The five-foot-tall Playmobil characters that have stood on guard outside Buddies Toys on Oak Bay Avenue are no more.
Buddies Toys officially closed its Victoria location at 1831 Oak Bay Ave. on July 31. The store is merging with the existing Buddies Toys in Sidney at 2494 Beacon Ave.
Buddies Toys moved to the Avenue in 2015 from its long time home in Estevan Village.
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ItB次元官网网址檚 another change to the area known as West Oak Bay Ave., which sits a kilometre from Oak Bay Village and is due for significant upgrades with two more condo buildings in the works. Red Barn has also been a hit since arriving in 2016 though GardenWorks nursery faces a move in the near future as that property will be developed mixed residential with ground floor commerical.
Despite the growth, the emerging village of South Jubilee will be without a toy store, for now.
The decision to leave Oak Bay Avenue was a tough one, but for straight-forward reasons, said owner Lauren Powell, who declined to comment beyond her July 1 post on Facebook.
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