I visited the Toys ‘R’ Us revival store in Macy’s. It had every toy you could think of, and it made me feel like a kid once more.

This vacation season, Macy’s launched over 400 in-store Toys ‘R’ Us outlets in choose places throughout the nation in an effort to increase the toy portion of its enterprise.

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For Toys ‘R’ Us, the newly shaped partnership is a second probability at a comeback. After failing to refinance its mounting debt in 2017, the firm was pressured to shutter its over 700 places for good.

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I determined to take a look at the revival store to see if the collaboration has what it takes for Toys ‘R’ Us to have the ability to reclaim its toy-store throne.

To get the full expertise, I went to the Herald Square Macy’s flagship store in New York City, which is the website of the largest Toys ‘R’ Us store, spanning 14,000 sq. toes.

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Once I entered the constructing, it wasn’t laborious to search out indicators pointing me in the proper route.

I took the elevators embossed with the Toys ‘R’ Us emblem as much as the seventh flooring.

The entrance, which was in the girls’s-clothing part, was laborious to overlook.

The store format is cleverly designed in order that buyers need to stroll by Macy’s kids’s clothes part earlier than reaching the toy store.

Children’s outfits starting from sports activities jerseys to winter coats have been on show.

I additionally handed an in-store Carvel ice cream store…

…and an Auntie Anne’s pretzel store.

After strolling by the clothes part, I lastly got here throughout extra indicators reassuring me that I was headed in the proper route.

A brightly lit Toys ‘R’ Us signal glowed overhead.

I acknowledged a statue of the Toys ‘R’ Us mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe. I hadn’t seen a picture of Geoffrey since my childhood.

From my first steps into the toy part, I could already inform it was designed to be a kid’s paradise.

There have been cabinets stacked excessive with Spiderman and Thor collectible figurines from the Marvel franchise.

Also accessible for buy have been wands and stuffed-animal owls from the ‘Harry Potter’ collection.

The ‘Star Wars’ space featured Boba Fett helmets and lightsabers.

I thought the Baby Yoda dolls have been significantly cute to have a look at.

The store had a massive assortment of Legos, together with a human-sized Statue of Liberty…

…and a duplicate of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade…

…full with the turkey float.

While the shows have been off limits, there have been Lego play stations shut by for youths to take pleasure in.

There was additionally no scarcity of stuffed animals on the premises.

I got here throughout a big tiger, a llama, and a brown bear having fun with one another’s firm.

Some massive statues of common kids’s TV present characters, like this certainly one of Thomas the Tank Engine, supplied mother and father the good place for a fast photoshoot with their youngsters.

There was additionally a ‘Paw Patrol’ show that was a good prop for a photograph opp.

Like the unique Toys ‘R’ Us shops I grew up going to, this one had toys for a big selection of age teams…

… though lots of the toys on the market did not exist when I was a kid, similar to these LOL Surprise! Dolls.

There’s additionally a massive play construction for youths inside the Toys ‘R’ Us store.

The space is named ‘Geoffrey’s Playground’ and was full with a brilliant yellow taxicab with Geoffrey himself sitting in the passenger’s seat.

A visitors mild and a signal warned buyers that there have been ‘youngsters at play’ in the space.

There have been additionally massive craft tables for kids and mother and father to play with toys like Play-Doh or Mr. Potato Head.

A kinetic sand station was arrange shut by, too.

Older kids can cease by the Nerf tent and take part in an aiming sport.

The outdoor-play space had all the typical leisure toys, like skateboards and Razor scooters.

I was taken off-guard by the hoverboard part shut by, which made me understand how a lot kids’s toys have modified since I was a kid.

Even the Barbie Dreamhouse I bear in mind eager for as a baby has been upgraded.

The home now options a water slide and an outside pool.

As kids ran round the store enthusiastically, some mother and father took a second to loosen up.

The checkout line was comparatively quick, although only one worker was ringing prospects up whereas I was there.

On my means out of the store, I noticed a signal that completely summed up my expertise at the revival store. It was the iconic jingle: ‘I do not wish to develop up. I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us kid!’

The Macy’s collaboration nailed its mission to enchantment to a new younger buyer base by providing a huge number of toys and massive play areas to maintain them entertained. It additionally glad the nostalgic feeling for adults of strolling into a Toys ‘R’ Us that I hadn’t even realized I’d been lacking.

As I left the store, my solely grievance was that I wasn’t in a position to journey again in time in order that my kid self could have loved it too.