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Feb 17, 2013 10:01:53 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 10:01:53 GMT -5
KB (Kay-Bee) was an okay place to look around in, but I rarely bought anything. Like a previous poster said, the prices were insane compared to other similar places. (Only real memory I have of Kay-Bee - which was probably the last time I was there before it closed -was that was the only place I've ever seen the original ECW figures sold. Even marked down at $4.99 seemed like a lot.)
I preferred Child World (where I got my M.U.S.C.L.E. figures & the NES WrestleMania game) and Toys R Us.
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Feb 17, 2013 10:03:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 10:03:12 GMT -5
Ah, man, KB Toys. My wrestling figure headquarters for years, until Toys R Us' selection started to beat theirs right around the time WCW went under. My best KB memory is walking in one day, looking around at all the toys, and as we were leaving I saw this. It was the coolest damn thing I had ever seen. I believe it was $50, or as that translated back then, way too expensive for a toy. ;D I did end up getting it as a present and absolutely loved it - I still look at it as one of the best wrestling accessories ever, and a hell of an upgrade to the idea of what a wrestling figure could be. Oh man, I remember that thing. Didn't it have some kind of "Test your Strength" if you put your finger on it? I always got Undertaker.
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Feb 17, 2013 10:08:32 GMT -5
Post by ERON on Feb 17, 2013 10:08:32 GMT -5
Ah, yes. My action figure collection wouldn't be half the the size it is today if it wasn't for KB's 3-for-$10 deals. So many memories...
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Feb 17, 2013 10:12:23 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 10:12:23 GMT -5
I miss KB, although in its last few years it was horribly set up and stocked. The local mall kinda died to me when it finally closed (and officially died when Borders Express/Waldenbooks died a couple years ago).
We had a Toy Works or two nearby, but they were too far away for me as a kid to go to. By the time I had a car and mobility, the nearest Toy Works was a half-filled shell of its former awesome self. It did last a lot longer than KB in my area, though.
Child's World lived and died while I was too young. I remember going to one once, but that was it.
TRU is rough going into nowadays - ever since they remodelled all of them in the late '90s (well, around me at least) it seems like they've had a lot less in stock. I randomly went to one in the Midwest a couple years back and it was shockingly still an old school TRU.
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Feb 17, 2013 10:20:39 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 10:20:39 GMT -5
I had a Toys R' Us, KB Toys, and Child's World (although it went out when i was only 6) growing up. Only Toys R' Us remains and like mentioned before, the remodel was awful.
I always liked Toys R' Us growing up. KB to me was the low end alternative.
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Feb 17, 2013 12:56:01 GMT -5
Post by wildojinx on Feb 17, 2013 12:56:01 GMT -5
Remember the video they put out with Kool Aid? Apparently if you had enough kool aid points you got the following tape:
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Feb 17, 2013 23:54:18 GMT -5
Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Feb 17, 2013 23:54:18 GMT -5
Remember the video they put out with Kool Aid? Apparently if you had enough kool aid points you got the following tape... No freakin' way! I thought I was the only person who even remembered this! That item puzzle always freaked me out as a kid. I wound up letting a friend borrow it for laughs, and he never returned it. I still have his copy of GTA2 for PC, so I win.
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Feb 18, 2013 0:08:20 GMT -5
Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Feb 18, 2013 0:08:20 GMT -5
Lionel's Playworld was awesome. When I lived in El Paso as a kid we had one there.
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Feb 18, 2013 8:03:01 GMT -5
Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Feb 18, 2013 8:03:01 GMT -5
It was one of the stories I always went into when I went to the mall. Back then Malls was a lot funnier because music and movie stories where still a real thing. Now there all gone. I brought so much figures there. I remember then having a ton of hasbro WWE figures after they stop making them. Even when they just started doing the Jakks figures. They had a bunch of these for a good price. Best one when I brought what seemed to be a hard to figure version HBK. For years I could find a white and red tights one. This one was black and silver only time I ever saw it.
Now days malls don't have a real toy store anymore where I live.
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Feb 18, 2013 10:11:50 GMT -5
Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 18, 2013 10:11:50 GMT -5
KB was bought by an equity firm in 2000, loaded up with debt, charged outrageous management fees, and driven into bankruptcy so its assets could be sold off. A successful company that employed thousands driven out of business so millionaires (including a former presidential candidate) could make a few more millions.
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Feb 18, 2013 10:59:58 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2013 10:59:58 GMT -5
I did go to KB Toys a lot when I was a kid. It was there that I saw the Dreamcast for the first time.
A nearby antiques store has some of the exclusive WWF figurines that were sold during 1999-2001.
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