Toys Aren't Us Anymore: The End Of An Era (1 Viewer)

[DallasDMac]

I too reminisce going to stores that exist no more, walking the isles excited with my saved allowance deciding what to buy.

That must have been one seriously large ToysR-Us. Can't imagine the water bill it took to maintain it.

 

[Mario Kart]

I have seen video of where they hand a toddler a board book, and they poke their fingers at the pictures and get frustrated when there is no response to their touch.  Before they can speak they learn that touching a picture results in some effect. I've heard some argue that this is a sign of "kids learning how to use technology at an early age." I disagree because board books are introductions to reading and language, for which technology is not a replacement.

Parenting is easy. Hand your kid a tablet, get your nails done, and complain to Sue Kim about how much stress you have. Life is rough.

 

[Mario Kart]

https://www.toysrus.com/

Closed

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

If it was in mint condition, $400-500. I did play with it a little, though. 

That's how one goes blind.

 

[Deranged Hermit]

The TrU I pass everyday going to work should have put everything in the store at 10%off years ago. Their parking lot has been filled to capacity every day since the going out of business sale started

 

[Jobber]

I wonder if Target and Wal-Mart will step up their toy game. It is kind of sad that, going forward, many kids will only be exposed to whatever toys happen to be overstocked/pushed by Amazon at the moment.

 

[The Football Freak]

That's how one goes blind.

So THAT’S what happened. My eyesight was getting so bad, I could barely shave my palms. 

 

[Phil Elliott]

toys-r-us gofundme

 

[Mario Kart]

https://i.redd.it/u2ycxhx5wm611.jpg

 

[Maik Jeaunz]

https://i.redd.it/u2ycxhx5wm611.jpg

Dang man, that just makes me sad. 

 

[RokNRole]

I’ve only gone there like 2 times in my life.

F-em

 

[RokNRole]

Caring about a brand in this backwards country is the ultimate absurdity.

Toys-R-Us doesn't care about you and you shouldn’t care about them.

 

[B Maverick]

Caring about a brand in this backwards country is the ultimate absurdity.

Toys-R-Us doesn't care about you and you shouldn’t care about them.

nostalgia is a son of a b^%$h

 

[BlueDredSo]

Yeah, I could really care less about this store shutting down. Sure, they'd have some decent sales once in a while and the 10% off thing with the credit card was sometimes useful (on Thursdays and Saturdays), but in general I haven't been impressed with them in a long time.

The one thing that ruined it for me was when they changed the format of their video game section. I'm not sure if all of them were like this but remember when they had that entire aisle with the walls covered in little placards for all the videogames they had? Man, that was awesome. There must have been at least 200 different games on that wall back when NES was at it's peak. I could spend hours just looking at all the box art and flipping the placard up to see what the game actually looked like.

Now I don't even play videogames and am just waiting until my kids are old enough to start enjoying them.

Aside from the videogames they just had a ton of cool toys coming out in the early to mid 90's. It'll never be like that again. Too much technology and electronics involved now.

 

[DallasDMac]

Caring about a brand in this backwards country is the ultimate absurdity.

Toys-R-Us doesn't care about you and you shouldn’t care about them.

I care because, for the grandkids, I could stop in Toys-R-Us and find a ton of toys based on whatever their latest favorite trend was, be it a TV show, a video game, whatever. It had nothing to do with how much I "cared " about them. I think the fact you can't understand that is way more absurd than you thinking we actually care about the store on a personal level.

 

[belljr]

https://i.redd.it/u2ycxhx5wm611.jpg

:(  

 

[Mario Kart]

http://www.toysrus.com/

Play on!

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Reality kinda setting in a little....

In the late 70s as a pre schooler I marveled at the sprawling Lionel Train displays.

In the 80s I got my Star Wars, transformers, GI Joes and He-Man action figures 

In the 90s I got my video games and RC car fix, eagerly taking my paper ticket to the front and then to what looked like an locked evidence container to get your item.

The 00s-present is what I think I has hit me kinda hard and unexpedidly today....The wife and I try not to spoil the kids but when it comes to Christmas - we’re pretty awful. I will really miss those late night trips when we put the kids to sleep and snuck out of the house to buy two carts full of toys for our kids. 

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anonymous-person-buys-1m-worth-of-remaining-toys-at-toys-r-us-to-donate/

 

[belljr]

How toysrus got screwed

http://theweek.com/articles/761124/how-vulture-capitalists-ate-toys-r

Basically, the trio took an imperfect-but-functioning company and cannibalized it for cash.

Frustratingly, the story of Toys 'R' Us' debt burden has been a footnote in news coverage, buried under musings on how the company failed to compete with the likes of Amazon. And when the debt is covered, it's often devoid of context: Toys 'R' Us just happened to borrow money, it proved to be a bad decision, and now the retailer is suffering the fate of imprudent borrowers everywhere. Rarely does anyone point out that debt was a deliberate Wall Street strategy.

 

[Mario Kart]

https://i.redd.it/fyx6cyb3j5711.jpg

Damnit!

 

[NotSmart]

https://i.redd.it/fyx6cyb3j5711.jpg

Damnit!