legit emotional. the store always had a aura around it that was filled with joy and anticipation from the back seat of my parents vehicle. The opportunity of going there with the idea of "you can get whatever you want under $20" RIP
Unfortunately in its dying days under 20 dollars wouldn’t have got you much maybe a cheap plastic toy animal I loved toys r us but their pricing got rough at the end
My mother used to treat me to this place when I made excellent report cards in school when I was tiny. Now here I am, a 40 year old woman tearing up as I attend the funeral of a staple of my childhood. I used to be a Toys R Us kid. Now I'm a Toys R Us orphan. 😢
That shot of Geoffrey on the road puts a bullet in the heart of my childhood. Damn someone is chopping onions. I loved going to Toys R Us as a kid for both toys but mainly for video games. I remember you had to get those ticket slips for the game on this big wall of all of the latest and older games, and the clerk would go in the back and get you your brand new game. I remember thats how I got games for SNES and N64. Later for xbox it was Gamestop and so on. But as a young kid watching your parent or whoever, let you pull that game slip on the wall of games displayed and bring it to the counter and get your new game were always good memories. There is something truly special about Toys R Us when you were a kid that most kids of the last generation probably didn't get or if they did is over now, and that really sucks. But with the advent of the internet, it's not a shocker it just sucks.
The great time you are remembering is spending time with your parents and them buying you something you wanted because they loved you. Don’t try and give Toys R’ Us the love and recognition of such wonderful memories that you parents should be receiving instead.
I remember back when I was younger I would wake up early every Saturday morning with my dad to go to yard sales. I only went because he would always take me to toys r us after a cheap 1 dollar hot wheels. I just recently found all of my cars in my attic going through my old stuff because I’m going to college. My dad isn’t here to witness the happiness and tear that the cars brought to my eyes. I hope one day I could give the cars to possibly my kids to bring happiness to them. R.i.p dad I love you!!
I am really surprise it weren't Rose Ticos or Reys... Consideringt hey are to some of the worst Star Wars characters, and we have sene them a lot in the Toys'R'Us chronicles.
How many of those wwe diva barbies in the boys section did you find? There was a wall with hundreds of them the last time i went there a few weeks ago.
It's hilarious to see that even at 70 to 90% off at almost free prices people still don't want to touch the Star Wars merchandise thank you Kathleen Kennedy
I think it was calculated. After all, you don't see these junk toys at the Disney store. Only the best toys there, from Star Wars, to Marvel, to Pixar. Toys R'Us didn't die. It was murdered.
+woooudo I kept thinking about it when I compared the junk SW toys I kept finding in Toys R'Us with the high-quality toys I found in the Disney Store. In the Disney Store, you got collectible action figures, nice saber replicas, die-cast figures that were limited time only, while in Toys R'Us, you got cheap plastic shit that can't even pose properly, and outside of the odd expensive toy, most of them are one-gimmick junk that kids with class would be embarrassed to be seen with. The Prequel toys sold like hotcakes, same for the Original Trilogy and Expanded Universe toys in the Black Series. But this new slew of toys that mostly have poor articulation are barely touched, whether I go to the Toys R'Us, or to Target, or anywhere that sells toys. But the Disney Store toys kept selling well, like with the SW toys that fly off the shelves quickly. Heck, I even recently bought a limited-edition Darth Vader action figure from them. Then I remembered that Toys R'Us is a competitor for the Disney store and a middleman for Disney's SW toys. And of course, companies love cutting the middle man just so they can sell their stuff themselves. That's why gaming companies like EA and Valve want to get rid of Gamestop so they can sell their stuff directly to people online and get all the profits. By getting rid of these toy retailers, Disney can expand its stores and get people to buy stuff directly from them. So I thought to myself, why isn't Disney trying to save the toy retailers that pass out their toys? Then I compared the toys from the Disney store to the low-level crap being passed around by the other toy stores in regards to Star Wars and Marvel, and I realized the truth. The junk toys were dumped at other stores, while Disney kept the best Star Wars toys for themselves...........
+woooudo It's not just Disney anymore. It's every company that wants to sell things directly. They don't want middlemen like Toys R'Us or Gamestop chewing up part of the profits. They want to sell things in their own stores or online. I've seen this as far back as 2010, where new copies of Mass Effect 2 had very valuable free DLC that people who bought used copies have to pay money for. They literally chopped off part of the game so that people who bought used copies, which profits stores like Gamestop, have to pay extra money directly to the company via DLC. This was done to force people to buy new copies or buy digital copies, which profited EA specifically. Toys R'Us is just the latest casualty in this war between companies and retail stores. And if the current commercial atmosphere is any indication, it won't be the last.
+woooudo Their leaders were idiots who paid little attention to the stores because they spent every last dime of profit paying off the people they bought the store chain from. But still, people don't do anything because they don't think anything is going wrong. That's why I've gone and decided to support media outside of the west instead, like anime. Been on a Gundam binge lately. Did you know MSG: Char's Counterattack came out in 1988, and it has better animation than most animated shows today? Also, I've gone back to old Star Wars Legends stuff that was cool before Disney came knocking in, such as KOTOR and the original Battlefront.
Empty shelves and empty parking lots... Like to give a prayer to toys r us and Geoffrey the giraffe. I actually get so sad watching these videos about toys r us. Toys WERE us
I remember our parents dropping us off after church because screw walking around Ross or Marshals we want to squat down in a corner of Toys r Us analyzing SW action figures. Playing Nintendo 64 podracers, wrestelmania 2000 and choke slamming someone through the announcer table. I bid you goodbye Geoffrey.
What saddens me is thinking about all the little kids that will never know what it is like to go to the toy store.Feeling the excitement of finding that special toy you wanted or the surprise of seeing something new on the shelves.Such a shame.
I remember when I was a kid and Toys R Us was like a wonderland. The one I went to had endless shelves of video games and Star Wars figures, so it was the best of both worlds for me. Back then, Star Wars merchandise took over 2 entire aisles. Today, it can't even take up one fourth of a single shelf. Reality is often a cruel mistress.
As a kid Toys R Us was an amazing place and I loved it. I will always remember how great of a place it was a kid. Hasbro and Disney screwed the new Star Wars lines :(
I came into the world in the early 2000's, but my real world where I could always be myself was Toys R us. My dad would always walk me in and watch me as I tried to get in the little cars. Overtime, he'd watch me grow up. I remember going there at night as I watched the bright lights turn on. I'd go there almost every weekend. I'd look at the books and for some reason, the cute baby isle. I'd go there for fun and enjoyment. Even as a 13 year old, I still cry as I watch this place shut down. When I go by MY Toys R us, I look through the glass and see nothing but shelves which held up my childhood. I'd love the nice feeling of walking through that store. I even miss the bathroom. I don't want to grow up, I don't. I like to think that when I die, Since they say that you see your life flash in two seconds, I hope that I see Toys R us and all of the good times... If Heaven is real, which I believe is real, I hope to watch from above if I make it there and wish to see Toys R us open up again... Never will I forget about these wonderful years. For any one you adults or children younger than me, Please don't grow up.
When I was a kid, my family was not well to do to get me anything from Toy 'R' Us. it was a nice place to let me roam around and see new toys, imagine that I own them. Always wanted to strive to one day grow up, have kids, bring them to Toy 'R' Us and buy them something nice, something I never had a chance to experience as a kid. Guess I don't have the chance ever again. RIP, Toy ' R' Us. Thanks for the great memories. Thanks for making this video.
I used to go to Toys R Us all the time. I loved looking at all the pretty princess dolls and play doh sets. My brother loved the action figures and nerf guns, and my sister enjoyed looking at all the fake food and educational toys. I never thought that it would close its doors someday. I may be getting older, but my siblings still are little! I really am missing Toys R Us. Now, it’s like a part of me just ded
I feel sad that Toys " R" Us is gone. I remember walking around the store when I was 9 years old and I was always smiling and looking around at all the toys. It was every kids dream to walk around a store with nothing but toys and video games. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about how much fun I had . There will never be another store like them , ever.
I can't help feeling that if Star Wars had been better managed, and the toys sold more, Toys R Us could have been saved. *strokes Thanos action figure that I did not buy from Toys R Us*
No, Toy R Us was already hurting when Walmart took the majority sale of toys. With the debts and rise of the internet it was a matter of time before they went.
Yep...Happened to Kiddie City, and other toy stores a decade ago. Toys R Us just bought itself sometime before the fall. Kind of like blockbuster did as the last major Video rental store.
You may not miss it as much now as a young adult , but when you settle down and have kids you'll miss being able to take your kids there, and to share with them your memories and make new ones. Sad days indeed...
When ToysRus closed down I never understood why, everyone loved that place, then I realized, IPads, IPhones, technology. Before kids wanted to play with their favorite characters, now 6 year olds are waiting to buy the newest phone. I remember going there when I was little boy and getting another amazing toy. I still have some of those amazing toys. I'm 12 now and a couple of months ago I went to ToysRus and seeing the shelves empty, it was hard to see that. The things I got that day were Funko Pops and a Power Rangers T-Rex toy.
I am actually emotional, these stores were my childhood, I find it kind of telling that that it’s mostly Star Wars/diversity lines that are still there
I went into my local Toyr R Us last week, and mine looks exactly the same as yours.... So many Star Wars products out for display, aisles filled to the brim with them. How have we fallen _so_ low. ;____;
Korya Iine For some reason here in California especially in Los Angeles some of the Star Wars toys did sell but not much. Because they're still some stupid people who actually like the stuff
Oh how painfully ironic. Myself and my siblings (triplets) would only go there once a year on our birthday. We could get ANYTHING we wanted but only *ONE* thing. It was here where aside from Bionicle and Nerf, I wanted Star Wars Legos more than anything else. And my god the hype was real during and after Episode III!
Thank You sir. Great video. I have one poster from the store in my area. The one that says I'll always be a toy r us kid. My 7yr old girls broke down and cried when they saw the going out of business sign. I made sure they were toy r us kids too
It's sad to see it go for me because kids can't enjoy a toy store like we got to when we were kids. I have a lot of great memories shopping at Toys R Us, Kay Bee, and Kiddie City with my brother and sister. Now they are all gone. So many Nintendo games, Ninja Turtles, board games, Hot Wheels, Legos, Masters of the Universe, Star Wars, coloring books, Fisher Price toys... my sister would get Barbie dolls, My Little Ponys, Sailor Moon stuff (I'm happy you mentioned her btw!! We LOVE Sailor Moon!!) I remember preordering Super Mario Bros 3 and needing to get a rain check to get it. We'd always find the best NES games there. I feel like Toys R Us got the premiere titles first during the 8 bit era. Those displays with the yellow and white tickets... the high end merchandise behind glass... those cheap Halloween costumes... I could go on and on!! Though the Toys R Us I knew as a kid died in 1997 (The set up drasticly changed around that time), I am sad to see it go. If I am ever blessed with kids, I feel bad that I can't give them the experience of going to a Toy Store the way I did as a kid.
I agree. I used to go to Toys R us , Kiddie City and KB in the 80s, they were great, especially in the 8bit days. I was in there a few years ago, and it just wasn't the same, at all.
I also love Sailor Moon. In my personal life history, this was my first anime I ever saw here in Costa Rica, back when I was a wee lil' toddler back in 1995.
Perhaps my most favorite memory was when I took my son to my local TRU when he was almost 1 year old back in 2005, and I got him one of those large plastic push cars with the handle that came waist high that he could ride in. I use to push him all over the neighborhood in that thing until he got too big for it. Then I did the same for my daughter. Ever memory after, going there with my kids was an adventure. Even when we were hurting for money, it was nice to just go there and let the kids be kids. As much as I loved TRU as a kid, then as a young adult. It was probably as a parent that I cherished the store the most. Intertwining those memories and experiences with the lives my kids as they grew up. I remember times when money was so tight, I had to wait until I got extra cash from my employer paying me for all the sick time I never took, just to buy Christmas presents a week before Christmas.
Well, Toys R Us had a good run. Sad that it came to an end, but if the people running the company did a better job with it, perhaps it would not have to declare bankruptcy then lead to this.
I grew up on Toys R US. In the 80's it was an arcade for kids. Every isle was heaven!! I'm never going to forget Toys R US. It's a sad time in our history!! Good video :-)
So. Two years without toys r us. Wow. I have so many memories tied to this store. Its horrific that it has ben gone for this long. I got so many amazing presents for both christmases and birthdays here. I got my very first costume, bayley wwe figure, skylanders imaginators, i just had everything. So many good memories when i walked into toys r us. I really miss it. Hopefully the rumours of it coming back is true. If it does, i will try to visit it asmuch as i can. The sad thing is, i never got to say goodbye. I am 14 now, i was 11 when it shut down. I will never grow up, ill always be a toys r us kid. It was a magical place. There was millions, says geoffrey. I miss it. Come back, please, we all miss you
You could probably construct another Empire State building with all the unbought Star Wars merch like Rey, Tico, Jyn , Force Diversity dolls and those Blade Builder sets.
I was listening to Madworld while watching this video. I'm sad now. Toys r Us was never part of my childhood but I know that it had a massive impact to a lot of children. I wish that Toys or Us can make a comeback here in the states.
Clearance sales always make me feel morose. Watching a store go out of business is just a very sobering feeling, and this video is probably one of the hardest hitting. I never went to Toys R Us much as a kid or an adult, but knowing how much joy it brought to other people makes this hard to watch all the same.
To me it’s like hearing a friend you haven’t seen since childhood died in an overdose. I’m a gamer and I distinctly remember getting a GameCube there so I’ll have those memories for nostalgia.
Actually, it was caused by republican Mitt Romney's Bain Capital though a leveraged buyout, giving the company which had manageable debt to unmanageable debt. Don't use politics to support your bias argument for it can be easily used against you.
Once upon a time, there was a seven year old girl, running into toys r us with a big smile on her face. It was her seventh birthday, and her grandmother took her to buy a birthday present. After a long time of walking, the little girl found a princess doll, almost her size. She immediately told her grandma that she wanted it. The girl and her doll did everything together. The little girl took the doll to festivals, restaurants, family meeting, everywhere. They switched clothes and had tea parties. The doll made the little girl’s childhood special. Now, do you see that tearing 14 year old in the corner? See that naked, broken old doll? These are the little girl and her doll, after 7 years. The girl might have stopped playing with dolls, and the doll’s clothes won’t fit anymore, but the memories are here forever. This is me. This is my childhood. Thanks for making it special for me and so many other kids, toys r us. May you be remembered forever.
I still remember my first trip from when I must have been about two feet tall. I just couldn't believe such an amazing place existed. ALL toys, ALL of it! From that point on, it was the thing my parents could dangle over my head to control me, like Santa Claus but in the form of a building. I'm thinking back to all the cool toys I got from there. One of the best was when I got Donatello, those original Turtles figures were REALLY good.
SYSTEM ERROR He was the best!! I dunno if it was his staff or the brown skin/purple mask color scheme, he was my favourite. I also got him from toys r us (circa 1989). Great comment by the way.
Watching this was painfully sad. Now there will never be another generation of kids that will be Toys R Us kids. Thank you Star Wars for ruining Toys R Us and other stores that sold toys.
I had a dream that maybe one day I'd take my future kids into the Toys R us store that I went to and tell them, "This is where your grandfather took me... now I wish to share these great times with you."
When mine closed in Modesto i was literally tearing up in my last visit there. I first went there on August 1st 1987 when I moved there and I took my kids when they were toddlers up until they closed on April 2018. My mom took me there to get all the new Star Wars figures when the prequels came out. It was truly a sad day. My mom did the same thing as yours, sacrificed alot to get me a little something.
Toys r us was a big part in our lives and my dad brought me and my brother and my dad said when he was a kid he never got to go and always thought that me and my brother would bring our kids and now we cant I remember only being one and getting my first toy it was a dog plushie and I named him max and I still have and now 9 years later I still have him and although toys r us left their heart in July 2018 but will never leave our hearts goodbye toys r us 😭
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid they got a million toys at Toys R us that I can play with From bikes to trains to video games it's the biggest toy store there is (gee whiz!) I don't wanna grow up, cause maybe if I did I couldn't be a Toys R Us kid.
My earliest memory of Toys R Us is of my parents taking me there when the original Star Wars movies were coming out to buy Star Wars action figures. I'd return over the years for He-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Ghostbusters. I remember how big that giant GI Joe Air Craft Carrier box looked on the shelf. I remember the giant wall row of board games along one of the store walls where you could find every board game imaginable including Ouiji Boards courtesy of Parker Brothers. Toys R Us was the first place where I got all my early video games. In the earlier days of gaming they used to have aisles and aisles where they'd hang laminated game packaging all along the walls (Back in the 80's Toys R Us also sold PC games for a time.) There was no internet and gaming magazines were in their infancy, so all you really had to go on when you were choosing a game was the box art and ad description (unless you knew somebody who had the game). I'd spend so much time walking the aisles inspecting each and every box display. One time I chose the Commodore 64 Alien game based on the movie, probably because of the cool movie poster box art. (Turned out to be a nearly impossible game, especially for a little kid, but there was no way to have known.) I remember discovering the Nintendo Entertainment System for the very first time at Toys R Us. I could see the console box through the window of that little fortress where they would lock up all the games when I was standing in the check out line with my parents. I remember seeing the screen shot of Super Mario Brothers that was on the back of the box that showed a question block hovering in the air and wondering what it was and what it all meant. (Mario was unknown back then outside of the original arcade game where a red guy and a green guy beat up turtles in a sewer.) I remember going to Toys R Us one night as a kid wiggling my loose tooth and my parents buying me the first Castlevania for the NES and me trying to read the game manual in the car in the dim light of the parking lot lamps. I remember how fun it was to go to Toys R Us when gaming was starting to first get big and one of the earliest battles was between these two new 16 bit systems, the Sega Genesis and the Turbografx-16. (The SNES hadn't even launched at that time.) They set up this display behind glass with both systems in the window along with TV's that would play continuous loops of advertising for both systems. I can remember just standing there for like 40 minutes watching this new footage of Keith Courage, Legendary Axe, Bloody Wolf, Bonk's Adventure, Splatterhouse, Devil's Crush, Altered Beast, Ghouls N' Ghosts, Last Battle, Phantasy Star II, Space Harrier II, etc. cut in between shots of xxxtreme, totally radical dudes, lightning, and shredding guitar that was mandatory for gaming ads back then. Lots of good Toys R Us memories. Sad to see it disappear. Wish I could have shared the same kind of experiences with my nephews and niece.
dude even the model kits at my local hobby lobby store has the star wars model kits going for sale, for like 8.00. Compare to 24.99. I asked the guys why are they staring to go on sale, and he says that none is buying them and that they have been on the self for like about 2 to 3 yrs. Nobody is buying star wars anymore and its pretty fuckin sad and funny.
My mom worked at Toys R us when I was 7 it was great I would sometimes go with my mom to work just to hang out. Christmas was a blast. I'm gonna miss Toys R Us
Wasn't a toys r us within 150 miles growing up. So i remember every trip. Was always a bummer. Having to pick just 1 item when you wanted the whole store. Last time i went was to help dad get a bday present 4 my niece. A present he didn't get the chance to give her unfortunately. So will probably remember that 1 longer than the rest. Odd thing was even on a weekday it was fairly busy. Oh well. Father time remains undefeated.
I'm crying rn when I turned 9 I went to toys r us for my bday and in the loud speakers I heard the manager say my name inside the store.....my childhood is gone....I won't have another happy bday with toys r us anymore....this was the best toys store ever...😢😢I can't help it but cry even more....the day that it was my cousin bday I gave him toys from there and now he is sad cause they are going to be gone forever. I bought my first toy there...my mom she bought every toy for every kid in the family but now she won't buy them anymore...I'm sorry......I'm can't stop crying...I'm really sad...people keeps making fun of me...i need help I need someone to make me happy I want my good memories back from being a 2 yr old and going to toys r us TOYS R US IS ALWAYS IN MY HEART NO MATTER WHAT I WILL MISS THEM!!!!!😭😭😭😭PLZ COMMENT DOWN TO HELP ME FEEL BETTER THX!!😢😢😭😭
I remember when I was 3 and got my first toys R us toy, that was 7Years ago. I got my best friend a toys R Us toy 8monthes before it closed... It was a whole different as a young child. Every year, when I get money. A doll for 90$ seems cheap comparing to the other stores.. It was a delight to my eyes! My sister she still has a toy! But. I don't know if I really will get over this. This business was at the top at the childrens heart ❤. We enjoy these so much! My dad really liked bringing us here to play and watched the toys. I don't really know if I will ever feel this. When this opens again, I will buy anything for child collection. Mom always bought for my friends and cousins and it was amazing company.. I loved all the plushies and I was smiling all my childhood. When it was closed I felt like crying. I don't know if I'll ever get over my childhood It was the happiest place.. I have ever been to this was the most colourful and prettiest place I've ever been to. I now don't play with toys. I gave them all to my sister, before the store closed, huge mistake I can't take it back anymore. I wanna be a Toys R us kid 🎵🎶
In Arizona ToysRUs was a late comer. I didn't go to ToysRUs as a kid, except for when the family went to California on vacation. It was extra special since it was so much larger than anything at home. They had toys there that I didn't see anywhere else. In Phoenix we had a lot of Mom & Pop type toy stores, and FAO Schwartz , that was the store I asked my Grandmother to take me to with regularity. After seeing your video this morning, I realized the end of ToysRUS is an end to an era. The end of the toy store as a local retail shop. Sure you have Target, Walmart, and a very few specialty stores, but it's not the same thing as being able to go to a store that is just toys, and the latest and greatest toys. You can pick up the box, or play with a display. I remember a small toy store in Phoenix from the 1970's, it was called Scholar's, I got a Kenner Landspeeder there(I still have it). The owner was a very nice man, I remember him saying to me, "If there is anything your looking for. I can pick it up at the warehouse". It wasn't his warehouse, it was a wholesaler. I really wanted to go there, it would have been a paradise to a 10 year old kid. With the end of ToysRUs goes the end of the local toy store, I can only think of three places in Phoenix that I would call a toy store. They are all in other parts of town, and they carry mostly collectible toys. Nothing I would give to a kid to play with, just another sad dust collector. Now that I think about it, I cannot even remember the last thing I bought at a ToysRUS. Man, that's sad.
I dont wanna grow up I'm a toys r us kid. That jiggle always got be excited about toys, but I've only been there like 3 times, it was too expensive for us. But the last thing I thought was that it would go away, I though maybe once I was older and had money I would go there to shop for my kids. Now that will never happen, goodbye toys r us.
Finding a Return of the Jedi Revell model kit of the Millenium Falcon in the one toys r us that opened in SE Queensland Australia. I think it was Revell brand.... Also finding the Masterpiece Transformers on the online Store. Got Grimlock and Prowl. Toys R us are closing down now in Australia. But we still have Toyworld. The Australian founded store that's the equivalent of Toys R US.
I remember loving going through Toys R Us from the late 80s and even up until the early 2000s. It was so much fun to browse about the video game aisles as well as always checking out the latest Super Soakers or Nerf blasters. I can still remember seeing a Sega CD in a display case with Sonic CD. That was 1993 and the whole setup looked so neat to 10-year old me. Oddly enough, the last video game console I ever purchased myself was the first generation Game Boy Advance. Lot's of good times at Toys R Us as I grew up. Gonna miss them.
A place that still had heart, and not just money on the brain. And then it closes down, leaving the big shot companies who care about money to take over. Is this how life works now? Shameful.
Although I didn't go too many times it was still a really cool experience when I did go. By the time my financial situation had improved, the era of me buying toys had gone unfortunately. I'll always remember toys r us nonetheless, because it was a haven for a kid like me.
well that was sad😢...it might be other factors in toys R us closing but I still think TLJ was the nail in the coffin I still blame Kathleen "girl power" Kennedy & Rian" the human Funko Pop"Johnson for this shit!
I know this is an old video but thought I would comment any way. If we want to get back to the glory days of spending your youth watching cartoons on Saturday morning & then in the afternoon going to hang out with the local group of neighbourhood kids & chatting about what you saw on television, & then doing the same on Monday when back at school. Then we need to start promoting the idea of paying stay at home parents a wage. When I was a kid as I got older there was less & less toylines based around cartoons & more & more based around films witch is more risky for both the toy company & for consumer as these properties don't last as long. The success of the original Star wars toys is the exception not the rule . company's can't push toy lines based on cartoons. Because they can't find that mass audience any more like they used to on Saturday so it's to risky. If Toys R Us financial trouble had happened back in the 80s then they would probably have survived because there was more reliable brands. There isn't any more because there are hardly any toylines based on cartoons & the one's that do exist have a much more difficult time trying to become big in today's climate. The way to go is to go back to having stay at home parents. It would also help with lots of other issues in life that aren't toy related.
I guess all the toys r us kids have all grown up 😢
Yeah, that sign was really something. Hits folks right in the feels.
ffs you can't just make people's eyes dampen like that
Loiuzein Allieran Feel my pain. I have never felt more bitter than when i lost toys r us and woolsworths, 2 of my childhood wonderlands.
Yes they have I'll always remember that song and commercials thanks for the comment.
RAIDENROACH 1979 you are welcome my child. lest we forget
legit emotional. the store always had a aura around it that was filled with joy and anticipation from the back seat of my parents vehicle.
The opportunity of going there with the idea of "you can get whatever you want under $20"
RIP
My parents would say we were going to Toys R' Us but instead go to the dentist.
Such a dick move
Unfortunately in its dying days under 20 dollars wouldn’t have got you much maybe a cheap plastic toy animal I loved toys r us but their pricing got rough at the end
My mother used to treat me to this place when I made excellent report cards in school when I was tiny. Now here I am, a 40 year old woman tearing up as I attend the funeral of a staple of my childhood. I used to be a Toys R Us kid. Now I'm a Toys R Us orphan. 😢
That shot of Geoffrey on the road puts a bullet in the heart of my childhood. Damn someone is chopping onions. I loved going to Toys R Us as a kid for both toys but mainly for video games. I remember you had to get those ticket slips for the game on this big wall of all of the latest and older games, and the clerk would go in the back and get you your brand new game. I remember thats how I got games for SNES and N64. Later for xbox it was Gamestop and so on. But as a young kid watching your parent or whoever, let you pull that game slip on the wall of games displayed and bring it to the counter and get your new game were always good memories. There is something truly special about Toys R Us when you were a kid that most kids of the last generation probably didn't get or if they did is over now, and that really sucks. But with the advent of the internet, it's not a shocker it just sucks.
I like to think he’s going somewhere to relax and be happy, it’s silly I know.
The great time you are remembering is spending time with your parents and them buying you something you wanted because they loved you. Don’t try and give Toys R’ Us the love and recognition of such wonderful memories that you parents should be receiving instead.
I remember back when I was younger I would wake up early every Saturday morning with my dad to go to yard sales. I only went because he would always take me to toys r us after a cheap 1 dollar hot wheels. I just recently found all of my cars in my attic going through my old stuff because I’m going to college. My dad isn’t here to witness the happiness and tear that the cars brought to my eyes. I hope one day I could give the cars to possibly my kids to bring happiness to them. R.i.p dad I love you!!
Toys r us....thanks for everything....
I’ll never forget you....
That's really sad that kids today don't play with toys anymore because they have video games like Fortnite.
I counted 58 Jyn Erso figures.
I am really surprise it weren't Rose Ticos or Reys... Consideringt hey are to some of the worst Star Wars characters, and we have sene them a lot in the Toys'R'Us chronicles.
Lolol omg thank u for counting. Great joke
Francisco Rafael Montiel Palencia Ethan made Rose hipster, and is probably responsible for that
How many of those wwe diva barbies in the boys section did you find? There was a wall with hundreds of them the last time i went there a few weeks ago.
Francisco Rafael Montiel Palencia: Uncle Ethan bought all the Ticos.
Yesterday I tried to give Toysrus one last goodbye, but by the time I got there they were closed.
Same here :/ Newport News Va, closed.
I think friday was all the stores last day being opened.
Damn
It’s so sad to see TRU gone :(
That got me in the feels 😢😢
It's hilarious to see that even at 70 to 90% off at almost free prices people still don't want to touch the Star Wars merchandise thank you Kathleen Kennedy
+woooudo
Not sure how you came to that conclusion, especially for TFA.
I think it was calculated. After all, you don't see these junk toys at the Disney store. Only the best toys there, from Star Wars, to Marvel, to Pixar.
Toys R'Us didn't die. It was murdered.
+woooudo
I kept thinking about it when I compared the junk SW toys I kept finding in Toys R'Us with the high-quality toys I found in the Disney Store. In the Disney Store, you got collectible action figures, nice saber replicas, die-cast figures that were limited time only, while in Toys R'Us, you got cheap plastic shit that can't even pose properly, and outside of the odd expensive toy, most of them are one-gimmick junk that kids with class would be embarrassed to be seen with. The Prequel toys sold like hotcakes, same for the Original Trilogy and Expanded Universe toys in the Black Series. But this new slew of toys that mostly have poor articulation are barely touched, whether I go to the Toys R'Us, or to Target, or anywhere that sells toys. But the Disney Store toys kept selling well, like with the SW toys that fly off the shelves quickly. Heck, I even recently bought a limited-edition Darth Vader action figure from them.
Then I remembered that Toys R'Us is a competitor for the Disney store and a middleman for Disney's SW toys. And of course, companies love cutting the middle man just so they can sell their stuff themselves. That's why gaming companies like EA and Valve want to get rid of Gamestop so they can sell their stuff directly to people online and get all the profits. By getting rid of these toy retailers, Disney can expand its stores and get people to buy stuff directly from them.
So I thought to myself, why isn't Disney trying to save the toy retailers that pass out their toys? Then I compared the toys from the Disney store to the low-level crap being passed around by the other toy stores in regards to Star Wars and Marvel, and I realized the truth. The junk toys were dumped at other stores, while Disney kept the best Star Wars toys for themselves...........
+woooudo
It's not just Disney anymore. It's every company that wants to sell things directly. They don't want middlemen like Toys R'Us or Gamestop chewing up part of the profits. They want to sell things in their own stores or online. I've seen this as far back as 2010, where new copies of Mass Effect 2 had very valuable free DLC that people who bought used copies have to pay money for. They literally chopped off part of the game so that people who bought used copies, which profits stores like Gamestop, have to pay extra money directly to the company via DLC. This was done to force people to buy new copies or buy digital copies, which profited EA specifically.
Toys R'Us is just the latest casualty in this war between companies and retail stores. And if the current commercial atmosphere is any indication, it won't be the last.
+woooudo
Their leaders were idiots who paid little attention to the stores because they spent every last dime of profit paying off the people they bought the store chain from. But still, people don't do anything because they don't think anything is going wrong.
That's why I've gone and decided to support media outside of the west instead, like anime. Been on a Gundam binge lately. Did you know MSG: Char's Counterattack came out in 1988, and it has better animation than most animated shows today?
Also, I've gone back to old Star Wars Legends stuff that was cool before Disney came knocking in, such as KOTOR and the original Battlefront.
Empty shelves and empty parking lots...
Like to give a prayer to toys r us and Geoffrey the giraffe. I actually get so sad watching these videos about toys r us.
Toys WERE us
Toys 'r us
69 likes sorry
Future kids: What is Toys R Us?
Me sa grandpa: That was the best place on earth
~2020
*_2050_*
Bud
Well looks like it’s 2020. Are you a grandpa now
Jocelyn Duckamations yes
I remember our parents dropping us off after church because screw walking around Ross or Marshals we want to squat down in a corner of Toys r Us analyzing SW action figures. Playing Nintendo 64 podracers, wrestelmania 2000 and choke slamming someone through the announcer table. I bid you goodbye Geoffrey.
Couldn’t of said it better myself was a great world building center of imagination lol
Hulk Smash Now all the toys that Toys R Us did not sell will be sold over at Ross or Marshalls.
What saddens me is thinking about all the little kids that will never know what it is like to go to the toy store.Feeling the excitement of finding that special toy you wanted or the surprise of seeing something new on the shelves.Such a shame.
I remember when I was a kid and Toys R Us was like a wonderland. The one I went to had endless shelves of video games and Star Wars figures, so it was the best of both worlds for me. Back then, Star Wars merchandise took over 2 entire aisles. Today, it can't even take up one fourth of a single shelf. Reality is often a cruel mistress.
Just by looking at the title I got sad, even tho I know toys r us is coming back
Santiago Rubio it isn’t :(
I don’t think toys r us will never comeback
I meant I don’t think toys r us will comeback
@@maki_zenin-z7t Actually they opened up a store on Texas and are looking to open 2 more next year
It’s not..
Jeffrey: holding suitcase*
Kids: what?!* starts to cry*
Jeffrey: Hold sign that says*.....
All my kids grew up............
No. They didn't.
:(
May it rest in peace my sunday mornings my memories my childhood
Yes. Rip toys r us.
R.I.P. Toys R Us. My first console was bought from one and is also my earliest memory.
As a kid Toys R Us was an amazing place and I loved it. I will always remember how great of a place it was a kid. Hasbro and Disney screwed the new Star Wars lines :(
A part of us died...
I came into the world in the early 2000's, but my real world where I could always be myself was Toys R us. My dad would always walk me in and watch me as I tried to get in the little cars. Overtime, he'd watch me grow up. I remember going there at night as I watched the bright lights turn on. I'd go there almost every weekend. I'd look at the books and for some reason, the cute baby isle. I'd go there for fun and enjoyment. Even as a 13 year old, I still cry as I watch this place shut down. When I go by MY Toys R us, I look through the glass and see nothing but shelves which held up my childhood. I'd love the nice feeling of walking through that store. I even miss the bathroom. I don't want to grow up, I don't. I like to think that when I die, Since they say that you see your life flash in two seconds, I hope that I see Toys R us and all of the good times... If Heaven is real, which I believe is real, I hope to watch from above if I make it there and wish to see Toys R us open up again... Never will I forget about these wonderful years. For any one you adults or children younger than me, Please don't grow up.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😖😖😭😭😭😖😭😖😭😖😭😭😭😖😖😭😭😖😖😭😭😖😖😖😖😭😖😖😖😖😖😖😭😭😭i never went to toys r us you were born before me i was born in july 25 2012 you know i'm 6😢
@@PARTYPOOPERxd-ij1lh💀goofy ahh ur goofy
@@jjjws8bro stfu he’s just a kid
Geoffrey with his suitcase waving goodbye is heart wrenching
amethystwyvern because Geoffrey’s moving to Canada. Canada Toys R Us is here to stay!
amethystwyvern move to philippines ;D were still open!!!
Oh noooo
I will never grow up, I’ll always be a Toys R Us Kid!
Damn straight.
Hell yeah 😂
You have my computer wallpaper as your profile picture.
Yeah ummm
I’ll always be a toys r us kid too.
Me to i will always be a toy r us kid
We will all always be a toys r us kid.
When I was a kid, my family was not well to do to get me anything from Toy 'R' Us. it was a nice place to let me roam around and see new toys, imagine that I own them. Always wanted to strive to one day grow up, have kids, bring them to Toy 'R' Us and buy them something nice, something I never had a chance to experience as a kid. Guess I don't have the chance ever again.
RIP, Toy ' R' Us.
Thanks for the great memories.
Thanks for making this video.
I used to go to Toys R Us all the time. I loved looking at all the pretty princess dolls and play doh sets. My brother loved the action figures and nerf guns, and my sister enjoyed looking at all the fake food and educational toys.
I never thought that it would close its doors someday. I may be getting older, but my siblings still are little! I really am missing Toys R Us. Now, it’s like a part of me just ded
WHY TOYS R US I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Because the owner of toys r died
why toys r us
You know there comeing back
Toys r us is coming back in October you know
I'm not sure if you are sad and I am leaking with tears in my eyes
I feel sad that Toys " R" Us is gone. I remember walking around the store when I was 9 years old and I was always smiling and looking around at all the toys. It was every kids dream to walk around a store with nothing but toys and video games. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about how much fun I had . There will never be another store like them , ever.
I feel you
Ryan Johnson IKR
I'm actually crying. This is the Toy R Us by my home, it actually physically hurts to see this. Ugh, my childhood!!!
Same here mate. Same here.
I can't help feeling that if Star Wars had been better managed, and the toys sold more, Toys R Us could have been saved.
*strokes Thanos action figure that I did not buy from Toys R Us*
nope Toys R US was doomed when it was bought using a loan plan that never works. It was slammed with a 6 billion dollar debt when it was bought.
Sorry, I helped kill Toys R Us because KMart is 2 blocks away. I don’t need to spend gas or battery power to drive a half hour to toys r us.
No, Toy R Us was already hurting when Walmart took the majority sale of toys. With the debts and rise of the internet it was a matter of time before they went.
Yep...Happened to Kiddie City, and other toy stores a decade ago. Toys R Us just bought itself sometime before the fall. Kind of like blockbuster did as the last major Video rental store.
Rip toy r us thank you for making our lives happy you will be missed😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
don't worry TOYS R US
if you are close - sing
you are still in all kids heart i will never forget you TOYS R US
Thanks for the memories
You made me cry man. it's not cool. :(
You may not miss it as much now as a young adult , but when you settle down and have kids you'll miss being able to take your kids there, and to share with them your memories and make new ones. Sad days indeed...
man......it's been so long....goodbye Toys R Us...you were foolish, but brought us all joy.
When ToysRus closed down I never understood why, everyone loved that place, then I realized, IPads, IPhones, technology. Before kids wanted to play with their favorite characters, now 6 year olds are waiting to buy the newest phone. I remember going there when I was little boy and getting another amazing toy. I still have some of those amazing toys. I'm 12 now and a couple of months ago I went to ToysRus and seeing the shelves empty, it was hard to see that. The things I got that day were Funko Pops and a Power Rangers T-Rex toy.
I am actually emotional, these stores were my childhood, I find it kind of telling that that it’s mostly Star Wars/diversity lines that are still there
Damn.....I remember going into my local store when I was younger, wanting everything from the legos section. Now this is just sad........
I went into my local Toyr R Us last week, and mine looks exactly the same as yours....
So many Star Wars products out for display, aisles filled to the brim with them.
How have we fallen _so_ low.
;____;
And I remember buying Bionicle sets, and searching for a gameboy advance years ago.
Korya Iine For some reason here in California especially in Los Angeles some of the Star Wars toys did sell but not much. Because they're still some stupid people who actually like the stuff
Fallen so low? or 'Fallen solo'? hehe couldn't resist the dad joke there.
Oh how painfully ironic.
Myself and my siblings (triplets) would only go there once a year on our birthday.
We could get ANYTHING we wanted but only *ONE* thing.
It was here where aside from Bionicle and Nerf, I wanted Star Wars Legos more than anything else. And my god the hype was real during and after Episode III!
"Toys are now going to become a seasonal thing like Christmas decorations and Halloween masks." That is such a heart wrenching comment my friend!!
It’s our fault this happened.......
We Stopped Using Toys For Video Games.....
If These Games Never Existed We Could have ToysRus back.....
xX_Nico_Xx late but no it was because of Amazon
Thank You sir. Great video.
I have one poster from the store in my area. The one that says I'll always be a toy r us kid. My 7yr old girls broke down and cried when they saw the going out of business sign. I made sure they were toy r us kids too
I wasn't going to cry- Damn that thumbnail-
RIP childhood and teens.
The kids born after the generation after every Toys R Us in the world closes will never know the joy of Toys R Us...
I will want my kids to know the joy of toys r us
Sadly, I’ll never get to.
Toys r us I will never forget you you are the best toy store ever🙏🏼😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Do you guys will miss toys r us?
It's sad to see it go for me because kids can't enjoy a toy store like we got to when we were kids. I have a lot of great memories shopping at Toys R Us, Kay Bee, and Kiddie City with my brother and sister. Now they are all gone. So many Nintendo games, Ninja Turtles, board games, Hot Wheels, Legos, Masters of the Universe, Star Wars, coloring books, Fisher Price toys... my sister would get Barbie dolls, My Little Ponys, Sailor Moon stuff (I'm happy you mentioned her btw!! We LOVE Sailor Moon!!) I remember preordering Super Mario Bros 3 and needing to get a rain check to get it. We'd always find the best NES games there. I feel like Toys R Us got the premiere titles first during the 8 bit era. Those displays with the yellow and white tickets... the high end merchandise behind glass... those cheap Halloween costumes... I could go on and on!! Though the Toys R Us I knew as a kid died in 1997 (The set up drasticly changed around that time), I am sad to see it go. If I am ever blessed with kids, I feel bad that I can't give them the experience of going to a Toy Store the way I did as a kid.
I agree. I used to go to Toys R us , Kiddie City and KB in the 80s, they were great, especially in the 8bit days. I was in there a few years ago, and it just wasn't the same, at all.
I also love Sailor Moon. In my personal life history, this was my first anime I ever saw here in Costa Rica, back when I was a wee lil' toddler back in 1995.
Perhaps my most favorite memory was when I took my son to my local TRU when he was almost 1 year old back in 2005, and I got him one of those large plastic push cars with the handle that came waist high that he could ride in. I use to push him all over the neighborhood in that thing until he got too big for it. Then I did the same for my daughter. Ever memory after, going there with my kids was an adventure. Even when we were hurting for money, it was nice to just go there and let the kids be kids. As much as I loved TRU as a kid, then as a young adult. It was probably as a parent that I cherished the store the most. Intertwining those memories and experiences with the lives my kids as they grew up. I remember times when money was so tight, I had to wait until I got extra cash from my employer paying me for all the sick time I never took, just to buy Christmas presents a week before Christmas.
Well, Toys R Us had a good run. Sad that it came to an end, but if the people running the company did a better job with it, perhaps it would not have to declare bankruptcy then lead to this.
Jared Wignall The Star Wars SJW crap was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Toys r us
MercenaryX21 correction: giraffe’s back
I grew up on Toys R US. In the 80's it was an arcade for kids. Every isle was heaven!! I'm never going to forget Toys R US. It's a sad time in our history!! Good video :-)
So. Two years without toys r us. Wow. I have so many memories tied to this store. Its horrific that it has ben gone for this long. I got so many amazing presents for both christmases and birthdays here. I got my very first costume, bayley wwe figure, skylanders imaginators, i just had everything. So many good memories when i walked into toys r us. I really miss it. Hopefully the rumours of it coming back is true. If it does, i will try to visit it asmuch as i can. The sad thing is, i never got to say goodbye. I am 14 now, i was 11 when it shut down. I will never grow up, ill always be a toys r us kid. It was a magical place. There was millions, says geoffrey. I miss it. Come back, please, we all miss you
Welp, time to chronicle the Star Wars landfills.
You could probably construct another Empire State building with all the unbought Star Wars merch like Rey, Tico, Jyn , Force Diversity dolls and those Blade Builder sets.
I was listening to Madworld while watching this video. I'm sad now. Toys r Us was never part of my childhood but I know that it had a massive impact to a lot of children. I wish that Toys or Us can make a comeback here in the states.
Clearance sales always make me feel morose. Watching a store go out of business is just a very sobering feeling, and this video is probably one of the hardest hitting. I never went to Toys R Us much as a kid or an adult, but knowing how much joy it brought to other people makes this hard to watch all the same.
I’m sorry USA I feel bad that toysRus is gone for you 😢 but in Canada and probably other places we still have toysRus but I feel your pain
There's still toys r us 's in Canada
And it has came back!
They need gaming stuff because technologies are becoming more accessible to little kids
To me it’s like hearing a friend you haven’t seen since childhood died in an overdose. I’m a gamer and I distinctly remember getting a GameCube there so I’ll have those memories for nostalgia.
That's some real emotional stuff there. Brings a tear to my eye.
4:20 And here I am laughing my ass off.
Comic relief is always effective
420 smoke em if you got em
AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA
Damn Jeff you made me sad. Good bye Toys R Us.
I'm so sad I cried three cups full of tears. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
when your country never had toys r us
There right once a toys r us kid always a toys r us kid
Rest peacefully Toys R US, you'll be missed and remembered as a gem of the 1990s.
Movies. Shows. Books. Games.
Long ago, the Star Wars Franchise lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the SJWs attacked.
Albedo Ah yes, we meet again.
Actually, it was caused by republican Mitt Romney's Bain Capital though a leveraged buyout, giving the company which had manageable debt to unmanageable debt. Don't use politics to support your bias argument for it can be easily used against you.
Only George Lucas, master of all four merchandise, could stop them but when the fans needed him most, he retired.
Just is a depressing reminder that things change
Once upon a time, there was a seven year old girl, running into toys r us with a big smile on her face.
It was her seventh birthday, and her grandmother took her to buy a birthday present. After a long time of walking, the little girl found a princess doll, almost her size. She immediately told her grandma that she wanted it.
The girl and her doll did everything together. The little girl took the doll to festivals, restaurants, family meeting, everywhere. They switched clothes and had tea parties.
The doll made the little girl’s childhood special.
Now, do you see that tearing 14 year old in the corner? See that naked, broken old doll? These are the little girl and her doll, after 7 years. The girl might have stopped playing with dolls, and the doll’s clothes won’t fit anymore, but the memories are here forever.
This is me.
This is my childhood.
Thanks for making it special for me and so many other kids, toys r us.
May you be remembered forever.
TOYS R US WE ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU AND LOVE YOU
I still remember my first trip from when I must have been about two feet tall. I just couldn't believe such an amazing place existed. ALL toys, ALL of it! From that point on, it was the thing my parents could dangle over my head to control me, like Santa Claus but in the form of a building. I'm thinking back to all the cool toys I got from there. One of the best was when I got Donatello, those original Turtles figures were REALLY good.
SYSTEM ERROR He was the best!! I dunno if it was his staff or the brown skin/purple mask color scheme, he was my favourite. I also got him from toys r us (circa 1989). Great comment by the way.
Cowabunga dude. Same. My first turtle. Donatello was also the smartest
Donatello is still my favorite. 30 years later.
Watching this was painfully sad. Now there will never be another generation of kids that will be Toys R Us kids. Thank you Star Wars for ruining Toys R Us and other stores that sold toys.
I had a dream that maybe one day I'd take my future kids into the Toys R us store that I went to and tell them, "This is where your grandfather took me... now I wish to share these great times with you."
When mine closed in Modesto i was literally tearing up in my last visit there. I first went there on August 1st 1987 when I moved there and I took my kids when they were toddlers up until they closed on April 2018. My mom took me there to get all the new Star Wars figures when the prequels came out. It was truly a sad day. My mom did the same thing as yours, sacrificed alot to get me a little something.
Kids in the future will never experience the joys of being surrounded by toys how we have back then
Even when I turn 50 I’ll always be a toys r us kid ;}
Pingol Visionarño 11
I bought my first Atari games in the old video game section of ToysRus. GI Joe, Legos, and just about every Star Wars toy I ever owned.
I Love ToysRus make sure too give a hug to geforry and say Goodbye because ToysRus is a good store 😔😭👏😄❤️😭
yeah i love toysrus
Toys R Us will always be remembered...
Tyrannosaurus Rex hey that's my face in Roblox :D
Tyrannosaurus Rex 一fcc
im sorry ppl in america of the closing...... but toys r us is still here in Europe but they have still online store...
Toys r us was a big part in our lives and my dad brought me and my brother and my dad said when he was a kid he never got to go and always thought that me and my brother would bring our kids and now we cant I remember only being one and getting my first toy it was a dog plushie and I named him max and I still have and now 9 years later I still have him and although toys r us left their heart in July 2018 but will never leave our hearts goodbye toys r us 😭
My inner child died a little bit today. T_T
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid
they got a million toys at Toys R us that I can play with
From bikes to trains to video games
it's the biggest toy store there is (gee whiz!)
I don't wanna grow up, cause maybe if I did
I couldn't be a Toys R Us kid.
My earliest memory of Toys R Us is of my parents taking me there when the original Star Wars movies were coming out to buy Star Wars action figures. I'd return over the years for He-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Ghostbusters. I remember how big that giant GI Joe Air Craft Carrier box looked on the shelf. I remember the giant wall row of board games along one of the store walls where you could find every board game imaginable including Ouiji Boards courtesy of Parker Brothers.
Toys R Us was the first place where I got all my early video games. In the earlier days of gaming they used to have aisles and aisles where they'd hang laminated game packaging all along the walls (Back in the 80's Toys R Us also sold PC games for a time.) There was no internet and gaming magazines were in their infancy, so all you really had to go on when you were choosing a game was the box art and ad description (unless you knew somebody who had the game). I'd spend so much time walking the aisles inspecting each and every box display. One time I chose the Commodore 64 Alien game based on the movie, probably because of the cool movie poster box art. (Turned out to be a nearly impossible game, especially for a little kid, but there was no way to have known.)
I remember discovering the Nintendo Entertainment System for the very first time at Toys R Us. I could see the console box through the window of that little fortress where they would lock up all the games when I was standing in the check out line with my parents. I remember seeing the screen shot of Super Mario Brothers that was on the back of the box that showed a question block hovering in the air and wondering what it was and what it all meant. (Mario was unknown back then outside of the original arcade game where a red guy and a green guy beat up turtles in a sewer.) I remember going to Toys R Us one night as a kid wiggling my loose tooth and my parents buying me the first Castlevania for the NES and me trying to read the game manual in the car in the dim light of the parking lot lamps.
I remember how fun it was to go to Toys R Us when gaming was starting to first get big and one of the earliest battles was between these two new 16 bit systems, the Sega Genesis and the Turbografx-16. (The SNES hadn't even launched at that time.) They set up this display behind glass with both systems in the window along with TV's that would play continuous loops of advertising for both systems. I can remember just standing there for like 40 minutes watching this new footage of Keith Courage, Legendary Axe, Bloody Wolf, Bonk's Adventure, Splatterhouse, Devil's Crush, Altered Beast, Ghouls N' Ghosts, Last Battle, Phantasy Star II, Space Harrier II, etc. cut in between shots of xxxtreme, totally radical dudes, lightning, and shredding guitar that was mandatory for gaming ads back then.
Lots of good Toys R Us memories. Sad to see it disappear. Wish I could have shared the same kind of experiences with my nephews and niece.
Thanks! It was a magical time, wasn't it? At least we got to experience peak Toys R Us and gaming while it lasted.
I hope toys r us will come back soon and I need to have a word with the manger
Agreed
I cry 😭 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
dude even the model kits at my local hobby lobby store has the star wars model kits going for sale, for like 8.00. Compare to 24.99. I asked the guys why are they staring to go on sale, and he says that none is buying them and that they have been on the self for like about 2 to 3 yrs. Nobody is buying star wars anymore and its pretty fuckin sad and funny.
My mom worked at Toys R us when I was 7 it was great I would sometimes go with my mom to work just to hang out. Christmas was a blast. I'm gonna miss Toys R Us
Wasn't a toys r us within 150 miles growing up. So i remember every trip. Was always a bummer. Having to pick just 1 item when you wanted the whole store. Last time i went was to help dad get a bday present 4 my niece. A present he didn't get the chance to give her unfortunately. So will probably remember that 1 longer than the rest. Odd thing was even on a weekday it was fairly busy. Oh well. Father time remains undefeated.
j p don't be sad my mom told me that KBtoys is coming back!
I'm crying rn when I turned 9 I went to toys r us for my bday and in the loud speakers I heard the manager say my name inside the store.....my childhood is gone....I won't have another happy bday with toys r us anymore....this was the best toys store ever...😢😢I can't help it but cry even more....the day that it was my cousin bday I gave him toys from there and now he is sad cause they are going to be gone forever. I bought my first toy there...my mom she bought every toy for every kid in the family but now she won't buy them anymore...I'm sorry......I'm can't stop crying...I'm really sad...people keeps making fun of me...i need help I need someone to make me happy I want my good memories back from being a 2 yr old and going to toys r us TOYS R US IS ALWAYS IN MY HEART NO MATTER WHAT I WILL MISS THEM!!!!!😭😭😭😭PLZ COMMENT DOWN TO HELP ME FEEL BETTER THX!!😢😢😭😭
The store will all ways be there for us
My Babygirl it might come back or a even better store like it one day
It’s ok I’m crying too. I miss my childhood as it’s fading.
Sorry dude im crying too its just all gone just gone
Happy birthday mybabygirl
I remember when I was 3 and got my first toys R us toy, that was 7Years ago.
I got my best friend a toys R Us toy 8monthes before it closed... It was a whole different as a young child.
Every year, when I get money. A doll for 90$ seems cheap comparing to the other stores..
It was a delight to my eyes!
My sister she still has a toy! But. I don't know if I really will get over this.
This business was at the top at the childrens heart ❤. We enjoy these so much!
My dad really liked bringing us here to play and watched the toys. I don't really know if I will ever feel this.
When this opens again, I will buy anything for child collection.
Mom always bought for my friends and cousins and it was amazing company..
I loved all the plushies and I was smiling all my childhood.
When it was closed I felt like crying.
I don't know if I'll ever get over my childhood
It was the happiest place.. I have ever been to this was the most colourful and prettiest place I've ever been to.
I now don't play with toys. I gave them all to my sister, before the store closed, huge mistake I can't take it back anymore.
I wanna be a Toys R us kid 🎵🎶
In Arizona ToysRUs was a late comer. I didn't go to ToysRUs as a kid, except for when the family went to California on vacation. It was extra special since it was so much larger than anything at home. They had toys there that I didn't see anywhere else. In Phoenix we had a lot of Mom & Pop type toy stores, and FAO Schwartz , that was the store I asked my Grandmother to take me to with regularity.
After seeing your video this morning, I realized the end of ToysRUS is an end to an era. The end of the toy store as a local retail shop. Sure you have Target, Walmart, and a very few specialty stores, but it's not the same thing as being able to go to a store that is just toys, and the latest and greatest toys. You can pick up the box, or play with a display.
I remember a small toy store in Phoenix from the 1970's, it was called Scholar's, I got a Kenner Landspeeder there(I still have it). The owner was a very nice man, I remember him saying to me, "If there is anything your looking for. I can pick it up at the warehouse". It wasn't his warehouse, it was a wholesaler. I really wanted to go there, it would have been a paradise to a 10 year old kid.
With the end of ToysRUs goes the end of the local toy store, I can only think of three places in Phoenix that I would call a toy store. They are all in other parts of town, and they carry mostly collectible toys. Nothing I would give to a kid to play with, just another sad dust collector.
Now that I think about it, I cannot even remember the last thing I bought at a ToysRUS. Man, that's sad.
Went one last time yesterday before they closed forever. Picked up a Geoffrey plush for the good times.
I dont wanna grow up I'm a toys r us kid. That jiggle always got be excited about toys, but I've only been there like 3 times, it was too expensive for us. But the last thing I thought was that it would go away, I though maybe once I was older and had money I would go there to shop for my kids. Now that will never happen, goodbye toys r us.
I can imagine someone that felt so bad for toys r us that they managed to rebuild the company back to the top
I wish that toys r us could stay in business I grew up with this store 😢😭😔
This is how I was in 1998 or 1999 when Hills went out of business.
We went when they had a going out of business sale.
The local Big Lots here has a few Hill's buggies, and whenever I see one it brings back fond memories of that wonderful store.
Hills was the shit.
Feels like a part of my childhood just died.😢
Finding a Return of the Jedi Revell model kit of the Millenium Falcon in the one toys r us that opened in SE Queensland Australia. I think it was Revell brand.... Also finding the Masterpiece Transformers on the online Store. Got Grimlock and Prowl. Toys R us are closing down now in Australia. But we still have Toyworld. The Australian founded store that's the equivalent of Toys R US.
Model shops seem to be in steep decline too, a real shame: ua-cam.com/video/t06MnTwR79g/v-deo.html
I remember loving going through Toys R Us from the late 80s and even up until the early 2000s. It was so much fun to browse about the video game aisles as well as always checking out the latest Super Soakers or Nerf blasters. I can still remember seeing a Sega CD in a display case with Sonic CD. That was 1993 and the whole setup looked so neat to 10-year old me. Oddly enough, the last video game console I ever purchased myself was the first generation Game Boy Advance. Lot's of good times at Toys R Us as I grew up. Gonna miss them.
A place that still had heart, and not just money on the brain.
And then it closes down, leaving the big shot companies who care about money to take over. Is this how life works now? Shameful.
Although I didn't go too many times it was still a really cool experience when I did go. By the time my financial situation had improved, the era of me buying toys had gone unfortunately. I'll always remember toys r us nonetheless, because it was a haven for a kid like me.
well that was sad😢...it might be other factors in toys R us closing but I still think TLJ was the nail in the coffin I still blame Kathleen "girl power" Kennedy & Rian" the human Funko Pop"Johnson for this shit!
Harris Caldwelly *amazon also*
The end of Toys R Us symbolises the end of child-like imagination and innocence (for now).
WHY????😭😭😭😭😭GOODBYE TOYS R US
I know this is an old video but thought I would comment any way. If we want to get back to the glory days of spending your youth watching cartoons on Saturday morning & then in the afternoon going to hang out with the local group of neighbourhood kids & chatting about what you saw on television, & then doing the same on Monday when back at school. Then we need to start promoting the idea of paying stay at home parents a wage. When I was a kid as I got older there was less & less toylines based around cartoons & more & more based around films witch is more risky for both the toy company & for consumer as these properties don't last as long. The success of the original Star wars toys is the exception not the rule . company's can't push toy lines based on cartoons. Because they can't find that mass audience any more like they used to on Saturday so it's to risky. If Toys R Us financial trouble had happened back in the 80s then they would probably have survived because there was more reliable brands. There isn't any more because there are hardly any toylines based on cartoons & the one's that do exist have a much more difficult time trying to become big in today's climate. The way to go is to go back to having stay at home parents. It would also help with lots of other issues in life that aren't toy related.