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 No.53484>>53620 >>53704 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

A bit sad, but not completely unexpected. For those of us born before the early 90s the only way to even see new toys was through television commercials, the Sears catalog (which only came out like once a year) and by taking a wondrous and magical trip to Toys R Us.

It's not like today where you can go on Amazon or any other online shop and browse through high resolution images of every and any toy imaginable and order right on a whim in your pajamas from the comfort of your own living room.

When I was a kid going to Toys R Us didn't even necessarily mean buying toys so much as just browsing, telling our parents what we were interested in and so forth. Of course even on these browsing trips we'd often get some inexpensive treat, but the real appeal was simply being able to wander up and down the aisles marveling at the incredible assortment of wants and wishes.

Toys R Us was like a magical place for us, a veritable candy land of colorful playthings waiting to be explored as we'd travel along the bright white, fluorescent lit flooring, drawn through the wonderland of endless entertainment and excitement.

It will be sad it goes away entirely, but with any luck their assets will be bought up by another company and it will continue to live on in some capacity. Much like how Mars bars are now called Snickers Almond and how Hostess and their Twinkies are now owned by Apollo Global Management.

 No.53486>>53489 >>53702

As someone born in a town in Austria '86 big stores like Toys R Us where unknown. We had this small stores with 2 or 3 floors. And this stores were full of toys from the floor to the ceiling and you had to ask the stuff sometimes to get a ladder and give you one toy thats up 4 or 5 meters on a shelve. This small shops had so much soul, beautiful decoration and huge windows for windowshopping. In big cities like Vienna you could even buy shopmade toys like tin soldiers.

In the late 90s the first big toy discounters like Toys R Us opend in the big cities and slowly start to kill those small shops. As for today there are barely such soulful places. The last one in my town closed 1 year ago. So shops like Toys R Us killed my childhood memories and i feel nothing today when they get killed by Amazon.

But last year i was on vaccation in Prague and there was a huge toy store with the same soul like our small shops. They even had a carousel with 10 meter diameter in the middle of the shop and you could play with all kinds of toys. It was like a wonderland.


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>>53486

In the semi-small town where I live, Walla Walla, that's all we have presently, a little mom and pop toy store downtown.

There was a big kerfuffle a few years back over this giant mural they had painted over the front of their building. They were ultimately forced to paint over it but it was sort of interesting while it lasted.

I can understand why so many people hated it and thought it was a horrible blight on the main street (it basically looked like a child's drawing), but it was a bit fun nonetheless.


 No.53521

I'm heartbroken at the news. For me personally Toys R Us was the best toy shop in England.

When my parents took me to the shop once a year for Christmas Presents; mainly Star Wars and Robocop action figures in the late 90s, it was something I treasure.

I even got my first PS1 console from there.

Those were the good old days of pure childish innocence. How much I miss them now that the shops have gone. It's very sad. And it's a fucking disgrace that these Fat Cats let the shop go to shit! :(


 No.53620>>53707

>>53484 (OP)

When, exactly? I might go to a blowout sale


 No.53622

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 No.53623

>>53489

I normally support ordinances over ugly buildings like gas stations and walmarts, but I would count that more as street art.


 No.53702

>>53486

A very sad story. Globalization Sucks. Jews ruin everything.


 No.53704

>>53484 (OP)

Good. They're going out of business because their entire business model is fundamentally inefficient.


 No.53707

>>53620

There sales are shit. You can't buy from their website any more but you can see the sale prices. Basically anything worth having is reduced by as little as 15%, and anything people don't want is down up to 40%.

In the UK I remember when Woolworths went under, I was about 11 or 12 and got loads of expensive toys cheap because there was like 75% off




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