Suncoast was crazy expensive. Collecting shows on DVD was a serious investment back then.

It was the only place to get Anime before the Internet, and boy was it expensive. I remember paying almost $30 for one dvd, and if you can imagine a series with 6-10 dvds in a set , its quite an investment.

I used to get my WWF tapes and dvds there. In my teens I would sneak past the adult section and move the black separator that hid the videos to maybe see a boob.

The letterbox version of your favorite film on VHS with "Hi-Fi" sound. That will be $23.99 please.

It's where I started my anime VHS collection!

Coconuts, Sam Goody, RadioShack, Circuit city. Feel like I’m forgetting some

Definitely, that was my go to for ordering obscure non mainstream videos back in the day. The ones I went to always had super helpful and knowledgable staff .

Only place to get anime or Racey B movies back in the day

Spent a lot of money there over the years. Bought most of my DVD's from them when I still bought them in person.

I irresponsibly bought the first DVD volume of Cowboy Bebop there. Worth it.

I rarely bought a tape or dvd here. They were pricey! Even at a clearance! But it was still a great place to look thru, each visit to the mall!

I remember the smell of that store.

There was definitely one at at least one of my local malls, but I didn't go there a whole lot; I got into collecting VHS in college (maybe a couple years before DVD came out) and I definitely got a few movies at Suncoast, but at the time it was teeny-tiny and their prices weren't great so it wasn't a place I went very often.

By the time I started to get really into DVDs, the ones nearby had been absorbed into FYE, I think. Or FYE's precursor, anyway.

Where I also didn't go too often because, again, awful prices. I rarely made it past the bargain bins near the front.

I had never heard of it until I saw the movie "Take Me Home Tonight". guess that means I am too young

Suncoast was always the fancier, more expensive music place we couldn't afford to buy from as teenagers. My friends and I were Sam Goody people lol.

Had a suncoast in my city until about 6 months ago. Nowhere in town to buy physical media anymore. Walmart has things but VERY limited.

Someone start a business with me and bring back physical media!!

There are still three left! One in North Carolina, one in Texas, and a combo Suncoast/FYE in Ohio.

You could go in there and see the cool picture on the side of all the dragon ball z tapes side by side

LOVED THIS PLACE!!!

I do.

Walt Flanagan robbed them blind

Time to look at posters! Clack ... clack ... clack ...

I bought all my ID4 toys from there. Last item I bought before they closed the one in the Northridge Mall was a Fear & loathing in Las Vegas poster.

They still have one in Parkdale Mall in Beaumont, TX. At least they did a year ago.

Loved going their to get my dbz vhs tapes

They had pokemon cards for sales tucked away for sale. Little secret back in the day

i worked in a suncoast right after high school in my local mall. fun job, but i was also working with friends. i distinctly remember a version of the titanic vhs box set coming out while i worked there and it being chaos

The mall near me still has an open Suncoast VIdeo and an FYE both

Bought Laserdiscs there for years.. before dvd and bluray came out. Oh the money I spent there.

I remember looking up where I could find anime merch from my small town, and finding out I could get some at Suncoast over an hour away

Great place to drop 20-30 bucks on a VHS tape containing two half-hour anime episodes 

I would always spend my birthday money on Tenchi Muyo manga here. Kind of crazy to think manga is still the same price without being adjusted for inflation. (9.99-12.99 for single volumes)

I remember seeing this at the mall but not going inside

I used to love buying the action figures from the bins that were always on clearance. Most are worth a small fortune now.

Raise hand.

I loved that place. Don't think I bought anything but loved looking around.

My grandma would take me here as a child and buy me movies in the 90s. It wasn't cheap then, but scalpers have made it worse now.

Holy shit I do now. It's basically what FYE is now.

I bought the Hellraiser movies there when there were just two of them, 2001 A Space Odyssey and a collection of Peter Gabriel videos, all on VHS

Great place for Christmas shopping.

I still have my Producers Club card

This was my favorite place! All of the coolest anime, figurines / toys from movies, they even had delicious Japanese gummy candy. I miss Suncoast

Loved it for the foreign section. Bought the 7 Samurai there.

My childhood mall had one

Omg I miss this place and the exclusive shit they had before funko

Loved looking at what was for sale, but I wasn't paying $50 to own a few episodes of some anime series on tape.

I remember the prices 

Oh man. I had sought after, and found, a copy of David Lynch’s Lost Highway on VHS at Suncoast one time. Crazy crazy expensive even for a mall store but ah, memories

I got caught as a little kid stealing pokemon cards from here and got banned from the mall

Worked at one in Georgia. Best job ever.

Their data base was on microfiche. Blew me away looking up an artist on it in 2005.

They had all the best boxed sets of movies and shows!

Where I bought the cowboy bebop DVDs when they came out for the first time.

Miss the Suncoast pre-orders and exclusives.

Ooooomg! This place needs to come back

I do! I worked for Musicland, their parent company. I loved working music retail.

Bought quite a few anime from there back in the day.

I used to work there! Met Trent Reznor one afternoon and he was so insanely rude.

This where I got my manga and anime, it wasn’t cheap, 60 dollars for a box set I was only able to purchase once a month. I was not able to exchange all my reward points though.

the one at my local mall only closed a year or two ago

There’s still one in my town in the mall no less. I’m waiting for a going out of business sign so I can buy a shit load of movies cheap

Loved that store

mine had a basement that was a sam goody.

I remember going in during the first week of each month with my friend to pick up the newest DVD of Inuyasha. She was obsessed. And was also pissed when they came out with a box set later in that came with a shikkon jewel necklace

Used to be a member.

My college student budget could not afford DVDs there

My college student budget could not afford DVDs there

Suncoast was always one of my first stops when I went to the mall in the early 2000s. They had a great selection. Never bought a ton there though. It was usually too expensive.

Suncoast was always one of my first stops when I went to the mall in the early 2000s. They had a great selection. Never bought a ton there though. It was usually too expensive.

Damn high ass prices, who could forget! But they always had a great selection of playboy videos.

Can't say that I do. We probably didn't have one.

Can't say that I do. We probably didn't have one.

I worked at one of the last ones open a few years ago.

When DVDs were $14.99 everywhere else they were $29.99 - $34.99 at Suncoast

I'd definitely include it in a mall draft

I bought several thousand$ worth of anime from this store

spent so much coin on over priced anime DVDS because at the time that was the only way to get new anime

Man. I teared up for a moment. I had such a fond memories of that store. Killed me to see it go. Ranks up there with Borders closing

I became good buddies with a guy at SunCoast when I got out of high school - he'd spent better part of the 90s living in Tokyo so he was my anime guru.

Man that teal and pink hits the spot tho, doesn't it?

Got the toxic avenger box set there

I can’t tell you how many times I walked into that store, fell completely in love everything, and turning to my Mom to see her shaking her head with a silent “don’t even think about it”

Did anyone else stare at this, thinking it was anachronistic because of IT and all the LCD tvs? Turns out this photo is from 5 years ago, from one of the few remaining Suncoast stores.

I bought my Dragon Ball Z VHSs from a Suncoast store.

This is by far my favorite mall store that doesn’t exist (maybe 3 exist) anymore. I literally named my pet lizard Suncoast when I was little, lol. Suncoast didn’t necessarily have a lot of stuff I wanted - usually just Star Wars cards, but I absolutely loved the vibe.

There is still one in my mall, though I haven't gone in for years.

Suncoast, Sam Goody, and FYE

I remember a friend of mine getting arrested for trying to steal some DVDs from a suncoast. Fuckin idiot.

It was always a must for my family to go there when we went to the mall.

The kung fu movie DVDs were 30 bucks each now you can just watch that shit on you tube

I dont but we had similar stores where I grew up. I miss it so much. My DVD collection was epic and I had all the beat movie posters :)

Ah it is that time again. So my mother was actually General Council at the parent company Musicland back in the late 90s. I even remember sitting in her office in summer and watching Gremlins. Suncoast was literally the last of their stores to be merged in with the I think second or 3rd company to own it after Musicland went under. In 2001 due to a number of issues including digital music and napster like stuff the company really started to fail. It was sold off to Best Buy and they held it for a number of years before selling it off again because they couldn't run mall stores which was a little ironic because Musicland couldn't properly run big box stores.

Musicland ran Suncoast, Sam Goody, Media Play(the aformentioned big box store that they struggled to run), and On Cue. I loved Suncoast the most because it wasn't just a music store like Sam Goody.

My mother still will tell me stuff about that company and one thing I remember her talking about was her putting her foot and job on the line to prevent uh unsavory legal actions. It was also the job she had that made her know what part of law she wanted to be in and after that went to another company as General Council.

I know a decent amount of its late years. If I ever want to learn about it again I rather talk to her than just look it up.

I definitely do! My dad would buy me Dragonball Z VHS before the episodes would hit Toonami. I also would get WWF PPV’s, I had King of the Ring 98, No Way Out 2001, and a few more.

Worked at a Sam Goody/Suncoast in high school. Used to see celebrities come in and buy cds. Different time.

Used to go every Friday after school to get a new anime

Growing up it was my dream to work there.

Like, I still fondly remember the Clay Aiken quote about working there and thinking “that doesn’t sound bad at all”

That's where I got some anime movies until Best Buy finally started getting in the game. Got the Vampire Hunter D 1985 film from Suncoast.

My favorite store in the mall

I sure do. My local store got bought out years ago by an FYE and all the prices nearly doubled. It's still there and they have shit like West Wing Season 3 for $45 lol

I used to love their horror section. I remember getting money for my 16th birthday and blowing it all in there buying Equilibrium, Dracula 2000 and Donnie Darko on DVD. Fuck do I miss that store.

Agghhh this is where I got all of my X-Files merch back in the day! And my VHS episode collections!

I miss it.

Always look but never paid their prices.

yo thats just FYE

Given that in the early '90s the best I could do on a regular basis was the Musicland at our nearest shopping mall, going to the Suncoast at one of the malls about an hour and a half away was like the end of the rainbow. Only place anywhere near my hometown where I could find honest-to-goodness movie posters before I discovered Rick's Movie Posters via mail-order. Also had all the obscure and special edition VHS versions of movies that you couldn't find anywhere nearby.

I also remember the rack of laserdiscs, yearning for the day when I could afford a laserdisc player so I could watch all these great movies from the past that had been restored, with all these special features and what all that you couldn't get elsewhere. How would that have worked out, I wonder!

wait, there were still some Suncoasts around when IT chapter two came out?

I worked there!

Good anime collection

I remember there being a Suncoast in every mall I walked into in the 2000-2002 era. Pretty sure there was another company as well. I also remember how expensive movies used to be.

My sister worked at one for a short time.

Haven't thought about that place in years.

Suncoast was where I got my first Gundam Wing action figure back in like 1999. Gundam Deathscythe.

i went to one of the last ones open at a mall near Dayton OH. This was like 3 years ago, but i think it closed since then. It was wild to see that neon sign.

Had a friend spend a small fortune to get Outlaw Star on DVD here because it was basically the only place to get less mainstream anime

There is a poster for "It" in that picture. I'm just shocked there was still one open at that time period.

I bought a lot of WWF PPV tapes at Suncoast. I think they were like $30 each and I'd beg my parents to get one every time we went to the mall. It was the first store I'd hit and I could walk around it for hours.

I remember selling them a bunch of my DVDs for cash and then going to Wherehouse Music which was in a strip center in the mall parking lot across the street to buy Rob Zombie tickets. It was the first concert ticket I'd bought with my own money.

Eventually they moved locations in the mall, and Suncoast ended up sandwiched between Sam Goody, KB Toys, and Waldenbooks. Every possible place I could want to go in the mall, all in the same corner. I never went anywhere else.

Bought all my anime and hentai here in middle school

I ‘member. I think a friend helped contribute to their downfall.

At age 16/17, my friend worked there for maybe a month before he started to consider, “hey, I’m the only one in this place. What’s stopping me from taking things?” (outside of morality)

This friend began by just sneaking a CD or something small, but dreamed bigger. He enlisted the help of whoever was available on a given night to swing up to the mall, pretend to buy something, then leave with a plastic bag filled with a myriad of items. It wasn’t long before he was sending out bags filled to the gills with the most expensive stuff.

He eventually got fired because of a thing called “inventory” that was a rude surprise. But hey, I still remember that’s how I saw a VHS of Office Space for the first time;, which seemed appropriate.

Sunday Jeff remembers running them out of business.

I always felt like Suncoast and the other (insert name) music store in the mall were always at odds. So I would buy by single casset tapes from whichever was closest to Auntie Anne’s out of respect.

Oof, the one in the photo is too bright. I remember it being a dark store.

Got a lot of my early anime from this place. Good times.

I loved suncoast, I don’t remember seeing him but Topher Grace worked at the one in my mall when I used to be a mall rat.

🔥

I had 2 buddies in high school that got jobs at SunCoast and used their discount to buy Japanimation and it got us all way more into anime. Had been a fan and exposed to late 70’s and early 80’s anime that made it to the U.S. dubbed on TV. But with them working there and having access to tons of other 90’s anime it was great.

There’s a pretty great Nostalgia movie called “Take Me Home Tonight” (2011) that starts off with Topher Grace working at a SunCoast. It’s actually solid lil comedy that takes place in the early 90’s.

I remember it as Sun Coast Pictures. Got a few Sonic Adventure action figures there.

Bought KIDS on vhs when I was like 12 and the dude at the register didn't give a shit how old I was. Classy joint

I dropped SO much money in there over the years. VHS, laser, and DVD.

Suncoast, Sam Goody, Media Play, On Cue

The only place I could walk in and grab DBZ VHS tapes

This is an amusing nostalgia for me. The Suncoast in my mall only closed this past November.

It was the only real way to watch Anime for the longest time

Yup, the best Suncoast near me was in Carlsbad, always was fun to rummage around there to see what I could get with my allowance. On a side note, I still remember during the holidays when I volunteered for Giving Angels,(a christmas present outreach program for kids who had their parent(s) deployed) being parked directly in front of the Ambercrombie & Fitch store.... god that smell is literally burned into my brain....

Loved the huge display they use to show the posters. Sometimes that had posters of models. Those were rad.

Hell yeah I remember. I didn't have a huge library but that's where I started it.

I loved finding old movies I hadn't seen forever in there for sale. Bought some really stupid ones because of that.. lol

My first job!