Kidrobot

Hooray, the douchebags are out of a job!
I take great pleasure in knowing that this place closed down and the annoying manager is out of a job.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

This store no longer exists. I wanted to come see it in person and drove over the hill to pick up some futurama keychains. After walking a few blocks, my girlfriend and I we’re confounded. It clearly wasn’t at the address listed. Then I noticed the kid robot logo on an empty storefront. This information isn’t anywhere on the web. I can’t believe I’m the only one that drove over to this place, dealt with melrose parking, and then found an empty storefront. Update your information kid robot and save me time and gas next time.

I’ve been such a big kidrobot fan for years and getting their products at art supply stores or online but finally the day came when we would go to the store! yay! it was raining and there was no parking but hey its OK we were gonna see some dunnies!
The store was kinda small, too gallery like, but had so many selections and series!
The staff, hmm… sorry to say Kidrobot but your staff had left a very bad impression on our first maybe our last visit to the store. There were no other customers in the store aside from the 2 female workers so we tried to make light banter but they just stood there behind their register. Kinda awkward but they were probably just too cool to interact with their customers (haha). Anywho by the end of it we had purchased a green pack of all city breakers, 3″ south park stick of truth, 3“wandering misfits blind box and 6.5″ iron man munny. They had stuffed our purchases in a small paper bag and we just kinda looked at her because she even took some time trying to fit everything into the bag. Geez, use a bigger bag or get another one, we did just spend all this money on little vinyl TOYS! As we were walking out of the store I asked Ms. Alysa M. (register name on our receipt) if we can get another bag bc it was raining and our purchases were spilling out of the dinky bag and she just buoyantly replied «unfortunately, no.»
Well then, maybe we should have made 4 separate transactions to get bags that will fit all of our purchases!
Ugh at the end of this, it all came down to customer service. Get over yourselves ladies. Kidrobot, I’m sure the price of these vinyl TOYS are paying the overhead of your bags.

I USED to be a fan of Kidrobot until I took my 2 year old daughter to their store today. She loves playing with their toys and I thought she would enjoy visiting the store. Parking is always a nightmare there, so it is no small effort to actually go to the store. Considering we were the only customers in the store, my little daughter was greeted by the employees with «don’t touch the display please». I suppose it is naïve of me to expect that a toy store might appreciate a child wanting to play with the toys that were ON DISPLAY. Get over yourself Kidrobot. You sell plastic toys, not precious ceramics. When the customers outnumber your employees on a regular basis you probably might not want to alienate the last few humans actually willing to buy your merchandise. Next time I will stick to the Lego store. They welcome children instead of hustling them out the door.

What an absolutely awesome place. So much fun to see cool, new Simpsons stuff coming out that’s imaginative. The store looks do cool and I love the mystery box where you don’t know which character you’re getting!
Highly recommended!

I’ve been obsessed with this store for some time now. It’s a toy store for adults ! Yay !!
:D
I love the Yummy key chains and I buy one every six months or so. My latest key chain is the banana. Part of the fun is that they’re in a blind box so you never know which one you are getting, until you open the box. Sometimes I’m a baby, if I don’t get the one I like, I have to get another one. At $ 5 a key chain this can be a very wasteful habit.
I appreciate that the staff doesn’t judge me for testing each of the boxes, when trying to get the one I want. SMH …

I’ve been shopping online at Kid Robot for years and years. I’ve purchased many Labbits and listed after many overpriced shirts that most likely wouldn’t fit my oddly proportioned body. Never did I think I would be able to visit their actual storefront!
The storefront is 10 times cooler than their website, which is rarely the case. It has a nice classy feel to it, and they have very cool toys on display throughout the whole store.
My main focus was on the clothing of course. I could now try it on and make damn sure it fit my weird body.
I ended up purchasing a Frank Kozik bondage Labbit shirt, which is actually a great conversation piece!
The service was okay, but nothing to write home to Utah about.
The only real complaint I have is how small the dressing room is, but that is so minuscule that it’s almost a waste of time to bring up.

Went in the other day and was very put off by one of the employee’s attitudes. Two people working, one young girl, probably new, and an older guy. Older guy was a total douchebag, i.e. unhelpful and rude. Younger girl was nice, helpful and polite. In such a small shop, one person can ruin the experience. Sure, trendy part of town and most shops seem to hire friends and not employees with potential, but as you can see that only gets your business so far.

What a fun shop, constantly has new items in stock.
The employees are very knowledgeable on collectibles.
This place always makes me smile.

If toys with an anarchist, creative, and audacious flair sound cool to you, you need to check out this store.
From my perspective, these toys aren’t the kind you go and buy for your child (although I guess some of them could fill that purpose if that is what you really want). They’re more like art or collectibles, but not in the same sense that some 40-​year old virgin collects old Star Wars toys still in their original box from the 70’s. They usually feature some rendition on their main characters munny, dunny, and labbit (a rabbit who is usually found smoking), but they’ll often tie in some form of utter craziness. Last time I was in there they had a «deadly sins» edition of the labbit, and I know they put out a bondage labbit in the past.
You might think vinyl toys selling for $ 5 to $ 1,000 and upwards is one of the most ridiculous things you’ve ever heard, but truth be told a lot of these make actually decent investments. They’ll often put out editions designed by various high profile artists and creative personalities in very limited quantities, and they do tend to show price appreciation if you do a good job of choosing the right items. That’s never a reason to buy art, but it at least makes the price of their stuff reasonable.
All in all, this place is well worth checking out if you haven’t already. Also, the employees have been helpful and very nice from my experience.

I love this store’s cleanliness and selection.
This place is stark white inside and well thought out.
Their figurines are displayed along a wall in a beautifully organized case.
It’s nice to see the possibilities of blind boxes in person, instead of just the small photo printed on the box.
The staff are helpful, but can tend to follow you out.
I guess it’s an anti-​theft precaution, but it’s a bit off-​putting.
I just dropped a good deal of money here on your awesome vinyl figurines, please don’t treat me like i’m here to steal the rest of them.
Regardless, I’ll continue to come here instead of shopping online.

This store sells clothing as well as vinyl DIY figures as well as just soft Vinyl figures.
there is something about this store that I really like. It might be the fact that I am a Huge fan of MUNNYWORLD (which this store sells)
it’s worth checking out.
think of it as a «Urban Toy Store.»

Cute store full of cute (but entirely unnecessary) acrylic figurines. They also have the labbit stuffed animals, stuffed animals in the shape of donuts, pizza, and also t-​shirts. It was interesting to see all the different collections, from the dunnys to labbits to simpsons to family guy, but I knew if I purchased something, it would just sit around collecting dust. However, this is a great store for those who collect to puruse!

Oh kidrobot, how much i hate thee for takin so much my money. lol jk
The LA location is a great store stuck in the ever so interesting Melrose hipster block with other similar interest stores all nearby. I love that with 1 visit, KR, SSUR, Johnny Cupcakes, RRL, n the new era shop is all within walking distance. RIP Bape store.
The staff at the store are really chill eclectic/​artsy type workers that arent pushy but the right level of carefree to make shopping here a dope experience. lol It’s a really small store with their exclusive stuff stock always rotating, but love coming in and checkin it out, especially when they have special events like artist hosting or new line releases.
Definitely check the store out if you’re curious to learn more about the world in which mature and sophisticated adults such as myself, drop 100s or 1000s of dollars on 3 inch plastic toys. lol

Finally, a Vinyl Toy store that pleases my heart to the most…
I am so happy to finally be in one of these stores again! Vancouver has really lost the community of vinyl toys, and coming here really brings back a lot of memories.
I really dislike the staff, they really haven’t been attentive enough, and the people that work here really needed a whip. I even told them I was from Vancouver and wanted to buy a bunch of stuff, which I did at the end, and they still give me a half ass service. Sigh…
I was happy to finally step into one of these stores, but instead they gave me the pish posh attitude in the end. I do pity the owner of the place, because they have really lost the whole KidRobot attitude.
The TokiDoki totally pleased me as much as I needed, too bad they didn’t like the Vancourite. Like seriously, step up.

Ahhhh the element of surprise.
My name is Ciara and I’m addicted to Kidrobot.
At first I hated the fact that you never knew what you were going to get. Now I’m obsessed to the point where I seriously consider buying a whole case. Speaking Dunny, that’s 25 blind boxes.
Buying one is not enough. I buy 2 of whatever collection I’m getting at the time. That way if you already have the item you can quickly toss it aside (or give it to a friend) and tear open the next box.
The staff that was working on my visit was cool chillin. I was looking for a particular zipper pull collection and had no clue what it was called so I showed them one I had on me and they knew exactly what I was talking about. They kindly held all my boxes at the register while I looked around.
So if you ever want to buy me a gift and have no clue what to get me, make a trip to Kidrobot and get me two from whatever Dunny or zipper pull collection and I’ll be happy. Or if you want to profess your undying love for me, then get me a case.
Again my name is Ciara and I’m a Kidrobot addict.
Blind box!

Super cool store. If you are a Simpsons or Futurama or Tokidoki collector as I am, there is something cool waiting for you! Urban Outfitters carries a lot of Kidrobot vinyl figures, but charges about $ 1+ more each. Great experience, I will stop back next time I am in LA.
A note about parking: we had no problem finding metered street parking right in front. It’s $.25 for 15 minutes.

So while on a recent trip to the Los Angeles area, my husband requested that we come to this location so he could check out some vinylmation. Although the store seems very sterile (it must be the look they were going for) I really liked their set up and although the selection is small. if you are into this type of collecting. this would be a great place to spend some time at… great product selection.
I have to agree with other reviewers as the customer service department is truly lacking. I almost felt a burden for walking in with my two children while they were deep in conversation or on their computer. We dropped some serious mula since you can’t really get this stuff in the Seattle area; and couldn’t even crack a smile from the guy behind the counter…
You can find items from $ 4.95 and up. I really love not knowing what’s in the box. the whole anticipation and excitement really makes you feel like a kid opening a present on Christmas morning. that could be why we spent so much. lol
Overall I like the store– not the service. and the best thing about it is the awesome bag they give you when you buy something. Worth checking out.

The 2-​star rating is strictly for service because I LOVE all things Kidrobot as evidenced by the gazillions of vinyl toys, stuffed animals and apparel items in my room. I was a bit in disbelief at the treatment that the bf and I got at this store. First, they said no food and drinks which is fine, so we put our coffee by the door. However, it was in a place where apparently they didn’t want the coffee so instead of telling us, one of the employees went and put the coffee elsewhere without even talking /​telling us.
Who still wants coffee that somebody else’s dirty hands have touched?
Then, it really seemed like you were just NOT allowed to browse at this store at all. When you look at their merchandise, they keep asking if you need help. If you pick up an item, they immediately grab it from you and ask if you need help with it or if you want to buy it they will put it at the counter for you. Seriously? Am I going to steal it right in front of you at this tiny little store? Can you give me the benefit of the doubt? This happened to both my bf and I several times as we browsed through the store. They were having a pretty good sale on their apparel so despite their attitude I begrudgingly gave them business anyway.
I severely dislike being treated like I’m going to steal something when I try to shop, especially at this specialty boutique where everything *IS* overpriced but people who love Kidrobot are willing to pay for it anyway. I think the employees need to be more respectful to their customers and be more willing to open up the business instead of seeming stingy and cranky and continuously asking their customers if they need help as their customers walk through the store to look at items.
One of the Asian male employees even took some cleaning spray and a wipe to wipe down a toy that some one came in and looked at /​touched. It’s just like … wow, right in front of the guy? Are you trying to make a statement? Horrible.

Kid Robot has kind of gone down over the years. or maybe it’s just changed. When I lived in NYC I loved going to opening art/​toy events and the staff was awesome. I used to collect dunnies back in the day (Series 1 and on cause I’m a nerd) but I got over that after awhile because there were too many of them and the blind box thing was killing me.
I’ve been to the KR in LA several times. the staff is not very nice. Super anal and don’t even think about pulling out a camera in the store. They’ll be on you in a second– I watched them scream at my friend from out of town once. Nothing like that ever happened in NYC.
The merchandise has gotten kind of boring but I do appreciate that they recognize some awesome artists and collaborate with them. Just wish it was more like the old times I guess. They have done amazing stuff with Kozik, Amanda Visell, Tim Biskup, Toki Doki, Friends With You, Dalek, etc. (could go on forever and ever). Not so into the whole hoodie/​sneaker head thing. and not so sure how much the people who like those things even go to KR for them. They’re kind of cheesy and way overpriced.
I’m happy enough to visit them once a year at SDCC. The staff puts on their nicer faces for that event.