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Plans are set for the Fisher-Price
Collectors Club's next convention! The dates are July 25 - 26, 2025. The location will be beautiful
East Aurora NY, located about 20 miles south-east of Buffalo. Our annual convention coincides
with the East Aurora Chamber of Commerce's Annual Street and Sidewalk Sale which is set to go!
Our Social Hour is set for Friday July 25th from 1:30 to 2:30 at the Blazing Star Masonic Lodge in East Aurora.
The dinner is set for Friday July 25th from 6:00 to 8:30 at the East Aurora American Legion.
*** TENTATIVE***: We are hoping to offer tours inside the Fisher-Price building, but as of this writing,
it has not been confirmed. If the tours happen, they will be on Friday July 25th and
Saturday July 26th in the late morning.
(click here for more info).
And of course, the Toy Sale is set for Saturday July 26th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Blazing Star Masonic Lodge.
Read on down for the full schedule of events!
Here are quick links to more information at the bottom of this page:
Fisher-Price Tours /
Social Hour /
Map to the Events /
Buy Raffle Tickets To Win a Prize!
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FRIDAY JULY 25th
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:00
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**TENTATIVE**
Fisher-Price Museum and Facility Tours |
636 Girard Street, East Aurora NY
The club is hoping to offer tours inside the Fisher-Price campus, but as of this writing, these plans
have not been confirmed. If all goes well,
the tours will focus on the
Heritage Center (the old ToyTown Museum) and also go inside the factory as well. Tours are
limited in numbers and you must sign up in advance. To reserve your spot,
email Becky at rah4fp@aol.com. When we know for sure if the tours are happening, she
will email everyone with all the details. We will be meeting
outside near the Toy Store entrance. When you
arrive for the tour, a club officer will meet you and a waiver must be signed before entering inside Fisher-Price's building.
Click here for more detailed information about the tours.
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FRIDAY JULY 25th
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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SOCIAL HOUR |
Blazing Star Masonic Lodge at 645 Main Street in East Aurora NY
Club members are invited to come and socialize! Light refreshments will be served. BEST PART:
A few vendors from our Saturday sale will be present, and club members have the opportunity to buy early!
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FRIDAY JULY 25th
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
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ANNUAL CLUB DINNER |
East Aurora American Legion, 1 Legion Place East Aurora NY
It's time for the annual dinner! Reservations are required to attend and it's $25 a person. To attend the dinner, fill out the
invitation mailed to club members in the June 2025 Gabby Goose, or visit our
Annual Dinner webpage and pay with Paypal.
Club members can bring as many guests as they like, also $25 a person.
People can start arriving between 6:00 and 6:15. We will have
Fisher-Price games and contests with Fisher-Price prizes; plus tons of conversation all about our toy collections!
Dinner is served buffet-style with chicken, pasta, vegetables, a vegetarian dish, potatoes, bread, salad and
a Fisher-Price themed dessert. Cash bar is available on-site.
This year we are honored to have a speaker:
Dafna Mor, Director of Little People Product Design at Fisher Price! She will be talking about her
experiences working on the Little People line of toys at Fisher-Price.
Dress is anything you like; some people like to dress up and others like
wearing their favorite Fisher-Price themed t-shirt! We always have FUN!
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SATURDAY JULY 26th
10:00 am to 3:00 pm
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ANNUAL TOY SALE |
Blazing Star Masonic Lodge at 645 Main Street in East Aurora NY
It's time for the annual toy sale! The location is a multi-purpose room on the bottom floor of the lodge. You can
enter from the back of the building (no stairs) or from the front (stairs going down).
As of this writing, we have many vendors but there may be room for more (see our vendor page for
more information).
There will be bins and bins of Little People parts and pieces for sale; toys in original boxes; vintage wooden
pull toys, musical toys, dolls, puzzles, possibly loose Adventure People, Huskys, Fisher-Price employee memorabilia, and so much more!
Inventories change every sale, so you never know what may pop up! See our
Toy Sale Page for more info (about parking, a map, etc).
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SATURDAY JULY 26th
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:00
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**TENTATIVE**
Fisher-Price Museum and Facility Tours |
636 Girard Street, East Aurora NY
The club is hoping to offer tours inside the Fisher-Price campus, but as of this writing, these plans
have not been confirmed. If all goes well,
the tours will focus on the
Heritage Center (the old ToyTown Museum) and also go inside the factory as well. Tours are
limited in numbers and you must sign up in advance. To reserve your spot,
email Becky at rah4fp@aol.com. When we know for sure if the tours are happening, she
will email everyone with all the details. We will be meeting
outside near the Toy Store entrance. When you
arrive for the tour, a club officer will meet you and a waiver must be signed before entering inside Fisher-Price's building.
Click here for more detailed information about the tours.
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SATURDAY JULY 26th
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
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EAST AURORA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL STREET AND SIDEWALK FESTIVAL |
Main Street in East Aurora NY, between Elm/Riley Street to Olean Street
Our sale is a proud part of the East Aurora Chamber of Commerce's Street and Sidewalk Sale, which is
happening on Main Street right outside the Lodge. There will be plenty of food vendors, crafts,
music, community booths, shopping, contests for the kids, and lots more! See the
East Aurora Chamber of Commerce's website for more
information. So come visit our club's sale,
plus the street festival too!
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ANY TIME DURING
THE CONVENTION
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VISIT THE FISHER-PRICE TOYSTORE |
636 Girard Avenue, East Aurora NY
At some point during the convention, everyone should stop by the Fisher-Price factory toy store,
located at the Fisher-Price campus. While the store sells
mainly new Fisher-Price toys, it's always fun to just look around! Sometimes there can be
Fisher-Price clothing or memorabilia for sale that may catch a collector's eye!
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Club members, come and chat! The annual Social Hour will take place on Friday July 25th from 1:30 to 2:30. The location is
the Blazing Star Masonic Lodge at 645 Main Street in East Aurora NY. There should be parking in the back of the
building, and also on side streets nearby. Enter through the ground floor entrance in the back of the building.
We just gab the hour away talking about our lives, toys and collections!
As a perk for club members, some sellers will be present and club members can buy early! (Not all sellers will be there,
Saturday's sale will have all sellers present). Light refreshments will be served.
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The club is working on offering to club members and their guests the opportunity to
tour the inside of Fisher-Price. As of this writing, due to unforeseen issues, the tours have not been confirmed.
If they happen, the tours
will take you to areas that are not available to the public. If all goes well, there will be 2 different
tours offered: one of the Heritage Center (aka the old Toytown Museum) and one "Behind-the-Scenes" Tour inside
the Fisher-Price facility.
The Heritage Center is located right above the Toystore at the Fisher-Price building.
Many years ago, it was open to the public and called the Toytown Museum. The museum was filled with displays about
the history of Fisher-Price, and had multiple glass cases of
Fisher-Price toys going right back to the very first ones produced! Sadly the Toytown Museum closed to the public around 2009.
Fisher-Price has since rehabbed the area and added many new displays and renamed it the Heritage Center.
For any club member who has never been, definitely sign up to visit the Heritage Center!
The Behind-the-Scenes tour will take people deeper into the
Fisher-Price facility to see more of the factory which produced the toys we love. (We are still discussing
the details of this tour; we will update when we get more information). But this tour will be very interesting for sure!
Tentatively, the tour schedule is as following:
Friday July 25th: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Friday July 25th: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Saturday July 26th: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Saturday July 26th: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
To attend a tour, email Becky at rah4fp@aol.com and let her know you're interested.
When we get more information on whether the tours will be happening, she will email everyone.
If the tours happen, they will meet near the outside entrance of the Toystore at the Fisher-Price campus at 636 Girard Avenue in East Aurora NY.
To get to the Toystore, when you arrive at Fisher-Price turn left immediately
before the guard gate to get into the public parking lot. The Toystore faces Girard Avenue, can't miss it!
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Open to all! Club Members and all Fisher-Price fans can buy raffle tickets for the club's annual fundraiser.
This year, the prize is 2 Fisher-Price guide books: Fox and Murray's Fisher-Price Toys 1931 - 1963 (the tan book); and
Fox and Murray's Fisher-Price Toys 1931 - present (the purple book). Both books are hardcovers. The purple book is a
special employee edition, which is very hard to find! The tan book is signed by the author Bruce Fox.
Both books show Fisher-Price toys year by year. The tan book
mainly focuses on wooden pull toys, and the purple one has wooden and classic Little People toys and more through
the late 1990's. The winner gets both
books. The winner does not need to be present at the Convention to win - we will mail you the prize!
This year, tickets are $5 a chance. Club members can also buy tickets at the Social Hour on July 25th. To take a chance,
use paypal to pay. For club members also paying for dinner reservations, you can combine the order (just make sure you
mention in the notes field what you are paying for, it helps a lot!).
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To buy a raffle ticket,
it is $5 a chance.
Log into your Paypal account at www.Paypal.com.
Send your total amount to the email address fpcc1993@gmail.com (fpcc stands for Fisher-Price Collectors Club, plus the year 1993 when we
first formed). It should say "Fisher-Price Club". Write your name in the memo field plus "raffle" and how many raffle tickets
you are purchasing. Paypal then should send a confirmation that your payment went through.
If you win, we will email you for your contact info to mail the prize.
That should do it!
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| Below is the map to all the events taking place this year for the Convention. Click to
see larger version.
Don't get lost now, you hear!
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