Inside a Toys“R" Us Store in 2001

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Inside a Toys“R" Us Store in 2001

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Vampire Robot

Күн бұрын

Footage shot inside a Toys "R" Us in December of 2001.
Video is almost 20 minutes.
#toysrus

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@nuke97 11 ай бұрын

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.

@lucasargandona4658 Жыл бұрын

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

@Bobtastic22 14 күн бұрын

I would still be down its like the pensive from harry potter lol

@Chucktinez Жыл бұрын

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

@thatonefatguy9043 6 ай бұрын

Yep, I remember all of that. I'm from 93.

@beatrizmf9965 Ай бұрын

And maybe the kids went to toys r us

@asscheeks3142 Жыл бұрын

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

@Curlyheart Жыл бұрын

butt

@kylearking8918 2 жыл бұрын

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

@hectorlopez1069 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful videos

@1wyco Жыл бұрын

Same Nov 2001 to early 2002 when this was recorded are my first memories

@TheJpiscool 8 ай бұрын

Same here, brother. One of my earliest conscious memories that I can recall is playing the demo for one of the Metroid Prime games on the gamecube. As well as Paper Mario: TTYD. I also loved the Rescue Heroes toys so starting with that was a pure unfiltered blast of nostalgia lol

@alyxgraff9121 2 ай бұрын

Same here, but mine are closer to 2005. I did visit these stores in my later years for the exclusive videogames & consoles they sold, but by the 2010s it was clear they couldn't keep up with the changing toy market anymore. If only that Amazon deal they had didn't go the way it did. Maybe then they wouldn't have died as fast. Well, at least the Geoffrey's Toy box Pop-up shops in Macy's & the ToysRUs Canda stores are still keeping the brand alive.

@Anarchist86ed Жыл бұрын

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

@hectorlopez1069 Жыл бұрын

They are moms and dads, now in 2023.

@thechosenoneforeal Жыл бұрын

Not all of us? Lol there are some who dont have kids yet? Lol im glad because in 2023 we were teens in the ‘08 recession era and it screwed everything up. We still recovering from the effect. Im glad I dont have kids yet because my generation has alot of single mothers that are in there 20s and early 30s. Its crazy how time went by ever since the recession era and it messed alot of ppls minds up.

@markus_with_a_k Жыл бұрын

I was ten then. Married with no kids still 😂

@thechosenoneforeal Жыл бұрын

@@markus_with_a_k lol yup

@rosealldays Жыл бұрын

Me, I am one of those kids but has no kids

@guardian08527 7 ай бұрын

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!

@TheMasterofDisaster48 10 күн бұрын

How could you forget the Action Man/Dr. X and Bionicle figures and that Pokemon marble shooter that were always in our faces, although the Pokemon one may have been from earlier year, it was hot though. They also had cool Spider-Man Marvel Legends and Dragon Ball Z figures though in the back and not hot advertised.

@guardian08527 10 күн бұрын

@@TheMasterofDisaster48 I remember many nights just packing out those plastic canisters the Bionicles came in. I don't remember Action Man/Dr.X but I was usually working in the Lego section, they called it the "Imaginarium" department at TRU where they sold the Leap Frog learning kits, old fashion puzzle boards (those fuckers were heavy as shit when packed 20-40 to a case!) and those Thomas The Tank Engine figures and accessories designed to soak parents by buying individual pieces 1 at a time at $5-$20. Dragon Ball Z in 2000/2001 was still very niche compared to what is available today, I think this was also the time they started pushing all the Gundam Wing kits. Another huge seller at the time were those giant RC Cadillac Escalade SUV's. If I could go back I would clean out everything Pokemon trading card related because I could now make a living just selling those individual packs of Base, Jungle, and Fossil booster packs.

@kissmiasma95 9 ай бұрын

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

@Bobtastic22 14 күн бұрын

after watching this I was like Jacob got fired that day lol

@BBCforyoHoe 11 ай бұрын

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

@eric56427 Жыл бұрын

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

@b-wear_of_ravn3940 Жыл бұрын

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.

@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын

You're welcome.. Happy you enjoyed it ☺️

@b-wear_of_ravn3940 Жыл бұрын

@Vampire Robot Keep doing what you're doing 👏. For it's a time capsule of memories.

@leigh7897 Жыл бұрын

We all grew up ❤️

@shawnamunyer9680 Жыл бұрын

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.

@sophiaelliott8033 10 ай бұрын

This is peak childhood 🥲 I specifically remember this Christmas!

@catchwreck928 Жыл бұрын

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

@betsysimpson318 Жыл бұрын

How’d you get that emoji?

@jonathansabinvarietyfilms Жыл бұрын

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.

@catchwreck928 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Anonymous-ch7wj Жыл бұрын

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.

@luigi7834 Жыл бұрын

did they get it

@war5288 Жыл бұрын

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.

@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын

Great comment!! What a nice treat for me to read this 😀

@hectorlopez1069 Жыл бұрын

Power rangers were so famous on TV in the 90s. Kids would buy power rangers toys too.

@mychaelabeauregard8389 Жыл бұрын

I was definitely the kid that had a few Diva Starz dolls hahaha, now looking back I find them a bit ugly lol 😅

@nevidmejia Жыл бұрын

The Bratz doll! OMG ICONIC 💙

@possiblycrazy442 Жыл бұрын

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.

@1wyco Жыл бұрын

That's me with monsters inc; probably because of this display...

@1wyco Жыл бұрын

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

@oosthakker Жыл бұрын

That display is crazy big

@HeyItsSarah30 Жыл бұрын

You can literally look it up on google I just did lol

@javianjohnson8746 11 ай бұрын

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

@fadedmemories86 11 ай бұрын

Too bad you weren't a kid in the 80s or 90s. It was an amazing time to grow up.

@TheMasterofDisaster48 10 күн бұрын

⁠@@fadedmemories86And then what? Watch crrappy outdated cartoons, crrappy wrestling, crrappy toys, crrappy outdated videogames, crrappy fashion, having some cold foggy no vibrance music play in the background?

@vizionaryentertainment8464 Жыл бұрын

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

@NSN_CYND Жыл бұрын

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

@immabeamazing Жыл бұрын

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

@lbandjcfan54 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Clay3613 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@keybyss98 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Toys R Us always felt like some kind of museums when it came to some of its merchandise. I remember seeing PS2’s and games well into 2014-2015, when most stores already stopped carrying the PS2, lol.

@ohnoitschris Жыл бұрын

@@keybyss98 Yeah, Walmart had a number of straggling PS2 games for a long time. Bottom of the barrel stuff, usually. I remember seeing Guitar Hero Aerosmith sitting on the shelf for so long the cover had been sunbleached. That game came out in 2008, and I think I remember seeing it in like 2015-2016.

@mr.goodboi2780 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Harperman8707 11 ай бұрын

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

@tj921able 10 ай бұрын

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.

@bee-yq3wb Жыл бұрын

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

@rosealldays Жыл бұрын

I was born in 97 too! It’s really neat to see the play doh dentist and Bratz dolls on the shelf!

@keyon2766 Жыл бұрын

I was 6 when this was made

@tristanswim 7 ай бұрын

yea wow, never thought id see that again. I was 5 then

@bee-yq3wb 7 ай бұрын

@@tristanswim Funny thing is I was cleaning out storage last week and found that dinosaur puppet again

@jakekelly7634 Жыл бұрын

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

@patches3432 4 күн бұрын

I was legitimately sad when I heard that toys r us went out of business. I have all kinds of fond memories of running around as a kid and being so excited to see all the toys they sold back then

@nicholasmardis Жыл бұрын

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.

@Frenite Жыл бұрын

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

@nuke97 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying that! Helps when swallowing down the fact that this was 22 years ago. But it's true it still looks modern.

@elwoodjacobs4353 5 ай бұрын

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.

@sleepyemployee92 Жыл бұрын

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."

@votpavel 7 ай бұрын

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

@macboi916 11 ай бұрын

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

@dollyfashionista2857 2 жыл бұрын

OMG BRATZ 🥺❤️

@4ever9zxyme Жыл бұрын

I know right ! I believe this was the year when they hit the market and made a huge hit ! I remember being 7/8 when they came out and received the first original lineup Yasmin doll and became instantly hooked !

@SpringBlossomGames Жыл бұрын

I love Barbie and MyScene doll! 💖

@crimsonxiv8184 3 ай бұрын

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

@loveumore_ 4 ай бұрын

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

@connormetcalf7049 Жыл бұрын

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

@ricardotorres6919 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@HezJP Жыл бұрын

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

@Puretea4711 Жыл бұрын

b-roll i guess

@brittlia_ Жыл бұрын

Miss this store so much 😢

@hectorlopez1069 Жыл бұрын

Me too, shame it's not there anymore.

@ov7spears Жыл бұрын

was this in Hawthorne CA?

@mitchsterling3266 Ай бұрын

I always went to target and it was like this too ❤ they had so many zoids 💖👀😌

@pslay9324 Жыл бұрын

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.

@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын

Thank you that makes me happy 😄 I thought I had some videos of Pembroke Mall on here 🤔... I'll have to look around.

@pslay9324 Жыл бұрын

@@vampirerobot that would be fantastic if you had any. So cool that you share these with us. I have enjoyed watching the ones you put out. 💜💜💜

@Indigo1998 3 ай бұрын

I really miss toys r us

@ckblackwoodmusic 10 ай бұрын

I'm nine years old again. Thank you.

@retrozaid1600 Жыл бұрын

7:58 The Dream…

@benjammin7700 Жыл бұрын

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

@ckblackwoodmusic 10 ай бұрын

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

@rosealldays Жыл бұрын

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 ❤

@Corgipon 7 ай бұрын

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.

@renzukoken_9999 11 ай бұрын

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💔

@strashinsky 5 ай бұрын

You were 11 in 2001? Did you get your Hogwarts acceptance letter?⚡

@renzukoken_9999 5 ай бұрын

@@strashinsky lol funny story. I actually just read all 7 Harry Potter Books last year for the first time. I had this Harry Potter watch my mom had bought me from Avon around 2000. Wore it to the church I went to back then and the pastor I'll never forget preaching on how Harry Potter was witchcraft and bad (I live in the south) so I never wore the watch again lmfao. But I'm glad I came back to this series as it's one of the best things I've ever read. Also, Hufflepuff house!

@hectorlopez1069 9 ай бұрын

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.

@davejay6855 Жыл бұрын

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…

@Curlyheart Жыл бұрын

To be fair, I never saw tv games as "toys"

@moonlightbae5425 Жыл бұрын

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

@LiminalcoreJess Жыл бұрын

You never got it? Awww

@luigi7834 Жыл бұрын

toys should be for anyone who wants to play with them. im sorry if you never got them

@moonlightbae5425 Жыл бұрын

@@luigi7834 aw thankyou

@Curlyheart Жыл бұрын

Harmony

@mrXcluziv3 6 ай бұрын

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

@dwaynemccall3600 6 ай бұрын

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

@ianespinoza9594 7 ай бұрын

Back then when life had meaning for children and adults

@theplaguedoctor_topic1067 Жыл бұрын

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

@hinkleprincess Жыл бұрын

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

@treykoyawena4443 3 күн бұрын

It sucks that I’ve only been in Toys R Us like about 3 or 4 times max in my life before it closed down!!!😢 I really wished I could’ve gone into the store even to just walk around in there and just look around was enough for me growing up!

@dorothyjosefina Жыл бұрын

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

@ShakeItLittleTina 8 ай бұрын

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

@unclejj2350 Жыл бұрын

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

@colonelhstinkmeaner8547 Жыл бұрын

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

@JamesChatting 4 ай бұрын

If you had sisters you knew what Bratz were 😂

@treykoyawena4443 3 күн бұрын

7:58 yes Bionicles ooo I used to love those!!!

@brandonlongwell8093 7 ай бұрын

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

@treykoyawena4443 3 күн бұрын

Seriously why do Lego sets in the 2000s look better than the ones today?

@posi8925 7 ай бұрын

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

@heatherbrenner3164 6 ай бұрын

They came very well close viewing items in the Barbie Section

@TheSuperPsychoKiller 5 ай бұрын

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

@ghostface1628 3 ай бұрын

Can't believe toys r us closed down great times

@treykoyawena4443 3 күн бұрын

Used to have Rescue Heroes walkie talkies growing up

@strashinsky 5 ай бұрын

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

@treykoyawena4443 3 күн бұрын

5:31 yes one of my favorite aisle the play dough aisle!!

@squeezytuna 21 күн бұрын

I was around these kids age in 2001 🥺

@hectorlopez1069 Жыл бұрын

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

@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

@josephspringfield7221 8 ай бұрын

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

@ArimaSenne1 7 ай бұрын

Civilization was going to collapse either way with the level of stupid we were engaged with in 2001, but it was accelerated

@Zeldafan1ify Жыл бұрын

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

@israelmendoza7599 11 ай бұрын

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😢

@tristangrice2064 8 ай бұрын

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

@TheYorkielover35 Жыл бұрын

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

@Aspi3Gam3r 5 ай бұрын

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

@Goose21995 8 ай бұрын

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

@vampirerobot 8 ай бұрын

I'll look around. That is rather odd they are not on this particular video.

@Goose21995 8 ай бұрын

@vampirerobot must have just missed the aisle. Do u remember them and how big the hype was?