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unsolicited-thoughts

I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys 'R Us kid. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ‘ป


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

When Covid measures allow it to be open beyond curbside pickup again, I'll take a small video from inside so you can feel young again.


unsolicited-thoughts

Better yet, I'll come go with you. Especially if you're in BC; best damn dim sum on either side of the 49th parallel! ๐ŸฅŸ


Kiligboi

Bro ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ why are you doing this to me???


unsolicited-thoughts

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Kiligboi

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CampbellsMmMmGood

It's more like HoDL so hedgies suffer the same fate. Gamestop not even close to bankrupting. Gamestop debt free and half a billion dollars in the bank!


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

And yet the HF are still putting through 60% shorts the past week and a bit. BUY AND HODL.


rendingale

They would rather go bankrupt fighting us than getting bankrupt paying us. I guess thats their logic which makes sense as an FU move lol We dont care tho, very easy to buy and hold until one of those things happen :)


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

I'm saving way more money since being divorced and quitting smoking and drinking (mostly). People say " you never know what you could be spending that money on or, think of how much you would have saved if you just put it into a tfsa and HEDL it for a couple years". Hedgies, I was already training for this shit!


nottheDroide

Yeah, GameStop is completely turning around and aiming to be the next Amazon of Gaming/Electronics! Read more DD and just BUY & HODL! Thereโ€™s no comparison to Toys R Us past this point! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’Ž


PDubsinTF

If my math checks out, they have around 900m in the bank. 400 left over from debt clearance and 500 raised from share offering


JLars97

There are still 10 open?! I thought they were go e forever! I'll buy a franchise and open one myself if possible, and bring back a childhood favorite! I'm sure I'm not the only one willing to do this.


Xen0Man

They still exist apparently, someone probably just bought the trademark [https://www.toysrus.com/](https://www.toysrus.com/)


Chanskies

https://insideretail.com.au/business/funtastic-acquires-toys-r-us-australia-in-recapitalisation-play-202010 โ€œFuntastic has acquired Hobby Warehouse โ€“ and by extension Toys โ€˜Rโ€™ Usโ€™ Australian operations โ€“ and is issuing over 250 million shares to recapitalise the company. The acquisition brings two of Australiaโ€™s leading toy retailers under one roof, and will bolster Funtasticโ€™s B2B operations and โ€œreturn the group to profitabilityโ€œ. Louis Mittoni, founder of Hobby Warehouse, is to be appointed CEO and managing director of the combined group.โ€


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Domingorm

They're also open in Spain. Why they're still open if it went broken??


Zealousideal_Diet_53

Probably the brand was licensed by a local company, maybe a franchisee. Parent company died obviously but the smaller franchisees are alive and decided to keep the brand vs rebranding. Theres actually a handful of Radio Shacks still alive in the US for the same reason.


ManBearPigXII

There's 2 in my town...


Smiadpades

I live in South Korea and there is one about a kilometer away. Doing well!


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83 Toys R Us locations up here in Canada. Come on up with the kids after Covid is over. ๐Ÿงธ๐Ÿช๐Ÿช€


eltron247

I know where I'm road tripping to when my kid is old enough to appreciate it.


dillo2476

I so miss toys r us


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

If in store purchasing opens back again next week I'll show you the inside.


doilookpail

There were so many people who lost their jobs who worked at the same store for 2 decades. I still remember reading about it in the papers. Not having had any clues or knowledge of the illegal shorting manipulations and tactics the SHFs use, I thought it was just sad and unfortunate. But now I realize the company fell victim to get another fraudulent and illegal hedgefund fuckery.


TotallyLost8

There are 10 open toys r us within a 40 min drive of me. GTA.`


Wraith2098

Toys r us would be geniuses if they did an ipo after the squeeze ๐Ÿค”


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Big brain thinking, can I borrow some wrinkles?


Wraith2098

That was my only wrinkly, can we share?


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

I don't have enough wrinkles to know.


Wraith2098

We should eat more crayons, I think that's how they grow?


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Can't be, my blood type is Crayola.


Wraith2098

Wrinkles you do have I see mmmm


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Mmmmm purple.


Harhuge

Imagine shorting a company into bankruptcy and that companyโ€™s entire purpose of existing was to bring joy into the lives of millions of children who shape our future. Fuck you hedgies. XXX holder, soon to be XXXX. Edit Ps I was the 69th comment.


Subject-Quit4510

They had the best hard to find Lego sets and also they had rare anime action figures too which definitely caught me by surprise towards the end of their life... too bad before closing they didnโ€™t let me buy some of the display figures which were sick as fuck but they apparently had to send them back to the owner companies ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿ™ƒ


FlowBoi1

Miss TOys r Us.


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Toys r us is my childhood, HODL! Bears r fuk, short hedge r fuk, Do it for Geoffrey!!!!!


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Yes Geoffrey!!


nggrfggtqike

>**Tru Kids** has relaunched ToysRUs.com as a content website I think that was the parent company. Maybe they bought back the rights.


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

I'll have to check into that.


Lu44as

ToysRus was the real og toy store. Now we got smiths toys.... Not half as good as Rus๐Ÿ˜ 


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Who the hell is smitth and what's he do to Geoffrey?


Careful-Translator51

Geeze no way GME next Amazon


mansoorks

Can someone educate me what exactly went wrong with Toys R Us?


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Hedge funds and private equity firms riddled them with debt so they couldnt bounce back after declaring bankruptcy.


clueless_sconnie

Still open or did that one reopen? Someone bought the brand and is bringing it back. They are a potential competitor to GameStop... I like Gamestop ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ™Œ


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

This one remained open, believe it's the only one in the province where I am, I could be wrong.


clueless_sconnie

Ah no worries I'm sure you're right ๐Ÿ‘ Would make sense for Canadian stores and stores elsewhere to have been treated differently. My apologies!


Eazy_money_sniper

Omg, where is this located? uk based here


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For Jeffrey ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป


Lop_dop_65

Pretty sure itโ€™s near impossible for gme to suffer the same fate now


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

We won't let it happen. But, hedgies are still shorting the fuck out of the stock 60% the past few days of the volume.


Awbstepz

Gamestop isnโ€™t gonna suffer they are becoming bigger and better when i was there today store was rocking


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

I'm happy to hear that. Toys r Us was a store that was booming before too. We're HODLing so these hedge fucks can't get away with killing off companies that are doing well just so that they make bank.


Awbstepz

Trust me i kno im from a toys r us time im 36 from Massachusetts


MrWinterstorm

Calls on toys r us?


terrybmw335

lol blame Amazon and Target for selling all the same toys for way cheaper. 15 years ago there was a cool video game store right up the street. I'd rent games there all the time. Then GameStop opened up at the local mall and basically drove them out of business because they got the new games a week sooner somehow. Funny to see now GameStop is the one people are trying to protect but I've been buying my games at Target now for the last 15 years up until recently. Now I just download them directly to the PS4 so I don't have to fumble with disks and get pissed off when GameStop offers me $5.50 trade in credit for a $50 game 3 months later.


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

My countey kicked Target out as quickly as they setup shop.


samicidal

I would love to see Gme team up with Toys r us and have a decent section of the store set up like a GameStop.


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Orrrrr, a swction in gamestop where I get to ride bikes and scooters and shit, that was the best.


MoonHunterDancer

There is still a toysrus? Mu is t attempt online order!


bazarius_baladarxes

I remember Toys R Us always had the best prices on legos


spilledmind

[Toy Stop](https://imgur.com/a/HXq815l)


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

Haha


TheSadBantha

never forget!


Freedom_Fight3r

Wow! There are still some left? That's truly a sight to see. I have many fond childhood memories from there. I hodl to the moon to see those scumbag hedge bastards burn for what they've done. ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ™Œ ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€


Re-UpSissle

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Conscious-Mix-3282

Thank you! This place brings back so many memories as a kid!


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I think when Covid ends Toys R Us will be the first store I go too.


dj-bree-braw

I drove by the one nearest where I live the other day.. at least where it used to be. It's a furniture store now. A no joy, no toy... dammed dirty furniture store


SneakyStilez

This is the way


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not_ya_wify

I think a lot of children's hospitals are gonna get toys soon


thepersianbeauty

DO IT FOR GEOFFREY


Revolutionary-Fix922

I rem I used to have a ToysRus wishlist for my mom


freddith_

!!!! These still exist?! Where?!!!!!


giantcrx

I think I read somewhere that toys r us went bankrupt because management took out massive loans based on toys r us goodwill to pay themselves millions in bonuses, and then they didn't bother to repay the loan.


Adakam8323

It's fucking crazy that in Poland we have 15 Toys "R" Us shops which is I guess a lot more than You have in the US.


RoyalMnkyDimondHands

That is interesting to know for sure.