Go! Toys, Games & Calendars is now open at the Deptford Mall, opening in a first floor location near the Boscov’s Department Store.
Started in 1993, Go! became the largest fleet of seasonal pop-up stores in the world by initially focusing on interesting and beautiful calendars.
Today many of their stores have expanded into a much larger inventory model, adding a variety of toys for all ages… as well as expanding into year-round locations.
So for the Deptford Mall.… Mall management tells me that their new Go! Toys Games & Calendars location is a year-round addition to the center.
Today I stopped in at the Deptford location to find a selection of Tonka trucks, stuffed animals, Ninja Turtles, LEGO playsets, Nerf balls, preschool toys and more… looking perfectly at-home in the store which offers a large selection of their signature beautifully photographed calendars.
It’s a bit nostalgic for Old-timers like myself who will remember the KB Toy store in the Deptford Mall. With with the new Go! Toys & Games store as well as the Toys R Us selection at Macy’s, its somewhat nostalgic to be able to shop for toys and games in the Deptford Mall again!
Board games for Family Fun are available including classics such as Operation, Candy Land, Gestures and even Pictionary.
It was interesting to see that they had over 20 different versions of the classic Monopoly game! It seems that Go! with their experience in creating a variety of calendars to match individual personalities and interests, has carried that theme into the classic Atlantic City based property board game. On hand were monopoly versions based on Family Guy, Yellowstone, Hello Kitty, Star Wars, and even the 90s.
It’s not a stretch for the Go! brands to move into the toy aspect of retail… They company is also the operators of the flagship Toys-R-Us store located in Northern New Jersey’s Mall of America!
For the Deptford store it looked to me that most of the shelves were filled with merchandise, but a employee told me even more items are expected in soon.
The unit that Go! Toys, Games & Calendars have taken over is somewhat large and they’re using probably 80% of the space. As mentioned they are located on the 1st floor at the end of the mall, near Boscov’s. American Eagle Outfitters and Victoria’s Secrets are two prominent stores located in the immediate area.
Many will remember the mall location as home to Modell’s, and most recently another sporting goods company operated in the unit… Eastern Mountain Sports. EMS closed a few weeks ago as part of a corporate restructuring.
Go! Calendars, Games & Toys also operates a location in the Gloucester Premium Outlets in nearby Blackwood NJ
Links and Location
Go! Calendars, Games & Toys
Deptford Mall
1750 Deptford Center Rd
Deptford, NJ 08096