Toy Stores | Ep #04
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 12:00AM
John in S-U, episodes, nostalgia, toys

The Hourchive: Toy Stores
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To celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, we save up our allowance and set off in search of the great American toy store, with stops along the way to trade punches over Power Wheels and find out what happened to all of those postcards we sent in to Nickelodeon in 1989.

Show Notes:
04:05 The annual toy crop
07:00
Broken teeth and Cabbage Patch Kids(supply and demand)
09:22 Children’s Palace
13:14 The jingles (Drew is wrong)
14:30 A catalog page you can live in (the Toys ‘R Us legend)
27:02 May the (FAO) Schwarz be with you
37:20 Skeletor Live and In-Person (DJ Jazzy Dork)
41:25 Babies ruin everything
46:20 That’s not a toy store (hobby shops / flea markets / novelty stores)
52:47 The super toy run

Show Links:
Cabbage Patch Chaos
Children’s Palace
The Fisher Price Turtle
Kay Bee Toys
Toys ‘R Us
Pro-Play Home Arcade
Power Wheels
FAO Schwarz
Big Piano Scene
John's Favorite Novelty Stores (Caufield's / Spunky Monkey / Archie McPhee)
Nickelodeon's Super Toy Run

 

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