Trends · data through September 2026

Toy Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 302 stores from 196 toy store chains in California. Bricks & Minifigs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Game Chest and LEGO.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
196
Tracked stores
302
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked toy store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Bricks & Minifigs and The Game Chest sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bricks & Minifigs logo Bricks & Minifigs - +8.7%
2 T The Game Chest - +4.5%
3 L LEGO logo LEGO - -0.8%
4 T Tom's Toys ▲1 -2.9%
5 A American Girl logo American Girl - -5.2%
6 S Sekaido - -12.3%
7 L Lakeshore Learning logo Lakeshore Learning - -15.1%
8 B Build-A-Bear Workshop logo Build-A-Bear Workshop - -16.7%
9 T Toy Crazy ▲1 -22.8%
10 T The Toy Shop - -36.2%
11 L Learning Express Toys logo Learning Express Toys ▼2 -50.1%
12 F Fugitive Toys - -56.2%
  • LEGO
  • Build-A-Bear Workshop
  • Droid Depot
  • Five Little Monkeys
  • Lakeshore Learning
  • Cardboardia
  • Mad Alpaca Games
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

302 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • LEGO (9)
  • Build-A-Bear Workshop (38)
  • Droid Depot (1)
  • Five Little Monkeys (7)
  • Lakeshore Learning (14)
  • Cardboardia (1)
  • Mad Alpaca Games (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Build-A-Bear Workshop logo Build-A-Bear Workshop 38
  • 2 L Lakeshore Learning logo Lakeshore Learning 14
  • 3 L LEGO logo LEGO 9
  • 4 F Five Little Monkeys 7
  • 5 T Toys "R" Us logo Toys "R" Us 5
  • 6 T Toy Crazy 4
  • 7 L Learning Express Toys logo Learning Express Toys 4
  • 8 S Sekaido 3
  • 9 T Tom's Toys 3
  • 10 B Bricks & Minifigs logo Bricks & Minifigs 3
  • 11 T The Game Chest 3
  • 12 T The Toy Shop 3
  • 13 O Optimus Toys 3
  • 14 G Geppetto's Toys logo Geppetto's Toys 3
  • 15 A American Girl logo American Girl 3
  • 16 F Fugitive Toys 3
  • 17 T Toys N Motion 2
  • 18 M Mind Games logo Mind Games 2
  • 19 G Games of Berkeley 2
  • 20 B Bricks and Minifigs logo Bricks and Minifigs 2
  • 21 M Mad Alpaca Games logo Mad Alpaca Games 2
  • 22 T The Toy Box 2
  • 23 C Chrono Toys 2
  • 24 T The Wee Loft 2
  • 25 T Toys 4 U 2
  • 26 T The Avid Reader 2
  • 27 P Puzzle Zoo 2
  • 28 L Lakeshore Learning Store logo Lakeshore Learning Store 2
  • 29 S Squishable logo Squishable 2
  • 30 C Cheeky Monkey Toys 2
  • 31 G Game Vault 1
  • 32 Z Zonkey 1
  • 33 V Village Toy Store 1
  • 34 N Next-Gen Games 1
  • 35 Q Q Pop 1
  • 36 T Toy Depot 1
  • 37 W What's On Second Sports Cards 1
  • 38 U Upland Trains 1
  • 39 T The Pop Plug 1
  • 40 C Collectify Universe 1
  • 41 T The ArToy 1
  • 42 T Time Tunnel Toys 1
  • 43 M Mountain Pastimes 1
  • 44 R Retro Nostalgia Collectibles 1
  • 45 D Darlene's Real Swell Toys 1
  • 46 J Just Imagine 1
  • 47 C Chalice Collectibles 1
  • 48 T Toy Go Round 1
  • 49 N Neo Happyland Inc 1
  • 50 T T. W. Bonkers Toy & Candy Emporium 1

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