It's a shame that when we are having the time of our lives, we don't know it until it's over.

That feeling being in a Toys R Us as a kid is indescribable

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

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!

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.

These poor parents - struggling to remember which Turtles toys they already bought.

feels like the closest thing to time travel

My generation had it all…. Born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s and 90s😎

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!

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

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!!!

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

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 LOVED watching this! Tremendous thank you to whoever took this back then. So grateful to see!

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.

Something about those old lego foldover-reveal style boxes feels so right.

Just watching this, even the store smell comes back. Some memories just take you back to most of the senses.

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.

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.

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!

8:11 God, the Lego Knights and Pirates in the background. My 2 favorite Lego sets of all time!

People so notice the camera are embarrassed to be filmed. Refreshing.

That pallet of TMNT Technodromes would be worth about $20,000 today.

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.

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

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.

To go back to this time even for 1 day . I would’ve been 10 . 😢

RIP Toys r us. Kids will never know what they're missing out on.

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😔

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!).

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.

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 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 😢

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!!

Great times. I was in 8th grade about to start high school in 1991. I would of been in the Sega Genesis aisle😊

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.

No swarms of people running in and stealing whatever they can get their hands on. People actually paying for their items…

I really crying right now .this reminds me when my grandparents was living .we always went here . watching this make me feel comfort

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.

If you were to walk around recording like this in today's world in a toy store all hell would break loose

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! 😍

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.

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...

This brings back, good memories, visiting my aunt in New Jersey, first stop the mall, then to Toy r Us, and Kaybee Toys stores!

I showed my 72 year old mother and you could see the sadness in her eyes from those good times

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.

BACK WHEN CUSTOMER SERVICE WAS ACTUALLY A THING

Those legos sets are very sought after now. Love watching these type of videos of people leaving their homes to go shopping

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.

Aww this makes me sad… those were the best years of my life 😢

Most of the stuff in this video is now sold for quadruple the original retail price at vintage tor 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.

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.

I can barely watch these. The nostalgia makes me feel sad and nauseous 😢

That wall of TMNT was glorious! If I was able to go back for 1 day, I would clean house.

Best of times I'm so happy I was a kid in the 70s 80s and a teenager in 90 it was awesome

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

The mom at 10:28. I think we all can relate.😂

When prices weren’t too crazy, things were easier, and people were nicer to each other.

I can see the people were a little creeped out by the dude filming. It's still nice to see no cellphones or masks.

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.

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.

0:39 Seeing all of those now vintage lego sets sealed in box on shelves just hit me in ways I can't describe.

The BEST memories ....flipping the cards to see what the game looks like on the back....

I'm a child from the 60s to the 70s and my younger brother and I would jump out of the station wagon and run into the Kmart or whatever department store and go straight to the toy department! Oh my goodness that was so much fun. Looking at each toy that we wanted to have. Our mom instructed us to stay there together until she comes for us. Toy departments now are so depressing. Where are the toys? Anyway at 63 I am a kid at heart. Have a good day all!❤

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!

Time flies to fast.

Enjoy the good times no matter what time you're living in.

So crazy and sad to think kids don’t have the joy of getting to experience this anymore. It’s now all just electronic things that young kids want. But real toys are just irreplaceable smh

Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was playing on MTV then.

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.

1:06 chick hid her face like Deuces, and bounced to KB Toy stores 😂😂

8:32 1991 LEGO, I have no words. 😍

I dont want to go. That little boy was me in toys r u😢 we all felt miserable leaving the toy shop

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.

Old days were looking up and making memories and now we looking down and not making any.

I’m more nostalgic of this toys r us location, I went there between 1992-1996 and didn’t know how lucky I had it 😍 There’s a shoe store there now, but riding the escalators and seeing toys stacked all the way the ceiling was the pinnacle of toys. Incidentally the Macy’s store across this old location has a toys r us floor there 🤓

Remember it wasnt normal to film in public in 1991

The innocence at this time makes me sad. I miss it. 10 years before the biggest amount of BS changed the world forever.

An entire aisle of turtles! Wow.

I remember getting the sega game gear early 90’s. Toy’s r us was my second home back then! I’m happy there coming back from bankruptcy.

Is the mom around the 13ish minute mark writing down her son's holiday wishlist as he tells her? So cute 😭

Imagine owning 1 of every single toy in this store in FACTORY PACKAGING in MINT CONDITION and you list it all on Marketplace and someone offers... bout tree fiddy for the lot.

You could literally but up that entire store of just the video game, LEGO and action figure stuff and be a multi-millionaire now. Some sealed games go for tens of thousands now if graded

Can't believe I don't see The Incredible Crash Dummies anywhere in this video.....my absolute favorite. These were the days

Toys r Us was high back then .but I love this story . watching this video give me comfort

Makes me want to cry 😭 those toys were so cheap and I miss Toys R Us! I loved that place when I was little!

That dot matrix printing sound, never forget it

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 certainly remember going to Toys R Us to get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures! 😁😁

I miss our old civilization.

For a good two years of my childhood that wall of ninja turtles was the only thing that mattered to me lol

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

omg memories! when Barbie was THE only fashion doll it seemed

What a time to be a kid, born in 81

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

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!

I can't believe t r' us is closed for good 😢

Nowadays, people will just walk in with their friends and steal all those toys right from the shelves.