Toy Stores in Riverside, CA

“Found this shop when at an event at the convention center. The cutest place. I’m very into Montessori and natural style play toys for my little. They have the best curated collection. I can spend all day in here.”

“I honestly love the idea of kids making their own plushes. Its really cute and wholesome but the prices were very high. I would come back to get my friend a plush if the prices werent as high, and a lot of people would agree with me.”

“Decent prices and reasonable staff.

Not quite as welcoming as some other game stores in the area, but they’ve always been reasonable and polite to me so I have nothing to complain about.

I haven’t played much there, but it’s clear their play space is great for miniatures, but seems only fine for anything else - not bad, but nothing special on that front.

For better or worse, they usually follow TCG player prices closely. This means if you didn’t pre-order and it’s a popular set, they’ll up the price to market value - however high that is - sometimes well above any nearby stores. But on the flip side, if they have product that’s less popular they’ll generally discount it below other local stores to match TCG player prices. If you know what you’re willing to pay for something this works out fine, and I can’t blame them for trying to make money in the fine margins a game store operates, but it’s worth knowing what you’re getting going in.

They do offer more than some of the closest other stores for trade it, but have a bit less selection to spend that trade in credit on. Again, a trade off, but one I’ve been very happy with on many occasions.

I can’t say this is my favorite game store, or the best experience ever, but I also can’t get behind the 1 star reviews they have. If they have what you want (and they have a reasonable mix of collectible games and more casual/ strategy card and board games) you’ll be able to find it for a fair price - and I think that deserves 4 stars. If you like miniatures, their extensive terrain in their gaming area probably push them up to 5 stars and best in the area, but if you’re into cards there are other local stores that run better events or have larger variety of available singles and that might push them down to 3 or 3.5 stars.

Overall, I think they’re a just fine store, and while I do most of my playing and shopping at other game stores in the area I still sometimes come here to buy or trade in and I’ve always been content with what they have to offer.”

“This place is nice and staff is mostly always friendly. The only complaint I have is they don’t let you shake the Sonny angel and Smiski boxes?? I have bought various times from this Sanrio and they have always let me shake the boxes. It’s not like it’s damaging the product .. it honestly takes the excitement and fun out of Smiski and Sonny angel hunting :/ and of course I walk in the store to see an employee shaking one of the Sonny angels boxes herself. So employees can shake them but customers can’t ? Hmm. That’s the only thing I would hope the owner or manager of the store would change . It’s not fair employees can shake the boxes but paying customers can’t?”

“I took my two small children here. One is on the spectrum, they were so patient and kind with him. It was for my daughter's birthday. And they made her day extra special highly recommend.”

“I’ve been to other 5 below’s in the past and I was blown away how nice my experience was while shopping here. Store was clean and items were nicely displayed. The staff was knowledgeable on where products were located and were happy to help with any questions I had. Check out was a breeze! I think I found my new 5 Below location from here on out.”

“It’s my first time being here and it’s pretty nice. It has much more useful things than Boxlunch and Miniso. The employees there do follow you around but I'd imagine it's cause of the large amount of theft. There's a lot of small items in there so it's a no-brainer why they would do that. At least they don't make it obvious like the employee at the Kpop store some distance away did (she straight up stared at me without smiling).Some of the items they carry are things you can't find anywhere, so make sure you get those! Other than that make sure to price compare on places like Aliexpress and Amazon. If you're a sucker for original merch then by all means you're more than welcome to spend the extra money and buy it.”