But when you get home from the toy store, throw out the instructions.
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Still, we lose something when the nondescript buckets of freeform Lego bricks are moved to the back of the toy store, while the highly specialized Disney sets fly off the shelves.
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One of Iceland's biggest companies, retailing investment group Baugur, owns or has stakes in dozens of major European retailers including enough to make it the largest private company in Britain, where it owns a handful of stores such as the famous toy store Hamley's.
Icelandic banks and companies made acquisitions across Europe, including the iconic Hamley's toy store and the West Ham soccer team.
The owner of a New York toy store says he is thinking of buying Megatron Transformers alien action figures directly from Japan for the first time in three years.
Regardless of their favorite big box toy store, the average age is relatively similar (41.8 Target, 43.1 Toys R Us, and 43.6 Wal-Mart).
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"I kind of want to bring him his own Santa Claus and just have like a toy store in the house, " she says.
Although the store is named Toy Tokyo, Mr. Levarek says he has been buying toys from U.S. and Chinese suppliers in recent years because importing from Japan has been too expensive.
Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.
Its posh, company-owned American Girl stores are as close as you can get to Apple Store profitability in the toy-selling business.
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There is simply too much "negativism" here, says Ms. Barry, co-owner of the Wharf Shop, a toy and gift store on Main Street.
Everything else being equal, a retailer would rather sell a television set or a toy over the Internet than through a store any day.
The company has taken the toy industry by storm since 1997, when the first Build-A-Bear Workshop store opened in St.
One of my wife's fondest memories was going to a toy store somewhere in Florida during the primary there to get our youngest a Barbie doll.
During the song Fire - part of a planned "Elements" suite - Wilson set a studio bucket alight and sent out to a toy store for fire helmets for the orchestra to wear.
Leaving the store, I should have been thinking about the new toy my wife had just gotten for me.
The toy box in the back and lemon drops at the counter make this store a favorite among fashionistas with young children.
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The following summer, Ternovskiy holed up at home and began to toy with the code for a new site that would re-create the atmosphere of the store.
Hasbro has a huge share in most big toy retailers, and whenever aged baby boomers go into a store they go nuts coveting all the cool stuff that never existed in the 1950s.
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