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Wayoftheredpanda

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We went to Missouri for a few days the Friday after Christmas, saw some cool stuff although the drive wasn't fun

Most notable thing was supposedly the World's Largest Toy Museum, it had some cool stuff but it was kinda dissapointing tbh, it had a lot of toys but only a limited amount when it came to the things I was hoping to see, even the most influential toy brands and franchises got no more than a little glass case with a few examples in there. I was really hoping to see a bigger display of LEGOS or 70s/80s/90s action figures, not even Furbies or Beanie Babies got that. Still had some cool stuff, including a nearly hour long reel of vintage Star Wars toy commercials that I sat through all of, weird thinking that all the kids featured are in their 40s-early 50s now. Was neat but not the grand display I was thinking of by the title "World's Largest Toy Museum" (The building looked like a Barn and I'm pretty sure that isn't a coincidence).

Other than that I really think we just looked at shops and small stuff.
 

swiftdog2.0

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We went to Missouri for a few days the Friday after Christmas, saw some cool stuff although the drive wasn't fun

Most notable thing was supposedly the World's Largest Toy Museum, it had some cool stuff but it was kinda dissapointing tbh, it had a lot of toys but only a limited amount when it came to the things I was hoping to see, even the most influential toy brands and franchises got no more than a little glass case with a few examples in there. I was really hoping to see a bigger display of LEGOS or 70s/80s/90s action figures, not even Furbies or Beanie Babies got that. Still had some cool stuff, including a nearly hour long reel of vintage Star Wars toy commercials that I sat through all of, weird thinking that all the kids featured are in their 40s-early 50s now. Was neat but not the grand display I was thinking of by the title "World's Largest Toy Museum" (The building looked like a Barn and I'm pretty sure that isn't a coincidence).

Other than that I really think we just looked at shops and small stuff.

I spend a lot of time in St. Louis for work.

Great BBQ!
 

Wayoftheredpanda

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Forgot to mention a few things about the trip to Missouri, it was in Branson which is a big tourist town and the streets were flooded with tourist traps, including a titanic museum that's building was modeled after the iceberg hit (we didn't go inside, but I'm sure stepping into one of deadliest public transportation disasters in the history of mankind is enthralling).

There were some cool restaurants there and along the way too, including a restaurant made out of an old train car somewhere along the way, and we ate at a novelty restaurant designed to look and taste like a 50s diner scene, including a selection of very stylized ice cream treats.

We visited this one shop that was overblown as the ultimate novelty ma-&-pop shop but wasn't very exciting, all it hardwire cheap toys and those over-the-top medal signs featuring bald eagles carrying rifles saying things about America in big text. There was also an antique shop that had some neat things and I picked up some good conditioned records. (Club Ninja- BÖC, Animals- Pink Floyd).