CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Coventry Village store “Big Fun” is closing in May, but the good news is that it’s not exactly the end of the road. The owners of the novelty toy store are teaming up with the B.A. Sweetie Candy Company to open a brand new candy/toy store in Orange Village. Pinecrest is a new retail and restaurant […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Employees with several Toys R Us stores in Northeast Ohio said clearance sales on Thursday. Clearance sales will start at the North Olmsted, Mayfield Heights and Canton locations on March 22. Workers did not have details of the sales. A manager of the Parma location said she has not received information when liquidation […]
(RNN) – Toys ‘R’ Us is reportedly closing all its U.S. stores next week after the bankrupt company was not able to find a buyer, according to Bloomberg News. The U.S. branch of the company hoped to find a buyer or work out a debt restructuring deal, and unnamed sources are leaking to business outlets that […]
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – “USA Today” listed a Cleveland Heights store among the “Black Friday: Best retail locations to shop“. The newspaper chose its top places to shop in each state and the Big Fun Toy Store and Eastwood Mall in Niles, also in northeast Ohio, were the only two picked in Ohio. It cited the toy store’s […]
FOX is truly riding this Empire wave until the wheels fall off. The cast has already released several compilation albums and gone on an international tour. There’s a new makeup collection in collaboration with Covergirl and now there are Empire dolls. According to Entertainment Weekly, two new collectors editions dolls inspired by Taraji P. Henson‘s character […]
Mattel recently announced that their limited-edition Barbie doll, made in the likeness of director Ava DuVernay, would be mass produced and made available to the public. The dolls went on sale earlier this morning, and they’ve already sold out. In fact, it only took a matter of 20 minutes for the Barbies to sell out […]
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner has filed a lawsuit against toy company Hasbro, Inc. over a doll that not only bore her name, but also shared Faulkner’s physical likeness. Faulker filed the $5 million federal suit this past Monday in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, prompting Hasbro to pull the toy from its […]
Barbie is finally bringing the many shades and beautiful features of women from all backgrounds to its brand with the introduction of 23 new dolls. Mattel made the announcement last week, CNN reports. While 17 of the dolls are already on the market, the brand plans to release the remainder sometime next year. Those dolls will possess eight different skin […]
Queens Of Africa a Nigeria-based company has released the latest line of pretty Black Barbies and they’re hugely popular and have impressively surpassed the sales of iconic Barbie. We all know that as a little girl, a Black Barbie was probably best thing we could’ve ever clutched out of our toy box. Since those days, other brands […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – ‘Tis the season for giving, but in some inner city neighborhoods there’s not a lot of money to do a whole lot of shopping. We found two people at the heart of making children’s dreams come true at the Zelma George Recreation Center. Cleveland kids waited in line to receive a […]
Easter will be here soon…you can tell by all the sweet goodies on display in most stores, bakeries and chocolate shops. All these delectable-looking options…