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<P STYLE="font: 16pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 16pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM&nbsp;S-8</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 11pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><B>TRANS WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION</B></FONT><BR>
<FONT STYLE="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 48%; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>14-1541629</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">(State or other jurisdiction of</FONT><BR>
<FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">incorporation or organization)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">(I.R.S. Employer</FONT><BR>
<FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Identification No.)</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>38 Corporate Circle</B><BR>
<B>Albany, New York 12203</B><BR>
<B>(518) 452-1242</B><BR>
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>2005 Long Term Incentive and Share Award
Plan</B><BR>
<B>(As Amended and Restated April 5, 2017)</B><BR>
(Full Title of the Plan)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>John Anderson</B><BR>
<B>Trans World Entertainment Corporation</B><BR>
<B>38 Corporate Circle</B><BR>
<B>Albany, New York 12203</B><BR>
(Name and address of agent for service)<BR>
<B>(518) 452-1242</B><BR>
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>Copy to:</B><BR>
<B>William M. Hartnett,&nbsp;Esq.</B><BR>
Cahill Gordon&nbsp;&amp; Reindel LLP<BR>
80 Pine Street<BR>
New York, New York 10005<BR>
(212) 701-3000</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 18pt">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions
of &ldquo;large accelerated filer,&rdquo; &ldquo;accelerated filer&rdquo; and &ldquo;smaller reporting company&rdquo; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2
of the Exchange Act.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 48%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Accelerated filer </FONT><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">x</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Non-accelerated filer </FONT><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">o</FONT><BR>
<FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Smaller reporting company </FONT><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">o</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="text-align: center; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Calculation
of Registration Fee</B></FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1px solid">Title of Securities to<BR> be Registered</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1px solid">Amount to Be<BR> Registered (1)</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1px solid">Proposed<BR> Maximum<BR> Offering Price Per<BR> Share (2)</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1px solid">Proposed<BR> Maximum<BR> Aggregate<BR> Offering Price (2)</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 1px">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1px solid">Amount of<BR> Registration Fee</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 18%">Common Stock, par value $0.01per share</TD><TD STYLE="width: 3%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 18%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">2,000,000 shares</TD><TD STYLE="width: 3%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 18%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">$1.75</TD><TD STYLE="width: 3%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 17%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">$3,500,000</TD><TD STYLE="width: 3%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 17%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top">$405.65</TD></TR>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 23.75pt">(1)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">In
                                         addition, pursuant to Rule 416 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &ldquo;Securities
                                         Act&rdquo;) this registration statement will cover such indeterminate number of shares
                                         of common stock that may be issued in respect of stock splits, stock dividends or similar
                                         transactions.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 23.75pt">(2)</TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify">Estimated
                                         solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee under Rules 457(c) and (h)
                                         under the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low prices of the common
                                         stock on the Nasdaq National Market for September 5, 2017.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>EXPLANATORY NOTE</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 36pt">On September 9, 2005, Trans World Entertainment
Corporation (&ldquo;Trans World&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;), filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration
No.&nbsp;333-128210) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;Original Registration Statement&rdquo;) with respect
to shares of common stock of the Company to be issued pursuant to the Trans World Entertainment Corporation 2005 Long Term Incentive
and Share Award Plan (the &ldquo;Plan&rdquo;). On August 15, 2014, the Company filed Post-Effective Amendment No.&nbsp;1 (&ldquo;First
Amendment&rdquo;) for the sole purpose of updating Exhibit 99.1 of the Original Registration Statement to include an updated version
of the Plan, which was amended and restated with an effective date of July 2, 2014.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 36pt">The Company is filing this Registration Statement
on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (this &ldquo;Registration Statement&rdquo;) with respect to an additional
2,000,000 shares of the Company&rsquo;s common stock to be issued pursuant to the Plan, as amended and restated with an effective
date of April 5, 2017. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Original Registration Statement, as amended
by the First Amendment (including the periodic and current reports that are incorporated in the Original Registration Statement),
are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information
set forth herein.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><U>PART&nbsp;II</U></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><U>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT</U></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>ITEM 8.&nbsp;<U>Exhibits</U>.</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">See Exhibit&nbsp;Index.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B><U>SIGNATURES</U></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 72pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8
and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
City of Albany on September 12, 2017.</P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" nowrap><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">TRANS WORLD ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION</FONT></TD>
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    <TD><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">By:</FONT></TD>
    <TD style="border-bottom:solid black 1px"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/S/ John Anderson</FONT></TD>
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    <TD><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">John Anderson</FONT></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Chief Financial Officer</FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 72pt"><a name="powers"></A>KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE
PRESENTS, that each person whose signature to this Registration Statement appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Mike Feurer
and John Anderson, or either of them, his attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement,
and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary in connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of such attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or his substitute or substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 72pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, this Amendment has been duly signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 45%; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center; font-size: 8pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 8pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Title</B></FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 18%; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center; font-size: 8pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 8pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Date</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Mike Feurer</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Mike Feurer</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center; font-size: 11pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ John Anderson</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font-size: 11pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Chief Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center; font-size: 11pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 11pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">John Anderson</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Michael Solow&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Director</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Michael Solow</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Martin Hanaka</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Director</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Martin Hanaka</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Robert Marks&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Director</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Robert Marks</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Michael Nahl</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Director</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Michael Nahl</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 7pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">/s/ Mike Reickert</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Director</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">September 11, 2017</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Mike Reickert</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1px solid">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; font-size: 8pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center; font-size: 8pt"><FONT STYLE="font: 8pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Description</B></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 2%; text-align: right">4.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom; width: 3%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; width: 93%">Restated Certificate of Incorporation&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Trans World&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 1994. Commission File No. 0-14818.</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">4.2</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/000079521294000026/0000795212-94-000026.txt">Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Trans World&rsquo;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 29, 1994. Commission File No. 0-14818.</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">4.3</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/000104746998012566/0001047469-98-012566.txt">Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to Trans World&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 1998. Commission File No. 0-14818.</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">4.4</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/000091205700020372/0000912057-00-020372.txt">Amended By-Laws&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to Trans World&rsquo;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2000. Commission File No. 0-14818.</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">4.5</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/000095016200000926/0000950162-00-000926-0002.txt">Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Trans World&rsquo;s Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 15, 2000. Commission File No. 0-14818.</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">4.6</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/0001047469-99-012201.txt">Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.5 to Trans World&rsquo;s Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated March 29, 1999, File No. 333-75231 (included as Annex D-1 to the joint proxy statement/prospectus included therein).</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">4.7</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/0001047469-99-012201.txt">Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation&mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.6 to Trans World&rsquo;s Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated March 29, 1999, File No. 333-75231 (included as Annex D-2 to the joint proxy statement/prospectus included therein).</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">5.1</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="c89344_ex5-1.htm">Opinion of Cahill Gordon &amp; Reindel LLP</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">23.1</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="c89344_ex23-1.htm">Consent of KPMG LLP</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">23.2</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="c89344_ex5-1.htm">Consent of Cahill Gordon &amp; Reindel LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)</A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">24.1</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="#powers">Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page to this Registration Statement)</A></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; text-align: right">99.1</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top"><A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/795212/000093041317002254/c88367_def14a.htm">Trans World Entertainment Corporation 2005 Long Term Incentive and Share Award Plan (As Amended and Restated April 5, 2017) &mdash;incorporated herein by reference to Appendix A to the Company&rsquo;s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on May 31, 2017, Commission File No. 0-14818.</A></TD></TR>
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TRANS WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New York
14-1541629
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
38 Corporate Circle
Albany, New York 12203
(518) 452-1242
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
2005 Long Term Incentive and Share Award
Plan
(As Amended and Restated April 5, 2017)
(Full Title of the Plan)
John Anderson
Trans World Entertainment Corporation
38 Corporate Circle
Albany, New York 12203
(Name and address of agent for service)
(518) 452-1242
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
William M. Hartnett, Esq.
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
80 Pine Street
New York, New York 10005
(212) 701-3000
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions
of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2
of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
o
Accelerated filer
x
Non-accelerated filer
o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company
o
Calculation
of Registration Fee
Title of Securities to
be Registered
Amount to Be
Registered (1)
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price Per
Share (2)
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price (2)
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $0.01per share
2,000,000 shares
$1.75
$3,500,000
$405.65
(1)
In
                                         addition, pursuant to Rule 416 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
                                         Act") this registration statement will cover such indeterminate number of shares
                                         of common stock that may be issued in respect of stock splits, stock dividends or similar
                                         transactions.
(2)
Estimated
                                         solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee under Rules 457(c) and (h)
                                         under the Securities Act based on the average of the high and low prices of the common
                                         stock on the Nasdaq National Market for September 5, 2017.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
On September 9, 2005, Trans World Entertainment
Corporation ("Trans World" or the "Company"), filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Registration
No. 333-128210) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Original Registration Statement") with respect
to shares of common stock of the Company to be issued pursuant to the Trans World Entertainment Corporation 2005 Long Term Incentive
and Share Award Plan (the "Plan"). On August 15, 2014, the Company filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 ("First
Amendment") for the sole purpose of updating Exhibit 99.1 of the Original Registration Statement to include an updated version
of the Plan, which was amended and restated with an effective date of July 2, 2014.
The Company is filing this Registration Statement
on Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (this "Registration Statement") with respect to an additional
2,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock to be issued pursuant to the Plan, as amended and restated with an effective
date of April 5, 2017. Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Original Registration Statement, as amended
by the First Amendment (including the periodic and current reports that are incorporated in the Original Registration Statement),
are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference, except to the extent supplemented, amended or superseded by the information
set forth herein.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
ITEM 8.
Exhibits
.
See Exhibit Index.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8
and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
City of Albany on September 12, 2017.
TRANS WORLD ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
By:
/S/ John Anderson
John Anderson
Chief Financial Officer
KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE
PRESENTS, that each person whose signature to this Registration Statement appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Mike Feurer
and John Anderson, or either of them, his attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for him and in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement,
and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary in connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of such attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or his substitute or substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, this Amendment has been duly signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Mike Feurer
Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
September 11, 2017
Mike Feurer
/s/ John Anderson
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Chief Accounting Officer)
September 11, 2017
John Anderson
/s/ Michael Solow
Director
September 11, 2017
Michael Solow
/s/ Martin Hanaka
Director
September 11, 2017
Martin Hanaka
/s/ Robert Marks
Director
September 11, 2017
Robert Marks
/s/ Michael Nahl
Director
September 11, 2017
Michael Nahl
/s/ Mike Reickert
Director
September 11, 2017
Mike Reickert
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description
4.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Trans World's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 1994. Commission File No. 0-14818.
4.2
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Trans World's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 29, 1994. Commission File No. 0-14818.
4.3
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to Trans World's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 1998. Commission File No. 0-14818.
4.4
Amended By-Laws—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to Trans World's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2000. Commission File No. 0-14818.
4.5
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Trans World's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 15, 2000. Commission File No. 0-14818.
4.6
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.5 to Trans World's Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated March 29, 1999, File No. 333-75231 (included as Annex D-1 to the joint proxy statement/prospectus included therein).
4.7
Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation—incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.6 to Trans World's Registration Statement on Form S-4 dated March 29, 1999, File No. 333-75231 (included as Annex D-2 to the joint proxy statement/prospectus included therein).
5.1
Opinion of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
23.1
Consent of KPMG LLP
23.2
Consent of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1
Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page to this Registration Statement)
99.1
Trans World Entertainment Corporation 2005 Long Term Incentive and Share Award Plan (As Amended and Restated April 5, 2017) —incorporated herein by reference to Appendix A to the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on May 31, 2017, Commission File No. 0-14818.
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