Christmas is around the corner and you need to start shopping for your children, god children, grand children, nieces, and nephews. Someone wants the latest Japanese animated characters while another one is looking for a dollhouse. What are you going to do? Where are you going to go shopping? Well, in a place as magical as New York you can find virtually anything, if you try hard enough. And when we bring you a list of shops that are considered the best for kiddies goodies, you don’t even have to try all that hard!

FAO Schwarz

FAO Schwarz is New York City’s oldest toy store, made even more famous by the movie Home Alone 2. As if it wasn’t famous enough already among avid collectors who have a passion of collecting one-of-a-kind toys. If you are on the lookout for a Moritzz Gottschalk miniature dollhouse, a Grand Victorian Mansion Playhouse or an antique Reed Ocean boat (all of which cost a bomb!), this is the place to be. There are other options as well which do not cost a bomb and you can choose from among dolls, action figures, science projects, games, and stuffed toys, which will fit in your pocket.

Toy Tokyo

Set up in 2000 and less than a decade old, Toy Tokyo has given some of the more established toys shops a run for their money. And, what a run it is! It is hard to imagine that this easily ‘missable’ shop that is accessed by rickety, old and uninspiring red-and-black stairs could have such a unique inventory of toys. Whatever a child or even an adult’s heart can desire, you can find here – twelve-inch Samurai dolls and Indiana Jones, hand-painted porcelain miniatures of the Pink Panther, Smurfs, and the Simpsons, apart from Star Wars figures, Japanese imports, and even do-it-yourself dolls. You go in with a heavy wallet and step out with a light one and a heavy shopping bag.

Toys “R” Us

If FAO Schwarz was made famous by home alone, Toys “R” Us had its few minutes of fame in the Tom Hanks starrer “Big,” Do you remember the song and dance sequence on the largest keyboard in the world, built right into the floor? That was Toys “R” Us. Located at the Times Square, this shop is as ‘un-missable’ as anything possibly can be. After all, how on earth can any shop that has a 60-foot Ferris Wheel and a 21-foot dinosaur inside it be overlooked? It can’t.

You could spend an entire day in this huge shop looking through their entire collection, visit the different themed areas and wonder what to pick up, probably lose your way a couple of times and thoroughly enjoy yourself in the process. A veritable paradise for children, that’s what this is.

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