I miss that feeling of going inside a real toy store....

@wadecarmen7501

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Worked at TRU for four years.

@libatako

3 жыл бұрын

@@wadecarmen7501 unless you were the manager.....it wasn’t all that fun there.

@thomaslichman5365

3 жыл бұрын

@@wadecarmen7501 so did I, it was awful lol

@imsleepingbeauty

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like it😊

@theberrby6836

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah..

KB Toys, Waldenbooks, and Electronics Boutique, the stores i made sure to hit on every visit to the mall with my 10$ allowance. oh yeah, and Aladdins Castle arcade with whatever change i had left!

@kevinthomas4239

5 жыл бұрын

Waldenbooks was the only bookstore in my town until B/N came to town. I still miss it.

@nathanl7018

5 жыл бұрын

Those were the go to stores for me as well. Then took my change over to The Gold Mine arcade. Now they're all gone, including the mall they were in, Port Plaza.

@conchobar

5 жыл бұрын

Electronics Boutique = EBGames = Gamestop

@dragonmaster7841

5 жыл бұрын

Word! My arcade was called Timeout. If you think about it, those stores were damn expensive even for 1980s prices.

@TheVosack

5 жыл бұрын

I miss Aladdins Castle.

Every cool place died in the 2000's thanks in part to corporate greed. The small mom and pop toy/collectable stores in malls were just magical. Malls are straight up depressing now a days. No arcade, no toys, or people.

@NatsumeKonno

3 жыл бұрын

Barely any arcades. Kids dont even go outside where i live.

@TheAtroxious

3 жыл бұрын

Corporate greed and the internet. Never underestimate the laziness of the unwashed masses who can't be bothered to leave their houses.

@dinkmartini3236

3 жыл бұрын

"No arcade, no toys, no people." I visited the mall of my youth a few months ago and half the damn thing didn't even have electricity. All the fountains were dry. It was soooooooo depressing.

@KentKaliber

3 жыл бұрын

Not just corporate greed, but changing behaviour in new generations. The new "kids" (if you can call them that) aren't into feverishly collecting toys like we were. They prefer staring at their iPad all day. Which is part their fault, part parent's fault. And sadly it won't get better, it will only get worse.

@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer

2 жыл бұрын

Part of the reason why the website cost so much is _they were on track to take advantage of that_ So yeah, unlike the other Big players, Kay Bee was poised to take advantage of the shift. .... At least until _someone_ stole all the money that was going to support the site and transport of product to customer. They were basically going to be "toy Amazon" before there was an Amazon, by buying out and incorporating smaller scale toy manufacturers into the existing delivery routes. Don't have something at one store? Look at the rest of the stores in the state, or even the next state over! Order it for a certain amount, within a certain distance, and shipping is free!

KB toy stores, Sears wish list annual Christmas catalogs. There are some great things the generations moving forward will never experience for themselves, unfortunately.

@wadecarmen7501

3 жыл бұрын

Garbage now.

@jngx80

3 жыл бұрын

Do they even care about it? They're either playing video games, watching KZread memes, tiktok and whatever rots their brains.

@satanlaffing

3 жыл бұрын

MANNNN, that big ass Sears x-mas wish book was the greatest thing ever. I wish i still had one (from @ ' 84, '85) to Check Out For Nostalgia.

@Nick_Nightingale

3 жыл бұрын

@@satanlaffing You should Google old Sears catalogs. There is a site that has scanned many of them.

@dinkmartini3236

3 жыл бұрын

JC Penny, Ward's and Sears Christmas Catalogs. The HOURS we would spend oogling those toys. Circling the important ones. Showing mom...AGAIN which ones we wanted. She must be told. SHE MUST BE TOLD!!!

"Oh, you think the mall is your ally. But you merely adopted the mall; I was born in it, molded by it." -Bain Capital

@yoshininku81

5 жыл бұрын

Kgmer

@331Grabber

5 жыл бұрын

"Trust in the mall Starbucks coffee Luke." -Obi Wan Valdez

@daneg007

5 жыл бұрын

" i didn't play with the toys until i was already a young man and by then they were nothing to me but profit."

@daneg007

5 жыл бұрын

" ahh, i was wondering what would break first, your mall stores.........or your website."

@theruggedindoorsman

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

Oh how I miss KB toys. Or just toy stores in general

@tryksta7247

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing beats the feeling of seeing a toy or figure in hand and the childhood excitement of being allowed to stop at the toy store. But with scalpers buying up all the good stuff and bleeding stores dry, then selling it marked up on the Internet, does it matter so much anymore anyway? For instance I like figures and never find the ones I want at the stores. Only dozens of overproduced figures no one wants.

@FreedSamurai

5 жыл бұрын

Tryksta 724 I think that the moments when I actually find something I’m looking for in the wild (at either a target or a GameStop) and that feeling I have makes it worth it. It’s just unrealistic in today’s climate

@bb5242

5 жыл бұрын

@@tryksta7247 That happened before the Internet--even in the '80s the hot Star Wars and later GI Joe action were always inexplicably like what you describe. Certain ones could just never be found because a-holes would buy them all up to sell at flea markets (?) Not sure where, but same deal. I remember going through racks and racks of figures looking for that one "Firefly" or "Gung Ho" figure and seeing nothing but "Scarlett" two feet deep. Scarlett was that decade's Rey.

@tryksta7247

5 жыл бұрын

@@bb5242 For sure. There were also unequal numbers produced of figures and sometimes only ones released overseas. I remember Silver Surfer being like that and Batman Returns Catwoman and Robin...

@pgaven9396

5 жыл бұрын

Rip toy stores nationwide

I worked at a KB in high school during the name change from Kay-Bee to KB. I can't tell you how many times people writing checks would get mad when they asked how to spell the store's name and I told them "It's just KB"...like I was messing with them. I still have my old name tag, and it very clearly says KB on it. It was one of the best jobs I ever had, and I was sad to see them go under.

@BonusEggs4Sale

11 ай бұрын

It didn't even occur to me that it changed from Kay-Bee. Thought I was undergoing some mandela effect from the video title and intro.

KB: where you went in 2007 to find 'Robocop' toys from ... 1993.

@codylamp6814

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, that sounds pretty neat. Lol

@rayfran06

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly in around that time I worked at a mall and would stop by the KB Toys on the way into work. Built my Batman Collection that way and my Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks figures collection. Loved it!

@geet77777

3 жыл бұрын

You understand.

@chocolateking1143

3 жыл бұрын

That’s actually pretty cool. LOl

Thank you for such a clear and educational video. I had no idea that Bain Capital was responsible for multiple downfalls within toy retail. Such a sad and miserable story. The world is certainly a less fun place without a proper toy store. And, of course, so many people loss their jobs and pensions.

@DavidASinSTL

4 жыл бұрын

@Rob T you know nothing

@DavidASinSTL

4 жыл бұрын

@Rob T I lived it. AND you are a piece of shit. I said that...

@SaraphDarklaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidASinSTL You annihilated him.

@TheIMMORTALKAHNHD

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaraphDarklaw not according to ratio.

@BonusEggs4Sale

11 ай бұрын

BainCapital was basically "Hey kids, you think regular capitalism is exploitative? Try capitalism+!"

the fact I found this FASCINATING despite being British and never hearing of KB before speaks # volumes to the research, scripting, presentation and production of this Chanel.

Moral of the story: Everyone says Amazon killed the toy store, when in fact it was Mitt Romney. True story.

@kidwajagstang

3 жыл бұрын

Mitt Romney took out KB AND Toys R Us... I think I personally despise this man more than any other evil billionaire in the world..

@terrancorestories

3 жыл бұрын

@@kidwajagstang I agree

@Sinn0100

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Mitt Romney killed Toys R US...what a greedy pile of human garbage.

@johnnykitsune1949

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it was a mixture of things. The advent of online shopping and Toys R Us' firm stand on selling product over MSRP when you could get it at cost or under MSRP online played a large roll in their downfall.

@Jay-yr8fn

3 жыл бұрын

No he didn’t they K.B nor Toys’R us didn’t evolve so they died.

I've only been in a KB/Kay-Bee once but enjoyed the history lesson, and Greg really produced the heck out of this episode :)

KB Toys and the arcade were my sole reasons for being okay with having to go to the god forsaken mall. That applied to me as a child and an adult. Then they both died. Now when asked if I will go to the mall, I break down and weep. Mostly because my wife doesn't want to take a crying grown man with her to the mall. It's an effective escape plan. try it.

@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer

2 жыл бұрын

RIP also the excessive extravagant portions of Chinese mall food!!! I swear I was getting damn near 5 pounds per single entree! 😭 Those effing styrofoam packages were always STRAINING and about to burst!!! For ~10$ I could eat for three days! 😱

Murder mysteries, inspirational quotes, AND Bill & Ted references? Best episode EVER!

@mc5or6

5 жыл бұрын

Quintin Fortune isn't this some Mandela effect stuf? I thought KB went out way earlier?

I come here to hear how every piece of my childhood has been liquidated, crushed, and discontinued.

Back in the early 90's my favorite store was the corner store. There were magazine racks full of comics, an area dedicated to Arcade machines, and the front counter was all trading cards. Now you don't find any of that stuff at a corner store...

15,000 years of human evolution, and I really feel like we've peaked with this video. Dan, you are a goddamn national treasure and I salute you

@BonusEggs4Sale

11 ай бұрын

The BainCapital "vest" logo gag was particularly brilliant

KB was my first job out of school. I worked there for 3 years and honestly loved every day of it until I got a new manager and started hating every day of it. I honestly miss those day. The early 00s was a different more simple time. I was sad when they went under.

@JazGalaxy

5 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how much a manager can affect a job. They can instantly turn a great place to work into a horrible place to work.

@Gryphon2026

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they were!

@matthewblackwood4704

5 жыл бұрын

The 80s we're much better...even the early 90s

@LordChrisBerg

5 жыл бұрын

holy shit i was gonna type exactly what you said. same exact thing happened to me. loved it and then new manager was a bitch. i quit a few months before they shut down and found a better job. before they closed i would always go in there to look for marvel legends and see the worried faces of the managers because they were getting shut down. seeing them shitting bullets put a smile on my face, but hey! got the toybiz marvel legends for cheap . i dont miss the managers telling me to help every single customer and tell them the same thing 5 other employees just told them. they always had secret shoppers and thankfully they gave good feedback about me. r.i.p. KB, my only regret was not using my employee discount

@jakeharris9800

5 жыл бұрын

I had a KB manager who didn't want to share the code to accept a return. So every time a customer would return a product (which was often), I'd have to go to her office and wake her up. Also her son would hang out and hit me in the nuts a lot. That job had so much more potential on paper.

I worked at a Toy Liquidators (KB Toys outlet), and here's a little secret of our store that may be true of others as well. I think people know that KB seemed to never get rid of toys, they would just discount and discount until they sold. Well, what happened if the toys never sold? Here's what happened at my store, those toys just got thrown up on top of the aisle rack where they were out of sight. My favorite thing to do was to get up on the ladder and sift through the mountains of dusty, forgotten toys on the top of the racks. The best part was, when you'd ring them up, the system kept discounting them all those years later and they were a small fraction of whatever the sticker price was by that point. To give you an idea of the randomness up there, my favorite find was a 1996 WWF Bend-ems ring with Paul Bearer figure, and I worked there in 2001-2. Easily my favorite (and least paying) job!

Company man, had already clued me into the cartoon villains that are bane capitol, but I enjoyed your take on this as well. I especially loved the "meeting footage"You are in my top 5 favorite channels, and even though I don't always comment, I always watch, and I always thumbs up. Keep up the good work sir (s)!

Having worked for TRU, and that is a company I owe (at least their people) in my time of need after my military service, I feel for their employees. I'm glad you made this so people will see the real reasons behind why these companies go out of business behind the scenes. I didn't know it was the same company with Kay Bee. Those were childhood memories! Great video as Always T.G.

I friggin love these history videos. Thank you so much, Dan. You guys have filled the void left behind after Glenn Webb passed away as the history aspect of his channel was something I truly looked forward to watching and loved. Toy Galaxy has become my favorite KZread channel.

KB was my first job while I was in High School in the early 90's. GREAT JOB on the history and research regarding it. I really remember some key points that were happening during my employment there!

I'm 38 and I absolutely love going into brick and mortar toy stores.

For me it was always K.B. toys, rarely ever went to Toys R us because "They're too expensive" lol

Kay-Bee was where I bought ALL my Gobots! Including Thruster and the Command Center! I think I had fonder memories of going into Kay-Bee because it was always sporadic and unexpected that I was allowed to go, a pleasant surprise, meanwhile, Toys R Us visits were fewer and far between, and planned. I always found more obscure toys there, too, and a larger selection of stuff like Gobots. Great trip down memory lane, Dan!

@jackson5116

5 жыл бұрын

KB had the mall advantage, because it's easier to go nationwide into malls than what Toys R Us did in opening their own stores outside of malls- more expensive startup, as well as longer. Sure, your profits may be higher per store, but it takes a lot longer to expand that way.

I've recently started watching this channel, mostly bingeing on stuff you've already done. I greatly appreciate the topic material, and also the amusing style with which you present, including the interleaved bloopers.

Awesome video and quality work Dan & Co.! Easily my favorite channel on KZread!

Wow! Wow. I had no idea that the same "investment" company was at the heart of both major toystore closings.. mind blower. If it turns out that Bain's silent partner is Heat Miser, I am going to be very dissappointed.

@bunkerzero

5 жыл бұрын

They are the toy slayers

@darrenhood4033

5 жыл бұрын

@Lassi Kinnunen even so there then becomes a mentality if Bain and other corporate raiders that reads: "Got mine, duck yall, solve your own problems, not my fault you can't make more money for yourselves."

@originaluddite

5 жыл бұрын

What about Burgermeister Meisterburger...

@BornToPun7541

5 жыл бұрын

@Rob T it makes for good politics to paint all capitalists as Scrooges and Meisterburgers. When in doubt, say that businessmen are killjoys

@white-dragon4424

3 жыл бұрын

@@BornToPun7541 The right name for them is "neoliberals". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Despite the name, it means big business being allowed to run amok, like OCP in the movie RoboCop.

I grew up pretty poor, so a trip to the mall or Toys R Us (once we got one in our city) was a pretty rare occurrence, however KB was more likely to happen since my mom could drop us off at the mall for hours and have some probably much deserved time to herself. So a lot of my paper route money was spent at good ole KB. In college one of my close friends managed the KB store, and I worked in a Pipe and Cigar Store in the same mall. So I spent some time helping with truck, and still spending chunks of my pay check there.

@jonathangoode546

5 жыл бұрын

I've gotten most of my toy-biz action figures from KB toys .it was a great store for my children too. If toys r us didn't have it THEY SURE DID !

I used to work for Kay Bee. I was very “green”. My first day was on Black Friday. Not a good experience at all.

It was awesome to hear the story of what really happened. My wife was a store manager and left right before everything came crashing down (she did the same at Toys R Us). So many fond memories of those stores from childhood too.

This one hurts. K.B. Toys is actually where I started my Marvel Legends collecting. One fateful day I walked in with one of my first high school job paychecks and walked out with series 1 Iron Man, Captain America and Hulk (Toad had already sold). My life and hobby was changed forever that day.

Just posted some toys for sale on ebay that still had the KB Toys price stickers on em :)

@ibexthadevil3533

3 жыл бұрын

I have a bunch as well

@loucipher6839

3 жыл бұрын

ebays going to rob you once you sell them, better off posting on your facebook, craigslist, offerup or selling in person...

@rylewx

3 жыл бұрын

@@loucipher6839 They take roughly 10%. So does Mercari, but they seem to be more transparent about it. Looks like Facebook Marketplace is adding selling fees as well for shipped goods.

@PC_TV_73

3 жыл бұрын

Ebay may charge more fees but I find selling on ebay a lot faster a lot. Post the same item on all market places and it will almost always sell on ebay first.

@GeekToMeRadio

3 жыл бұрын

I love buying toys with those price stickers on them. It’s like a little time capsule.

“This is a Candy business, but it’s still a business.” Love that I have a lot in common with 10 year old Dan.

Kay Bee was where it was at. Toys R Us was a palace with more toys and seeing a pyramid of Technodromes will always be in my memories but I built my collection because of those 3 for $10 and 3 for $5 deals. Those sales were my life. TrU was also on the other side of town the mall was only 5 minutes away by car. There was only one choice to satisfy my toy fix.

It was so fun going into that store and finding interesting toys you didn't find anywhere else. G2 Transformers... Machine Wars... it was the Wild West of toy stores.

@DavidMartin-lj8yj

5 жыл бұрын

UncleDeluxe lol that was where I used to go for machine wars

@karaoconnoraliasraidra

5 жыл бұрын

I got a Troll doll from a series not available in other stores. I still have it and the packaging somewhere.

@TheOmegazerox

3 жыл бұрын

I found old Legos and yes transformers that were retired in other stores at Kb.

@satanlaffing

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, i found "The Karate Kid" action figures there, nowhere else.

@Mitsuraga

3 жыл бұрын

It's where I first discovered Spider-Man Classics figures, the line that would become Marvel Legends. I miss when they came packed with a comic.

Gotta love America, where a faceless corporation will buy a smaller company for the sole purpose of bleeding them dry, running them out of business, and earning a profit just for themselves. Stuff like this is what just makes me sad, but then again I get an odd satisfaction in knowing that those executives *have no souls and know no true happiness* . Oh yeah, toys. Toys are COOL!

@RandomAmerican3000

5 жыл бұрын

The moral of the story is, don't sell out to faceless corporations. In fact, don't sell out to anyone without a face.

@locNguyen-jb1vt

5 жыл бұрын

Same with our social security polesi anyone

@kthemaster1999

5 жыл бұрын

@@puckerings Found the liberal.

@RandomAmerican3000

5 жыл бұрын

@@Samael1113 Oh look, stuff I already knew. You might want to learn how to spot tongue-in-cheek comments before you type out an entire lecture. Will save you some time.

@tryksta7247

5 жыл бұрын

@@RandomAmerican3000 Those faceless corporations will always have the money and the creative types always won't. Wave a big enough check in front of someone's face, and desperation is a stinky cologne. Everyone has integrity until they don't.

Same thing with Gamestop, with its inflated value I'm sure they took out a crap load of loans. Killing it for sure now.

Wow, this is the first video I ever watched from this channel and I just realized I have been thoroughly enjoying for the last year. Nice

I miss you 😭Kay Bee Toys 85% my collection came from this store

worked at KB for 4 years, which kicked my collecting hobby into high gear at the age of 16. 32 years old now been going strong ever since!

"They Melvined me." I had a feeling you were going to say this... xD

My goodness. What a great voice you've got. I could easily imagine lots of cartoon characters brought to life by your deep and gritty pipes.

I started as a part-time seasonal overnight stocker and worked my way up district manager... 13 years after I started they closed the doors and I enlisted in the Army... yeah it had that kind of effect on me lol

"they melvin'd me" is also what popped into my head when you said Melville as well

This may be my favorite history episode yet. When can we expect the Toy Galaxy Inspirational Posters? That government sugar rarioning quote tugs at the heart strings.

I worked at a KB Toy store for exactly one week and quit because the manager hated kids and he griped about how much mess they made of the toy displays. It was one of the most depressing places I ever worked and I never regretted leaving there.

I don't know how you find the time to make these videos but I'm damn pleased you do!

i used to love KB toys, this was a great vid happy new year Mr. Dan Larson...

I am 48 years old and of all your videos I have watched so far, this made me the most happy with so many memories of the three big toys store chains, but at the same time, the most sad because I remember the decline of KB and Toys R Us and especially going from Toys R Us to Toys R Us when they were having their going out of business sales. Every once and a while I still pass an old Toys R Us that never became anything else. It just sits there with it's original outside Toys R Us paint job, reminding every time just how great we had it for so many years when there were actual stand alone toy stores. It makes me sad knowing that my daughter only had Toys R Us in her life for about the first six years of her life. She is eleven now and still has a few memories of our Friday night stops at Toys R Us even it we didn't always make a purchase. I think I am more sad now just thinking back on how much fun she had there. It truly was a store of wonders when you were under the age of seven. Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane.

How I miss my favorite toy store..u still remember

This so very sad. Our company, The Party Source, is an ESOP (Employee Owned) company. Seeing Bain systematically destroy someone's livelihood is purely sickening. I loved KB Toys, they were the only toy store in my town were I grew up. So many happy memories with them. Cheers, -J.O.

@DylanPierceCrowley

5 жыл бұрын

Dylan. Pierce. Crowley.

@Vidikron

5 жыл бұрын

Rob T You work for Bain or something? They did destroy KB and TRU. They bought TRU with huge loans and the forced TRU to pay off those loans themselves... AFTER paying Bain various management fees (which is laughable considering their ‘management’ is what killed them). TRU could barely pay down the interest on the loans and eventually had to file for bankruptcy. And since their hands were tied trying to pay the fees Bain as well as paying off the loans they didn’t have any capital to evolve and compete in a rapidly changing retail landscape. This is what killed them. This is what Bain does over and over. Fuck them.

@jebediahchagels

4 жыл бұрын

@Rob T A lot of loyalty for a hired gun

I'm not even a toy person and I can't stop watching Every-Single-One of your infernal videos. Damn you, Toy Galaxy, damn you!!!! (Also, great job on this one.)

@yoshininku81

5 жыл бұрын

Khmer

@yoshininku81

5 жыл бұрын

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@yoshininku81

5 жыл бұрын

Maher Modifier and

@yoshininku81

5 жыл бұрын

Aaa KHIMovir

Some of my fondest childhood memories are when my Dad used to take me to KB Toys in our local mall. I honestly would be the happiest kid on earth whenever we could afford to go there

that was a phenomenal Video. Thank you for this trip down memory lane and filling those of us who were not paying attention in on how it all went down.

I need that Silverhawk motivational poster... that made me laugh harder than it probably should have.

@leemd5049

5 жыл бұрын

After seeing that reference, I'm binge watching my SilverHawk DvDs.

Kay Bee always had the best toys and lots of stuff TRU didn’t have. If only the Wayne Foundation had stepped in, Bain Capital wouldn’t have murdered all the toy stores.

@dinkmartini3236

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah...Bruce talks a big game but when we needed him he was brooding in that damn cave. They're DEAD. Get OVER IT!

I miss going in to a K- B toy store as a child. The battery operated dog that barks and does back flips and along with the penguin staircase that when they get to the top they slid down to go back up again. All set up to draw attention of children as they walk past with their parents. I miss it all 😭😢

My friends and I worked at a KB in an outlet mall in our early 20's, we would smoke weed all day and had to deal with creepy old men who collected 1:18 scale diecast models. Good times.

I was a young, young, every so young manager at Toys R Us when Bain Capital bought us out with KKR and Vornado Realty as their partners. Everything changed after that. Store closings, higher prices and constant threats to our jobs if we didn't like the changes. However, in all fairness, Toys R Us (like KB) left themselves open to that by making a lot of foolish business decisions. Fortunately, I left well before the hammer fell at Toys R Us. Until this video, though, I didn't know Bain Capital had done this to KB. Damn shame.

@wadecarmen7501

3 жыл бұрын

Mitt Romney was involved in Bain.

I'm from the UK, so this was really interesting as we didn't have KB over here. I'm interested in the business and history of the toy industry as much as I am in toys themselves. Thanks! Keep up the good work and interesting, well researched content.

Same thing I said when TRU went out of business: if I want to overpay for last year's toys, there's still Target.

Great video. I had a 2nd job fresh out of college working at KB in the late 90's that helped me pay off school loans. It was a great environment and thankfully I left long before it went belly up. Those stacks of discounted toys right inside the door were a PITA though, especially on Black Friday *shudders at the memory*

You missed the chance to play the clip of Rises where businessman Daggett tells Bane in fear: “but we’ve paid you a fortune.”

@scarface1138

5 жыл бұрын

"And that gives you...power over me?"

@jonathangoode546

5 жыл бұрын

Do YOU FEEL IN CHARGE ?

@scarface1138

5 жыл бұрын

CIA agent Bill: "So what's next in your master plan?" Bane Romney: "Crashing this toy company...WITH NO SURVIVORS!"

Every time I watch one of these videos I think about how much fun it would probably be to hang out with these maniacs.

I’m happy i got the chance to enjoy this store, the 90s were awesome!!!! Thank you for making an awesome video!!

@ Toy Galaxy I was a manager at a KB in Utah for a while. I miss that job! At the time, it paid well, was way fun and the employee discounts were generous. Good times..

I miss kB toys and Toys R Us!

@jackson5116

5 жыл бұрын

me too

@jonathangoode546

5 жыл бұрын

SO SAY WE ALL ,SO SAY WE ALL !

@actionfigurescollectionssu7854

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@forsaken-exile9083

3 жыл бұрын

You can thank a force fed "Instant Gratification" online shopping culture. I feel sorry for the new generation who knows nothing about walking into a store full of toys : D I really hope those days will be seen again soon!

@actionfigurescollectionssu7854

3 жыл бұрын

@@forsaken-exile9083 Yeah I feel sorry for the new Generation too the only thing we got is Walmart and target 🎯 and GameStop and Walgreens and best buy all those toy stores like KayBe and toy are us Were obsolete years ago

I remember my parents took me and my brother to KB toys every week. I don't remember what I bought (I was 4 years old at the time), but I wish they were still around today.

At my childhood mall we had Kay Bee Toys, Camelot Music (the FYE of the early 90s) and an arcade all next to each other. I don't know if it was coincidence or genius planning but that particular area was like a paradise compared to all the boring clothes and jewelry stores in the rest of the mall.

There was a few years in my childhood where our local mall had both a Kay Bee Toys and a K&K toy store. There were times I went back and forth three or four times to decide what I wanted.

Wow, this episode turned out so great! I want to work in toys, but the money is in toy business murdering.

holy crooked finances, Danman. Bane broke the backs of toy businesses by buying them out and beating them down with bankruptcy.

@tryksta7247

5 жыл бұрын

It's Bain metaphorically breaking the backs of toy businesses, not Bane breaking the back of Batman =)

@PenguinJockey13

5 жыл бұрын

@@tryksta7247 well, yeah. Though I wasn't privy to the spelling until after posting.

@tryksta7247

5 жыл бұрын

@@PenguinJockey13 I know what you meant. It was my GREED at wanting the opportunity to make the joke =)

@nicholastosoni707

5 жыл бұрын

And they ALMOST got Dunkin' Donuts. Ever wonder why their donuts seem small and cheap compared to the good old days? It's because they *only just survived* Bain Capital.

KB Toys was my hangout spot in the early to mid 90s. It was less then 100 yards away from the arcade in the mall so I was in each of those places everytime my parents and I went to our local mall. I can still see the stores interior in my mind...wow I miss that store. Thanks for bring back those memories

I remember buying toys from Kb Toys in the 90s and 2000s at the mall, good times it sucks they are gone.

Thanks Baine Capital Murdurer of Toy Stores 😢😢😢😢😢😢

@lamarravery4094

5 жыл бұрын

Mitt Romney, what a Grinch! But it's just business. That ass hole I think is a Senator now. If the people who voted for him only knew. At least Obama beat his sorry Mormon ass.

@chrisguevara

5 жыл бұрын

Baine is the worst. It was good to see that picture of Mitt grovelling for job in Trump's cabinet. He is as slimey as they come.

@jackson5116

5 жыл бұрын

that and the market shifted, so these stores they overloaded with debt weren't able to shift with it. They probably played 70 to 80% in their demise, the rest was market shift.

Yo, KB was my favorite. They had toys u couldn't find in other stores.

KB toys, Radio Shack, Suncoast video, Sears ... Malls used to be so much more fun than they are today. I'm glad my daughter got to see at least the last few years of physical toy stores before they all closed up and she out grew them. Telling her kids about places like this is gonna be like telling them about a fantasy they'll never experience.

Dan, this is the store that introduced me to the Toy Biz Marvel Legends! Thanks for this stroll down memory lane my brother 🤘🤘

Dan, thanks for all of your hard work. Your videos are almost always a highlight in my week. And I live a pretty great life, so..... 😀

Mitt Romney must be the one person that hit the dislike button

@alex_roivas333

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@JazGalaxy

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t get it.

@jonathanmartin3767

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck obama too

@bonorbitz

5 жыл бұрын

...with about 19 other Republicans at the moment.

@jefferyjones8399

5 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanmartin3767 Obama had nothing to do with Bain

KB helped me score some rare toys that collectors are drooling for today, and I'll always thank them. They had a great selection with awesome prices!

Thank you for this video, I worked for KB Toys from 1996 to 2010 and still miss working there, it was a great place to work even when in hard times

That Silverhawks crack hit me right in the nostalgia-very distinct memories of purchasing all the ones I owned from KB back when. I was always able to hit KB up over my maybe once a year trip to TrU on special occasions. And then even as I got older, realized KB was still rocking old stock, and purposely seeking them out to find older stuff.

@Rowebot15

5 жыл бұрын

I have a Silverhawks lunchbox. I was good for a month to get it. Retired my Fonz one.

Sigh....so many Toy Biz toys bought, but the most note worthy was my buying all those Exo-Squad toys. Ohh what a magical time to be a kid and having a KB in a mall near me, it was beautiful Dan...sooo Beeeaauutifull *weeps incohrently

I grew up in Pittsfield and remember the giant KB Toys that was a few minutes from our house. We went there all the time, mostly to look and waste time, but I always got my video games there. I still remember getting my copy of Perfect Dark from a big discount bin they had near the front. I even dreamed about living in the small house next to that shopping plaza so I could play the game demo stations whenever I wanted. I had no idea about how my "local toy store" meant so much to so many other people until many years later. After the company went under, that location sat until eventually becoming a new bank branch. It means a lot seeing this video and more recently, the Company Man video covering this same topic, as it'll always be my fun home away from home.

I have fond memories of KayBee. I still remember the store layout.

As a KB Toys Store Manager in TN and CA, I approve of this updated HR Orientation video...Do you need any batteries? How about a cow tail? They’re 3 for a dollar.

@mrdonigan

5 жыл бұрын

I worked in a Cigar and Pipe shop in the Mall above a KB Toys that my friend managed. I remember being talked into eating a cow tail once. Once...

@morebakeder

3 жыл бұрын

i worked register at a KB, we had to ask every customer if they wanted a cow tail, I never even heard of a cow tail until i worked there. and i haven't had one probably since i worked at one. for some reason i'm craving one now and i don't even remember them being that good.

@nkane81

3 жыл бұрын

@@morebakeder exactly

Bain Capital? Why does that name sound fami- OH. OH NO.

@munstrumridcully

5 жыл бұрын

You know, it's that totally awesome vulture er, venture capital firm that made Mitt Romney a mint! Gotta love those anarcho-capitalist venture capital companies, they exploit, use up and cast aside the dead carcasses of companies that actually provide a service and/or product! How I loath them!

@Gryphon2026

5 жыл бұрын

@@munstrumridcully I'm right there with ya! They all absolutely suck!

@munstrumridcully

5 жыл бұрын

@Sith'ari Azithoth it's not fallacious, as it is only rules extetnal to the markets that they want removed, like any form of external regulation. This doesn't make it logically unsound, just stupid, as even cobtract law is external regulation. But even if it is fallacious, the philosophy exists and there are still plenty of people that believe it is a good idea and some of those people run things like venture capital firms and act unethically.

@fireheartis1

4 жыл бұрын

@@munstrumridcullyYou know I voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 just because Obama didn't keep his promises as President. Now even though Obama screwed the country up with his identity politics, I think Mitt would have screwed us up even worse. In a strange way it was a blessing for Obama to be voted in for a second term. Mitt would have ruined our economy even worse then what Obama would have ever done.

I was actually curious about this, thanks for the report!

I forgot all about k b toys now I feel sad and nostalgic at least we still have toys r us... oh wait never mind. Good bye toy stores. I'll be in my corner crying.

Every time a toy store closes. A great disturbance is felt throughout the universe.

@WebVManReturns

5 жыл бұрын

That and when I fart.

I loved KB Toys as a customer, and I was both a customer and an employee of Toys R Us. I actually gathered the shopping carts from the parking lot of the Daytona Beach Toys R Us for the last time shortly before we closed the doors for good on our last day of operation. Neither one of these great stores had to go out of business except for the greed of a few money grubbing individuals....

I am the one who broke KBs back.

@VuNguyen-eq2nh

5 жыл бұрын

Hello you😁

@krog875

5 жыл бұрын

LARRY!!!!

@SWIFTO_SCYTHE

5 жыл бұрын

LARRY!! You re on all the videos XD

@RC.41

5 жыл бұрын

You son of a bitch!

@scarface1138

5 жыл бұрын

Knightfall for kb

I basically lived at KB Toys growing up, still miss that store.

Toy Galaxy makes me smile.

It's Kay-Bee Toys. I miss walking by Kay-Bee Toys and seeing all the backflipping dogs and mini coaster toys lol

Your videos are hilarious 😂 keep them coming

Can we PLEASE do something about Bain? They exist entirely by leeching off other companies until they die. Or, hey, maybe start a class action lawsuit with as many former KB and Toys R Us employees as possible. Fortunately, FAO Schwarz is back again. Frankly I hope Toys R Us goes after their assailants once they've finished recuperating, and maybe we can put those parasites down once and for all.