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Post by Flair Forever on May 19, 2013 18:04:56 GMT -5
Just thinking as I drove around town today, doing some figure hunting, mostly for Mattel...
Target had empty pegs for the third trip in a row. I don't know why they even bother to sell WWE toys when they're never in stock.
Wal-Mart had a few basics - mostly Cena & Rey Mysterio. No Elites.
K-Mart hasn't restocked in two months - I don't think E19 was ever even sold at K-Mart, I've never seen anything higher than E18 there.
I miss Kay Bee Toys. I remember going to Kay Bee Toys for my JAKKS figures, and seeing row after row of figures, many of them on clearance, often having the newest selections too.... but I don't remember Kay Bee ever being "out" of figures.
Kay Bee always seemed to have plenty of figures - and while I didn't always buy something, I never hated going, or walked out feeling gipped because the store had no figures in stock.
If Kay Bee Toys was still around, I bet they'd have tons of Mattel figures....
Of course, they DID go out of business, so maybe they were over-stocked on stuff?
Ahhh, the good old days.
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Post by A Flair for the Gold on May 19, 2013 18:12:18 GMT -5
KB toys, IMO, was worlds better than TRU, at it's peak, i loved that place.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 18:23:17 GMT -5
great store, for sure...i personally found many more "rares" at kb than anywhere else, but the prices were always way higher  |
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Post by Labeled101 on May 19, 2013 20:00:11 GMT -5
KB Toys! I feel ya on missing that place. I remember the logo with the toy soldier and see a bunch of Headmaster & Targetmaster Transformers back in the late 80's. loved that spot to pick up Spider-Man the animated series figures for $5.00. Come to think about it your right they always had all the figures I was looking for and kept the shelves well stocked… it appears ultimately this was there doom due to all figures going on sale/clearance over time due to poor sales.
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Post by Hacker on May 19, 2013 20:07:53 GMT -5
Children's Palace.
FTW.
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Post by Kingdomofmadness89 on May 19, 2013 20:47:09 GMT -5
Not only was that place great at finding stuff but they would clearances off awesome stuff too!
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Post by Last Trent Barreta Fan on May 19, 2013 21:09:43 GMT -5
I do too. Since they were bought out TRU never put a new toy store in our town...
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Post by cableV on May 19, 2013 21:23:08 GMT -5
Same.
I imagine we would have had some KB exclusives as well.
Shout to Johnny's Toys in Cincinnati where I bought most of my WWF Hasbro figures.
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Post by JC Motors on May 19, 2013 21:47:05 GMT -5
I miss KB Toys. I used to buy all of the Jakks Rocky figures there. I remember getting a bunch on clearance for $1.98 each
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Post by mrkool899 on May 19, 2013 21:52:14 GMT -5
That was literally my childhood buying the WWF BCA figures. Not to mention Double Dragon, Street Sharks, X-Men, Power Rangers...I can go on and on. It was a bit pricey but it was around the same range as TRU. So much great memory of it.
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Post by azraelms on May 19, 2013 21:57:30 GMT -5
I miss KB toys because I used to work there part time - just enough to have first crack at all the boxes when they came in. I loved it because we got in one case of every wave of the Jakks Classic Superstars so I went for a long time not worrying about missing a figure, until they had the 1 in every 2 cases figures.
Good times, good times.
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Post by poindizzle on May 19, 2013 22:04:00 GMT -5
I'm gonna cry a little. I miss that place for sure. I really miss the 3 for $10.00 bin with the pre-printed stickers that were supposed to look like handwriting. What was awesome, was that if you were patient, things that came out a year ago were put fresh on their shelves at 3 for $10 regularly. When Gundam was no longer made in America, I picked up all the remaining figures that they had, 1 to open, and 1 to keep, and multiples of the 'troop builder' type suits and still paid less than $40 because of that great deal. They might have been a dollar or two more for all their toys, but at least they always had stuff. I wish I had racked up on the wrestling stuff when they closed, but I was doing Star Wars figures like a maniac and blew half a paycheck there getting everything. The sucky part? I stopped collecting Star Wars and sold all that junk for possibly even less per figure than they were on clearance.
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Post by kazoosandstreamers on May 19, 2013 22:09:59 GMT -5
It was a pretty sweet place.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 22:16:58 GMT -5
yeah i miss them too!!! had one less than 5 minutes away a couple of years back.
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Post by Booger Red on May 19, 2013 22:17:56 GMT -5
Oh how much I miss KB Toys. When Kmart,TRU, Walmart, Target let me down, KB Toys was there for me. I mostly got my JAKKS figures from KB Toys. I wouldn't be surprised if I found all the Hard to find figure at KB Toys if they were still around.
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Post by Joe/Smurf on May 19, 2013 22:24:13 GMT -5
I honestly think figures were just more mass-produced back in the late 90s. I never, ever had trouble finding any BCA figures. It's not the stores, it the economy limiting production, I'd guess.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 22:38:01 GMT -5
I managed a KB toys through college. We got weekly trucks and there was always new product. It was a cool place.
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Post by John Zero on May 19, 2013 22:51:14 GMT -5
Same. I imagine we would have had some KB exclusives as well. Shout to Johnny's Toys in Cincinnati where I bought most of my WWF Hasbro figures. I only got to go there once after I moved here, before they changed from a toy store to some kind of Discovery Zone type place. They had tons and tons or WWE figures, this was when Jakks had the license. I remember their prices being kind of high, but they had some good stuff. |
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Post by Billy F'N Shogunn on May 19, 2013 23:06:16 GMT -5
Kb was the only store I ever found a jakks 1/500 at. Man, I know this is the mattel board and all, but kb was so fruitful in its day. Seriously, like, half of my jakks collection (which was pretty extensive) came from kb. The good old days indeed.
Also, recently saw a thing on buzzfeed.com about "things you will have to exaplain to you kids / kids of today" and one was just a pic of a typical Kb toys circa 2005.
Another sweet kb story, I got caught shoplifting a super Mario bros 3 strategy guide (dating myself?) and my mom made me bring it back. Some teenager was working and was all like " I could band you from the store for life but you seem cool" so all was well. Ah nostalgia...
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on May 19, 2013 23:06:54 GMT -5
worked at one as well. Best deal I remember was buying a full case of CS1 around Christmas 2004, so CS4 was well in stores. There was a B2G1 deal and this counted. With the deal and my 25% discount that stacked, I got the full case for $78. That came to about $6.50 a figure. Yep including the highly sought after - at the time - HBK.
I'd never see the cases comes off the truck though. I think because I was always buying them, they'd hide the figure cases when they arrived and stock the shelves when I was off.
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