FAO Schwarz toy store makes its comeback

[Remarkableriots]

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/11/beloved_toy_store_fao_schwarz_makes_its_comback.html

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For more than 150 years, FAO Schwarz was known in New York City for its classy and sometimes extravagantly expensive toys. The fantasyland store it opened on Fifth Avenue in 1986 was a tourist attraction, replete with its own theme song, doormen who looked like palace guards and a musical clock tower. Financial problems at the parent company and rising rents closed that store in 2015, but FAO is now pulling back from the worst financial precipice since it was founded in 1862.

In recent weeks at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, workers drilled, hammered and sawed 24 hours a day to get the new store ready. Employees filled shelves with hundreds of plush animals that have long defined the brand -- bears, bunnies, elephants, chicks and more. The big entrance clock tower has returned. And on the second level of the 20,000-square-foot space is a giant piano keyboard mat like the one on which Tom Hanks danced to "Heart and Soul" in the 1988 film "Big."

The 20-foot-long instrument with 60 keys is reflected on the ceiling for people in the plaza below to see. Replicas for sale cost $128.

 

[Mercury33]

This makes me so happy. Lot of great memories going to that store as a kid growing up. It was so much more amazing than even the giant Toys R Us in Times Square. Can’t wait to bring my son to see it this season. 

[darkness35]

Might take SO back there to visit again.  Hmm..