Toyworld

I find it hard to resist a toy shop. I always have to pop my head inside and have a browse around, and usually struggle to resist buying something for myself. Though, I could technically write this off as research since I work in the toy industry, it’s not that at all.
Most Toyworld stores seem to be quite small and cramped with stuff spilling off the shelf and making it hard to move around. The Brunswick store is far from this. It’s quite large and everything is nice and neat and spaced out. Everything is in it’s own little section and there is a great variety of toys to be found here. They have a nice selection of Playmobil products, which is great as it is rare to find this stuff in Australia from what I’ve seen.
Usually my first visit section in any toy store is the action figures, but here it was almost non-​existent. They were on the ends of a few aisles and in a few other spots but they didn’t have much of a choice. Everything that was here seemed fairly new though which is a good thing as action figures tend to hang around on the shelf well past when they are the latest thing.
I may have caught them on a bad day (Sunday afternoon) but customer service didn’t seem high on the agenda. A couple of younger employees were working and I was the only one in the store and went largely ignored by them. I actually had to go and find one of them when I wanted to make a purchase as nobody was anywhere near the counter/​front of store.
There’s a good range here though, with some toys you might not see anywhere else so it’s well worth a pop in to stock up on kid’s birthday pressies, Christmas… or if you’re like me, a treat for yourself.