They were started by Musicland Corp. in 1992 and had 61 stores at the announcement of closing on 12/11/05. They sold books, movies, music, electronics, games, and other memorabilia. They will all be closed by the end of January 2006.
(Musicland also owns Sam Goody and Suncoast, but these are not closing). The chain was breifly owned by Best Buy around 2000-2002.
Image:
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I heard about this today actually. I remember going to the old Mohawk Mall store in Albany before it closed in 2001. I have also been to the Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Syracuse, and Buffalo stores.
Media Play flyer.
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QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
They were started by Musicland Corp. in 1992 and had 61 stores at the announcement of closing on 12/11/05. They sold books, movies, music, electronics, games, and other memorabilia. They will all be closed by the end of January 2006.
(Musicland also owns Sam Goody and Suncoast, but these are not closing). The chain was breifly owned by Best Buy around 2000-2002.
Image:
(http://www.musicland.com/images/mpStorefront.jpg)
thats sad to see them go :(
it seem evrey year we lose a big store chain its been going on since teh last 80's
with Jefferson Ward Barkers Zayer
and then again in teh 1990's with Wool Worth Jamesway and Caldor in 1999 then 2 yearsa latter in 2001 we lose Bradlees Montgomery Ward Pergament JC Penny clsoses 44 stores Sears did it with 89 ames filed for bankrupcie along with frank nursey grand union is takeing over that year and in 2002 kmart filed for bankrupsic and Service emrchandsuie clses that year in 2003 we lost Nobody Beets The Wiz and in 2004 Huffman Koos and Franks Nursey Closes now in 2005 iTS :(
Media Play stores to close
Updated: 12/10/2005 7:13 PM
By: News 10 Now Web Staff
Media Play stores across the country will be closed by the end of January.
The Parent company, Musicland Group, said it will close all 61 stores, including its two locations in Central New York. Media Play operates stores in Shopping Town Mall in DeWitt and the Northern Lights Plaza in Mattydale.
Gale Weller, a frequent customer of Media Play said, "They have a really good place where the kids can sit and play while you shop. They have great prices. I'm going to miss it."
Media Play stores across the country will be closed in just over a month. The parent company said the chain wasn't able to compete with other big box media stores.
A spokeswoman for Media Play said they were not able to find a niche in the marketplace for a big box music and entertainment store.
Media Play opened in the early 1990?s and struggled financially for a number of years. It employs 2,000 people nationwide.
Musicland will now concentrate more on its mall-based media chain Sam Goody.
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http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=55330
why do they have to close all the stores.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
why do they have to close all the stores.
jugeing by that news report its because there not doing so well and are stuugrling agests big box company such as Broders and Barns & Noble ECT and teh comany wants to focus more on Sam Goddy nand such witch is sad because same goody has clsed many stores over teh years
hears the middletown locations as of jan 1
and hears the outside of it
hears anouther shot
hears the logo again
and yet anouther pic
hears the cool triangle
and yes i did go inside a section of the store was closed off i got a few dvds there for cheep and it was crowed with people there they put up to many signs
so yea there how the insie looks i wish it woukld saty around longer thye had movues tyere i couldent even find at best buy or target
As I heard of the news of Media Play closing I felt that another piece of my childhood was closed. When I was in the theird grade I entered a art contest to win a gift certificate to Media Play. I won, and recieved the gift card for $100.00. All of my class mates thought that was the greatest thing ever, now poor Media Play is closing, not even a blip on the radar compared to Best Buy and Circuit City. What happened to the good old days the 80's and 90's man things have changed. Not really for the better either. Here is a tribute to one of the stores now "of the past". Good bye Media Play, old friend.
Here's the Media Play at the Northern Lights Plaza in Syracuse, New York.
These places all look the same... but here's the Media Play in Harrisburg, PA. The fact that it closed is justice of sorts for friends of the family, as they had a fairly popular small bookstore that couldn't keep open when Media Play came into town.
Anyway, here it is:
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In Connecticut, Media Play began to drop quickly after 2000 with the Manchester and Newington ones submitting to competitors and other retailers. The one near the Enfield Mall is officially gone now.
It's funny too... I hadn't visited Media Play in nearly a year before I asked about the preordering of X360s at the nearby mall's GameStop and they told me I might have a chance at Media Play. In awe, I asked him where there's anymore of those and he told there's one right down the street. I was shocked.
I visited twice before the unexpected closing. It almost felt like a store I loved to visit came back but only for a short time. I took a picture of the remains...
I shopped at the Media Play in Harrisburg alot. For the most part their prices were a little high, but I could always find bargains. It really didn't do great business due to all the other stores that ended up moving into that area in the past few years. You could go in there on a Friday night or Saturday and it would be pretty empty. It was a nice store, bright and open unlike Best Buy or Circuit City where everything is crammed into a small aisles.
hears teh one in the shouth hills mall not a great pic
here is the media play in middletown ny in the dunning plaza that has toys r us and tj maxx.. it is already closed as of march 25, 2006. NOTICE HOW IT SAYS COMING SOON MICHAELS, BUT THERE IS A AC MOORE ALREADY!!!!
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
here is the media play in middletown ny in the dunning plaza that has toys r us and tj maxx.. it is already closed as of march 25, 2006. NOTICE HOW IT SAYS COMING SOON MICHAELS, BUT THERE IS A AC MOORE ALREADY!!!!
more media play in middletown. it is gone
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
here is the media play in middletown ny in the dunning plaza that has toys r us and tj maxx.. it is already closed as of march 25, 2006. NOTICE HOW IT SAYS COMING SOON MICHAELS, BUT THERE IS A AC MOORE ALREADY!!!!
more media play in middletown. it is gone
more media play in middletown
media play in shoppingtown mall in dewitt ny. the store was already gone nad it was hard to remember shortly after where it was. i beleive it was at that part near regal cinema
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
media play in shoppingtown mall in dewitt ny. the store was already gone nad it was hard to remember shortly after where it was. i beleive it was at that part near regal cinema
m ore the media play in dewitt was at this part where the silver grey red lining is.
here is media play in poughkeepsie it was already gone as of march 25, 2006.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
here is media play in poughkeepsie it was already gone as of march 25, 2006.
more media play in poughkeepsie.
here is the media play in mattydale in the northern lights shopping cneter.
Here's the former Media Play in Enfield, Connecticut as it stands today vacant. Signage has been taken off quickly...
hears teh isnde of teh media play in the south hills mall and i must say it had a nice entrance
inside
Found this online:
Through next month, Trans World will be grand-opening six new super F.Y.E. storefronts inside old Media Play outlets, which were closed by Musicland late last year. Four of the rebranded sites are in Utah and two are located in New York, and interiors and exteriors have all been renovated. Super F.Y.E. stores average 24,000 square feet and carry expanded product selection.
So it looks like "Media Play" is coming back somewhat. The article said the stores will still have books, but not as many. (Not suprised as FYE, and the old Musicland, don't/didn't know much about books anyway)
FYE is also expanding! the Suncoast brand, while slowly fading out the Sam Goodby brand.
here is the vacant media play in henrietta (outside rochester) ny (on 1/2 mile from the mall), vacant as of june 1, 2006 ,but it is a temporary book store as some of them are.
as of june 1, 2006. here is the vacant media play in greece ny west of the mall in this plaa with kmart and wegmans, and on the window: look whats becoming!!!!!!! I did not notice that until I saw the picture.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
here is the vacant media play in greece ny west of the mall in this plaa with kmart and wegmans, and on the window: look whats becoming!!!!!!! I did not notice that until I saw the picture.
more of hte vacant one in greece
vacant one in niagara falls ny as of june 2, 2006.
vacant one in amherst ny (near buffalo) near the toys r us and tj maxx and circuit city and down the road from the mall, as of june 3, 2006
here is the vacant one in clarence / williamsville ny (near buffalo) as of june 3, 2006.
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
here is the vacant one in clarence / williamsville ny (near buffalo) as of june 3, 2006.
clarence / williamsville, the sign.
here is the media play in hamburg / blasdell ny (near buffalo) near the mall vacant as of june 4, 2006.
here is teh vacant media play in erie pa (pennsylvania) in the kohl's / wal-mart / lowe's plaza, as of june 5, 2006.
here is what could have been the vacant media play in cheektowaga ny (near buffalo) as of june 3, 2006.
A few of those NY stores are apparently reopening as FYE'S...I wonder which ones
i know the middletown one is become a michles and whats about the onme in the south hills mall?
Fye bought music land co and some media play stores and and bough 2 media play stores in buffalo plans to reopen them up as media play
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
i know the middletown one is become a michles and whats about the onme in the south hills mall?
i don't know waht the south hills one will become but I am assuming it will be torn down as I think (this is my speculation) they will tear some of the parts of the mall down or it will be sublet to other places.
The Middletown Media Play was in the space that was once an Ames. I don't know exactly when it opened and closed but it wasn't open for very long. I think it opened in 1989 or 1990 and was closed before 1994.
The Media Play on Walden Ave. in Cheektowaga, NY is now an Oliee's Bargin Outlet.
The Media Play in the Taylor Retail Center on Eureka Road in Taylor, Michigan has been subdivided into three new spaces. Lumber Liquidators has officially opened their newest location in one of these spaces.
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The article also mentions that the other two spaces will soon be filled by Party City (which will be relocating from their current location next to the Kohl's in another shopping center next to Southland Center) and an indoor trampoline park called Sky Zone.
This, plus the relocation of an existing Big Lots elsewhere in Taylor into the former Circuit City and the opening of Panera Bread in the long-vacant Rio Bravo (both in the same center), has played a role in the rejuvenation of the previously half-dead Taylor Retail Center.
Guess what I found hiding in a drawer today.
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Quote from: M.R.CALDOR on July 09, 2015, 04:52:03 AM
Here is my main memory of Media Play, I was living in New Britain at the time, so I probably went to a nearby location (Southington maybe, I honestly can't remember), anyway, I liked the store, it was there where I purchased an IRON GIANT VHS, with the little figure inside and a giant plush of SHREK, I was probably seven at the time, the people were nice, and the store was set up better (with better prices) than most of today's FYE stores. Sadly, I think in the days of Netflix and Amazon, these stores won't hold on for much longer. I miss Media Play, was sad to see them go. Oh the feels are coming on strong right now. :'(
Probably Newington right off The Turnpike in the Plaza with Shaw's. These days Shaw's is Stop & Shop. Media Play is now Bob's Clothing & Footwear. Southington did not have one.
The Media Play, I used to go to was by the Regal Cinemas on Transit Road in Williamsville, NY that is now a Hobby Lobby store.