HOTTEST TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS...1981 news report

[johnnystorm]

Our local news ran this clip the other night, thought I'd share it with all of you. My god, I miss Kay-Bee toys in the mall!
Wait for the endcap shot near the end...YE-HAHHHH!!!

http://wnep.com/2012/12/03/hottest-christmas-toys-1981/

[Werewolf]

That was cool. Thank you for posting. I miss KB too. I remember those Star Wars and Strawberry Shortcake toys.

[megoat]

Whoa, that's killer!

[toys2cool]

KB was expensive but I miss it man.. you could always find some nice gems in there

[BlackKnight]

KB was like a Clearance story here ..., always 2 for, or 3 for ....
... They still have an online store, with etoys, and to Auctions on Ebay.

[jwyblejr]

KBs was good for finding rare stuff because nobody wanted to pay their prices.

[cjefferys]

That was great. Funny to hear them talk about the "old Star Wars craze" back in 1981.

[Nostalgiabuff]

yeah, KB was expensive until they put things on clearance then you could get stuff really cheap. I loved the KB Toybox stores where they sent all the clearance inventory to move. used to frequent those

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yeah we had a "Toy Liquidators" which was just a Kay-Bee clearance store. It was right by a movie theater too. Loved to go see a movie and then check out what good stuff had been dumped there, finally at a decent price.

Maybe if Kay-Bee didn't slavishly follow that model they'd still be in brick-n-mortar business today.

Thanks for sharing the video. And no offense to the time-honored Teddy Bear, but who would have been ticked to have found that under your tree instead of Dukes of Hazzard or Pac-Man in 1981?

Chris

[Figuremod73]

I think being a mall store made them have to have higher prices. The rent is probably more expensive; at least the one near me is.

1981 was a great mix of fun toys.

[Boshek]

Oh my! WNEP is our local ABC station too! Small world. I use to go to the Wilkes-Barre KB but very seldom Frackville.

I miss KB so much. It usually had the harder to find items probably since they were more expensive. If there is one store I could bring back, KB would be near the top of the list.