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General => Brainstorming For Playmobil => Topic started by: PlaymoMan on November 25, 2011, 21:13:22
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Well, let me just say that they are great!
But, I brought this thread up because I'm unhappy with where they've placed the outlets. The New Jersey one was located in a mall in the middle of nowhere, and the Playmobil Canada retail outlet is located in an industrial park! After visiting the Lego Store in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, I was left imagining what a Playmobil Store in that location would be like. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that Playmobil should place their stores in more central locations - in cities such as New York, Toronto, Berlin...
Thoughts or ideas?
PlaymoMan :wave:
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I think Baton Rouge, LA would be my favorite place for one. ;D
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Well.. I'd say across from my place..
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Wow! I totally agree!
The Lego store at Rockefeller Center is a brilliant location....everyone going to NYC sees that store because it is right next to their lovely Christmas tree and ice skating rink. We love visiting there! Can you imagine what a PM store would be like at that location?
Our favorite NYC non-museum place is the American Girls Doll Store....they have a lovely tea service where you can borrow a doll and take her to tea. Take your camera because you will shoot a lot of photos in this place, which is incredibly entertaining. Last visit we left 700USD poorer, but it was an absolute blast! And daughter in law loves her new Ivy Ling doll. It is good that we only had boys because it is hard enough not buying everything in the entire store! The displays are heavenly! Pgal
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We were going to move to NYC last year, and we made six visits. We're not going to move over there anymore, but we're planning one more visit before New Year. Visiting the big apple is really a fun place to visit.
Whoops, off topic. :-[
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Not really off topic because we are discussing the need for a PM store in Manhattan, which is the primo location in the eastern US for high end products. That is quite a hole in their store line up as far as I am concerned. Without a store in Manhattan, they miss a lot of wealthy shoppers who could afford PM.
I would locate a PM store either at Rockefeller Center a la L or next door to the American Girls Store, Pgal
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Great idea!! Playmogal! :confetti:
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yeah, NYC should have a huge PM store, sort of like a funpark
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I can see it now.....
Celebrity parents being chased by the news media as they enter with the children into the grand opening of the all-new NYC Funpark. And I'm sure if word got out, Playmobil would be recognized on all the morning shows that are based in NYC.
:yippee: :clap: :yup: :yup: :yup:
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Coooooooooool! Pgal :love:
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And another mandatory location for a PM store would be in San Francisco. Maybe Kaethe could help us with the exact location for this one as no one place downtown stands out in my mind from our travels there.
I would nominate next door to the Monterrey Aquarium, but that is too far from downtown.
And ditto for LA; it seems to have lost its focus, so I am not sure where to put a store there. My first choice would be at the entrance to Getty Center since it is full of educated visitors...at least half of them were foreigners during our most recent visit.
L now has stores in quite a few US cities, and they seem to be doing good business. The Raleigh store is usually full of kids and their parents. So maybe we could learn something from how they operate stores in the US. Cheers, Pgal
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I'd like to place one in maybe Toronto or Vancouver here in Canada. :)
But then again, that's probably just wishful thinking. ;)
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L now has stores in quite a few US cities, and they seem to be doing good business. The Raleigh store is usually full of kids and their parents. So maybe we could learn something from how they operate stores in the US. Cheers, Pgal
I wonder how the Lego store has survived in Orlando when the PM store in the same mall closed shop? I remember there were plans to reopen the store but nothing ever happened. :eh?: :eh?:
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Robbie,
We try to avoid Orlando, so I can't answer that question. Maybe someone else can as many Americans still go to Orlando every year or two. But not us!
Back to the discussion of where to locate a FP in the US:
I wish we had a FP in Washington, DC, where most Americans want to go on a visit as schoolchildren or later as an adult. IN NC where we live, many 5th graders (11 years old) go as groups for their elementary school graduation trip. DC is a very expensive and crowded city, but a FP would be a blast there because so many wealthy visitors go there every year. Most of the sights are free, including all of the Smithsonian Museums on the Mall below the US Capitol Building.
I lived there in the mid-80's, and loved driving into the Mall about once a week, unloading my bike from the car, and riding all over that area. It is lovely with so many cool monuments and parks and of course, all the museums. Wow!
A FP nearby would be a killer with all of the visiting families and educated adults in that area. The Air and Space Museum has the largest attendance at over a million a year I believe.
So I would
1. rent a space as close to the Mall as possible OR
2. put a store in or around Tyson's Corners, the huge shopping complex off I-495, the Beltway around DC. That complex is on the NW corner of the Beltway, and off the road connecting Dulles Airport (all the international flights go there) and DC.
The L store in the older part of the mall has done very well, but can be hard to drive to with all of the traffic congestion and difficult to find for first timers. I think there was an old Borders across the street that may be available....that is much easier to find than going into the mall itself. There are many good locations adjacent to Tyson's Corners. This is where the wealthy shoppers (mostly foreigners) leave with massive bags of loot. So if I were putting my life savings into a PM store, that probably would be the number one location in the US I would consider.
Anyone want to share their two cents worth? Pgal :wave:
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Atlanta or Charlotte would be a good central location for lots of people. Those cities always have a steady stream of visitors. :2c: :D