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KB Toys
1922–2009
“Every mall trip's tractor beam.”
Toy Stores
The cramped mall toy store packed floor-to-ceiling, where the clearance bins by the door and the action-figure pegs pulled you in every single visit. Small footprint, huge tractor beam — you begged to go in and rarely left empty-handed. Bankruptcy shut the doors for good in 2009.
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