GET READY TO HAVE SOME NOSTALGIA COME BACK!
The defunct KB Toys brand is planning a comeback — after nearly a decade in mothballs.
Hoping to capitalize on the apparent demise of Toys ‘R’ Us, the California company that bought the KB brand in 2016 is in talks with pop-up operators to open stores in malls before Black Friday, it said Monday.
Ellia Kassoff, chief executive of Strategic Marks, which bought the KB brand from the US Trademark Office after previous owner Toys ‘R’ Us let it go dormant, said he will open as many stores as possible later this year. Kassoff is a collector of dead retail brands. His company owns Bamberger’s, I. Magnin, Bullock’s the Hydrox cookie brand and others. “My original idea for the KB brand was to relaunch it online,” but everything changed when Toys ‘R’ Us said it would liquidate its 730 stores, Kassoff told The Post. Strategic Marks is in talks with Go! Retail Group, Spencer Spirit Holdings and Party City to provide the real estate — as well as major toy manufacturers, including Mattel, Kassoff said.
….oh the nostalgia. Not for Mitt Romney’s BANE CAPITAL destroying KB TOYS but for my local KB TOYS being active and alive.
When my son was born the store at my local mall was still open. Now the store is gone. The mall is being knocked down. Things change..
But KB returning? .. we will see
I recall fond memories of the 1980s when I purchased my HE-MAN action figures there..
.. or the Freddy Kreuger Glove.. Or whatever other toy I wanted.
Yes.. BRING IT BACK.
WE LONG FOR TOYS.
