Toys for Tots has filled a north Charlotte warehouse with 8,000 toys for children in need. The organization said a record number of families requested gifts this year, and they need to collect 90,000 more within the next week.

The Toys for Tots campaign has been underway for weeks now, and the United States Marine Corps has been hard at work getting everyone’s list and checking it twice. Each toy that’s donated in Mahoning and Trumbull county comes to an empty storefront transformed into a New-Age North Pole in Austintown Plaza.

Community members have until Dec. 7 drop off new, unwrapped toys for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program.