CHRISTMAS would not be Christmas with out watching the Residence Alone motion pictures.

The primary movie is about in Chicago, whereas the second film sees Kevin McCallister run round New York – and famously head into Duncan’s Toy Chest.

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Is Duncan’s Toy Chest in Residence Alone 2 an actual retailer?

Residence Alone 2’s Duncan’s Toy Chest is predicated on an actual retailer in New York – however was filmed someplace else.

When the film was shot, it was referred to as FAO Schwarz toy retailer and was located close to The Plaza on Fifth Avenue and 59th avenue.

The toy retailer closed in 2015, however reopened in 2018 in a brand new location at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan.

The shop famously featured in Tom Hanks’ 1988 field workplace hit Large, when he and co-star Robert Loggia dance on the shop’s large dance-on piano.

Filming location for Duncan’s Toy Chest in Residence Alone 2

Though Duncan’s Toy Chest was primarily based on a retailer in New York, the scenes have been truly filmed in Chicago.

The outside of the shop is the Rookery constructing which is among the metropolis’s historic landmarks.

It additionally featured because the police headquarters of Eliot Ness within the 1987 movie The Untouchables.

The inside of Duncan’s Toy Chest was filmed on the Uptown Theater.

All filming places for Residence Alone 2

Plaza Resort

New York’s iconic Plaza Resort is the place the place Kevin McCallister, performed by Macaulay Culkin, stays throughout his time within the Large Apple.

After discovering his dad’s pockets, the teen checks into the luxurious lodge and runs up an enormous service invoice.

After the film got here out, it made the Plaza much more well-known.

There’s one specific scene that Residence Alone 2 followers will bear in mind properly – when Kevin bumps into Donald Trump.

The scene sees the boy go as much as Trump, and ask: “Excuse me, the place’s the foyer?”

He is then informed by the longer term president: “Down the corridor and to the left.”

Following Trump’s cameo, director Chris Columbus stated he “demanded” to be within the film, as he owned the Plaza on the time.

Chatting with Insider, he recalled: “We needed to shoot within the foyer – we could not rebuild The Plaza on a soundstage.”

Trump, nonetheless, needed greater than a price to make use of the lodge as a setting.

“We paid the price, however he additionally stated, ‘The one method you should use the Plaza is that if I am within the film’.

“So we agreed to place him within the film,” Columbus added.

However the one cause he made the reduce was that in a screening “individuals cheered when Trump confirmed up on-screen”, he stated.

So the director informed his editor to “depart him in… however he did bully his method into the film”.

Central Park

New York’s Central Park performs a giant half within the film.

That is the place Kevin meets The Pigeon Woman, performed by Brenda Flicker.

After fearing her at first, the pair go onto turn out to be nice mates – with Kevin giving her one of many turtle doves that Duncan gifted him on the Toy Chest.

The Pigeon Woman and Kevin even struggle off robbers Harry and Marv collectively.

Residence Alone 2 plot

Residence Alone 2 adopted the massively profitable first movie and was launched in 1992.

After Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) loses observe of his father on the airport, he mistakenly will get on a airplane headed for New York Metropolis — whereas the remainder of the McCallisters fly to Florida.

Now alone within the Large Apple, Kevin cons his method right into a room on the Plaza Resort and begins his normal antics.

However when he  discovers that the his nemesis’ the Sticky Bandits (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) are on the unfastened, he struggles to cease them from robbing an aged man’s toy retailer simply earlier than Christmas.