Zoom

6÷18− Such a neat store! Jam packed with a lot to look at, fun browsing for all ages!

One of the best toy stores! It has a little bit of everything for all ages. You must visit if you are in the area.

My three year old could spend hours here.
Need I say any more?
The one thing I dislike about this place is the skinny aisles. You would think they would have this place designed to be stroller friendly and it’s not quite there.
The variety is respectful. Except in Legos.

Careful taking your kiddos here, they will want the whole store! This place has everything with a wide range of age groups. I looked around for a long time without being bombarded by associates. Yet when I needed help, they were great! Also a superb location on the plaza, especially right across from a parking garage. Go! Have fun!

I don’t know. It reminds me of going to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus when I was a kid. Sure, it’s fun, and everyone is jovial but you can’t shake the feeling that you were the fool just born that minute.
I needed some last minute gifts for Christmas stockings (spoiler alert — there’s no Santa), and stopped in. I got some cool photo paper and looked around but mostly I felt the same as most toy stores.
There’s no reason not to go back but it wasn’t amazing either.

Zoom has a little bit of everything. They might not have a wide selection of the popular toys, but they have plenty of options that you might not find at the usual toy store, with the focus seemingly being on toys that are more meant to bring out a kid’s imagination or creativity. If you are just looking for the usual Barbie Dolls and Hot Wheels, go anywhere. If you are looking for a something a little less mainstream, this is a good place to start. They don’t have a huge selection but it is varied and usually has a few things you’ve never seen or heard of before that looks fun.
And, if you are on the Plaza with kids, they are probably really bored with places like Restoration Hardware and Tommy Bahama so give them a break and let them look at something they might actually enjoy for a little bit. Unless they are going to throw a fit ’cause they don’t get the concept of window shopping and won’t leave without you buying them something… in which case, drag them to American Apparel and tell them to hush up!

This is a cute, good-​sized shop on the Plaza that’s perfect if you need a last-​minute shower/​kid birthday gift. Lots of unique, fun baby and kid gift items — many of which are educational. Everything seemed fairly priced and very well organized. I imagine I would leave a poor gal if I came in here with a kid who could easily persuade me — this place is a little amusement park in a kids eyes!

Had a great experience in this store. Passing through town from Los Angeles and just happened upon it. Glad I did. I found a few great items to bring home for my 3 yr old.
Too much variety to even begin to list, there is something for everyone. A ton of toys gathered in one spot that you absolutely won’t find at a toys r us or a store of the like. Local owned, friendly staff, decent prices, not sure what else you could ask for.

Oh. Man.
This place is awesome. Listen, I know it is a toy store on the plaza, and I know some of the prices are high, but this place is simply phenomenal. I went in here with my girlfriend and spent a good hour wandering around, looking for reasons to buy some of the shiny, spinning toys. I ended up getting something for a 1 yr old and a 26 yr old in the same trip!
That is what Zoom is all about — there is something for everyone! From plastic knights that would’ve made my Christmas as a child, to puppets and muppets, to board games and dolls, this store has it all. The prices were surprisingly reasonable (I usually do not intend to buy anything on the Plaza, as I can usually beat their prices online) and I made a couple purchases.
Overall, this store was really just a nice surprise. The staff were very friendly and rang me out quickly when a line formed. Had a great time at Zoom!

They have a lot of stuff, but I wouldn’t buy anything that could possibly break easily (RC planes, RC Helicopter, RC anything) or can be defective, because they will not accept returns. While browsing the store I overheard a gentleman trying to return a RC helicopter which had a small part break, they told him he had to return it to the manufacturer even if you just bought it a day ago. The receipt says save it for all returns and exchanges. Buyer beware.

Love this store. We were on the plaza last week for dinner and were killing time before our reservations. What better place to kill time than a toy store???
Zoom is awesome. They have great toys for kids of all ages. Legos, Smithsonian models, Hello Kitty, Domo (My personal favorite), and just about everything you can thing of that a kid would want.
I started getting ideas for Christmas gifts this year and know exactly where I will be going to get toys for nieces and nephews.
The have some clothes and house shoes. The have frog house shoes in adult sizes. They let you take stuff out of the boxes and look at it, the kids that were there all seemed to be having a blast. The staff was friendly and helpful.
It is laid out well so there is a reason to the aisles and where the different toys are. Easy to find what you are looking for. Look for me at Christmas I will be back.

I don’t have a ton of little kids in my life, but when it is time to purchase those little kid gifts I always seem to find myself drawn to Zoom. Maybe because it is the closet toy store to me and I don’t want to venture into the suburbs to visit a Toy’s r Us or a mall, maybe it is because as my mother puts it, its one of those places where adults buy toys for children but really the adult is buying a toy for themselves.
I have purchased a few items here, one being a great eco friendly, recycled plastic dump truck for a my nephew and another being a cool dune buggy made of corn for a little buddy. So, yes my mom is probably right and I am really only buying things based on my own consumer tastes. But really don’t most little kids have very short attention spans, at least until they become obsessed with video games.

I try and try and try to not be a scrooge this time of year, I really do. However, after spending a little over an hour at Toys R Us, I could feel the ghost of Christmas-​shopping past rearing his ugly head and I was about to smack some lady who took the Barbie that *I* wanted. Too cramped, too disorganized, with aisles and aisles of plastic junk towering over me… it was time to get out and it was time to get out NOW.
Why am I ranting about Toys R Us in a review of Zoom? Because the best thing about Zoom is that it’s everything that Toys R Us isn’t. It is reasonably sized, full of quality goods and staffs genuinely helpful people.
We weren’t quite done with out list when i had my Toys R Us freakout, so we head into Zoom. I had been before just to browse, but i was seeing it through different eyes this time: as that adult needing to get something for an actual child rather than one that is hypothetical. The place feels warm rather than industrial. It’s fun and children are free to play but it’s not a madhouse. We found amazing toys that we didn’t even know we wanted beforehand. It was an all-​around pleasant experience, which frankly are hard to have this time of year.
One thing that is preventing me from giving this a 5 star review. Because Zoom seems to focus on specialty and educational toys, it’s probably not going to have that «must have» present that your kid sees advertised on Nickeloden 50x a day.

Zoom makes me giddy! It has all the great toys, tons of Schleich animals, games for every age group, Hello Kitty stuff, diaries that lock, jewelry, practical jokes, princess room décor, backpacks, Calico Critters, science kits, the whole shebang. I was surprised that another reviewer said they had no bathroom, as my sister has definitely taken her daughter into one there. Could be they are discouraging use of it now, which would be a shame, since they are supposed to cater to parents and kids in tow! I also wish they had a giftwrapping option, as it’s a great last-​minute go-​to place for kids’ birthday parties.

We walked into this store and it seemed great until my 3 year old needed a bathroom. THEY DON’T HAVE ONE!!! So, seriously, a store caters to children and there’s no potty. My daughter had wet pants and the staff wouldn’t even let me use their trash can to throw away the wet wipe.. They directed me to the one outside. Sorry, Zoom, that the needs of children are too inconvenient for you…

Fantastic store with an endless selection of original, non-​mass-​marketed toys. Great place to shop for your own child’s collection or gift giving. Very helpful staff. A+

Loved the feel of this store. It’s a totally independent toy store and you can tell! It’s so perfect and quaint and unique. I found two perfectly unique gifts for my two nephews. They loved the Firefly Catcher and special pronged bouncy ball (see photos). The staff was friendly. The cashier actually commented on how he had the same Firefly Catcher when he was a kid! Nice touch!
The store is colorful and includes a vast display of lunch boxes that hang from the ceiling. I am not the most observant person. It actually took me like fifteen minutes to even notice the lunch boxes. I love em though. Nice touch! So fun.
The store is on the outskirts of The Plaza in a prime corner spot. It’s a perfect location!
I would totally recommend Zoom to KC shoppers and tourists!

Excellent toy store — I couldn’t think up half the stuff they pile in there. But somehow, the mess looks like it was decorated to look that way — it’s artful. The place is a zoo — WATCH YOUR CHILDREN if you take them here, it’s like a maze of doll chests and tall shelves stacked high with puzzles, planes, trains, and automobiles and other loot. If I didn’t look where I was going, I’d have surely run over some poor wandering kid with a cowboy hat on or lose myself in the creepy corner with all the dolls (just my luck).
The store really does have — EVERYTHING and in the most succinct of spaces — there is no room to sell crap in this toy store — only the best sellers. And my favorite aspect of the store has to be the incredible art display of vintage lunchboxes that suspend in the air around some hanging spiral contraption. There were what seemed like hundreds of these classic pop-​culture-​inspired lunch boxes my own father would have carried to school as a boy: Davy Crockett, the Green Giant, Buck Rogers, and Wild Bill Hickock times a hundred.
The only downside, there’s a huge sign that’s written a little sharply that says none of them are for sale and don’t think about touching them. I wanted to touch ALL of them… but I wouldn’t because the women at the checkout was giving me the stare.
And yeah, about her. She’s the reason I deducted a star. A toy store should have staff members that don’t remind me of the Missouri police force, right? Am I crazy or expecting too much?! I asked the woman if ZOOM had a business card and with such attitude she goes, «No — and why do you ask?!»
Excuse me?! I’ll stick to the creepy corner of dolls over her half of the store any day. With a bite that sharp, she shouldn’t work with children.

This is a great toy store. It’s definitely one-​of-​a-​kind; you can find toys in this store you may not find anywhere else. They specialize in ‘learning’ toys, so you will find things that lean more towards science projects, such as ‘Grow Your Own Frog’ (which actually kinda creeps me out), terrariums, ant farms, etc. They also have fun little quirky toys such as ‘CAT-​a-​pult’ which is a tiny little trebuchet that launches little plastic cats, office voodoo dolls for those wanting to inflict pain/​suffering on their coworkers, and then the classics like fake poo and gum that turns your mouth black. Those never get old!
I’m especially fond of their toys for girls… they’re very big on promoting positive self-​images to young girls, so you won’t be finding Barbies or Bratz here. Instead they have dolls that are fully clothed and not made up like French whores. Just a personal preference of mine.
Also, the manager of the store is a collector of vintage lunch boxes and he has them displayed on a giant spiral shelf that stretches to the ceiling. Definitely worth a look.