Goodbye, Toys R Us? * UPDATE: Toys R Us is preparing to liquidate its U.S. operations, sources say*

I have fond memories of toys r us
The boy action figure aisle and this aisle



Will be missed

 

Im suprised its STILL around...

 

Everything going to be replaced with Amazon warehouses eventually

 

Aww...my first job was at Toys R Us.

 

I used to steal so much crap from that store. It's my fault guys.

 

Was at my boys house Sunday for the game & his son was playing with an OG power rangers action figure. The ones with the heads that could flip around and change from face to helmet. Thought it was crazy that after 20 years lil man was playing with that instead of somethings newer.

 

My parents bought my the first PlayStation from TRU, and that was the last time I ever got anything from there. It was too expensive compared to Walmart and eventually eBay/Amazon

 

I'm 36 and Toys R Us was expensive when I was younger. I remember GI Joes were $2.50 a pop at Target but $3.00 at Toys R US.

 

Few years ago my pops decided to start over at 55. Had a kid with his new wife. They live in Orlando now, I'm in Atlanta. When I visit Lil man stays on the ipad smh

I took him hooping and he wasn't nearly as athletic as I thought he should be at this point my pops too lazy/tired now

 

He is 55 though

 

They filed chapter 11.

Toys R Us isn't going anywhere. Geoffrey is safe.

 

I doubt TRU is going away completely, but kids are smarter now. They aren't amused by plastic dolls anymore and if they are, it only holds their attention for a day or two.

Most of the cartoons I watched growing up were made only to sell toys. I think things are a lot different today. There's no one show every kid loves that has a line of toys. Kids have many more options.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/18/toys-r-us-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy.html

 

I'm rarely in a toys r us but it's still cool to walk around and see what toys are like now and check the cheap videogame bin.

 

Was just driving by one wondering how they were still in business.

 

I have a lot of memories at TRU from picking up tickets for NES games as a kid, to buying Ronin Warriors, Beast Wars, Gundams, etc. during High School and recently I've been buying Star Wars figures a lot more but if they were to just disappear, I probably wouldn't even mind

 

iPad is was the beginning of the end

 

Look around, I don't see kids playing with toys anymore. By 7-8 yrs old, they already got a laptop, iPhone, iPad.

 

Yall remember how it was when we were kids and they had a million toy commercials show like every hour? I feel like there are significantly less now.
Like toys are still popular, I still see kids I know play with them but it aint like before. They mostly want that tech. Got 6 year olds out here with cell phones and **** now.

Meanwhile I'm still out here playing with a rubik's cube and a gameboy color I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toysrus kid

 

one of my favorites...

 

Damn hate it had to be Toys R Us. So many memories of my eyes lighting up as I ran through the isles. Kids have nothing but computers now a days. A shame.

 

Where you looking? In they houses?

 

Why ya'll acting like they closed shop? they're doing a debt restructuring.

 

You just havent looked at a kids channel in a long time. They are still going hard.

 

Future president of the US. Watch that kid.