Hobbes and Landes | Stores with Toys, Part 1

The next time you're at Shangri-La Plaza Mall, stop by at Hobbes & Landes and Build City at the 4th floor, and be a kid for a while.  Or take your kid there, if you have one.  

 
Hobbes & Landes (no relation to the comic strip, but who knows...) is a specialty store that I suspect carries the kind of toys that Toy Kingdom doesn't.  No, not adult toys.  Kids' toys.  Baby toys, educational toys, construction kits, collectibles.

This being Shangri-La though, the items are uber-expensive.  The only toy under PhP 500 that I could find was portable gameboards by Hasbro--Monopoly, Life, Mastermind, etc.  The Cluedo version has suspect tokens made of plastic, not die-cast metal of miniature people, so I put it back.  But anyway. 

The flagship store is in Fort Bonifacio Global City, and the one they have at Shangri-La is a mere space right beside the escalator, but even so, you immediately become aware that the prices of all the items combined in that tiny floor space cost scads.  I mean, the Perplexus alone costs PhP2,500+, while a regular kailedoscope costs a migraine-inducing PhP 595.  

Still, Hobbes & Landes packs a diverse collection of awesome toys both for kids and the kid and you.  Check out award-winning educational games and puzzles by Smart Games as well as construction kits by Lego and its Japanese-version Nano Block.

Collector items include Domo merchandise, Momo bears, Momiji dolls, Mimobots, designer USB flash drives, various trading cards, even books, binoculars and microscopes, etc.


And should you feel hungry from all that toy-browsing, there's a yogurt store right inside the store.