![]() In October 2006, the second Chinese Warner Bros. held a grand opening celebration for China's first Studio Store location. announced they were opening the first Chinese Studio Store location, after agreeing on a licensing deal with Hutchison Harbour Ring. However, the now-defunct Paradise Retail Holdings owned these stores and were run entirely independently from stores of the same name internationally. The last stores closed by December 31, 2001.įrom 1997 to 2008, several stores operated in Australia, with the flagship location being in Crown Casino Melbourne. then placed the building up for rent sans the billboards. Its three-story, 40,000-square-foot Times Square location started liquidation in July and closed in October. In July, AOL Time Warner announced that the chain, then consisting of 85 stores, would be shut down by October as the company moved out of the owned and operated retail business. High profile stores in Los Angeles and Palo Alto were also closed. In February 2001, New York's Fifth Avenue flagship location was closed, and on September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center location was destroyed when the Two towers collapsed. ![]() In January 2001, AOL and Time-Warner completed their merger, at which time the company placed up the chain for sale with plans to close if not sold. ![]() In 1996, the chain signed a long-term lease for 1 Times Square three-story building and six of its billboards and opened a store on all three floors in 1997. The store's attractions included a glass elevator carried by Superman and the 4D experience Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension, the first-ever 3D computer-animated movie produced in the world. opened their flagship location at the corner of 57th St and 5th Ave. ![]() Studio Store on Friday, September 20, 1991, at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, California, by Time Warner. ![]()
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