NYC Part B

One last bunch of pics from our walk around New York City after the 2020 New York Toy Fair. If you need reminding, these pictures were taken late February before "things happened". Let's all just forget about those things for a while and enjoy some fun pictures.

At the FAO Schwarz checking out gigantic Funko Mystery Minis. Funny  that I still have to refer to them as "minis", they usually come in those small random boxes. Could you imagine the size of the boxes for these? How much would they have to cost, and how bad would you feel if you did not get the one you wanted? You think you could find somebody to trade with?

The front of this candy train says "FAO SCHWEETZ" haha. ALL ABOARD!

There's a custom Barbie thing here. I wonder if anybody tried to use this to make celebrities or movie characters or anything? Just an fun thought we had while looking at this.

FAO Schwarz has a mascot that's a toy soldier, here's a giant Lego statue of a guy dressed up like the soldier. Why not just do a giant Lego statue of the TOY soldier? Not a guy dressed like it. Was this supposed to replace the job of the store greeters, who are guys dressed like the soldier? I bet they moved it here to save their jobs.

For those people too young to know, there's a scene in a popular movie with this giant keyboard on the floor that Tom Hanks jumped all over to play a song. Well it's still here. That girl did not fall, she was just rolling around on it, it was kind of funny.

At the NBC Store checking out some Seinfeld merchandise. Gosh, I hope you are not using this apron to make soup. Nobody would ever get any!

There's an empty corner of the NBC store that they use to dress up into photo ops, anybody ever see the show The Office? Well... it's the office, from The Office! We sat here and got awesome selfies and after we left we forgot that we did not say the classic phrase, and felt a little like turning around and going back to do it. "That's what SHE said!"

Oh..., looking at this picture now is eerie. Should we have gotten some "2020" Olympic collectibles? Will they have to re-do these to say 2021?

Caution: Laser Area. And NO SMOKING, or else you will be hit with lasers. You were warned!

Sometimes it's unexpectedly awesome to see the extravagant promotions for movies and games around the city. This whole corner is promoting the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.

Hershey store! We've been in the M&M store a lot, so we went here instead this time. Who wants a squishy kiss?

I'm trying to think of a funny comment involving the words "Mug" and "Kiss" but I can't quite think of it. All the pieces are there... I know there must be something to say that's funny but not inappropriate about being mugged and kissed... maybe not.

I betcha these three are best pals. They met each other during Summer camp many years ago. And they just got along together perfectly.

You might not want to have this, visitors would think you kiss it all the time,... and then they'll think you're weird.

Jolly Rancher is a DJ? Why wouldn't they make Jolly "Rancher" a farmer? My friend wanted to say something about the yummy-looking legs on Twizzlers just to be funny, but that might not be cool.

We were about to go eat dinner but almost caved in and got a mint chocolate s'more. If you didn't know, the Hershey store has a treat restaurant in the back. The thought of getting a professionally made perfect s'more was very compelling.

A little sad to find out this is the World's LARGEST Hershey Bar. 5 pounds? You can't tell me there's not one a little bigger somewhere else?

Go up to somebody and ask them if they want a "One Pound Kiss" and see what they do. Are you going to pound me, or kiss me? Also, nobody at Hershey's can do math, because five 1-pound chocolate Kisses is $75, while one 5-pound Hershey Bar is only $40.

Gotta give props to the old guy who paused for a quarter of a second when I went to take a picture of the chocolate bar door handle on the way out. He was very visibly annoyed, but adamant to NOT be in my picture. Thanks! I wanted to say to him as he grumbled his way out of the door.

Stopped in to the Disney Store in Times Square. They had Anna and Elsa "Frozen" in display cases where the stormtroopers once were. These looked amazingly accurate, just like they walked right out of the movie! It was quite shockingly... cool.

 As we looked at them, my friend got a weird feeling; like he was checking them out in a paused VR game of some kind. And for a moment, he thought he could take off the headset and find himself back home. Freaky!

 Chip & Dale, the perfect pair!

 Zoom in and see the 2020 New Year's Ball Drop up there. First time we've been here this year, so that was new...year... for us.

 Dallas BBQ for dinner. Wasn't sure if we wanted to find somewhere else to eat, but we were hungry and it was late enough already, so we just went in. There were a couple of bites that tasted "fishy" on my friend's taste radar, like the sauce had been in contact with some fish. Not the whole thing, but it only takes a tiny bit to make my friend worry since he's sensitive to that. Most of it was the awesome taste he remembered.

 Even though it was a full week past Valentine's Day, they still had after-meal free goodies to give out. It was very much okay, since these tiny cakes are super yummy. Only a small amount of accompanying heartbreak as we ate these alone.

 Ah!! Forgot about the Jollibee! Saw it on the way back to the train station. We did go to the Jollibee in Virginia Beach not too long ago, so it's okay. Just another reminder that it's here for the future.

 Whatever you gotta drive into the city with, I guess. It was funny seeing this construction vehicle just parked on the street with all the regular cars. You know, this guy's all ready for some snow. When it snows, they'll be able to park anywhere they want.

 Always great to find out you are super early for your train back home. 40 minutes is not really very long to go wander away and get back. So we wandered around Penn Station for a while but were too exhausted by now to get a lot of Minty Pictures.

 Did get a few pictures, including this much tougher-looking police vehicle. Those Segway scooters look a little silly, but not this thing. Just noticed it parked right in front of that ATM, what if I needed to use that?

 Is this Krispy Kreme new? I don't remember it being here. So I thought I'd get a picture of it to share. My apologies if it's been here for decades without me noticing. Either way, it's here now if you want to torture everybody on your train with some tasty doughnut scents on the ride home.