My wife can not understand how I can sit in my man cave and just stare at the walls full of Star Wars toys. I really am not totally sure what I am thinking but it feels gooooood to know I have toys from the early 80s
I love your toy collection sir and the way you talk about your wife and how she supports you as a collector. She must be an amazing woman..you are very blessed to have her and an wonderful collection.
I’m over 40 years old these days, but I must say your video inspired me. I recently purchased all three Centurians in the original boxes, never opened and I will keep them that way. Your toy room looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing 👏👏👏👏
I was an 80's kid. GI Joes were my favorite! Back then I modeled on stage at the mall a couple times and won. Winners received toy certificates. I remember buying He- Man. That smell of rubber, meaning brand new. Anytime I smell that same rubber smell it immediately brings me back to the 80's. You have an awesome collection!
I almost teared up seeing all these toys from my Childhood still in they're packaging...I remember Toys R Us and as well....Johnny's Toys. This is one superb, pristine phenomenal collection!
I have started collecting toys now for all the nostalgia, memories, and I believe they will pull me through the second half of my life when things get rough.....40 now and appreciating everything that was. Missing the past all the time!
Wow, your whole story about being a Toysrus kid of the 1980's and your thoughts about the 1980's and what has happened to toys and attitudes are almost identical to mine. My dream has been to someday recreate Toysrus from the 1980's for myself. I have collected a closet full of sealed Gi Joes, WWF Hasbro and others from the old days but I haven't put a room together yet, but someday I will. You are an inspiration. You are awesome dude.
I work at a Toys R Us here in Canada and while I agree I don’t necessarily feel that magic in the store any more either. I can happily say the kids still do. That’s the best part of my job, seeing the little kids sprint ahead of their parents to get to the door and run to the section they know their favourite toys are. And seeing the joy as they stare in amazement at their hero’s.
Rarely do I comment on a video, and I honestly think this is around my 10th comment in as many years, but this video is absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing your collection with the world.
I was born in 76. I was ten when Optimus died. Changed my life forever!!! The 80's toys and cartoons were just a magical time! Your room should be under the protection of the secret service!!! LMAO magnificent collection!!! "Till the day, till all are one"
WOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! That is a B-E-A-U-TIFUL thing. It literally looks like the inside of a toy store during the 80s (about ooooooh1985). Talk about a trip down memory lane.....my hats off to you.... That is sooo awesome. I'm into collecting gijoes and g1 transformers but I focus mostly on transformers. I'm definitely subscribing.
Hey, I’m here because of Rebel Force Radio. Mind blowing stuff! I grew up in Yugoslavia and we had to go to Italy or Austria to get toys like LEGOs, which were the only expensive toys my parents decided to buy for me, because we didn’t have money to spare and after seeing how creative I got with LEGOs, they saw the value in them. Just looking at LEGO catalogs gave me hours of pleasure and daydreaming. 80s really was a special decade.
You are a true collector. Not afraid to express your passion. Represent the 80s man, the golden age of cartoons and toys. Dusting your collection must take forever!
My husband and I are 80s toy collectors, when we were friends we talked about it, when we got married we started working on it, now that we have kids they are passionate about it. It has become a family tradition. Now we own our own toy musseum
I think the thing that 80s toys has is the creativity. Everything looks cool, colourful, and has creative designs. Most things now a days are based on something else, and there’s been a bit of a change of focus from children to a more collector oriented market.
What is the toys beside the captain power figures. The car with alien figures. My dad uses to work as supervisor in Mattel factory. Seen it in the catalogue. I still keeps the catalogue. I don't know if it is still value
Please help me I am looking for this toy it's really important I and them when I was a kid dont know if it was 80sor90s... they were battery operated tank n submarine n they ride on land but were waterproof and went under water too. Plesee help. I feel like there were 5 or 6 different things u could get mine was a hover/tank type of vehicle.
We grew up lower-middle class. Initially, we were bordering on dirt poor, into my dad found a good job. It wasn't enough money for us to be spoiled with all of our favorite toys, but my parents would still occasionally buy us a GI Joe figure, or Thundercats, or whatever other toy was flavor of the month back in the 80s. I always appreciated every single thing they bought me. I cherished them all. Not once did I ever throw a tantrum if there was a toy I wanted, and we couldn't afford it. My siblings were just the same; they appreciated everything we were given. I remember having friends that were the only child, and we're given near everything they asked for. Absolutely spoiled. The few times they didn't get what they wanted, they'd kick and scream, throw things, insult their parents... Just sad. God forbid I tried to tell them how lucky they are, with all the things they were given. I'm talking multitudes more than my siblings and I combined. Anyways. This video brought me back to my childhood in the 80s/90s. We really did have the greatest toys of any generation, hands down, no competition.
as an '80s child growing up in England, this was my bread & butter!! Without doubt my fav toyline was M.A.S.K., but like you my parents couldn't (or wouldn't!) afford to feed the collection, so I too dreamed of what it would be like to own them (aside from the ones I got bought at birthdays/Christmas) and cherish them without ever doing so....I lived in a part of Greater Manchester called Middleton. There was a huge Arndale centre in town and at the back of it was a kinda supermarket mum used to shop in and on one specific aisle was just rows and rows of toys where I used to lose myself! There was also another store (John Menzies?) that used to have toys right at the back....ahhhh, the memories! Now, at 45 I can really appreciate your collection and what you've done, how you've recaptured the magic of your childhood and the fact your wife has helped and supported it is just as awesome! Fantastic, just way too cool; thank you for sharing and re-igniting blissful childhood memories :)
Keet Madu You aren’t the only one. If only I could have kept my old toys...this is why when my wife tells me to toss my kids toys that they don’t play with a create more space for them up in the attic somehow. They will thank me later.
I've just come across your channel, this bought a tear to my eye because it does remind me of my own childhood in the 80s, grew up without a father , my mother couldn't afford these toys, but i could imagine all day long. Thank you for this. Subscribed! :)
I am truly thankful for all you've done bro, I watch these videos and am able to be transported back to a more simple and easier time, I'm an 80's kid to, keep it coming mate
In the 80s we didn’t have much money either. My parents still got me many G.I. Joes for Christmas and my birthday. I used cardboard boxes and my imagination to create vehicles and equipment we couldn’t afford. The fun and memories, though, were priceless.
I had a lot of this stuff. I always tell my sons I wish I could take them on a shopping spree in an 80’s Toys r us. 80’s were the best decade to grow up.
Michael, you are living my dream! I grew up in the 80s also, and my family didn't have much money either. Now I search Ebay all the time for these toys. Thanks for the history you give on this video.
So because of you I started collecting all my old toys again and I know have that same joy every time I look at my toys and I realized how important toys r us really meant to me and that toy smell it has when you first walk in.
Was born in 1981 so this room gives me nostralgia-gasms. Watching the camera pan around was like running into childhood friends on the street that I haven't seen in more than 25 years. The 80's had it's flaws, but it did a few things right, and toys were one of them. I can totally identify with how this guy felt walking into a Toys 'R Us back in the day. So amazing, thanks for posting this.
Last year I began putting together a collection like yourself. Just what was magical to me as a child and obviously still burns within me today. Mostly JOES, TRANSFORMERS, and MASK. I love your message about not settling in a relationship with someone that doesn't empathize with your desires. I was in a relationship for a long time where I felt drained most of the time because I don't think I was truly able to be myself around them. Now I'm so much happier. Thanks 🙏 for the video!
Good for you Brandon! I'd so rare to hear about someone who had the courage to say "enough is enough" and showed the self-respect to get out of a toxic relationship. Good luck with your own museum and be sure to share it when your "plan comes together." :D
I grow up in Italy in the 80's and I use to watch mostly the same cartoons like you but I started collecting toys only few years ago and now they are very rare to find and expensive too! Your collection is timeless and priceless complimenti 👍
Wow! Awesome collection! I know the feeling! My junior high school was a 5 min bike ride to toys r us! During the 86 fall releases from hasbro, we kept going there everyday waiting to see new joes and transformers! Growing up in the 80’s was the best!
I have a collection of Eaglemoss lead figurines in my office. After watching this I feel totally normal. Actually I feel impoverished. Thank you sir. This is art.
Great story behind your museum Mike! Keep dreaming & stay young....In heart/spirit if nothing else. Thx for sharing with all of us who were lucky enough to grow up in this decade.
This is absolutely stunning, every collectors dream to have a display room like this! So many times I remember being in toy stores and seeing walls of carded figures and being told 'no, its too close to your birthday/xmas' or 'if I buy you one I have to buy your brother one so no'. It made the times I did get something all the more special though! ;-)
I remember hearing that too! Luckily my mom didn't have an issue with early birthday presents. "You play with it now, you play with it later, what's the difference?" :D
80s was a real era I feel. Growing up back then was an enriching experience in itself. The toys were lively and used to invoke playability in real sense, cartoons used to be fun and teach learning lessons important for character building and life, and we used to be having a very important aspect in all of us - imagination. Sometimes I so badly wish to back to thoese days. Back then we didnt have the internet accessibility to be aware of all the toylines or to know all the characters and their ammunition arsenal, but even owning 1 toy was a matter of sheer joy, pride and sense of achievement which today's era cannor offer with their moden technologies of toymaking. I wish time had frozen back in the 80s.....
Going into a toys rus will be something ill never forget. When i was a kid alot of things similar to these where still there. I remember the whole G I joe isle, the massive amounts of lego, and overall just was amazingly cool. Went in there a few weeks ago to get a lego train to recapture of some of that old magic for me. Rest in peace toys r us.
Awesome display Michael and can I just say, you have a "gorgeous" and most elegant way with words. I was born in 77 so thanks for the trip down memory lane, I look forward to part two. All the best.
Although we do not focus on the same toy lines to collect with me focusing most heavily on Star Wars, it is awesome to see the joy that collecting can bring to people. That’s what collecting is all about, having fun.
My friend, you've got a great voice, an eloquent manner, a heartfelt passion for toys from our childhood but most importantly , a beautiful, clear love and respect for your wife. Thanks for sharing through this channel and taking us all back to better days! 🙏🏼
WOW, I'm going to have to watch your other parts of your tour! I had a least 1 things out of everything you are covering right now. I remember the day my mom sold my Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors base at a garage sale she had. Those toys bring back so many memories.
Thanks for sharing your story about why you collect, and showing us this massive museum of yours. The Kenner Robocop figures are such an underrated and almost forgotten toy line. So great to be reminded of them!
Thank You so much for taking me back!!! I miss going to Toys R Us in the late 80s/90s. My favorite moment was walking through the video game isle and Watching the game demos for the Nintendo and Sega!
You're welcome! Ah the video game section, when you had to take a slip of paper where the game box was and take it up to the register to get the game. :D
YES!! But I also remember they had so much "weird and generic toys" that you could spend hours looking at!!!! I've tried looking for videos of Toys R us during those years, but no one carried a camera around like we do now! what a shame! Thank you for recreating the memories for us!!!
Fantastic video of the ultimate toy room! I myself grew up in the 80's, born in 1972 and I remember the toy stores being stocked so well back in the day. Your right, trip to TRU just isn't the same anymore. I check mine weekly, but the stuff on the shelf doesn't have the same excitement as it did when we were growin up. Look forward to part 2!!!!!!
Same! Your story is my story, I think that is part of the fascination of why I still buy myself a doll here and there,things I couldn't afford then I can now treat myself to. Makes me feel like a kid .❤
I love your description of how you felt walking into Toys R Us. For me in the 70’s it was Child World Toy Store in Massachusetts I remember how the toy store smelled and seeing Evel Knievel Toys in their boxes and cool plastic Marx Machine Guns! I have a “ toy room “ in my home it’s a time capsule. I’ve been collecting for about 30 years now I’m 53. As Willy Wonka beautifully said “It’s a world of pure imagination” We are collectors who bring to “life” our most cherished memories in our toy rooms. Thanks for sharing your iconic collection and the narration was magical ✌🏽
I am from Ontario too! I lived up in northern Ontario in Thunder Bay. There is really only small towns in northern Ontario and it's like a 15 hour drive to Toronto. I remember the first time I was in a Toys R Us in the 80s we had gone down to Duluth Minnesota for my dad to see family and we got to go to Toys R Us there. I never seen a store so big and with so many toys, I was in awe! I got a wwf board game from that store. It was awesome.
Omg! Im so jelly!! As soon as you opened that door, i was instantly a kid in a candy store...lol. i use to have lots of fun 80s toys and figures from various 80s cartoons!. Excellent Vid! Will be watching the other parts. So far, Excellent Epic Collection and excellent shelf work!!! As well as room design!!
I love your collection. Brings back some many memories..... these days I have moved on to my love or airplanes but still have a placed for the 80s collection......
Great vid bud. I have my mighty morphin power rangers collection from the 90s, I was the person who never had the toys when I was younger but everyone else did. I had to wait 20+ years until I had the money to buy mine. All brand new inside the original boxes all still sealed. One day I will have my own gaming room / man cave with my display.
I only recently found you channel and I have to say your passion and enthusiasm for 80s toys is fantastic then I see this video in the time line and I’m blown away! Absolutely amazing great passion, dedication and hard work has gone in to this collection a pleasure watching and all the best for your next find 👍
Lucky you. My wife mocks my toy collecting. I have to collect things here and there on the down low. She will never understand. I know I can really pick em but your wife is totally a keeper.
Hello Michael - I LOVE your videos! Your passion for all things 80s brings a tear to my eye. I grew up in the same era and we had it all! The best music, movies, toys & cartoons! Your collection is UNBELIEVABLE! Well done mate - All the Best, Keep up the fantastic work!!
This is actually the first video I saw from your channel. It popped up on my feed after watching a few Toys 'R' Us demise related videos. Your museum room set up is more Toys 'R' Us than Toys 'R' Us Has been in the past 2 decades. The lighting and the set up all perfectly recaptures the feeling of an 80s Toys 'R' Us. There is just a warm and fuzzy feeling when watching all these virtual tours. Excellent Work!
Thanks! So glad to hear that. I love that I'm able to share it with fellow 'Toys R Us kids' who grew up in the same era as me. There are some younger people who don't get it and some who even go so far as to make personal attacks, and I just feel sorry for them. Empty inside and dying for attention. Not willing to do anything positive to get it. With the mass sadness of TRU closing down, I'm glad I can share this little piece of it frozen in time with those who saw it first hand. :D
Man my hats off to you. And it makes me sad that Toys R Us has come to an end for the most part. My stomach use to churn from excitement by just walking through the door. I love your collection!
Hello from Quebec, great collection im like wow it bring such memories but I didn’t knew Toys r us till the middle of the 90’s I remember Toyville was always fun to walk the aisle of my local Woolworth and Kmart seeing all of theses toys. Thanks for sharing your collection
The room is heaven on earth I would not leave that room organized at all that is the best in video ever seen. Man keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more of your future videos thank you so much for sharing this with everybody this takes me way back how do you have most ghost was an 80s but I had a whole rack of ninja turtles and G.I. Joe and x-men and wwf figures and he-man figures
Toys R us was so huge back in the 80’s. I mean a store that large dedicated to toys .....they had toys and games you could play with and try . It was a big treat to go . I was born in mid 70’s
The quality of your videos is amazing, your voice, camera work, lighting, editing, music... this is Netflix worthy. Not to mention the content. So many great memories. I completely forgot about my Wheeled Warriors until I watched your review, Thank you Michael for all of your hard work!
I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it! I was born in 1977, so the 80's was my playground and I remember all of the lines that you talk about on your channel! I loved Star Wars, GI Joe, Wheeled Warriors, Transformers, MASK, He-Man, MUSCLE, Battle Beasts, Thundercats and TMNT, as well as a few others, but those mentioned are my absolute favorites! I still have a few of my toys as well, but like many others, many were given away after I passed them on to my little brothers. Thank you for your work and for collecting so that I can relive this part of my life that I hold so dear!
Dude, I seriously LOL’d at the hallelujah chorus on entry to the Toy Museum. 😂 And what an A.W.E.S.O.M.E collection, thanks so much for sharing this!! 😎👍
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I'm only 15 years old and even I have a sort of nostalgia from these toys!
Now you are 17........1 more year!!!
My wife can not understand how I can sit in my man cave and just stare at the walls full of Star Wars toys. I really am not totally sure what I am thinking but it feels gooooood to know I have toys from the early 80s
It's kind of like a meditation...or a hyperbaric chamber. Nice to escape the craziness and/or silliness of the world every once in a while. :D
I know that feeling and it's the best
Time travel is possible!
I'm sure she has her interests and hobbies, why can't you have your Star Wars toys?
I do the same thing. Helps me relax after a long day.
Dude you rock, and these kids will never understand the love of the toys from the 80’s ..
Thank you kindly. Nerdmasté! 🙏
They would rather have a tablet or phone smh
Valentino Icon I do, i may be 13 but my dad got me into these toy mostly the Gi joes
Same I have been collecting for 4 years now
Valentino Icon true nothing tops gi joe heman tmnt thundercats. Todays kids r busy watchin stupid content.
I love your toy collection sir and the way you talk about your wife and how she supports you as a collector. She must be an amazing woman..you are very blessed to have her and an wonderful collection.
Thanks! She certainly is. :D
Michael Mercy Your welcome sir. 😁
I’m over 40 years old these days, but I must say your video inspired me. I recently purchased all three Centurians in the original boxes, never opened and I will keep them that way. Your toy room looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing 👏👏👏👏
Good stuff there was nothing better then the toys from Our years, the 80's
I was an 80's kid. GI Joes were my favorite! Back then I modeled on stage at the mall a couple times and won. Winners received toy certificates. I remember buying He- Man. That smell of rubber, meaning brand new. Anytime I smell that same rubber smell it immediately brings me back to the 80's. You have an awesome collection!
This is my new favorite toy channel. No drama or snark, just nice memories.
You're a really good narrator with a pleasant voice. It brings comfort, especially now that Toys'R'Us is shutting down
Thanks! :D
I thought so too, very good at narrating.
You can come up here to Canada; our Toys'R'Us stores are still open.
I almost teared up seeing all these toys from my Childhood still in they're packaging...I remember Toys R Us and as well....Johnny's Toys. This is one superb, pristine phenomenal collection!
The way you describe these legendary toy had me hooked on the video
I have started collecting toys now for all the nostalgia, memories, and I believe they will pull me through the second half of my life when things get rough.....40 now and appreciating everything that was. Missing the past all the time!
It is a thing of beauty.
:D
Rambo was also made into both a Cartoon & a Toy line, I remember it being a line that had some of the best Weapon accessories.
Wow, your whole story about being a Toysrus kid of the 1980's and your thoughts about the 1980's and what has happened to toys and attitudes are almost identical to mine. My dream has been to someday recreate Toysrus from the 1980's for myself. I have collected a closet full of sealed Gi Joes, WWF Hasbro and others from the old days but I haven't put a room together yet, but someday I will. You are an inspiration. You are awesome dude.
Thanks John! So kind of you to say. Good luck with your own museum! :D
I work at a Toys R Us here in Canada and while I agree I don’t necessarily feel that magic in the store any more either. I can happily say the kids still do. That’s the best part of my job, seeing the little kids sprint ahead of their parents to get to the door and run to the section they know their favourite toys are. And seeing the joy as they stare in amazement at their hero’s.
I'm in tears... this is such amazing stuff and so well produced. You should be nominated for an Oscar!!! Such a beautiful collection. Take a bow!!!
Thanks! Glad to hear it resonated with you so deeply. :D
When you talked about the sign, it gave me chills. Much respect to you, sir. Amazing.
Rarely do I comment on a video, and I honestly think this is around my 10th comment in as many years, but this video is absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing your collection with the world.
I was born in 76. I was ten when Optimus died. Changed my life forever!!! The 80's toys and cartoons were just a magical time! Your room should be under the protection of the secret service!!! LMAO magnificent collection!!! "Till the day, till all are one"
You could smack a surgical 2X4 across my face and I still wouldn’t flinch as I saw Optimus died on the big screen
WOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! That is a B-E-A-U-TIFUL thing. It literally looks like the inside of a toy store during the 80s (about ooooooh1985). Talk about a trip down memory lane.....my hats off to you.... That is sooo awesome. I'm into collecting gijoes and g1 transformers but I focus mostly on transformers. I'm definitely subscribing.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed your virtual visit and that it brought back some good memories. Nerdmasté! 🙏
Wow thx to your wife for that toys r us logo.The room does give out an 80s feeling.Be safe be blessed take care everyone.
Quite possibly the best best toy related video Ive ever seen. A moving tribute and visual feast.
Thanks! Quite high praise, much appreciated. :D
Michael Mercy dont mention it. Credit where credits due. Nice to see someone collecting so many lines. Your Centurions are partially awesome.
Hey, I’m here because of Rebel Force Radio. Mind blowing stuff!
I grew up in Yugoslavia and we had to go to Italy or Austria to get toys like LEGOs, which were the only expensive toys my parents decided to buy for me, because we didn’t have money to spare and after seeing how creative I got with LEGOs, they saw the value in them. Just looking at LEGO catalogs gave me hours of pleasure and daydreaming. 80s really was a special decade.
Totally awesome video and an even more totally awesome museum , i left an extreme like man .
You are a true collector. Not afraid to express your passion. Represent the 80s man, the golden age of cartoons and toys. Dusting your collection must take forever!
Thanks! It's a low dust room. Surprised at how many comments I get about dust actually. Enjoy the art and don't worry about the maintenance! :D
Excellent video, loved the Centurions bit and some other stuff you mentioned jogged my memory.
Thanks from England. Looking forward to the next one.
My husband and I are 80s toy collectors, when we were friends we talked about it, when we got married we started working on it, now that we have kids they are passionate about it. It has become a family tradition. Now we own our own toy musseum
Amazing!!! Definitely one of the best videos i ever watched on youtube.
Thanks! :D
I think the thing that 80s toys has is the creativity. Everything looks cool, colourful, and has creative designs. Most things now a days are based on something else, and there’s been a bit of a change of focus from children to a more collector oriented market.
I tried clicking thumbs up 12 times but it only let me do it once!
Haha thanks. :D
I know. I think we need to let youtube know about that.
Hats off for the greatest thing kids would ever step in Toys R Us 😩😩😩
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What is the toys beside the captain power figures. The car with alien figures. My dad uses to work as supervisor in Mattel factory. Seen it in the catalogue. I still keeps the catalogue. I don't know if it is still value
I started laughing and smiling when you opened the door and played Halaluah
Your collection is outta this world 😨 your toy game is str💪ng. Your a beast for this
Love it dude
Please help me I am looking for this toy it's really important I and them when I was a kid dont know if it was 80sor90s... they were battery operated tank n submarine n they ride on land but were waterproof and went under water too. Plesee help. I feel like there were 5 or 6 different things u could get mine was a hover/tank type of vehicle.
We grew up lower-middle class. Initially, we were bordering on dirt poor, into my dad found a good job. It wasn't enough money for us to be spoiled with all of our favorite toys, but my parents would still occasionally buy us a GI Joe figure, or Thundercats, or whatever other toy was flavor of the month back in the 80s.
I always appreciated every single thing they bought me. I cherished them all. Not once did I ever throw a tantrum if there was a toy I wanted, and we couldn't afford it. My siblings were just the same; they appreciated everything we were given.
I remember having friends that were the only child, and we're given near everything they asked for. Absolutely spoiled. The few times they didn't get what they wanted, they'd kick and scream, throw things, insult their parents... Just sad. God forbid I tried to tell them how lucky they are, with all the things they were given. I'm talking multitudes more than my siblings and I combined.
Anyways. This video brought me back to my childhood in the 80s/90s. We really did have the greatest toys of any generation, hands down, no competition.
With success of IRON MAN the movie , one has to wonder why we don't have a CENTURIANS film franchise yet , huh??
Hmm...I could see RDJ as Max Ray. :D
as an '80s child growing up in England, this was my bread & butter!! Without doubt my fav toyline was M.A.S.K., but like you my parents couldn't (or wouldn't!) afford to feed the collection, so I too dreamed of what it would be like to own them (aside from the ones I got bought at birthdays/Christmas) and cherish them without ever doing so....I lived in a part of Greater Manchester called Middleton. There was a huge Arndale centre in town and at the back of it was a kinda supermarket mum used to shop in and on one specific aisle was just rows and rows of toys where I used to lose myself! There was also another store (John Menzies?) that used to have toys right at the back....ahhhh, the memories!
Now, at 45 I can really appreciate your collection and what you've done, how you've recaptured the magic of your childhood and the fact your wife has helped and supported it is just as awesome! Fantastic, just way too cool; thank you for sharing and re-igniting blissful childhood memories :)
Amazing!!
Thanks! :D
Middle of depressing January at work. Had to come to this video to lift my spirit. Works every time.
Keet Madu
You aren’t the only one. If only I could have kept my old toys...this is why when my wife tells me to toss my kids toys that they don’t play with a create more space for them up in the attic somehow. They will thank me later.
Sad Toys R us going out of business world wide.
Staying put in Canada
I've just come across your channel, this bought a tear to my eye because it does remind me of my own childhood in the 80s, grew up without a father , my mother couldn't afford these toys, but i could imagine all day long. Thank you for this. Subscribed! :)
Where did you find all those vintage pristine toys??
Here and there. :D
Ebay
Good job on the room, it's very well coordinated and organized. Thank you for sharing!
I am truly thankful for all you've done bro, I watch these videos and am able to be transported back to a more simple and easier time, I'm an 80's kid to, keep it coming mate
In the 80s we didn’t have much money either. My parents still got me many G.I. Joes for Christmas and my birthday. I used cardboard boxes and my imagination to create vehicles and equipment we couldn’t afford. The fun and memories, though, were priceless.
I had a lot of this stuff. I always tell my sons I wish I could take them on a shopping spree in an 80’s Toys r us. 80’s were the best decade to grow up.
thank goodness for the Internet, It's nice knowing I'm not alone in toy collecting toys from my childhood
Yup, that's what the internet was meant for. Connecting with others! Glad to see it work the way it's supposed to for a change. :D
Michael, you are living my dream! I grew up in the 80s also, and my family didn't have much money either. Now I search Ebay all the time for these toys. Thanks for the history you give on this video.
So because of you I started collecting all my old toys again and I know have that same joy every time I look at my toys and I realized how important toys r us really meant to me and that toy smell it has when you first walk in.
Was born in 1981 so this room gives me nostralgia-gasms.
Watching the camera pan around was like running into childhood friends on the street that I haven't seen in more than 25 years.
The 80's had it's flaws, but it did a few things right, and toys were one of them. I can totally identify with how this guy felt walking into a Toys 'R Us back in the day.
So amazing, thanks for posting this.
Good description! That's how I feel each time I go into the room too. :D Nerdmasté! 🙏
Your story telling ability parallels the awesomeness of these iconic toys.
Last year I began putting together a collection like yourself. Just what was magical to me as a child and obviously still burns within me today. Mostly JOES, TRANSFORMERS, and MASK. I love your message about not settling in a relationship with someone that doesn't empathize with your desires. I was in a relationship for a long time where I felt drained most of the time because I don't think I was truly able to be myself around them. Now I'm so much happier. Thanks 🙏 for the video!
Good for you Brandon! I'd so rare to hear about someone who had the courage to say "enough is enough" and showed the self-respect to get out of a toxic relationship. Good luck with your own museum and be sure to share it when your "plan comes together." :D
Michael Mercy will do!
When I die i hope that heaven looks just like your 80's toy museum. Because it's awesome and EXTREME!!! Loved the video and can't wait for part 2.
This sums up how I feel about toys. Thank you sir. It's amazing that you have a wife who whole-heartedly supports you. Gives me hope for the world.
I grow up in Italy in the 80's and I use to watch mostly the same cartoons like you but I started collecting toys only few years ago and now they are very rare to find and expensive too! Your collection is timeless and priceless complimenti 👍
Wow! Awesome collection! I know the feeling! My junior high school was a 5 min bike ride to toys r us! During the 86 fall releases from hasbro, we kept going there everyday waiting to see new joes and transformers! Growing up in the 80’s was the best!
I have a collection of Eaglemoss lead figurines in my office. After watching this I feel totally normal. Actually I feel impoverished. Thank you sir. This is art.
Great story behind your museum Mike! Keep dreaming & stay young....In heart/spirit if nothing else. Thx for sharing with all of us who were lucky enough to grow up in this decade.
This is absolutely stunning, every collectors dream to have a display room like this! So many times I remember being in toy stores and seeing walls of carded figures and being told 'no, its too close to your birthday/xmas' or 'if I buy you one I have to buy your brother one so no'. It made the times I did get something all the more special though! ;-)
I remember hearing that too! Luckily my mom didn't have an issue with early birthday presents. "You play with it now, you play with it later, what's the difference?" :D
80s was a real era I feel. Growing up back then was an enriching experience in itself. The toys were lively and used to invoke playability in real sense, cartoons used to be fun and teach learning lessons important for character building and life, and we used to be having a very important aspect in all of us - imagination. Sometimes I so badly wish to back to thoese days. Back then we didnt have the internet accessibility to be aware of all the toylines or to know all the characters and their ammunition arsenal, but even owning 1 toy was a matter of sheer joy, pride and sense of achievement which today's era cannor offer with their moden technologies of toymaking. I wish time had frozen back in the 80s.....
Michael, I am so glad that you are showing off your collection in detail. I can't wait to see the next video!
Thanks!
Going into a toys rus will be something ill never forget. When i was a kid alot of things similar to these where still there. I remember the whole G I joe isle, the massive amounts of lego, and overall just was amazingly cool. Went in there a few weeks ago to get a lego train to recapture of some of that old magic for me. Rest in peace toys r us.
The Joe isle was amazing! Enough of each figure and vehicle for everyone and no chase or short packed toys. :D
Awesome display Michael and can I just say, you have a "gorgeous" and most elegant way with words. I was born in 77 so thanks for the trip down memory lane, I look forward to part two. All the best.
Thank you! Glad to hear you got to experience the same 80's magic I did. :D
It's great when you are with someone who encourages/ supports your hobbies. Your collection is amazing~
Thank you! Nerdmasté! 🙏
Although we do not focus on the same toy lines to collect with me focusing most heavily on Star Wars, it is awesome to see the joy that collecting can bring to people. That’s what collecting is all about, having fun.
I honestly teared up during the opening monologue. Everyword 100% my childhood
My friend, you've got a great voice, an eloquent manner, a heartfelt passion for toys from our childhood but most importantly , a beautiful, clear love and respect for your wife.
Thanks for sharing through this channel and taking us all back to better days! 🙏🏼
Thank you kindly. 🙏
WOW, I'm going to have to watch your other parts of your tour! I had a least 1 things out of everything you are covering right now. I remember the day my mom sold my Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors base at a garage sale she had. Those toys bring back so many memories.
The part when you open the door to the room is my heaven.
Thanks for sharing your story about why you collect, and showing us this massive museum of yours.
The Kenner Robocop figures are such an underrated and almost forgotten toy line. So great to be reminded of them!
in my dreams i walk into my childhood toy store and stare at all the fantastic colorful boxes of the toys i dreamt of, but never got
Thank You so much for taking me back!!! I miss going to Toys R Us in the late 80s/90s. My favorite moment was walking through the video game isle and Watching the game demos for the Nintendo and Sega!
You're welcome! Ah the video game section, when you had to take a slip of paper where the game box was and take it up to the register to get the game. :D
YES!! But I also remember they had so much "weird and generic toys" that you could spend hours looking at!!!! I've tried looking for videos of Toys R us during those years, but no one carried a camera around like we do now! what a shame! Thank you for recreating the memories for us!!!
Loven it I'm a 80's baby myself, you remind me of old Christmases opening up gifts and seeing these toys. Thanks for sharing
Fantastic video of the ultimate toy room! I myself grew up in the 80's, born in 1972 and I remember the toy stores being stocked so well back in the day. Your right, trip to TRU just isn't the same anymore. I check mine weekly, but the stuff on the shelf doesn't have the same excitement as it did when we were growin up. Look forward to part 2!!!!!!
Thanks! I still go every once in a while but I rarely buy anything. It's usually very expensive too.
Same! Your story is my story, I think that is part of the fascination of why I still buy myself a doll here and there,things I couldn't afford then I can now treat myself to. Makes me feel like a kid .❤
I love your description of how you felt walking into Toys R Us.
For me in the 70’s it was Child World Toy Store in Massachusetts
I remember how the toy store smelled and seeing Evel Knievel Toys in their boxes and cool plastic Marx Machine Guns! I have a “ toy room “ in my home it’s a time capsule. I’ve been collecting for about 30 years now I’m 53.
As Willy Wonka beautifully said
“It’s a world of pure imagination” We are collectors who bring to “life” our most cherished memories in our toy rooms.
Thanks for sharing your iconic collection and the narration was magical ✌🏽
Thanks, glad to hear it! :D
I am from Ontario too! I lived up in northern Ontario in Thunder Bay. There is really only small towns in northern Ontario and it's like a 15 hour drive to Toronto. I remember the first time I was in a Toys R Us in the 80s we had gone down to Duluth Minnesota for my dad to see family and we got to go to Toys R Us there. I never seen a store so big and with so many toys, I was in awe! I got a wwf board game from that store. It was awesome.
Could watch these videos over and over again, great inspiration for my own 80s museum. Fantastic video.
Omg! Im so jelly!! As soon as you opened that door, i was instantly a kid in a candy store...lol. i use to have lots of fun 80s toys and figures from various 80s cartoons!. Excellent Vid! Will be watching the other parts. So far, Excellent Epic Collection and excellent shelf work!!! As well as room design!!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed your virtual visit. :D
I love your collection. Brings back some many memories..... these days I have moved on to my love or airplanes but still have a placed for the 80s collection......
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed. Yo Joe!
This is the best toy video edit ive ever seen! Thank you! SO COOL! What a great walk down memory lane!
Great vid bud. I have my mighty morphin power rangers collection from the 90s, I was the person who never had the toys when I was younger but everyone else did. I had to wait 20+ years until I had the money to buy mine. All brand new inside the original boxes all still sealed. One day I will have my own gaming room / man cave with my display.
I only recently found you channel and I have to say your passion and enthusiasm for 80s toys is fantastic then I see this video in the time line and I’m blown away! Absolutely amazing great passion, dedication and hard work has gone in to this collection a pleasure watching and all the best for your next find 👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Nerdmasté! 🙏
Lucky you. My wife mocks my toy collecting. I have to collect things here and there on the down low. She will never understand. I know I can really pick em but your wife is totally a keeper.
There was nothing more awesome than hunting for GI Joe and Starwars figures with my mom in the 80s.
Hello Michael - I LOVE your videos! Your passion for all things 80s brings a tear to my eye. I grew up in the same era and we had it all! The best music, movies, toys & cartoons! Your collection is UNBELIEVABLE! Well done mate - All the Best, Keep up the fantastic work!!
Thanks so much! Glad to hear it. Nerdmasté! 🙏
This is actually the first video I saw from your channel. It popped up on my feed after watching a few Toys 'R' Us demise related videos. Your museum room set up is more Toys 'R' Us than Toys 'R' Us Has been in the past 2 decades. The lighting and the set up all perfectly recaptures the feeling of an 80s Toys 'R' Us. There is just a warm and fuzzy feeling when watching all these virtual tours. Excellent Work!
Thanks! So glad to hear that. I love that I'm able to share it with fellow 'Toys R Us kids' who grew up in the same era as me. There are some younger people who don't get it and some who even go so far as to make personal attacks, and I just feel sorry for them. Empty inside and dying for attention. Not willing to do anything positive to get it. With the mass sadness of TRU closing down, I'm glad I can share this little piece of it frozen in time with those who saw it first hand. :D
I saw it first hand many times as a kid. Not sure when I stopped going to TRU. I will revisit before they GASP close.
Pure Awesomeness! This is one of the best nostalgia channel on youtube. Michael Mercy and James Rolfe are true 80's Scholars
Thanks! I guess you can call me the "Happy 80s Nerd." :D
Michael do you own some of the coolest 80's toys Starcom: The U.S. Space Force ?
Man my hats off to you. And it makes me sad that Toys R Us has come to an end for the most part. My stomach use to churn from excitement by just walking through the door. I love your collection!
Thanks! Toys R Us is still in Canada, and they're apparently going to be making an effort to bring back that old 80's magic. :D
Hello from Quebec, great collection im like wow it bring such memories but I didn’t knew Toys r us till the middle of the 90’s I remember Toyville was always fun to walk the aisle of my local Woolworth and Kmart seeing all of theses toys.
Thanks for sharing your collection
Great collections!!!!!
I never know I had chance to see these toys again
Thanks for the videos, it does help me bring up good old 80s memory
The room is heaven on earth I would not leave that room organized at all that is the best in video ever seen. Man keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more of your future videos thank you so much for sharing this with everybody this takes me way back how do you have most ghost was an 80s but I had a whole rack of ninja turtles and G.I. Joe and x-men and wwf figures and he-man figures
Thanks! Nerdmasté! 🙏
Dude. Dude. Dude. You do not understand how amazing finally seeing someone with Captain Power toys made me. Thank you for that
And centurions too!!!!
I seriously had alllllll of those captain power toys minus the winged dude.... but I had the plane
Toys R us was so huge back in the 80’s. I mean a store that large dedicated to toys .....they had toys and games you could play with and try . It was a big treat to go . I was born in mid 70’s
Hey man. The small bit of your back story really moved me. I’m glad you have the means to make a room like that one now!
Thanks Scott! Nerdmasté! 🙏
The quality of your videos is amazing, your voice, camera work, lighting, editing, music... this is Netflix worthy. Not to mention the content. So many great memories. I completely forgot about my Wheeled Warriors until I watched your review, Thank you Michael for all of your hard work!
I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it! I was born in 1977, so the 80's was my playground and I remember all of the lines that you talk about on your channel! I loved Star Wars, GI Joe, Wheeled Warriors, Transformers, MASK, He-Man, MUSCLE, Battle Beasts, Thundercats and TMNT, as well as a few others, but those mentioned are my absolute favorites! I still have a few of my toys as well, but like many others, many were given away after I passed them on to my little brothers. Thank you for your work and for collecting so that I can relive this part of my life that I hold so dear!
Thanks! Those were the glory days of toys. :D
A stunning collection! As an 80s kid myself, I really appreciate your entire collection. Godspeed, Michael!
Thanks, glad to hear it. Nerdmasté! 🙏
Dude, I seriously LOL’d at the hallelujah chorus on entry to the Toy Museum. 😂 And what an A.W.E.S.O.M.E collection, thanks so much for sharing this!! 😎👍
Thanks, glad to hear it! :D
I think people forget toys are a form of art nice collection man
Well said!
Love your collection! I'm an 80's baby & these toys were awesome during my childhood.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed. :D