World 4 Kids?

[llamatron]

Oh wow world 4 kids was awesome, used to make special trips out to mirrabooka to go there. I remember getting my g2 Megatron from that place. The building actually sat unoccupied for a good 10+ years before some new tenant moved in recently... I think an iceskating joint? Sad really, I still liked driving past the abandonded tomb of W4K.

Now wonderland, that really takes me back too...

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I think all the W4K's in Perth became Toys R Us's when they started to show up in WA.

Mirrabooka stayed vacant for years, as Llama says, it's an Ice skating rink now. I quite liked World 4 kids, I lived near that one in Mirrabooka for a while and thought it was pretty cool. After all it was a MASSIVE warehouse of toys. Although I used to go there scouring the place for Saturn games and stuff. I remember buying EarthWorm Jim and a controller pack for my MD for like $20 back in the day.

Super goodies. I still remember seeing the W4K toppers in Kmart for a while after W4K closed down. Shame that there was never quite the same amount of Mas toy goodness.

Wonderland... that wasn't that place in Perth city was it?

[Omega Metro]

Well, I was in my teens in the 90s and for the life of me cannot remember World4Kids.
The majority of my late 80s/early 90s Transformers purchases came from Kmart Armadale or Woolies Kelmscott (when they had the variety section).

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I think there were only a couple around Perth. I can remember Miirrabooka, and a quick google lists one in Cannington (probably where TRU is now), but That's all I knew of.

[Lint]

I think there were only a couple around Perth. I can remember Miirrabooka, and a quick google lists one in Cannington (probably where TRU is now), but That's all I knew of.

Yep I'm pretty sure it was just Mirrabooka and Cannington. I got to go to the Mirrabooka one a few times but I only went to Cannington once. They were identical though and I swear about twice as large as a typical TRU. (might be the child factor though)

[i_amtrunks]

There was a huge one in Blacktown Westpoint that had whole aisles dedicated to action man, Batman, Thomas the Tank, Barbie and other toy lines. I remember the Street Sharks and Ninja Turtles shared an aisle.

The one in Penrith used to be opposite the main shopping centre and survived longer than most, I could still frequent it in 2000 to buy DBZ figures brand new cheaper than I could buy them second hand from Kings Comics across the street!

Wasn't really into Tf's at the point, so I cannot remember what stock they had, but I did have a catalogue for years that I would continually peruse. Think I got rid of it years ago, when W4K closed down in Blacktown.

[Sinnertwin]

I bought my Classic Prime & a few others from them. I even picked up a few things for Jon & Karl Hartman, too. Those were the days, doing everything by mail.

[griffin]

Thanks to member Counterpunch/Jimmy, who collected toy catalogues during the 90s (inspiring me to collect as many as I can since then, as an archive of prices we had here)....



The catalogues are dated from 1993 to 1997, which I think was how long they lasted against ToysRUs, before folding. (as noted above, W4K was part of the ColesMyer Corporation, so the W4K Brand was just used by Kmart for a few years after they folded, for customer familiarity I guess)
These were the stores during 1997...


They could have indeed been around until after 2000. I remember the two in Brisbane, on opposite ends of greater Brisbane, so were difficult to get to from where I lived at that time. The one in Aspley was near the ToysRUs, which was convenient if you could get up there (it would take me two buses and about 80 minutes).

[Tallestblue]

I remember visiting the World 4 Kids in Southport just after i turned 18 and getting TM Optimus Primal and Megatron for 19.95 each i think. it was their closing down sale. And the first two Transformers I'd ever bought for myself.

[Gouki]

I only ever went to the Greensborough store (well, I was staying in Greensborough with relatives) once. Don't remember buying anything from there, but I did get the Off-Road Patrol from Myer the same day.

The Belmont K-Mart still had the World 4 Kids stuff on their toy rack ends until a few years ago. A few years before that they inherited a Darth Vader and Action man statue as well.