Circus World: The Toy Store in the Mall

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I spent the weekend with friends cruising the Chicago toy show (expect photos from that tomorrow) and one of the cooler things I got came from my pal Charlie's basement (which has been subject to a couple of blog posts) and not the show itself.

This clipping from June 4th 1980 (Click here for a bigger view) has a lot of cool toy memories packed in there such as energized Spider-Man, 12' boba Fett, the Fisher Price Ferry Boat and all the two dollar Empire Strickes Back figures you can carry. Sigh, can somebody go back in time and get me a Bossk?
BTW, thanks again Charlie!
Links of Interest: Woolco Toy Land Ad
1975 Toys R Us Newspaper Circular

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[mitchedwards]

I loved visiting Circus World. I must have spent a few hundred dollars playing Astroids there.

[Marvelmania]

By the time our mall got a Circus World I was kind of out of the action figure scene but did have the electronic football and baseball games!

[Sweep Secondhand]

Prior to my hometown of Ocala getting a mall in 1980, I used to have to drive 45 miles with my parents to the Oaks mall in Gainesville. I could barely wait until the car stopped rolling before jumping out and running straight to Circus World and later Playland. CW is where I first saw the Darth Vader Tie Fighter I did not even know existed. By the time I managed to drag my mom out of Penneys and back to Circus World some SOB had bought the only one they had! I swear she didn't beleive me that a different Tie Fighter existed until the DV version turned up again a few weeks later on our next visit. The Paddock mall in Ocala only had a Playland and they were never as good.

[toys2cool]

wow ESB figures foe $1.99

[jwyblejr]

$28.84 for that football game? I got one four years after that ad was printed at a yard sale for a couple bucks. And I'm with everyone else in wanting to get those Empire figures for $2 a pop. Anyone got their time machine up and running yet?

[MegoGeek]

Id fill up a few carts with the Star Wars 12" Boba Fett $8.96 ($14.99 without coupon).

[SainthoodDenied]

We lived a long way from the mall but I remember a few trips during summer or near christmas and the toy store I remember seeing there was Lionel I think was the name. I never saw a toys r us till I was a teenager

Chad

[Seeker]

For you PA people. Wasnt there a Circus World in the King of Prussia Mall?

In Buffalo it was Child World

I worked at Child World in my teen years. Shame they went out of business.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

That ad brings back all sorts of memories, I remember those Circus World ads well.

And man I didn't even know there was a toy show in Chicago this weekend, I'm so out of the loop lately

[cjefferys]

Cool ad. I remember going to the Circus World at a mall in Niagara Falls, NY a few times. My friend picked up two Tatooine Skiffs there on clearance for $5 each. He said there were stacks of them (man if I only knew then what I know now! )

That's a great price for the 12" Boba Fett. He normally sold for about $25 here in Canada, if I remember correctly.