Zodiac Toy Shops

[Sly]

Re: Zodiac Toy Shops

None of the specialist toy shops that used to exist when I was a child are still about. There used to be a Toymaster in Wakefield where I used to get all my LEGO, but that's long since gone. I don't even know if they are still trading today. There are other toy shops here and there, but they tend to be for hobbyists and collectors.

[Richard1978]

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I think Toymaster is still around, there's was one in Marple where I grew up very recently. It's on the same street as the hardware shop used in White Van Man.

[wendyd]

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i remember going to zodiac and spending ages in there, does anyone remember the plastic glass slippers they sold in different colours, my mum brought me them and everytime i went outside and stood on a stone they broke lol

[Richard1978]

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That reminds me of some plasic high heeled shoes my sister had when she was 4.

I could hear her clumping around almost everwhere in the house.

Eventually they started to come apart as the plastic was fairly brittle.

[dazzyboy74]

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I remember my local Zodiac Toys in Hatfield Town Centre. They always had the rare Star Wars figures you couldn't get anywhere else!

[Bishman]

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I remember Zodiac and Trents as the two best shops in Swindon when I had to go to town with my parents every Saturday, those sort of shops are what we are missing nowadays!

[filmguylee]

Ah, I remember Zodiac Toys! Was telling my girlfriend about it the other day: she originally comes from Wales, and doesn't remember it, but in my home town of Banbury, Oxfordshire we had a Zodiac Toys store - my parents took me there whenever I was going to be treated to something.

Still remember the logo too!

For anybody living in Banbury, it used to be in the top of the Castle Quay shopping center, opposite where Jessops and Gamestation used to be, at the market place entrance part.

Then years later it was a Beatties store, which then moved over next to where McDonald's in town is.

Warm memories...

[George 1978]

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I remember Zodiac Toys too - the Nottingham branch was in the Broad Marsh Centre. I think that it is now a stationery or a clothes shop.

[70s kid]

I worked for Toys R Us Stockport from sept 88 til sept 95. We saw Zodiac off within a year and Toy And Hobby. Sad really.

[70s kid]

Toy and Hobby was on three floors, which didnt help i guess. Was always rather fond of Zodiac though.

[70s kid]

I remember playing SIMON for the first time in Zodiac Manchester Arndale. Circa 78.

[Heather74]

[70s kid]

Saw this on an ebay listing for a Cherilea jeep.

[70s kid]

'71 to '86 eh? That was indeed the Golden Age of 'imagination' toys, before the dark times, before the empire....sorry before video games and the awful cheap chinese rubbish 80's toys. You worked through the peak of Palitoy and Action Man, Star Wars figures which essentially started the. action figure genre. Matchbox, Dinky , Corgi die cast: licensed to TV and movie franchises like 007, Gerry Anderson. Denys fisher with $6 million dollar man, Spiro 2000 the 70' s reinvented Spirograph and the Cyborg figure line. Yep, you worked in that retail sector during the best time imo when toys were toys and boys were boys.