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Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:20:49 No.9296280 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>9296307 >>9296350 >>9304663 >>9304695 >>9304715

>there will never be another big box retail chain the likes of toysrus ever again
>you will never have expansive toylines that feature every major character and then some like the legacy collection for star wars back in 2008-2009
>kids are slowly moving away from toys to play more on their repetitive soulless tablet games
>toy sections in places like walmart are only getting shittier and shittier each passing year

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:26:46 No.9296292 Report

Quoted By: >>9296306 >>9296311 >>9297486

I was just in a Toys r us this morning. Fully stocked with everything you could want.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:32:46 No.9296306 Report

Quoted By: >>9296310 >>9296763 >>9299067

>>9296292
Leafs need to be fucking culled

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:33:03 No.9296307 Report

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>>9296280
What's really stopping US from making a brand new big box toy company dumping ground? i see more small business toy stores in malls last a long time to this day

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:34:04 No.9296310 Report

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>>9296306
:^) it's OK Jelly bean. No need to be upset

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:34:37 No.9296311 Report

Quoted By: >>9296317

>>9296292
>fully stocked with everything you could want
i'm calling bullshit, my toys r us never had anything worth a damn

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:37:14 No.9296317 Report

Quoted By: >>9296325 >>9296768 >>9298597 >>9304685

>>9296311
I mean, my Tru regularly gets stuff way before release. Where you located?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:42:13 No.9296325 Report

Quoted By: >>9296328 >>9296424

>>9296317
washington state

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:43:15 No.9296328 Report

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>>9296325
On the bright side, you don't have to overpay for everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 19:56:32 No.9296350 Report

Quoted By: >>9296387 >>9296822

>>9296280
Say you went into an abandoned, closed TRU, would you get chills and be a little dizzy? It's a lot to take in, this is our childhood, after all.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 20:11:07 No.9296387 Report

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>>9296350
I went into a Halloween Store that occupied a TRU and walked toward the unused areas which still had the shelves/graphics left. One other TRU got replaced by two different stores, a Fallas, then a Target. I'd even discover new locations that have long been closed before.

It was depressing how TRU's soul disappeared and I cut those locations out of my routine permanently, if there wasn't any other place of interest. TRU's really pulled me away into cities/areas id never visit without them. During the closings, id map out all the TRU's within a 30mi radius and go on a "quest" to see them. All i do these days is look for Gamestops or Targets, but those places are either easy to shop online for or they have nothing much because companies dont use them as a dumping ground as much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 20:33:47 No.9296424 Report

Quoted By: >>9296728

>>9296325
Just hop over the border and find a TrU!
You DID get a vaccine passport, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 23:13:42 No.9296728 Report

Quoted By: >>9296778

>>9296424
oh yeah? What toylines do you have that we don't?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 23:31:22 No.9296763 Report

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>>9296306
BASED

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 23:32:59 No.9296768 Report

Quoted By: >>9297488

>>9296317
80??

WHY

40 at most

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 23:38:14 No.9296778 Report

Quoted By: >>9296796

>>9296728
i mean... all of them, since there aren't any TRUs open in Washington anymore IIRC

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Sep 2021 23:48:17 No.9296796 Report

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>>9296778
so just go to Target then, ok.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:00:57 No.9296822 Report

Quoted By: >>9305213

>>9296350
I feel like it'd be less impactful if it was just any TRU. If it was a TRU you were in as a kid and remember the locations of stuff and the like then it could be bone chilling. I didn't have that with TRU but with some other stores. It's like looking at your civilization collapsing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 00:29:18 No.9296878 Report

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Never say never, the future is not set , human agency sets the path

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 07:59:47 No.9297486 Report

Quoted By: >>9299064

>>9296292
>I was just in a Toys r us this morning.
Same.
>Fully stocked with everything you could want.
lol, you're full of shit on this one. Aside from Lego marvel cmfs there was nothing but the same old shit warming the pegs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 08:01:19 No.9297488 Report

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>>9296768
That's in loonies, stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Sep 2021 22:12:09 No.9298597 Report

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>>9296317
80 syrup bux.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Sep 2021 01:23:53 No.9299023 Report

Quoted By: >>9299064

>>9296796
target sucks lately too, they never seem to have anything even after reset days

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Sep 2021 01:35:17 No.9299064 Report

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>>9299023
>>9297486
it sounds to me that the only difference from CTRU and target is general toy quantity. Then again, i bet the walls of full pegs still of look beautiful

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Sep 2021 01:36:08 No.9299067 Report

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>>9296306
change that to orcs, skaven, foreign invaders and libtards, bud

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:13:49 No.9304663 Report

Quoted By: >>9304674

>>9296280
>Tfw live in South Korea and still have Toys R Us
>Every Murrikan toy is marked up 3/4 times so never buy anything
>Most of it is shit anyway
I dunno man blame Amazon I guess?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:15:39 No.9304674 Report

Quoted By: >>9304683 >>9304686

>>9304663
are your store shelves ample too?

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Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:21:08 No.9304683 Report

Quoted By: >>9304709

>>9304674
The TRUs here are pretty big.
I don't have any decent pictures but you can see some in the background here.
The problem(?) is they're mostly aimed at kids, so there's nothing really worthwhile for collectors, and what they do have is marked up insanely. Instead, we have a lot of weeb collector shops, but for being so close to Japan the prices are still higher than in the US or online. Korea is hell for toy collectors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:22:10 No.9304685 Report

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>>9296317
$80 kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:22:14 No.9304686 Report

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>>9304674
Singaporean here, our TRUs are always well-stocked with shelfwarmers and new stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:27:14 No.9304695 Report

Quoted By: >>9304697 >>9304701

>>9296280
>kids are slowly moving away from toys to play more on their repetitive soulless tablet games
This is so much worse than people realize. Stifles imagination, fuels dependency.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:28:47 No.9304697 Report

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>>9304695
>soulless tablet games
It's detrimental both physically and psychologically. The world's gonna end up even more fucked up when they become the predominant generation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:30:54 No.9304701 Report

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>>9304695
>kids are slowly moving away from toys
Only in America. China makes their own toys and don't need to ship them for three months and just send them out within a weeks time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:34:45 No.9304709 Report

Quoted By: >>9305198

>>9304683
I live near Koreatown and everything there is pricey. From the restaurants to their own brands of import toys.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 04:36:28 No.9304715 Report

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>>9296280
>you will never have expansive toylines that feature every major character and then some like the legacy collection for star wars back in 2008-2009
This fucking hurts OP, why did you make me remember the good times before the disney buyout.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 11:22:24 No.9305198 Report

Quoted By: >>9305199

>>9304709
I mean since that's all imported I guess that makes sense?
I know all these are imported too but you'd think a big multinational company could cut down on costs a bit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 11:23:33 No.9305199 Report

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>>9305198
Yuck, these don't look fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 11:53:51 No.9305213 Report

Quoted By: >>9305215

>>9296822
>I feel like it'd be less impactful if it was just any TRU. If it was a TRU you were in as a kid and remember the locations of stuff and the like then it could be bone chilling.
I was at the grand opening of the local one back in the '90s, moved away, then happened to come back and was present for the store's end. The autumn after it closed it was a Spirit location, and hadn't bothered to really refinish the floors yet. Seeing those old price tags and stickers made me a little wistful. It's an Ollie's now, but it still has the TrU rainbow tiling and "entrance" sign.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Sep 2021 11:58:25 No.9305215 Report

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>>9305213
Weird, my TRU still exists.

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