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Earworms, folks - I say it all the time. This will be with you ALL DAY LONG!

Considering that it is Friday, is that really such a travesty?

So yesterday we watched a commercial from the archives of Allison's Written Words for a defunct toy store chain, and today, we're going to do the same for a different chain.

Today's commercial from the archives comes to us from 1988, for the New York City-based Lionel Kiddie City (also known as Lionel Playworld, Lionel Toy City, Lionel Play Town, Lionel Toy Warehouse, and Lionel Toy Town. Like Child World of yesterday's article, Lionel's chain of toy stores (which sold everything the OTHER major stores did) were a direct competitor to the Dark Overlord of Toys R Us, and like Child World and its kin, it didn't stand a chance during the recession of the early 1990s. The stores were established in the 1960s, and by 1993, they were gone.

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