Editing Hamleys (section)

==United Kingdom stores==

===Regent Street===
[[File:London , Westminster - Hamleys Toy Shop - geograph.org.uk - 1739065.jpg|thumb|[[Regent Street]] shop interior in 2010, marking Hamleys' 250th birthday]]
Hamleys expanded and moved its flagship store in London from No. 200 [[Regent Street]] to its current site at Nos. 188–196, Regent Street, in 1981, which in 1994 was the largest toy shop in the world.<ref name="oldest largest"/>

Hamleys' flagship store has seven floors covering {{convert|54000|ft2}},<ref name=BusStand/> all devoted to toys, with different categories of toy on each floor. The ground floor is traditionally for stuffed toys (including [[Margarete Steiff GmbH|Steiff]]), and is decked out with a diverse array of stuffed animals, from regular teddy bears to more exotic plushes such as turtles and dolphins, and enormous life-sized giraffes and elephants.
Public transit is available via the [[Oxford Circus station|Oxford Circus underground station]].

===Other UK stores===

In 1987 Hamleys' second store opened in [[York]]. However, it closed less than 12 months later.<ref>{{citation
 |newspaper  = [[The Press (York)]]
 |date       = 18 October 2005
 |url        = http://archive.yorkpress.co.uk/2005/10/18/334483.html
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090704123716/http://archive.yorkpress.co.uk/2005/10/18/334483.html
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-date = 4 July 2009
 |title      = Hamleys returning to York after 17 years
 |access-date = 8 April 2009
 |publisher  = Newsquest Media Group
}}</ref>

In 1987 Hamleys opened a new store in one of the richest shopping streets in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Northumberland Street]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne]]. Surprisingly, it operated for only 12 months, and closed in 1988. It had seemed a "perfect combination" (Hamleys and Northumberland Street), but it did not work out. Then on 15 June 1987, Hamleys opened a new store in [[Milsom Street]], in the city of [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], Somerset, and just like the other stores, it also closed within 12 months, on 10 June 1988.

At the start of 2022, there were thirty Hamleys stores across the United Kingdom, including sites at the [[St Enoch Centre]] in [[Glasgow]],<ref>Garavelli, Dani. [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/-What-significance-does-the.5858729.jp "London toy shop Hamleys opens its doors in the St Enoch Centre, Glasgow, today."]. ''[[The Scotsman]]''. 26 November 2009</ref> at the [[Trafford Centre]] in Greater Manchester, at [[Lakeside Shopping Centre]] in Essex, [[Bluewater (shopping centre)|Bluewater Shopping Centre]] in Kent, [[St James Quarter]] in Edinburgh, [[St David's Centre]] in Cardiff, the [[Merry Hill Shopping Centre|Merry Hill Centre]] in the West Midlands, York, and at airports including [[Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow]], [[Gatwick Airport|London Gatwick]], [[Luton Airport|London Luton]] and [[Stansted Airport|London Stansted]],<ref>{{cite web|title=A new store at Stansted Airport is child's play for Hamleys|url=http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/new-store-Stansted-Airport-child-s-play-Hamleys/story-22877184-detail/story.html|website=Herts and Essex Observer|access-date=22 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219041817/http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/new-store-Stansted-Airport-child-s-play-Hamleys/story-22877184-detail/story.html|archive-date=19 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and also at [[Meadowhall (shopping centre)|Meadowhall Shopping Centre]] in Sheffield, Liverpool ONE, Cheshire Oaks Outlet, Gateshead Metrocentre and [[Manchester Airport|Manchester]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Balloo|first=Stephanie|date=2021-07-15|title=Iconic new store opens in Merry Hill - the first of its kind in Black Country|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/huge-new-store-opens-merry-21059850|access-date=2021-07-16|website=BirminghamLive|language=en}}</ref>
However, by 2023 Hamleys had closed all but 11 of their UK based stores.