Terra Toys (AKA. HERE'S where my childhood went!)

Store Front

 I'm still unsure on whether or not I want to make this blog themed around awesome places in Austin or just about my life in general. Today, however, it's going to be about an amazing toy store in Austin.

Austin is very well-known for Toy Joy which is a fantastic toy store but Terra Toys is a lesser known toy store in Austin (at least to me) but it is still just as amazing as Toy Joy. I literally felt like this is where my childhood went to wait for me to find it like we were playing hide and seek or something.

Terra Toys has everything you could possibly want as a child or want to buy for a child. You walk in to this store with a giant sign that reads Terra Toys that is set up in a strip mall a little ways from 183. You are instantly bombarded by toys everywhere. One side of the store has kids clothes and costumes and the other side has more grown up kind of toys like collectible robot figures or the kind of stuff you find on Mod Cloth in the apartment section.

Down the middle is where they keep the dolls, figurines, and in the very back down the middle is a book section that has all kinds of books. There's a whole section on fairy tales from different countries with some beautiful copies of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson's Stories, and many other story collections. There's also a foreign language section, children's books, and a young adult section. They also have a pretty impressive collection of graphic novels based on classic literature and many pop-up books that are high quality.

On the left of the store is where they've devoted a huge section to Lego's and it is glorious! I loved Lego's as a kid so wandering around this section was taking me back to playing Lego's with my friends.

On the right side they have a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls and doll houses. Next to the doll section is a glass case holding an enormous collection of Matryoshka nesting dolls. I stared at this case for quite a while. It was extensive and all the dolls are beautifully painted and detailed. Right before the nesting dolls and the Madame Alexander dolls is a craft section that has coloring books (I bought a Fairy Fashion coloring book), origami, costumes, face paint, and markers, paint, and how to draw books.

Some of the Matryoshka Dolls

 I went back today and discovered their dinosaur section. I ended up buying a dinosaur comb because I looooove dinosaurs. I actually saw this comb on the Fred website and wanted it real bad so when I saw it at Terra Toys I grabbed the last one.

NYAH NYAH!