Flying Tiger Copenhagen

visiting from out of town and was told we had to come here. Love the layout, how it takes you through a maze and you can look through everything!
Some of the stuff was either really random or cheap Chinatown stuff you could get for 50 cents (but marked over $ 3 here)
The cashier was rude as heck but I guess that’s typical for New York interactions? I don’t know, it doesn’t seem necessary to be so blatantly unpleasant. He clearly did not like his job. He kind of looked out of place though, like he should be in a gang on the street or something. Didn’t even thank us for our purchase and was super temperamental when I asked him a question about buying a reusable bag (since they charge 60 cents for plastic shopping bags, is that legal in New York?)
Despite the rude cashier, I still spent $ 80 bucks. Haha. Ended up with more than I thought but did enjoy the shop! :)

Flying Tiger is a great place for inexpensive, fun «impulse purchases» for the home, school, office, etc. The store is full of little items that you might want to buy but don’t want to spend a lot of money on, like decorated boxes and containers to organize your home or office, fun notebooks, novelty pens and pencils, puzzles and games, piggy banks, kitchen utensils, electronics accessories, etc. I go there to buy fun little gifts for my niece and nephews.
Note: They don’t supply you with a free plastic or paper bag when you check out, so bring your own reusable bag, or you can pay a small amount (about 30 – 50 cents) for one of theirs.

one of my favorite places in the city! Amazing prices for really cute and unique goods. I’ll be getting all of my school supplies here next year haha.
Best way to describe it would be ikea with all of the adorable décor and none of the furniture.
Even if you don’t need anything, it’s a pretty neat little shop to explore, definitely worth checking out :*))

I love coming here! Hidden in Flatiron is an IKEA-​esque home goods store that offers unique items you can buy for a song.
While the line can sometimes be out the door, this store offers some really great gifts and household items that you didn’t know you needed until you saw them. For example, a beautiful cutting board with tree bark down the side. A coffee decorating stencil. Lots of children’s toys that are modern takes on old fashioned games.
The design is very European — walk in and head through the entire store in a single file line until you reach check-​out.
This is not a store you can just «pop» in to. It will take you a few minutes to reach your item and pay for it.
I have come at all times of the year, and it appears they rotate their stock quite often. So if you get something and you like it, buy 2 before they disappear! A great little-​gift store as well, for teachers, crafters, little ones and anyone who likes themed– stationery.

OMFG. I’m in love. It’s a cooler version of a dollar store. With bright, fun, designs and things you didn’t know you needed (the bunny shaped clips had me at hello). If you are a crafter, dreamer, homemaker, bargain hunter, Scandinavian lover, colorful type, this is for you! The lady at checkout said this is the first of this store on US soil, despite there being over 500 of these stores elsewhere on the globe. Wish we had one in my home city, but until then, I will Shawshank that sh*z over the border with me, into the Midwest.

If you have 20 minutes to kill and love looking at random knickknacks then this is your place. They have tons of miscellaneous goods ranging from home décor to workout equipment and everything in between. The prices are very affordable as well. The layout of the store is a straight shot maze (similar to that of ikea). My friend was curious as to how the store got its name and we were told that ‘flying’ came into the name because the concept came from overseas so it flew over the ocean over in order to come to New York. Interesting.

Okay, I thought it was just me that got that Ikea nostalgia when I walked into Tiger Fly. Obviously not… Yes I ended up buying a whole bunch of things I didn’t need, like a mini wooden chair for $ 8, and ANOTHER but beautiful looking wood cutting board with the bark still on the edge.
But as everyone mentioned, the prices are too good to pass up! That’s the marketing science to this place, keep the prices low enough to keep us coming back for more.
So you better believe that «I’ll be back» (in my Arnold Schwarzenegger voice)!

I want to hate you Flying Tiger, I really do. I know what you are doing. I know I don’t need any of these items. I know half of these items are so useless they didn’t even exist until someone in your creative department said «Ya know what would be really funny? Let’s see how many people we can convince to buy a mug in the shape of mustache. For bonus points, not only do they have to buy it, but they be convinced they absolutely can’t live with this mustache mug until the moment they leave the store when they say to themselves ‘WTF? Why did I just buy a mustache mug? Ah well. Might as well enjoy it now.’»
And that ladies and gentlemen is Flying Tiger in a moderately sized nutshell.
As others have said, it’s the Ikea Market in a Rose Art Kaleidoscope. You snake your way through a single path, dodging that one jerk who doesn’t understand the concept of keep it moving and the other bold lady who dares to swim upstream and walk against the flow of traffic backtracking to something she just has to have (it was probably the mustache mug).
I pass by here every night and when I finally went in I told myself that it was a one time thing. Yeah right. That was then. I find the witching hour is weeknights around 7. It’s an hour to closing and it’s slow enough to manage but just enough people to distract you from the giant paper clip so that you WALK AWAY FROM THE GIANT PAPER CLIP. Do walk straight for the plates and bowls. Decent dish ware for a few bucks is a New Yorker’s dream.
All that being said, as a therapist this has become my go to place for therapy toys. All of the most popular therapy toys in my office have been something from Flying Tiger. This makes me happy because each of those toys were under ten bucks. Classics for the win!

I love this store! I was first introduced to Tiger when I was abroad in Europe and saw these chain of stores that had adorable small décor/​plates/​etc for the house. When I left Europe, I always wished there was a store like Tiger in the States to buy cheap cute décor for the house. Recently, my dream came true!
This is a bit smaller than the Tiger stores I saw in Europe. But who do I care? Tiger finally expanded here! Once you enter, there is only 1 clear path for you to walk so you can make sure you go through everything in the store before you leave. Also, the store can get a bit packed as people check out merchandise and you have to squeeze through the aisles. Each item is labelled with a price close to where they store each item. Stationary and notebooks are cheap at 2 – 3 $ a piece. There is also a lot of craft stuff (tapes, twine, stickers, etc) that is alot cheaper than hobby shops like Michaels. My favorite purchases here include fish plates (at $ 3 a piece) and a laundry hamper that looks like a washing machine (how cute is that?!)
I always try to make a trip here to Tiger at least once a season when they change things. Everytime I come, they have new merchandise for me to ogle at.

I found out about this place through the BF, who randomly spotted it while shopping for stocking stuffers over the holiday.
Flying Tiger is really the love child of Ikea and Muji– and I mean that in the best way. They have really fun products at extraordinarily cheap prices, especially for the location. The quality doesn’t look/​feel as cheap as, say, a dollar store– and the prices of everything are very clearly displayed.
The layout is confusing at first, but by the end I decided it worked out. The store is set up in kind of a one-​way linear maze where you have to just follow the isles to the end of the store where the registers are. There’s no cutting back, but the isles are wide enough to go back if you feel like you want to grab something you missed.
I noticed a loose structure of organization– stationary, cookware, toys, mustache-​related items, etc were grouped together. It really is just a fun experience to walk through and look at everything– not the kind of place you’d go if you knew that you needed one single item, because you’d grab ten other things on the way there and to the register.
There were a few floor employees, but they were mostly restocking, and it’s a very self explanatory store. The cashier’s were very friendly. I would note to bring some recycled bags next time because they charge a teeny fee for plastic bags (I don’t mind this at all, more stores should). They also have some re-​usable bags for sale at a low price.
This is one of those stores I’d go back to once a season, especially around birthdays and Christmas for small items and stocking stuffers. I really hope they stick around for a while.

I first went to one of these in Copenhagen and I’m delighted to see one here in the city. They have this affordable kitsch that trends with ikea. I bought some mustache things and heart shaped things. I also got a little shopping cart that fits in my hand for no reason other than its fun.
You can get essentials here for way less than if you wanted to have a name brand stamped on them. Got a pie pan for 5 dollars! There is a cute laundry basket that sells for 80 on modcloth that was only 15 here. That’s my kind of prices.

What a terribly confusing and delightful store. Flying Tiger is like if Ikea, Target, and Sanrio had a baby, and then that baby decided not to be a full store but just let you shop in random rooms of their house. The store is on a single floor and the whole thing is laid out like the impulse buy line that winds around ever toward the checkout counters. This setup makes it pretty difficult to shop because you’re winding through very narrow spaces and you feel like you have to keep pressing forward so the folks behind you can get through. There’s also not much rhyme and reason to how things are laid out. Yes, each little section has a theme, but those little sections tell you nothing about what may lay before or behind (various «kitchen» items for instance, may be at the front and back of the store with miles of random things between them).
The store is fairly well organized (as in clean, not as in sensible) and full of delightfully cute bits and bobs. Great place to look for a gift or Ikea-​esque homewares, just be aware that whether or not they have a particular item is probably a total crap shoot. Other big plus is that the products are insanely cheap– bought some large, heavy duty plates there for $ 3 each, for example. Just steer clear during high-​volume times, unless you like that whole rat in a maze during a traffic jam thing.

This place is absolutely amazing. It’s hard leaving this place without buying something, because there’s so much great stuff for just about everything.
A friend took me here when we were in Poland. She was raving about how cool and awesome this place was, so of course I had to check it out… and it was! I was amazed at how much cool stuff they had… at a really low cost too. They have everything from cute kitchen wear, plates, a large assortment of candles, crafts, party favors, home décor, baskets, umbrellas, ipod accessories, office supplies, bathroom gear… you name it, they have it. As I continued to maze through the store, in awe by how much there is to look at, I couldn’t help but wonder, «why doesn’t the United States have one of these?!» To my surprise… they do.
I basically flipped out when I was walking down broadway and passed what seemed to be like a Flying Tiger. I thought to myself…“what? It couldn’t be…” Oh yes, Kate, It is.
So, my dreams came true. You still can find everything at this New York location, just like all the other Flying Tigers in Europe. Our place needed a bathmat… got it. It was raining so I was in need of an umbrella… got it. And everything’s so cute and affordable (like ridiculously), that I now go out of my way to go shopping at this place.

My favorite store to browse for fun purchases and gifts.
I bought a strawberry shaped calculator for $ 2 because — why not? The cute addition perks up my drab looking cube.
This is an amazing place to buy cards, fun games, kitchen ware, umbrellas, arts & crafts supplies, cutely shaped coat hangers, tons of stationary: notebooks, pens, gorilla erasers, push pins in the shape of mustaches, notepads in the shape of hamburgers,. The best part is that prices range from $ 1-​$ 25
Perfect place to buy your stocking stuffers or party gift bags!

Quality stationary and other odd yet highly functional household goods for CHEAP prices! Reminds me of Muji without the Muji price tag.
Traffic is one-​way as the store is set up in a maze. This can either be a hit (if you want to see everything in one go) or a miss (if you forgot something and had to go back for it).

This place just barfs cuteness. Look at this dustpan — cute. Check out this toilet paper — charming. This stapler? Adorbs. Pretty much everywhere you look you’ll find something to fall in love with and then impulsively throw it into your basket. Everything is crazy cheap — like dollar store cheap so impulse shopping is totally affordable and pretty much mandatory. This is not really the kind of store you come to with a shopping list. I walked out with a coloring book, soap dispenser, deer head magnet, an owl mobile and a dishtowel with birds on it — none of which were anything I really needed.
I hope they expand to other cities or open up to online shopping so I can indulge my inner 6-​year-​old some more!

I literally told myself, this is dream come true for me! Great designs don’t have to come at a great price. The quality of things here seem to be better than IKEA and H&M home too. the store display is super easy to navigate, and the selection is the best for a home goods store.
Who would have thought I can find ***work-​out tools***, ***party supplies**, AND water proof phone case all under one roof?
A pet peeve though– the staff there was not the best i’ve encountered. They often engage in conversations with themselves, and someitmes ignored customers with questions or those who wan to check out. and for this reason, the place is a 4 star.

This place is just adorable. There’s a lot of wayfinding going on (there are no real aisles, just a maze of products that you’re led through). They have a ton of random stuff (most of it cheap and cheaply made). You never know if what you’re looking for will be there, but you’re guaranteed to find something you didn’t know you wanted.
I bought a cheese grater, a bamboo box, and some bamboo placemats in my most recent trip. Other things you’ll find — ktichenware, tons of jewerly display accessories, notebooks of all sizes, SO MANY mustache themed items, plates, the cutest little clothespins, shark lunchboxes, summer hats, phone covers, cutting boards, and so much more.
They take credit cards, and true to European form, you can use your chip! And just like in Europe, they charge for plastic bags. They’re 25 cents, but they’re pretty.
Also, they have cute bathrooms near the back. I’ll admit, I’ve come here before just to use the bathrooms. But hey, I have at some point been a paying customer!

Who doesn’t love zig zagging* through a store that is full of bright, colorful, and cute stuff that you probably don’t even need? I doubt you’re going to wander in and find things to furnish your whole apartment but its great for the little things, kitschy knick knacks, and I imagine it’ll be great for stocking stuffers come holiday time.
A few of the fun and random things I’ve seen throughout the store:
— Plastic converse-​look-​alike-​shoe covers for rainy days.
— Ombré serving bowls.
— Giant playing cards. (We’re talking like like 5“x7″.)
— Pencil cases in the shape of sharks. (Shark week is coming up, isn’t it?)
— Pot holders in the shapes of strawberries.
— Hedgehog shaped tape dispenser.
The list goes on and on.
They do have a few things that are practical. Party napkins in fun designs and colors, candles, crafty items, etc. My favorite was a bunch of storage canisters they had for the kitchen. I ended up buying a small $ 2 canister with fruit all over it because it was crazy colorful and reminded me of my grandparents kitchen when I was a kid. :-)
I’m probably not doing this place any justice — get over the Flatiron neighborhood and check it out for yourself. It’s such a happy store! I’m positive that you’ll walk through and laugh at some of the ridiculous items for sale, but I’m also pretty positive that you’re going to love it too.
* The store is really a zig zag. The entire place is like one giant aisle that weaves itself in different directions throughout the space. And then magically you end up at the cashiers. They kinda force you to look at everything before they let you out… but I was ok w/​that.

IKEA and Muji had a baby and named it Flying Tiger!!! Rarrr!
Very fun stuff. Some super useful home goods and office supplies, along with a lot of stuff you really don’t need but want to get anyway because it’s super cute or different and it would make for a good convo piece. :breathing:
Lots of good organizing items. Most items I saw were around $ 3 – 5. They have greeting cards and post cards that are 2/​$ 1. Penmanship is truly becoming a lost art form.
This store is good for party supplies too. They had several things that could be fun for themed picnics or bbqs.
I picked up several fun housewares items today and spent less than $ 20!
Idk what else to say. Go check it out! You really can’t go wrong with this one :)