. While toys r us isn't around anymore i love to look at the games selection At best buy and walmart to feel like a kid again! Do you remember those toys r us commercals where they tried to make geffory real?

Wow.... Those 'Rescue Heroes'.... Fisher Price was even trying to make money off 9/11 with that firefighter figure!

The fact that Christmas Wrapping played during the LEGO aisle section, was this video made for me?

7:57 Aw yee that's the good stuff right there

We were kids in 2001 when Toys R Us was still around and we would tell our parents to take us there to buy whatever we wanted. I sure loved Toys R Us.

I'm nine years old again. Thank you.

I really miss toys r us

Miss this store so much 😢

I always wanted to see some videos about Toys R Us from 1989-2005.

The prices of all those toys is what blows me away!! GREAT times.

Wow, they banned video games from Toys R Us by this year? Apparently. How depressing for all those kids… all those different aisles and just magically no video games, so sad…

Omg I used to have that what’s her face doll and Diva stars dolls. And the bratz are so iconic 👏🏼👏🏼

I was 11 in 2001. 'Toys R Us' had always been my favorite place to be as a kid. I want to go back so bad💔

Thank you for showing the Bionicles

Toy cars kids would play on the remote control. Nice footage.

Although I wasn’t born til ‘05, a lot of toys back then were super cool and fun. Too bad toys nowadays don’t quite live up to it.

Imagine if you could just go back in time I'd never be back in 2023 I'd stay right in 2001

I was 6 years old ❤ i remember going to toys r us in Anchorage Alaska i was so sad when it closed down

You would have always spotted me in the baby doll or video game section, I wish I could still go back 😢

Damn this brings back so many memories, I was in 5th grade had just turned 11 my parents took me to Toys R Us in early December of that year to buy a Gameboy Advance. Now I'm 32😢

Oh the excitement of the Harry Potter movie and the ones to come!!! Please take me back!!😫

Back then when life had meaning for children and adults

Do u have any footage of "electronic stretch screamers" surprised i never seen them in these videos. They divoted like am entire aisle to them when they first came out in 2001

Haha still going strong up here in Canada! Its pretty awesome going around - makes me feel like a kid.

Rescue heroes were so good dude

17:06 I had one of those "Jack Stone" Lego sets as a kid!

6:38 ahhh I had the dr. drill n fill playdough toy, mine looked just like that!!! I miss it..

Yes! Can you do please shopping at Toys R Us in Baby Einstein products.

My memories ❤😂

2018 RIP TOYS RUS😢

If you had sisters you knew what Bratz were 😂

Don't think I would want a life size Sully in my house! Too scary lol

Oh shit… wait… is this the one that was in Firestone?

Man Rescue Heroes where the best when I was a kid.

Can't believe toys r us closed down great times

Where is the video game section?

For many kids, this video would be nostalgic. (I was 7 when this was filmed) but for me, I feel almost nothing, since I never really went to toys r us. I'm guessing it was so my parents could avoid me asking "can i get this" over and over again LOL. Am I the only one who could only shop with their circulars but not the store itself?

Holy shit Rescue Heros!!! I forgot bout those and I had them!

The good days. The days before kids had tablets and social media ruined our lives.

Bob was only living in Bobsville at the time and this was during original bob the builder series

Crazy that this so old that Lego Jack Stone existed

They came very well close viewing items in the Barbie Section

Why is no mentioning that they had a Frodo Baggins figure for sale back then? I guess being the huge LOTR nerd I am that just blew my mind, I would have died for that )^;

I want to reach through my computer screen and grab some of those Bionicle sets at 8:23