Toysrus may close up to 200 stores

>Toys “R” Us Inc., which filed for bankruptcy in September, is considering closing at least 100 U.S. stores in the face of weak holiday sales, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Where were you when childhood died?

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Fuck off, they sell alot of Sup Forums merch there

I'm not surprised because kids these days hardly play with toys anymore.

Thats bullshit, kids will always like toys. If anything the lack if sales has been attributed to internet sales of toys

Eh, since Lego Dimensions and Disney Infinity died I don't really have a reason to use them any more.

If a Marvel Legend of a character I really like comes out then maybe, but eh.

>filed for bankruptcy
>still exists

??? Why do we as a society keep letting rich people cuck us at every turn?

Bullshit. Online shopping's what's killing everything

Because the one and only alternative to unrestrained oligarchy is COMMUNISM.

And you're not a COMMUNIST... are you???

this

Their rewards card sucks

Communism is shit but so is unregulated free market. Just look at disney and funko pops to know what i mean, companies should legally not be making this subpar shit

H.H. Gregg

Speaking of which, I noticed my nearby Toys R Us closed down.

>ywn circle everything you want for Christmas in the big book of toys catalog again
That said gimme those clearance sales, I got LEGO that I want to get.

It's people's fault for buying that shit. I will never understand the obsession with vinyl beanie babies

Normies are sheep and shouldnt be allowed to have free will so they dont pollute the market with their shit taste in buying habits like pic related

Shit, I might be out of a job

Eh, I can't exactly be sad.

Sure, from a child's perspective, this might be awful news. But from a parent's perspective (note: I'm not one), I imagine this is basically pretty decent news.

Do most kids even care about Toys R Us? Wouldn't they just go on Amazon?

>What the news says
Toy R Us is bankrupted and may close for good
>What Sup Forums reads
Toys are dead. Childhood is ruined. Happiness is no more.

Well considering alot of toys are only sold at TRU.

>itt user doesn't understand what bankruptcy is
Come on guys at least read a wiki

>driving through relatively big town
>decided to stop and look for a kirby amiibo because I have some time to kill
>2nd and charles
>nothing
>gamestop 1
>nothing
>target
>nothing
>gamestop 2
>nothing
>about to leave because I've wasted 2 hours
>as I'm leaving I see a TRU
>fuck it, they probably don't have it, but I might as well look
>store is in disrepair, looks like it hasn't been updated since the 90's
>look around as fast as possible because being in a toy store at 20 triggers my autism
>find the vidya section
>they have literally every amiibo including the Kirby

Based TRU, they have everything because no one ever shops there.

If you want to save Toys R Us, burn down every Walmart you can find.

I'm not a Burger so pretty much indifferent

>Just look at disney
Disney has been paying the government to play fair with them, why else do you think copyright has lasted so long for mickey?

>have to buy a toy for a little baby
>also thinking of getting a stuffed dragon for a nerdy D&D buddy
>Toys "R" Us is nearby
>give it a shot
>enter
>blindingly bright inside
>random Mexican kids all over the place going hog fucking wild
>blasting really shitty covers of Christmas songs sung by kids
>tiny fucking aisles meaning you can't pass people
>shit isn't sorted by any logical system I can parce
>there's like two kinds of stuffed animals in every section- no dragons at all
>try to find good somewhat educational toys for two year olds
>can't find them
>no fucking sales associates to ask about shit
>get assblasted
>leave without buying anything
it's shit.

>another completely off-topic thread

This has nothing to do with COMICS or CARTOONS. Sup Forums is not "nerd shit". Fuck off with these threads and post them where appropriate.

We still have Smyths at least. I'll panic when they go under too because at that point it really will just be online shopping and the limited mainstream stuff at supermarkets.

>we should be able to dictate laws that benifit us and crush our competitors
>fair play
Pick one

>stores started closing when big franchises opened that sold chinese manufactured toys
>franchises started closing when malls opened and people chose the couple stores inside the mall for their christmas shopping
>malls and the couple big stores are closing now that people would ratherbuy onlinewhere you can compare prices andhave more variety and options plus youdonthave to leave your home

its just the market evolving and becoming better, there is this old store in my city that only sells christmas stuff wich sounds insane this day and age, however its the fucking king of christmas, they hire girls to read stories to children and santa to take pictures with them and you could pretty much spend an entire weekend inside the store enjoying their different activities and eating there and taking in all the christmas spirit, in todays world just being a store isnt enough

That right their shows why unrestricted capitalism is bullshit. Thanks for proving my point user

Why dont you fuck off you insane rule obsessed autist. Anything out of place triggers your sensitave aspergurs, seriously fuck off and stop policing threads

Holy shit people know about 2nd and Charles now?

kinda true. they can't compete w/ mobile shit and online stores.

buncha youngfags ITT. my childhood ended 15 years ago when KB Toys went bankrupt

It is? I rarely see kids playing with toys while every kid has iPad and playing with it all the time.

nice comics retard

I heard theyre closing some McDonalds also

Press F to pay respects

Kids don't even like cartoons anymore either.

They went bankrupt in 2009. I should know because i was thier. Sad times indeed
Kids still play with toys, only retarded toddlers play shit games like angry birds. I dont understand why parents give their kids a smart device

Fuck off you topic policing shitbag

I don't know. I have a lot of younger cousins and while they have toys, they seem to enjoy and spend more time on their ipads than playing toys. I think it's the reason why parents to waste money on expensive toys and only buy cheap ones.

>they seem to enjoy and spend more time on their ipads than playing toys.
Only ingrateful shits prefer shitty mobile games. Their probably too retarded to make up stories with their toys, so they rely on mobile games to make up stuff for them like the scum sucking retards they are. I swear, this modern generation of kids deserve to be fucking beaten to death and thrown into a shallow mass grave

Can't tell from your lingo if you're trolling or not, but given your picture as a reference, I actually thoroughly agree. I dislike Bobbleheads as cheap and unpleasant. Why can't we have nice statuettes like Japan? Oh wait, cheap. Oh right, can't be sexy. Oh right, can't even be non-sexy. Need to be sexless..... Can't even just be badass. Need to be dumbed down....

>Can't tell from your lingo if you're trolling or not
I mean every word of it, people need to be forced to have better taste in culture to prevent them for supporting shit like minions and disney wars. We deserve facism
>Oh right, can't be sexy.
Purity culture needs to be forcefully dismantled by the government

>copyright has lasted so long for mickey?
I thought Mickey lasted so long because they used him as their mascot which falls under different rules?

Honestly copyright law is fucked up in the USA and every time someone tries to fix it.... other fuckwads screw it up again.

I feel your anger too, user. My little shit sisters are constantly downloading dumb Korean apps of barbie makeup and dis ey "princess is hurt let's clean her wounds" garbage I literally warned the parents about. They only play minecraft on peaceful and creative mode only to build floating pink wool homes and say it's pretty. Then get bored 15 minutes later and watch shit top ten videos for hours

Bro im heartbroken because i love walking around TRU as a pass time. But i admit i rarely buy shit. Lets buy an action fig or lego set once in a while i heard they price match now.

>topic policing shitbag
it has no business being on this board LMAO

Let's be real here. If smart phones existed during our childhood, we would have chosen them over toys too. So, let's not pretend to be the better generation (because we honestly not).

>My little shit sisters are constantly downloading dumb Korean apps of barbie makeup and dis ey "princess is hurt let's clean her wounds" garbage I literally warned the parents about.
>minecraft retardation
>Then get bored 15 minutes later and watch shit top ten videos for hours
I swear to god i want to fucking strangle cringey little shits like these whenever i see them out in public. Thank god im going to kill myself when i turn 30, i dont want to be on this ride anymore.

literally every generation has thought its children were worse than the last. the truth is, children have always been shit, it's not just "this modern generation."

>If smart phones existed during our childhood, we would have chosen them over toys too.
No we wouldnt, action figures are literally more fun then flinging some shit bird over and over or faggot spinners. Kids chose that today because their literally too stupid to play with toys. Case in point
>transformers are becoming less and less complex and articulated because kids keep whinning “WAHHH IM TOO RETARDED TO CHANGE IT BACK”
>star wars figures are just 5POA shit because retarded obese shits keep ham handsing the articulation
This generation is fucked. Im literally starting to believe alex jones that the government is putting something in the water to make the masses more stupid.

When they think shit like pewdiepie and candy crush is “high art”, then its time to go back. Its not a generational thing, kids really are fucking stupid shits now.

>Communism is shit
Explain why.
Keep in mind humans are the unopposed masters of the planet.
Keep in mind we have more than enough resources for everyone if distributed evenly.
Keep in mind we are in the information age, and there is no reason for education to be prohibitively expensive.
Keep in mind the majority of crime as we know it is due to money in one way or another.
Keep in mind retail is dying due to online sales.
Keep in mind automated systems replace human jobs with increasing frequency, and this will only become more common as time goes on.

Capitalism had its time. We need to evolve beyond it now.

Good. I'm tired of having to pretend to be enthused every time my main squeeze guy sees one, when we just end up ordering from Amazon anyway.

I like it and hate rich faggots, the problem is that the leaders typically become the next 1%. Capitalism is shit too, so we need something better

You know some people like shopping at brick and motor and dont like waiting a week to get something in the mail faggot

>Im literally starting to believe alex jones that the government is putting something in the water to make the masses more stupid.
Case in point.

Oh yes we would, if you honestly think most of us would have preferred to play with plastic action figures instead of smartphones as kids you're delusional

Ths. The thing is, humans will always be self-serving, corrupt bastards. Any system will collapse when implemented because of this.

>poorfag can't afford 1-hour drone delivery

How am i not wrong? Look at pic related and tell me with a straight face that children havent gotten significantly dumber

KB Toys was the old Toys R Us
overcharge the fuck out of everything and wonder why people don't shop there

>willfully inviting drones onto your property
>permitting drones to unlock your iCloud Amazoor and kill you in your sleep

>Oh yes we would
No we wouldnt. I get bored as shit with app games. Modern kids only like it because their autists who like repetition because their shit brained mongoloids. Only retards prefer shitty app games to toys.

>And let's ignore the fact that the worst kind of sjws comes from our generation

They got fucked up during college, if anything its this decades thats cursed

No, that user right and you are kidding yourself if you think that we wouldn't.

No, hes full of shit and so are you. Theirs no way you wouldnt prefer he man or transformers to some shit repetitive mobile garbage.

Good, Toys R Us has sucked ass since the 2000's

Gtfo of here traitor commie faggot

Eh, it hurt when Children's Palace closed as they were a far superior store.

The Toys R Us situation stings a bit merely because they're the only game left in town. As company though, they're not so great. God forbid they every mark anything down.

Nothing of value was lost, plastic is bad for the environment anyway.

>plastic is bad for the environment anyway.
Fuck off burgermeister

This isn't the board for this. Please stop. Either someone will agree with you or call you a cuck or you'll call anyone who disagrees with you an idiot.

And in the unlikely event you have a decent discussion it still has nothing to do with Sup Forums. Atleast the thread is about a major retailer for Sup Forums shit.

>tfw fucking around in a Toys R Us looking at stuff with my friend and his gf, all of us in our twenties, earlier this year on a lark

Hate to see it go, that was a fun trip.

The toys today are nuts. Nerf guns have charging handles, magazines, detachable working night vision scopes and folding bipods. Fully automatic and select fire, even phone holders for AR games.

LEGO has so many new pieces now you can pretty much 1:1 anything

And games just look incredible by default now, for the most part. Easy to access too. Just like everything else.

To think we were happy with a new comic book and some bubble gum after a trip to the store.

Most toys are fucking garbage now. If you want to see what i mean look at the mainstream marvel figures. Hasbro was literally so cheap they didnt make an action figure line for thor raganarok, just some shit roleplay crap and crappy unarticulated 12 inch figures

>Lego seold a small starwars set that you could get at toys R us only
>It cost 40 bucks
Jesus Lego calm down

>Modesto Toys “R” Us in 1991
>full of crazy, unique and elaborate toys that no other store had
>clean and enormous with towering isles you had to call employees with ladders to reach fully
>incredible selection and employees would even open up crates from the back of the store for you if you needed a specific Ninja turtle or Xmen figure


>Modesto Toys “R” Us from early 2000s - today
>full of the same crap you can get at WalMart toy isle or gamestops, just more of it
>the whole place looks like a dirty ghetto, with bikes in the middle of isles and toys all over the floor
>even with a lot of shit everywhere they always seem to be out of the one worthwhile thing you're looking for
>Where were you when childhood died?
It died a long time ago, it's just now being laid to rest.

I had to remind myself that my grandparents and their buds fought to ensure you have the right to spew shit like that in public without fear of recourse. But thank god you insane belief isn't held by the majority (no surprise there).

Because toys are at home.

>>transformers are becoming less and less complex and articulated because kids keep whinning “WAHHH IM TOO RETARDED TO CHANGE IT BACK”
You'd not talking about Generations, are you?
Except Kup, fuck Kup's a bitch to transform

I dont care, normies deserve to suffer for their shit taste in ruining culture with garbage like liking like pic related

Oh, they do.
But only if they're utilizing them for a YouTube Channel.

I mean shit like this becoming the norm

RID is an abomination after Prime
Hell, it's an abomination after Animated and that was nearly 10 years ago

I blame CN. You can't sell toys if they only air a single cartoon all day, every day.

Communism always fails it's country because the leaders of said countries always turn it into a dictatorship and then they become the new 1%.

t - Cuban american whose parents migrated here

I can't believe there's people who fall for this shit, who actually believe this bullcrap.
I don't care for capitalism either but I can't argue that there's a system better than it at this time yet, but I sure as fuck know it ain't communism.

If I had a smartphone as a kid I’d play the exact same shit with it that I would have had for PlayStation in the nineties.

If you’re not old enough to know what Jonestown is you’re not allowed to talk about communism.

That kind of makes sense. Toys R Us was only a big deal during Pokemania and the years with the Star Wars prequels.

Thats what you get when you make an incompetant bitch who hates cartoons in charge of your network
Socialism is pretty good.
Your an idiot, mobile games are so shit there not even that good as 90s playstation games

Did anyone see the new nostalgia-bait commercial?

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Online shopping + the fact that they're more expensive than target, Wal-Mart, and other stores? Kinda surprised it didn't happen sooner.

>>random Mexican kids all over the place going hog fucking wild

My work in retail has fucking made me hate Mexicans with a passion. Dirty fucking people. They come in with their families of 7 and tornado the fucking store.

Blacks will at least snatch their kids up if they misbehave. White kids are generally well behaved. Mexicans will just let their crotch spawns run wild.