But when you get home from the toy store, throw out the instructions.
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Icelandic banks and companies made acquisitions across Europe, including the iconic Hamley's toy store and the West Ham soccer team.
Walmart and Mattel joined forces to create a pop-up virtual holiday toy store in a high traffic area of Toronto.
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Eighteen Aviation Limited, trading as Aero Toy Store, keeps aircraft at Stansted Airport and has defaulted on its 2012-13 business rates liability.
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.
She had worked at a toy store during high school and helped pay her way through college as a staffer at a Richmond preschool.
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Aero Toy Store is based at Fort Lauderdale in Florida and describes itself on a website as "a full service global dealer in transcontinental aircraft".
My 10 year old understands these toy store magic tricks, too.
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.
This new toy store offers an interesting new revenue path.
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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.
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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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.
Israel "Lev" Levarek, owner of a 13-year-old toy store with three employees, is considering making his first trip to Japan in three years, so he can buy Transformers action figures from wholesalers and shopping malls in Tokyo.
When I was a little kid, I loved visiting my aunt, cousin and favorite uncle hey, he owned a toy store in their beautiful Brooklyn home, especially for Thanksgiving or some other big family gathering.
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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.
Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.
There is simply too much "negativism" here, says Ms. Barry, co-owner of the Wharf Shop, a toy and gift store on Main Street.
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.
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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Everything else being equal, a retailer would rather sell a television set or a toy over the Internet than through a store any day.
This week alone saw a bankruptcy filing from a New York-based toy retailer, FAO Schwarz, more store closures and 37, 000 job losses at a bankrupt discount retailer, Kmart, and poor same-store sales growth from Sainsbury's itself.
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That way, he says, if something falls on a kid's head in a store you have leased to a toy retailer, your other properties won't be at risk.
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.
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 company has taken the toy industry by storm since 1997, when the first Build-A-Bear Workshop store opened in St.
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