Who We Are

Every time you visit you will see something new, no doubt about it. We know that you have a choice regarding where you spend your hard earned money and we appreciate our customers. We really appreciate it when our customers let us know about their good (or not so good) experiences shopping with us, please take advantage of our email for this purpose! …and if you do have a bad experience, please let us know – we will address your concerns in a timely manner and likely lose some sleep over it. We truly do care!

Our 6,000 square foot store is extremely well stocked, shelves are literally overflowing with all those unusual, old, or rare toys that you’ve always wanted. Perhaps, there are even toys you had as a child that your mother threw out…! Regardless of your age or gender, TATE’S is filled with memories and fun for many people. You will have a great time looking at everything, there is so much to see! New merchandise comes in ALL the time too, so every trip to TATE’S will lead you on a new adventure into cool stuff!

Also, look for our 3-drawer bin of bargain bundle comics, which collect a sequential run and are offered at a discounted prices. Newly released and recent comics run the entire length of the far wall (60 feet!) and are arranged alphabetically by title. TATE’S also offers a first class discount comic book subscription service for new comics, so you don’t have to worry about missing a title. We carry all the comic related merchandise you can think of, such as statues, T-shirts, toys and coffee table books. We also carry a large variety of independently published mini-comics from around the world. Archival supplies for your comic collection, such as bags & boards, Mylites, drawer boxes and comic display frames are available as well.

TATE’s had been selling and renting Japanese Animation since the early nineties and at one point had over 8,000 rare and hard to find titles available for rent. The rental section included hard-to-find cult videos, bizarre horror films, TV Shows, twisted animation, and retro cartoons (such as Transformers and Thundercats). Our goal was to supply South Florida with videos it couldn’t find anywhere else. Sadly, interest in renting videos from a physical local shop decreased year by year and in April of 2010, we had to acknowledge that times had changed and stop renting videos altogether. Knowing when to evolve is one of the things that has kept us going strong all these years. We do still SELL many Japanese Anime titles though!

We also carry a wide variety of Japanese Comics (manga), Japanese Hobby Magazines, Japanese Photo and Art Books, Japanese Music CDs and Japanese Import Toys! Our large Japanese Snack wall is chock full of bizarre and delicious treats… We of course have Ramune Soda and MANY different types of Pocky, plus a lot more! Fresh Japanese Snacks come in all the time, cold off a truck from NYC. We also hold annual free Japanese Snack Tastings that have been become a fun tradition for folks to try new and interesting things.

All the most unique and fascinating books focusing on pop culture, ‘lowbrow’ artists, sideshow history, fashion, fantasy art, movies and more are hand picked for you at TATE’S. We pride ourselves in presenting interesting books on our bookshelves! You can also pick up some inexpensive and funny novelty items, magnets, stickers, buttons, t-shirts, posters and designer plush dolls while you’re here! TATE’S offers a large selection of Vinyl / Designer Toys, from Kid Robot’s latest offerings to releases from the smaller and more unusual companies!

We truly try our darndest to bring the most interesting and hard-to-find merchandise into our store, we hope you will come visit us soon!
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Also, we wanted to mention that all well-behaved pets are always welcome at TATE’S! Dogs always love when they get to actually come INSIDE with you when you go shopping. 🙂 You can bring your cat on a leash, pet lizard or bird… anything – as long as its friendly and doesn’t pee and poop inside!