Here at TDmonthly we believe that smaller retailers should share the limelight with the "big guys." Each month we hand-pick specialty toy retailers and highlight their unique focus.
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In 2004, Chuck Martinez and Bob Pickens, two men with already long careers in the thriving Halloween industry... |
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AnimeCollect, an online anime and manga store in Monrovia, Calif., is a collector´s paradise. Eric Canlas carries everything from DVDs and CDs to books and apparel... |
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Bob Chapman, co-owner of the new Jay and Silent Bob´s Secret Stash in Westwood, Calif., has worked with cult figure and partner Kevin Smith for the last six years on movie licensing. He produces T-shirts...
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Paul Daniels is enjoying a long and prominent career as a magician. His international audiences have brought him acclaim few can equal. Known for his sense of humor and polished on stage presence, Daniels is an entertainer to emulate...
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"The biggest factor in our success has been the wonderful talented employees that I have surrounded myself with...
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Hillary James specializes in hand painted children´s furniture and considers herself self taught out of trial and error...
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Nestled in historic Old Colorado City is a workshop filled with elves...
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On the corner of Broadway in the center of Pitman, N.J., its doors open wide in invitation, BOB’S Hobbies and Crafts beckons passersby...
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In 1986 television news photographer Les Jarrett started shooting train videos as a creative outlet...
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Smith has seen an increase in accounts stocking novelty toys, such as hobby stores... |
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When Buck and Norma Service started with one tin toy among their antiques and collectibles... |
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In business for eight years, Tom and Bridgitte Martin opened a modest video game store in their hometown of Lodi, California... |
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Tory Anderson chose to sell kites on a whim while visiting a kite store during a business trip to California... |
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With over ten thousand Hot Wheels in stock, Soler Collectibles is one of the leading die-cast dealers in the country... |
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Maxine Clark, founder of the Build-A-Bear Workshops, took a winning
idea in early 1997 and turned it into an international operation... |
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The Learning Shop, a successful six-store chain in Wisconsin, started
as an educator supply source in the early 1970s... |
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When Con and Nellie Miller moved to Alaska territory in 1949, they
had $1.40 in cash and two hungry kids.... |
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“Specializing in good, old-fashioned fun” isn’t just an ad slogan
at Once Upon A Time Toys in Stowe, Vermont... |
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Sixteen years ago Sharon DiMinico had an idea to provide children
with high quality educational toys while creating a revenue stream
for a local school in Acton, Mass.... |
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The Essence of Nonsense boasts that it has 1,500 plush
bears in its inventory on most days. But this isn't a huge warehouse
store -- it's a modest independent toy shop... |
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Allied Hobbies has weathered everything from economic downturns to
competition from VCRs and computer games. |
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Walking inside San Francisco's KidRobot, you soon
realize that the action figures being sold within the glass cases
are not like the ones you grew up with... |
