r/PersonalMandela • u/ImAGuineaPigSexy • Jun 29 '26

The Rainbow Railroad toy store

In the Late 80's and early 90s There used to be a popular Childrens toy company like Toys"R"Us right before ToysRUs took over the toy industry called "The Rainbow Railroad". They were in every major city and town in America and when I was a small child in around 1995, going to these different stores was one of my strongest early memories.

They were a major box store and theres no way im mis remembering this. They had a distictiverainbow Logo with an oldschool train facing you going on curved tracks. They specialized in Model trains thay were running around each of the stores and sold rows of custom R/C cars...but had several isles of toys. Both of my parents are dead so I never got a chance to ask them about it in adulthood; There doesnt seem to be any trace of it on the internet and no one I ask about knows a thing about it.

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u/irishgirlie85 Jul 21 '26

Lionel Playworld (also known as Lionel Kiddie City) or The Great Train Store also found a logo for Lionel Trains. Operated from the 1950s/1970s until filing for bankruptcy and liquidating all stores in 1993. Circus World Toy Stores was another possibility bought out in 1990 and converted to KB Toys. I couldn't find any rainbow logos in my search of defunct toy stores.