Abandoned - Toys R Us

[@BrightSunFilms]

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[@SecondEvilEx]

Bright Sun Films too soon to hit me with the childhood

[@HFJStudios]

my b-day was so sad because my b-day is march 14th so when I turned 8 years at march 14th 2018 toys R us started going out of busness and also I subscribed so can u sub to me back and give me a shoutout?

[@hashimmohammad6838]

Bright Sun Films

[@hashimmohammad6838]

Bright Sun Films

[@BlueAcidball]

Believe it or not, there is a Deadpool 2 reference in the video. Can you spot it?

[@Camad]

*”Toys Were Us”* :(

[@SuperSlankyLanky]

Right in the feels.

[@panickermit9791]

Thank you for stabbing me in the heart.

[@christianflores1724]

Camad203 agree!

[@TheHollowBodiesBand]

Toys wr Us :(

[@A.T501st]

Windows noob *Steveawsome800* I wouldn't even blame them. I'd blame the generations of kids after us

[@AkeemOhMusic]

Every store in the 90s: Wow, things are going so well for us! Late 90s: "A new rising retail chain called Walmart..."

[@staringcorgi6475]

At least lords and Taylor switched their model

[@emberman535]

The Four Horsemen of The Retail Apocalypse: Recession Debt The Internet Walmart

[@JustInDisney]

Oh no

[@criscabrera9098]

Everything changed when the Walmart nation attack

[@repairfreak]

Booo Walmart :^(

[@coachrenaldo]

Does anyone else remember looking forward to reading the toys r us Christmas catalog each year?

[@sabrinarosario6499]

Coach Renaldo YES! I would put a sticker on everything I wanted and “mail it to Santa Clause” as my parents asked me too LOL.

[@panzerwolf494]

Very much so. That one and Sears were the two we looked forward to every year

[@peterpine5298]

You just gave me a Huge Rush of Nostalgia my friend. Every Christmas I would go to my grandparents house and they would always have Christmas catalogs for: Toys R Us, Target, Walmart, Sears, Belk, etc. I would just write my name next to anything that I wanted. Usually I wouldnt get that stuff because whenever my grandparents went Christmas shopping me and my brother went with her and we would pick out our own stuff. Now that I'm 15 and my Brother is 16 we dont really get Excited like little kids, cause for the past 3-4 years whenever we went shopping with them we let them pick out what they wanted and we got our stuff later. This past year when I went shopping with them my dad had to come with us cause My Grandma is wheelchair bound now. So I will miss the Memories but it was fun while it lasted.

[@mongolikechewchew2475]

Yes, and the Sears Christmas catalog!

[@captainauto6476]

Oh yesss

[@BrotatoFefins]

in nebraska a liquor store overtook the buildings and they still use the colors and carts and baskets, its amazing. they missed out by not calling it booze r us tho

[@puffdaddy4537]

Dude that’s gotta be a massive liquor store

[@repairfreak]

Nice one! Booze R Us would be a killer name. 😎👍

[@aft3rbrn3r]

​@@puffdaddy4537 Replying from years later but yeah it sure is.

[@scottw2755]

Just walking into Toys R Us when you where very young was like walking into paradise. Toys all around you. Was amazing, Having been a "Toys R Us Kid" I can say that it was one of my most visited shops from when I was around 3 or 4 years old. It really is sad to see it like like that. I went into my local one to pick some stuff up before it closed and it was just so sad. Its like when you wake up from that really good dream. Truly a sad sight to see. So Toys R us, You will be forever in our hearts. Thank you for making my childhood.

[@captainfangle2245]

Scott W and mine

[@justanenderman9668]

Last time I visited it was my birthday

[@RetroZero64]

I never liked the toys. I went in and looked at the new DS, Wii, Gameboy, and GameCube games they had.

[@davidlyons9992]

Scott.... travel to New Jersey!! The first new Toys R Us just opened! Another in Texas coming soon. Website is live.

[@clard]

I was kinda late to the party, I was 9, and even then I was in Baby’s R Us, since my parents picked up my sister after work every day lol

[@michaelopnv634]

On a side note, Charles Lazarus-- the company's founder--died about a week after the company announced it was liquidating it's assets. He went down with the company.

[@TECfan1]

He died of a broken heart.

[@buymeskittles2719]

I KNEW SOMEBODY WAS GOING TO SAY THAT NOW I'M SAD

[@CoolNinja925]

Michael Opnv he died alongside the company. So sad to hear that )':

[@dimensionaltraveler6946]

Michael Opnv Ironic....he could save others from death, but not himself....

[@aldrickdelacruz273]

Heavy is saddd

[@thebenster7624]

RIP future children will never know the feeling of steping into a toys R us

[@opallps4922]

😿ikr

[@rihanm.sgoogleaccount4462]

Well.. I never went to a Toys R Us, but I guarantee that stepping into a LEGO store is similar.

[@thebenster7624]

Rihan Mohamed Jaleel back in the PRIME of Lego stepping into one of those stores is a dream

[@rihanm.sgoogleaccount4462]

Why do you say so?

[@saeranchoi3343]

I never went there, since we never had one in our city. Though we did have another toy shop that sold pretty much same products.

[@roberthollander4522]

it ALWAYS amazed me how Walmart, with 2 aisles of toys could put a warehouse sized TOY STORE out of business. Amazing.

[@ParrotsAccount]

Amazed you? What a villain

[@isabel-mj7ms]

right walmart doesnt even have a lot of toys compared to the amount toys r us had

[@supersanic1254]

They didn't, though. Toys R Us is opening 1000 stores in the US.

[@svansy]

that's a bit of a simplification. there is no walmart in scandinavia and they were outcompeted there as well. they simply didn't adapt to the changing markets and were selling toys in the late 2000's as if it was 1990.

[@jalapeno1119]

Toys R Us was expensive.

[@jamesoniris2647]

almost all of these store episodes, Walmart is basically a villain.

[@BXJ-mi9mm]

Amazon is now about to do the same thing to Walmart

[@andymadden8183]

"Walmart is basically a villain" There's nothing "basic" about it, Walmart is a full-blown villain.

[@dsfddsgh]

I will cheer the day Walmart goes bankrupt and the Walton family has to sell off the company. Not that those a-holes will give a shit about their employees they have their billions to live on for the rest of there lives.

[@nickm7209]

Bain Capital is the villan

[@Alte.Kameraden]

I'd hate to defend Walmart, Walmart wasn't the villain in this scenario, just a competitor that did not successfully kill Toy's R Us. Did you miss this part? 6:30 Stocks, Greed and Borrowed Money, ironically kind of like the Housing Crisis of 2008/9 killed Toys R Us, the Stock holders owed more money than the company could earn, because they purchased Toys R Us with borrowed money.

[@milbryj.5724]

This video should be renamed: Abandoned-My Childhood

[@notjusjusin8091]

Agree

[@jeanson3172]

Abandoned-Our Childhood

[@melli7193]

Jeanson Ducas Communism

[@bigtimemadness9977]

Agreed

[@rahmanmoncatar9675]

Its not only your childhood

[@Oh_Gee]

its crazy how many of these stores were killed off by walmart. whenever walmart dies i expect a 45m long banger

[@owenfoster8073]

tbh i’m safe with saying as a 18 year old i’ll be dead before walmart dies

[@Oh_Gee]

@@owenfoster8073 play it at my funeral

[@ethanpinella3074]

Wal-Mart is literally the richest company in the world

[@ElliottEntertainmentChannel]

Sam’s Club is underrated, Walmart gets too much attention.

[@Sukagawa]

@@ElliottEntertainmentChannel sam's club is mainly for bulk tho, they good

[@worldendingful]

There was a Toys R Us store about 20 minutes from my house, that I used to love going to as a kid. It got sold off around 2017, and it became an Ollie's Bargain Outlet. The front of the store still has the rainbow tile lining the front doors and windows, so you could always tell it used to be an old Toys R Us.

[@PeteJ1111]

Hampton Va?

[@rojoeclipse94]

Wichita Falls,TX?

[@emeri5516]

Hagerstown, MD?

[@galaxystarshine4482]

Is it the Toys R Us in MD? Because it also got replaced by Ollie’s Bargain Outlet. I remember wanting to get the Minnie Mouse car and when I went to get it, Toys R Us was closed. Ah, memories..

[@g-rated-g]

It's also sad to note how Charles Lazarus also passed away in March :( He did live a long life though and was able to see his store to the end even if not at it's helm

[@GiordanDiodato]

some say he died of a broken heart.

[@thema1998]

G-Rated It seems fitting that Charles Lazarus would die after it was announced that Toys "R" Us would shut down of all its U.S. stores. That's how you know it was the end of an era! 😔

[@VerticalRecoil]

Giordan Diodato that’s the point

[@celemtine]

Giordan Diodato, Might be true.

[@indieauthorjasonblayne7511]

My handicap sister, always wanted just one thing. A Barbie doll from Toys'R'Us & up until they closed that's the one thing I always made sure she got every year.

[@danielchappell1672]

Very sweet man

[@fairymairah]

but now they sell Barbie Dolls and some of the Older style things in Dollar Stores! and other Stores ❄❄☃☃🎄🎄🎁🎁🎅🎅🐴🐴🐎🐎❄❄⛅⛅☉☉🌝🌝🌞🌞 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[@angieroman6723]

You are a saint! :,^)

[@indieauthorjasonblayne7511]

@@angieroman6723 I wouldn't say a saint but with the life she's had to deal with I've done what I could as a big brother. I've been in several fights over her and other handicap kids too. I've always felt like a protector.

[@saucysauce593]

Jason Blayne Real man!

[@danthemanwhocancan]

There's a magical place We're on our way there With toys in their millions All under one roof It's Called Toys'R'Us! Soon after bedtime When dark nightime falls Geoffrey and helpers stock up on the shelves From ceiling to floor Books Boardgames and Bikes Teddies, Puppets and Dolls Bats, Spaceships and Trikes There's Millions says Geoffrey All under on roof It's Called Toys'R'Us! Toys'R'Us! Toys'R'Us! Toys'R'Us! 😪

[@vaughnshinkus4178]

I know of a place where you never get harmed A magical place with magical charms Indoors Indoors IINDOORS

[@ibrahimzeeshan2348]

Take it away Penny!

[@mya2331]

thats depressing

[@residentsnake5235]

This is so sad can we hit 5 likes?

[@gmp200]

Chip take care of gary will you

[@uxie08]

I'm so happy that there's one in the American Dream Mall ^^ I actually got to go there and I walked into it in tears. It felt like a blast from the past and I felt like I was a kid again

[@jOeYpLaYs2]

I KNOW I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE ONE

[@sanai.s]

FR SUCH NOSTALGIA ❤😢

[@marsmoscato16]

“A new, rising retail chain called Walmart” oh no

[@DevouiDevoui]

You know what Walmart just ruins everything any store that opens or opened just goes out of business because of Walmart. People need to stop shopping at Walmart all the time and start shopping at some other retails then we wouldn’t have all these stores going out of business.

[@sketchycat6223]

Walmart is the Mike Eisner in this situation

[@sherrysmith8937]

I hate Walmart

[@sherrysmith8937]

We will always miss you Toys r Us😪🥺🥺🤧🤧

[@164carcollectorbelgiun]

Or target Oh no

[@shellyray6692]

I've been such a fan of your videos for such a long time and I'm really glad you took the time to cover toys r us. I’m a college student who was hired at toys r us during seasonal of last year and I worked with them until they closed. I can't speak for all locations, but working at toys r us for half a year was such a good experience. Everyone I worked with was really passionate about providing customers with the best service possible. It was probably the most positive retail experience I've ever worked at. Our location closed a month ago, and I'm still trying to find work, but toys r us was special. I think even in a technology-filled world like ours, kids still love toys and kids still love toys r us. The next generation is going to miss out, and that makes me sad. I’m really gonna miss that place.

[@remusritiu7510]

Shelly Ray Very True

[@TheHaviocdarkmoon]

You must have had a better experience then mine I never worked at my local one but I had heard the staff at mine were horable to work for

[@PoeticFox]

we are still open here in south carolina for a few more days

[@edfreak9001]

gah, looking at the store's website is really sad, partially because it's so empty now, and partially because of the super sweet little message currently at the top of the page: "Thanks you each of you who shared your amazing journey to (and through) parenthood with us, and to every grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother and sister who's built a couch-cushion rocket ship, made up a hero adventure, or invented something gooey. Promise us just this one thing: Don't ever grow up. Play on!" God, it's weird feeling so nostalgic and sad for a major corporation but here we are...

[@cherrycola1144]

I appreciate what they’re doing with their site. Even though they were a business, Toys R Us was the only real store for kids only. I mean that’s why it was so successful, because Toys R Us gave the imprint that it cared about the kids, and I think the last few breaths the website is having is them saying “it was always about the kids.” Kinda bittersweet considering as soon as the accepted the leveraged buyout they were dead

[@maxwellm1266]

Wow that actually made me cry

[@matthewjamal]

edfreak9001 I have a MUCH easier time feeling sorry for this company than Amazon, which has become pretty much an overlord.

[@JoeyMartz]

edfreak9001 ---- that just made me tear up :'-).

[@Ashleyww.]

edfreak9001 omg I'm gonna cry I miss it...

[@MilesModelWorks]

The small Toys R Us at Macy's will never be the same as the original stores. I still remember the last thing my mom got me from Toys R Us.

[@jaym1808]

Same

[@jaym1808]

I live in Washington near Yakima

[@_s1mp_785]

The last thing I got was a Lion Guard stuffy. :(

[@MilesModelWorks]

@@_s1mp_785 my last thing was a cars 3 taco diecast.

[@parkermillerherbietheloveb8234]

Last thing I got at my local Toys R Us was a little Lighting Mcqueen Matel car.

[@lumberc]

This one hits a little to close to home

[@chloesweeney6016]

Same here :(

[@chubi0512]

It really does......

[@_itz_tnf_ranger_8325]

BlackBear345 same

[@ta.kd06]

Toys rus toys r ussssss

[@venom160]

yea this one really hurt.......

[@jobic4207]

I'm gonna miss Toys R Us so much. Together with Target, that store really shaped my childhood. I remember begging my mom to let me wander off to the LEGOs section where I would look at all the new Star Wars sets. Or looking at the remote control cars, matchbox and hot wheels. Toys R Us truly was a happy place for all kids. Sometimes your parents would get you something, other times you'd walk out empty-handed and crying but still happy because you got to see so many toys. Toys R Us, you will be missed :'(

[@bigdonutsandpinkcupcakes3721]

Jonas Bichara I know. It was a big part of my childhood, too. I'm sure we'll all miss it. But we'll still be Toys "R" Us kids in our hearts. Right?

[@pogdoganimation]

Nearly every time I went there I never even got anything I just wanted to looks at all the toys

[@TheJedwardo]

LEGO not legos LEGO!

[@popsingerstar]

Jonas Bichara so am i :'( i was sooooo upset when i heard it was going out of business :( i went there on may 18 2014 & got woody & cuz hes my favorite just like andy :( i didnt care if i was 19. im 23 now & i got buzz, jessie, rex, & sarge & the soldiers too but i had 2 order bullseye from amazon cuz its closing :'( im gonna miss it soooooo much :'( i remember i went there with my brother in 2003 & got a karaoke machine. we're twins & we were almost nine :(

[@troodon1096]

Making me feel old talking about seeing Star Wars Lego sets as a kid... because they didn't come out until I was 23 lol. I'll miss Toys R Us to be sure, last toys only store I remember. (Doubt many remember Kaybee Toy Stores.)

[@folkrocksage9666]

The giraffe, although severely wounded, is not dead yet. He has retreated to the safe confines of Canada.

[@stormbringer126]

Ah, yes, it's natural habitat. It will be safer there.

[@folkrocksage9666]

@@stormbringer126 we'll look after him down here in Australia if needs be.

[@owenmitchell1469]

I heard that they’re trying to reopen the company in the us. They have a few stores there, one in New Jersey and another in Texas. I hope the company returns to its former glory.

[@SacredFire777]

Geoffrey 🦒

[@alkalaid6850]

And India

[@ImmaSuperSaiyanGoku1]

I will never forget how excited I used to get whenever my parents would take me to Toys R Us on birthdays and during special occasions. I used to love the atmosphere the place had and the incredible variety of toys and even electronics, video games and sometimes bikes they had made every trip worth it to me. I'm always grateful to have been fortunate enough to have been able to go there growing up.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I loved their Times Square flagship store. Every time we made a trip into the city, we'd make sure to stop there and get something (usually a Lego set or a Hot Wheels). It was such an awesome store, from the Wonka store to the T-Rex animatronic and the Ferris wheel. It was a paradise for kids Once they announced the closure of the flagship store, I knew everything would go downhill from there. I knew they were struggling, but it was after that announcement that I knew they were REALLY struggling. One of the final nails in the coffin

[@admoran777]

Rest in peace.

[@supersanic1254]

What nail in the coffin? Toys R Us ain't going anywhere.

[@balston113]

That Times Square store was a sight to see with its giant Ferris wheel, multiple floors and expansive video game section. It was jammed packed every time I went there.

[@dmvspotting]

Bobby Alston it was paradise when I first went!!!

[@darcywall2186]

I always wanted to go to the to the Times square toys r us store, but when I got to go it had changed into FAO Shworts.

[@larawright9210]

I went when i was 7 and it was the highlight of my trip

[@MilkyWay-gi8km]

Ok the lego and Barbie section were iconic

[@lorddrayvon1426]

What's funny is that it was shut down due to lack of profits. It closed because the rent was going up by a full million USD and a mixture of Toys R Us' financial problems brought on by competition and expansion, the rent rising and the American tourism industry pretty much collapsing post-9\11 made it unsustainable.

[@informonocle3182]

Walmart is the villain of every Abandoned episode.

[@michaelbienicewicz2993]

Don't worry Wal Mart will crash one day too. Satan will not rule forever.

[@informonocle3182]

@@michaelbienicewicz2993 Lolz

[@Dr-Random]

Gee thx Walton

[@TheFifthBanana01]

Michael Bienicewicz yeah probably to amazon

[@tammygouletschrader8785]

CatViral Amazon too

[@Decbaby15]

Fond memories of when my kids were small and going Christmas shopping for them. I sure loved those days

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

My oldest always wanted to go to Toys for Us.

[@agents13y91]

me before toys r us closed: who even shops in toys r us me after toys r us closed: OH WHY WHY IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING STORE

[@celemtine]

Nah, i always went to Toys R Us and liked it (even though it’s expensive)

[@rockaholicangel523]

The early 2000's was amazing for Toys R Us, massive Spider-Man and Transformers trilogy toy merch.

[@MissNayNay]

I severely miss the early 2000's.

[@tylerrice9725]

That and the 90s.

[@danacantu6714]

The 90s were better. You young people wouldn’t understand

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Games and VHS tapes

[@futuregohan4837]

That's Exactly Where I Got My First PS1

[@ArtzieMusic]

this is so depressing :(

[@Video-Games-Are-Fun]

toys r us was GARBAGE. overpriced on EVERY toy compared to walmart (and now) amazon. what a joke. great to see this greedy shit company bankrupt. i am not drinking the nostalgic kool aid.

[@theprimereason3288]

scir 91 quit copying and pasting!

[@OffspringGaming]

Ikr I'm 23 and when me and my cousin were young. My family would literally bring to toysrus. And we would just roam the store and play with shit and have a blast . And it was free lol.

[@FernandoMartinez-23]

Artzie Music You ain't lying. It's Enough to make a grown up cry. . . . . (Tear).

[@wynonnamareeuy]

wynonnamaree uy scir 91 Please don’t spam hate comments on a dead business when many have fond memories of Toys R Us. Perhaps you had a bad time in the Toys R Us you went to when the leverage buyout took place, hence those bad memories. Also, stop being such a sour loser.

[@HemiPowah]

Seeing some of those dated interior shots just brought a flood of memories back. A trip to toys r us was a rare treat even though a lot of the more expensive toys just weren't in the budget I still remember my excitement just getting a 5 pack of hotwheels cars or something. When the local one was closing up in 2018 I had to stop, not to buy anything but just to have a walk around because I knew I'd never get to again.. It was such an eerie feeling as an adult to wander around a store that seemed so big and full of excitement when I was a kid, instead the colorful and playful displays against a backdrop of ransacked shelves and unwanted kids toys left here and there.. It was honestly a bit heartbreaking to see, and think kids now really don't get that experience of wonder walking though aisle after aisle of stuff they might only dream of getting for christmas. Do children even still get excited about toys now that they're practically given a screen to play with at such young ages?

[@Snowpoiinter]

Wow, that was a short 15 mins. I love this series.

[@DeanB]

The remaining 44 stores here in Australia just confirmed they’ll be closing all their doors in just a few weeks from now. As someone who grew up in the late 90s-early 00s, this is really upsetting to see as Toys R Us was the place to buy toys as a kid! I plan on visiting my closet store one last time to feel that nostalgic feeling and maybe even buy something as a memory. It’s a sad time for the company and all those employees working at the stores.

[@CAPCOM784]

Dean B Here in the U.S. I believe next week will be our last I will visit one last time before it closes.Toys R Us will be missed for sure 😢

[@griytzmessesup2212]

Canada will have them still

[@tyralikadiamondstar8960]

CAPCOM784 at the end of June they are closing all their stores. One if my friends works at King of Prussia one

[@chiptunerat]

There used to be a local Toys R Us near St. Charles, but they closed it in late 2015.

[@randomfools808]

And KB Toys if you guys had it. That's gone too....could possibly make a return for holiday season though. I got to see the golden age of the big 3 - Toys R Us, KB Toys and FAO Schwartz.

[@ghostgirl7089]

Wow. Its just crazy to hear about this... There is a Toys R Us near me, and its still open, i need to go there one last time. It makes me sad to see them go Away Edit, because i wanna share my fun times going there, because i always loved to go to toys r us. My aunt would take me, we would get alot of toys and then play uno so i could win them, it was really really fun. Those will probably be some of my best memories with the chain, and my best memories in general. To know that soon, even though im older, that we cant do that or even do it now with me new baby cousins, its sad to say the least. Toys R Us will always have good memories for me, it makes me feel like im 7 again, and I really need to go to one last time, even if its going to be lifeless, and empty, its still going to be there, so people can at least say goodbye to over 70 years of fun, good memories and just to feel like a kid again. Im going to miss the place alot.

[@rocky.sroger8855]

Ghostgirl 708 its an end of an era

[@Boat910]

Colby Roger I would say the exact same thing.

[@TheCreepersGood]

Ghostgirl 708 actually, all the stores of toys-r-us elsewhere are open! Just not in America.

[@j_d_gamer2091]

I loved toys r us too ghostgirl. Oh, and TheCreeperGood, are you going to go to another country solely to go to a Toys R Us?lol

[@ghostgirl7089]

unknown yep, sadly :(

[@ZGryphon]

It's weird. When I was in their target demo, TRU was a largely unattainable utopia. The nearest metro area to where I lived didn't have one, so the closest one was 200 miles away. I was _aware_ of them, thanks to the miracle of television advertising, but I only ever saw them in person when we went on family trips to other parts of the country, and then we were always on such a tight schedule that I could almost never persuade my parents to actually go _into_ one. It wasn't until I was an (alleged) adult, living on my own in a more populated area, that I had the latitude to just go to one whenever I liked. Fortunately, I never actually grew up, so I was able to take full advantage of that, but still. Not being a Toys "R" Us Kid until I was in my twenties is kind of a strange starting place to be viewing the fall of the chain from. (And you were right, the one that was nearest to where I live now is still vacant, and still totally recognizable, three years later.)

[@northamericanauto43]

David Brandon, who messed up Dominoes Pizza, and University of Michigan Athletics, somehow got hired by Toys R Us. The rest is history.

[@TristanSamuel]

I'm pretty smart, but you outsmarted me.

[@dawudidris9106]

@@TristanSamuel Boi you're like 9

[@familyguy9877]

@Dawud Idris Tristan Samuel has some quality content on his channel maybe you should check it out and see how smart he is for yourself.

[@dawudidris9106]

@@familyguy9877 Hahaha

[@davesmith5656]

Appearances have come to outweigh merit. And I hate "leveraged buyout forms", the "financial engineers" should probably be called "financial wrecking balls". Bain was involved in Domino's, and apparently that's how he got into Toys R Us. But I'd go with the video that the "paper money is better than any products" morons at the leveraged buyout balls are the ones to blame. By contrast, Charles Lazarus started a tiny store with no borrowing - just products for kids, a heart, and a brain. LBO firms have no product, no heart, and no brains, just like "hedge funds" whose contamination brought the financial crisis of 2017. Vanity, politics, and appearances are not products. LBO's and hedge funds are not investment in production.

[@Larry]

Toys R Us began operating in the UK in the early '80s dude, they expanded considerably in the '90s, but they've been here since the '80s.

[@tannerrennat7786]

Larry Bundy Jr why are you here commenting when you should be locked up in an editing suite? Who let you out Bundy?

[@vulpixsmi]

Oh... Hello You!

[@eloncone6925]

Oh hey

[@MrIcecolddd]

I was gonna say I was surprised when he said it expanded to the U.K. in the 90s as it’s been here for donkeys!

[@wilfordbrimleyful]

have you won the Channel Awesome battle royale yet :(P??

[@hayleymunn24]

Toys R Us was my first job. I worked as a seasonal cashier during Christmas time of 2015. Best memory I have from being an employee was one time during an evening shift. Star Wars: The Force Awakens had just come out and this little boy saw that we had the class light up lightsabers you flick out. He kept begging his mom for it, but she kept refusing because she said it was too expensive. (She was right. When I worked there I couldn't believe how high prices were.) And when I worked the register people brought in coupons and we'd just keep them in a drawer after they were used. I wasn't supposed to reuse any of them but I remembered what it was like getting my first lightsaber and I knew they were expensive. I wanted to help a mom out. I handed her the coupon, she thanked me, kid went home with the biggest smile and a big blue lightsaber. My heart absolutely broke when I heard the news about their demise. I was always treated so kindly when I worked there, I loved making people smile and working with good people. And those people woke up to losing their jobs. Some people I worked with had been there for 10+ years. As always, fantastic job Jake. Very well done.

[@azestical6566]

Hayley Munn This is the best comment I have read.

[@CindyBencz]

[@ladycheyne5607]

Hayley Munn It's so nice to hear a good story like this😄I wish all the best for you. That was really nice😊

[@elHus0]

Love hearing your story!

[@thetoygirl2698]

Hayley Munn that was a very sad but good story! I’m happy that the boy had got the thing he wanted :) Well I guess those happy times at Toys R Us are over. Forever. :(

[@royalbavarian2040]

I went to the Time Square store back in 2007. Crazy to see it’s gone now, never even knew. I live less then 3 miles next to a 4 year old abandoned store, always looked at it whenever I passed by.

[@kingbucketz182]

Ouch! Right in the childhood :(

[@pak-gg5601]

king Dione and my everything

[@atara.sx-]

it hurrts...

[@ion1986]

I agree.

[@yeetboi3503]

Yep

[@Son1_]

Toy’s R’ Us: *kills off other toy brands* Walmart: *uno reverse card*

[@clemrose9720]

Oof

[@thesillyboi]

lol

[@idontusethis1101]

MeowJade neither are your videos lmao

[@eucerinfool]

Tagret: bItCh nOt tHiS aGaIn

[@rondalmcdondal4192]

Fast forward to now, where Toys R Us are expirmenting with new stores.

[@gallantblade1825]

A salute to Toys R Us! For kids and kids at heart, we salute to thee! For the memories we shared and the magical feeling there, we give our thanks. Rest easy, my childhood....

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

You said it, Gallant Blade. It was an honor doing business in Toys "R" Us.

[@unsie]

i never went to toys r us, walmart is where i got my toys

[@ChiefYoshi]

Gallant Blade Toy R Us is trash. They sold overpriced toys and products that I could get somewhere else for like half the price

[@maxtheprotogen4328]

This year a few months ago, I visited the Toys R Us location in Hagerstown, Maryland. The place I’d been going to for around seven years. When I went around the back, I had found the letters that were on the front of the store, weathered away and moldy. Going inside I found a few plush animals and tons of empty space. The location is now an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, and when I checked the back… There they were. Still sitting up against a dumpster. The letters that once spelled out paradise to me as a child.

[@jaymogul25]

I shed a tear watching this. I'm a 80's baby and remember being at Toysrus 2-3 times a week, begging my mom for ninja turtles, standing in line for power rangers and sometimes getting nothing at all and just enjoying walking around looking at all the incredible toys! Just being a kid. I have a 7 year old daughter and I'm just glad to say I was able to share some of those same experiences I had as a kid with her. Kids aren't kids anymore with the growth in technology they want tablets, cell phones etc. I just feel bad, newer children will never know the excitement of walking into a store "just for them" to imagine and lose themselves and feel indescribably special! There have been many losses over the years for kids like good cartoons but this will definitely be felt the most 😢

[@sabrinaguzman6201]

jaymogul25 I'm a child and of course i want toys i have thousands of toys and i play with them

[@peachystark]

jaymogul25 I agree while I am 13 I have realized that my cousins whom are 7-11 they only want technology while I have technology whenever I am with people my age or younger or even older all I wanna do is spend time with them and play and stuff but yesterday I went to a bd party for my little cousin and my cousin who is 11 had an I phone 7+ she also had uno we played 2 rounds of uno with one other cousin but then they wanted to be on the phone I tried to make them distracted with other games but they were still on the phone . Another story when I was 10 I wanted to play a board game that my older cousins had (this was during a Christmas eve party) also this was with the same cousins in my first story anyways they were watching tv for the past 3 hours and I had gotten bored I asked them to play with me and they said no so I started crying bc all I wanted to do was spend time with them playing but instead technology brainedwashed them with cartoons instead of them wanting to play like kid sour age are supposed to do......hope this story made sense it might have been all over the place but I hope technology stops taking over and kids get to experience what u and I somewhat got to experience

[@2bjjones]

Damn that's sad. I was just about to ask what kids do for toys these days.

[@TECfan1]

So did I, I noticed myself getting choked up at the end and thought I was the only one. Im not even sure why because I havent been there in years. But growing up in the early 90s I definitely had a lot of find memories there.

[@nexusproductions6859]

jaymogul25 true every cartoon is hiding a message and kids have gotten perverted

[@fiveer11]

Target: Moves to USA Toys R Us: Moves to Canada People: Excuse me?!

[@dodzik07]

fiveer 11 I mean where I live Canada is literally 30 mins away

[@robertewalt7789]

Target was started as a discount chain.started by a chain of department stores, Dayton-Hudson I think, in Minneapolis. Same year as Walmart and Kmart started.

[@ashtonsenko536]

Toys R us was always in Canada..... where was target before? Target tried to move to Canada, but failed miserably

[@Youmemichael]

I mean Canada is like a couple hours away from me so

[@heyitshusker]

Toys “R” Us and target both started in America Toys “R” Us was able to get to Canada successfully but not target

[@fulgurus9796]

When I was a kid, I told to myself I would own Toys R Us. Now as a teen, Walmart ruined my childhood dream.

[@marvelprankster1450]

Fulgurus walmart has shity toys

[@elijahmuller5041]

marvel prankster Toys R us has overpriced toys

[@fulgurus9796]

That's why I wanted to own the company. Also it's "had overpriced toys", sadly.

[@diablo2706]

MAN FUCK WALMART. Not ONLY because of what they did to Toys R us (And my childhood) but there customer service sucks ass. I went to return a pack of batteries that were NOT opened and it took me a fucking hour just to get to the front of the line. After that they said I couldn't return them because I didn't have all the original items I got from the receipt.

[@prismstan7818]

Omg same

[@ricardobjj24]

The backwards R on the logo was always cool. Also love how Korn got the idea because they used to work there

[@reginafallangie2867]

My local store is closing in the next few days. We took our son there for one last visit & took a pic of him standing outside. I got teary eyed walking through the almost empty store. Such fond memories walking through as a kid. It was a wondrous experience as a kid to see wall to wall, floor to ceiling toys. Even getting the big Toys catalog in the mail before Christmas was so exciting. It’s jus not the same lookin at toys online

[@advancedprototype_3328]

Regina Fallangie This made me cry ;-;

[@ScorpionsFatality]

Regina Fallangie i get teary eyed just hearing they're closing. Well. At least they're not gone for good since someone in Canada bought the company. We can always hope!

[@funnyvines9377]

that's what I call respect

[@Soufriere84]

+Regina Fallangie - Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but there are certain things I don't like buying online -- clothes for instance (can't trust sizing). Toys are another one. If at all possible, I want to see the product IRL before buying it. Toys Я Us may have been expensive, but at least I knew exactly what I was getting.

[@jadapeterson7329]

Regina Fallangie same mine is closing Tuesday.

[@Fizzy_Soda03]

Imo the best one was getting to read the Christmas catalog and your parents asking you to mark down which item you wanted 😭

[@dazedilly6610]

Ik what you mean 😢

[@logantorres2004]

My parents would take me in there to punish me just so I could walk around and not get anything… lowkey pretty smart now that I think about it.

[@supershepherd]

I'd cut out the images and put them on my Christmas list

[@Working.essasonyt]

I MARK EVERYTHING DOWN😭-

[@twistedfilms1012]

Let's be real toys r us was expensive af unless you had a gift card then you saved a bit but yeah if toys were not so expensive they probably still be open

[@UTAU53Yui]

exactly. toys r us was the store you went to once every 3 years because you'd been begging your mom for something for ages and she just couldn't find it at the cheaper stores. it was also the store you never bought more than two items at because nothing was under $15.

[@clairelundsgaard1373]

I begged mom to go there when i was younger but could never get anything because it was way to expensive and walmart was next door that sold the same toys but 5 to 10 dollars cheaper

[@ZuriRodriguezMartinez]

Theres still a shop open here in cantabria, spain its kinda abandoned but ppl still buy toys there

[@LeviClears]

LEGO:sells all their products for about $400 or less. Toys R Us:sells LEGO’s for 800$.

[@ashtonsenko536]

Twisted Films and you wonder what it’s like in Canada, prices are almost doubled, but there are still thousands here

[@andyanimations_]

Toys R us was my childhood, I practically begged my grandparents to take me there every time I was with them. It got to the point where the people who worked there knew me by name. I walked the store one last time before it closed and it was surreal. I can still tell anyone exactly where everything was. I know the layout by heart that how much I was there. It was more then sad to see it go.

[@adrianpamintuan7420]

You summarized their whole story so well. That’s what made me enjoy it so much! Much love. ❤️

[@TheEvilCommenter]

You should do an episode on my abandoned hopes and dreams.

[@celemtine]

Wasn’t it this?

[@WarriorBazooka]

The one in my town literally just closed for good. After over twenty years of childhood nostalgia ... It's sad to see it go.

[@jimmyjimy1]

They all closed haha

[@juliaalegre17]

There's one in france

[@garrett9007]

WarriorBazooka I feel your pain

[@TheStevenWhiting]

It was amazing in the UK. Always loved Toys R Us and the UK Christmas advert is one of the best adverts ever. They were in the UK in the mid 80s.

[@WoodD-tn1pn]

I'm going to miss those Christmas ads...

[@mysteryjosh198]

Claudia the cat me 2

[@pika4790]

Claudia the cat same

[@gamerspiss7177]

Colourpop Same

[@jasleneg8641]

Colourpop OMG I USED TO PICK WHAT TOYS I WANTED

[@alexmitchell696]

I want to be a toys r us kid

[@ernieb352]

I worked two holiday seasons on Toys R Us during 2004 and 2005, I gotta tell you it feels so unreal that I go by the store now and it's empty, so many memories, seeing those trucks arrive with merchandise every day and I don't think i've ever seen a Black Friday sale like the ones at TRU. This is a bittersweet episode for me as I really enjoy all your content, but it's sad to see such an iconic store for those of us who grew up between the 80' and 90's just collapse. This is the last chain toy store that was left where I live, I still remember going from KB Toys to Toys R Us and another store that I can't remember the name of now (place closed 20 years ago). Nothing beats being a kid and walking into a Toys R Us.

[@JustinY.]

It's the end of an era

[@hommeboy]

Ok

[@mr.meloetta1939]

The ninja speaks a sad truth.

[@jeanson3172]

It really depressing.

[@renaldothegeography8150]

Justin Y. It is true my brother

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Sup Justin!!!

[@marym.2287]

I worked at a TRU for a month in December one year in college, late 80's. I remember 12 hr days, fighting to get to take a lunch or even a 10 minute break, hours of straightening up shelves at the end of the night, sometimes to 2 or 3 a.m., and gathering up carts full of ripped packaging (they called it "shrink" but it was basically shoplifted remains...) and I especially remember ringing up $4-5k sales, only to have someone's credit card rejected. Good times... After one especially long Saturday I was called in the office to explain why my register was off by a few cents - I apologized, thinking I'd done something wrong, and they told me registers were routinely off by $100's and how did I manage to keep my til balanced? Quite an experience for 19-yr-old me.

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

I was a manager for 'Toys R Us' in 1990. It was an amazing job. At that time, they were the king of the hill, and part of their buisness model was to build their stores as close to any other toy store as they could, often times right on the apron of stores like 'Childrens Palace'. Their managers training program was envied in the retail world, it was long and exhausting with monthly trips to the region's headquarters and distribution centers with weekend stays to learn all aspects of the buisness. I left 'Toys R Us' to become a nurse. I still use my managers training in my profession to this day, whether it's to deal with doctors, coworkers or patients, to prioritizing and organizing my assignments. It taught me how to be self assured and nonthreatening when dealing with people, and the public in general. I miss TRU and Geoffrey. I had the time of my life. 🎶 I dont wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid...🎶

[@jadenbrown6710]

How was the salary? I know it'll seem like not much to us now, but for 1990, did you do well financially as a manager?

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

@jadenbrown6710 the salary was excellent especially adding on stock splits and profit/loss

[@llalalalalallala]

@@jenniferbaldini3527toy r us came back, are you still gonna be a manager for it or do you have a different job

[@jenniferbaldini3527]

@TBGNetwork there are no free standing stores in the US that I know of. At this time they by rent space in anchor stores called 'Lazarus' in some malls. The merchandise is old beyond its years and people are digging through it, selling it in ebay and like sites. Toys r Us is gone and the glamor days of a free standing toy store is gone. Would I go back? If there was something to go back to, strong and sure like the days I remember, yes I would go back. I am a registered nurse who will always be a 'Toys R Us Kid'.

[@MYG]

That buy out has to be one of the biggest business fails ever. Why would you go billions into debt to buy a company that is slowly losing profit.

[@MYG]

but your average retailer was becoming more competitive. Don't get me wrong Toys R us would've been able to stay profitable but paying the interest on the debt made it not profitable.

[@hellstarremina7605]

Is toy "r" us is famous

[@SpaceGhost999]

They didn't go into debt to buy it. They were already in debt when they bought it.

[@beebeenyneeee7692]

They are losing money and shutting down stores in other large countries too due to the same problem that too much competition. This means countries like canada the u.k and australia.

[@heathcouncil2387]

Bronzewarrior wah

[@clownfromclowntown]

Honestly my only memory with toys r us is wandering around and wondering why everything was so expensive then buying a single pack of Pokémon cards and leaving

[@galactic-hamster7043]

Honestly same. The last time i was in a Toys R Us it was a Spirit Halloween store. Hehe

[@mindyschocolate]

The late 80’s early 90’s was the best time. I have wonderful memories. 2000’s...sorry.

[@tellyourselfthiseverydayia4427]

All I would leave with was probably some candy when I went with my mom if I ever went with my dad he would be like we are not buying this over priced junk were going to Walmart!

[@georgedudleysashtray3860]

I used to do the same exact thing lol begging my mom for a squirt gun but they were so overpriced

[@applepeel3299]

Come on Canada has Toys R Us been dumb butts

[@maxpower2511]

At the end of the day, it all comes down to one store finding cheaper labor in China than the other.

[@ilovesleeping136]

When Charles left it all went downhill.

[@TheRealChristopherB]

Well this is tragic tale, I had many grand memories visiting my local Toys R Us in Tukwila, WA. I remember when it had that "gray box with rainbow banner design" (which now is Value Village) and when it moved a couple of blocks down to combine with the Babies R Us. One of my fondest memories was getting a birthday call from Geoffrey every year as a kid. I'll miss the place. R.I.P. Toys R Us - (1948 - 2018)

[@LittleBigPlanetian]

You should explore the abandoned Toys R Us in Elizabeth, NJ. For a abandoned store, everything's still intact inside, from the cashier counters to some of the Geoffrey Banners.

[@LittleBigPlanetian]

@Michael Garcia Me too. Lot of memories of the place

[@Deltamau5]

The one in front of Ikea? I remember coming out of the airport after dropping my grandparents off and waiting for their plane to leave in that Toys R Us :(

[@christianconniff2445]

The store in San Diego is the same way. In October, Spirit Halloween moved in and sorta just shoved all of the shelves over to make room for their stuff. Now that their gone, everything is just laying in place. There’s a huge shelf with a banner reading “look what’s hot” but the shelf is just empty. Sad.

[@bigrhcpguy1958]

You dont understand how many memories i have there

[@VinnyI6420]

I live right next to that area, so I been there so many times. I actually had to do work at the Ikea near it and saw it. Good times.

[@PrinceMoonRunner]

The Toys R Us nearest to me closed down and sat for a couple years, and now it is a Scandinavian Furniture store. Nothing is left of the bright colors, or even thr fun cart returns in the parking lot. The buildings colors were made monotone white. Even the old tiles on the inside was ripped out and replaced with hardwood... so sad

[@switchspeedster2671]

Abandoned: Toys R' Us. The most requested episode yet, but also the episode we wish never happened. Thank you BrightSun

[@christianflores1724]

Switch Speedster agree with you more. Wish Toysrus was still Open!

[@celemtine]

It will be open in holiday 2019

[@supersanic1254]

Technically not abandoned, as 1000 stores are opening. This video didn't age well.

[@randytyson]

I will always cherish the memories which they could've stuck around for longer

[@distanced]

It's depressing seeing this, and the stores in Canada are not that far from collapse either. I visited one near me recently and there really aren't a lot of people. Usually you hear kids screaming in excitement but I swear I could hear echoes this time. I feel that ultimately if they had taken a more online approach to things they might have survived, because kids will always want toys.

[@dulceboi]

Kids don't want toys as much, sadly. They want the newest IPhone or some shit like that. Pardon my language.

[@yozoa]

if you fintk electronics ar shity why you on one then

[@dulceboi]

pengiun of robloxia I'm a 15 year old with a phone. Pretty typical as of today.

[@jumpman2326]

Distanced kids want iPhones now

[@jjay109]

Trane Crowley its sad. Sad thar because phones pretty much killed off toys r us. Only 0-6 i could think of want toys.

[@albatrossthedragon]

Man I’m 28 and I still miss Toys R Us. There was nothing quite like walking into massive toy store…

[@bbkangs]

Just another part of my childhood, gone...

[@GreenJeep1998]

Not only Childhood for me, I worked for one of the stores for 5 years after highschool. My store was close along with another store that was about 30 min from that store and both moved into a new location that wasn't really close to the other locatons. I go near my old store every now and then, and just look at it sadly, sitting empty. You can never go back......

[@doubleabees6332]

Same

[@nj2158]

bbkangs my childhood peice gone too

[@augustible9151]

Same...

[@datmeme4687]

Two parts of my childhood are gone. Club Penguin and this store.

[@kingofrapture]

I never thought I would see the day where Toys R Us would go out of business and abandoned. Never in my lifetime. I now live in a world where Toys R Us doesn't exist anymore. This is surreal. I wanna go back to the 90s please. ;-;

[@MissNayNay]

It is for me, too. All these big stores that I grew up with, and that I thought were too big to go completely out of business are seeing its final days: Sears, JCPenneys, K-Mart, etc. And now Toys'R'Us. It's disturbing and heartbreaking. I desperately want to go back to the 90's, too. Fuck the present. I wanna go back to my childhood where everything and anyone I loved was still existing.

[@BastetFurry]

Yes, please, back to the 90s. Karstadt, Quelle, VOBIS, ESCOM, Schossau, ...

[@kellychuang8373]

Yeah really sad seeing it go already said it's the end of an era. You can only wonder what next and you maybe not the only one wishing that wish sadly it's just getting hard to take in and depressing for this.

[@RathouseFilmworks]

Kelly Chuang Winn Dixie is next.

[@jordanp.davidson5977]

Darling Waylon Park The only way to do that is to get a time machine, to the 90s!

[@deadaccount8990]

I remember getting lost in toys r us because I was looking at all the toys R.I.P my entire freakin childhood

[@colliee39]

Alyssa R. I can relate

[@gddatfatrat2390]

"A new rising retail chain called walmart" Toys r us: Why do I hear boss music

[@Loftikaz]

Your videos are therapy for me because I suffered from depression fear of financial failure and knowing even big companies can fail makes me feel easier with myself thank you.

[@TheKhartification]

This is a giant part of my life that is gone. My former Toys R Us that I worked at closed yesterday. All of my closest friends and I worked there, my best friends mom ran the one down the street, hired all of us (or sent us to other stores), my best friend met her husband there, and many of my friends met their significant others and started families because of this amazing place. Yes, it was just a store. But the memories and friendships we all made there have impacted many people I know and love and i'm sure with so many employees, i'm not the only person who has stories like these.

[@DigDug500]

Kaitlin Hartung my parents met working at a Toy s rus

[@tesseract5736]

Goodbye Childhood.

[@Loveyou-be8wd]

Tesseract5 why i am a lkid why

[@kyhaines6858]

Tesseract5 I agree with you "I hate Amazon"

[@alicelulu5257]

Tesseract5 muaaa ik

[@fatimajaaffar8037]

I hhhhaaatttee walmart

[@crazycat6lad918]

i think most people have a fond memory of toys r us, regardless what country you are in. i remember my stepfather buying our first new gaming console (the original playstation) from toys r us in South Australia. the other thing that struck me, was how uncannily similar the store layouts were. im sure the footage was from america, but it was close enough to what i remember from my local toys r us that i even got a shot of nostalgia!

[@absolutemadlad]

As I said before on the last video, some of the BEST content on this platform. Hats off to you again Jake, keep making excellent videos!

[@ferdsmand_]

*Kids mostly spend their time with Gadgets than toys.* you can buy food everyday in a grocery store but what about the toy store? That is what my mom told me :(

[@univlogs6549]

Flaskie Flames moms say you can't play with food

[@jaz6404]

Flaskie Flames just go to target or Walmart

[@josh-lt9sb]

I would always beg to go but my parents never had time because they are always doing stuff like, renevating apartments, jobs, and my sister's, so I could never go =(

[@palmtoptiger1405]

wipinn cream For me they just added 10 more dollars so I never bought there

[@josh-lt9sb]

Mystic Lysandre yeah, they were iinda overpriced

[@saihea4656]

I only bought 3 things from toys r us, so I really didn’t grew up buying toys from there. They were hella expensive and I remember one of the dolls that my mom got me for my birthday was $40 for 1 bratz doll!

[@lillyie]

that's one of the reasons they went bankrupt:expensive shit. i'm a pokemon fan and since toys r us sells pokemon booster packs i went there to buy some only to find out they cost $5.meanwhile, a nearby card shop sells the exact same packs for just $4.

[@sabrinarosario6499]

Saige Kupihea They were kinda expensive. I remember buying a Barbie doll for $35. It was just the nostalgia of walking up and down the store.

[@cyndernight2422]

you could say, the dolls were a bit of a brat :P

[@angieroman6723]

Just horrid, the prices.

[@abbycollins]

The sad thing is, the only time we actually bought something from here was during the bankruptcy sale of our local store.

[@zeospark9715]

Where I live, the Toys r Us was right beside a Books-a-Million that is still open to this day. I used to always by Yugioh cards from Target then head on over to BAM when they held tournaments every other month. I still go by BAM to this day and I would often look dejected whenever I look at the empty building beside it that used to be the bustling Toysrus. You can't beat that experience going there around the holidays...

[@AroundIndiana]

I'm willing to bet majority of the people who say they are upset about them closing probably haven't bought anything there in years. Nostalgia aside, Toys R Us hasn't been relevant in years. Their stores were outdated and their prices weren't competitive.

[@tyralikadiamondstar8960]

ReviewsTechNow if Toys R Us had lowered their prices for toys and change with the times maybe they'll still be in business

[@NumeroLetter]

I've been to my local stores in recent years... I would get LEGO stuff there that I couldn't find other places, like the Disney blindbags. A friend and I went to our local store the other day to see what they had left and it was really a sad sight.

[@IVR02]

I’ll be honest, I almost never shopped at TRU. There weren’t any nearby; instead, Walmart was my best bet for toys. The main reason TRU’s bankruptcy gets to me is because it’s such a massive loss of jobs.

[@randomfools808]

Only because I stopped collecting action figures after high school and never had kids. In the 90s, it was a huge part of my childhood. I spent a lot there and most recently bought a Geoffrey plush to say goodbye. I didn't think the prices for everything else was that bad though! For action figures it was about the same as Wal Mart and Target. Toys have gone up a lot since I quit collecting though.

[@randomfools808]

I'm sad kids are going to grow up without it. Wal Mart and Amazon can't replicate that special feeling.

[@gigagaming9630]

Toys R Us was heaven on earth for me as a kid, and I always told myself that once I had kids, I would bring them here and buy them whatever they wanted, but now...there IS no Toys R Us...truly heartbroken...

[@lc08709]

TheGigaProject then go to Canada there's still toys are us there!

[@cooldude8852]

You are a nice man Giga.

[@Noname-fb1mm]

Kaybee toys is open after Toys R us so nothing to worry about

[@simi-fk7xd]

same for me :( i live in canada and theres a few thats gone, few thats here. hopefully they don’t go away.

[@simi-fk7xd]

Pastel The fox yup.. it had all the trending toys and cool ones. everyone loved it.

[@Booga04Minecraft]

My childhood is now dead

[@riderwolfseeker5066]

Booga04 Minecraft You can still go to toys r us in Singapore

[@jacobdaniels3248]

same here man :(

[@gaminggod9204]

Booga04 Minecraft same but I’m still young

[@bgsmiles533]

same

[@issiahshaw3585]

Booga04 Minecraft I feel you right now

[@jeffreysalomone6354]

Its fascinating that both images of the Children's Supermarket show a giraffe in the window; while perhaps not yet named Geoffrey, the founder seems to have had his eye on this iconic animal to become his mascot.

[@acegamerultragamer1532]

My childhood will be ruined. No more things from Toys R' us. Online shopping and Walmart is all that left..Sigh...R.I.P. TRU.

[@phillipnielsen3500]

Hey man. U do a really good job on your videos. Just wanted to let you kn now that

[@BrightSunFilms]

Thanks Phillip!

[@2006CadillacSRX]

Bright Sun Films you’re welcome

[@Sasuri]

I remember always wanting to go to Toys R Us as a kid. I never went there as a child but there was one by a freeway that I would regularly travel on. I would always pass by it and always want to go inside, but I never did. It kinda became a little landmark for me by the freeway, a sort of magical place I could never go to. The only time I ever went inside was to buy some Legos that I saw were on sale back in like 2014. Even though I was a teenager, I still found it a bit magically out of nostalgia. Its sad to see them close. Even though I only went in once, just driving by it gave me wonders and dreams as a kid. It’s sad future kids wont experience the magic that was Toys R Us, now they just get their toys online and just see a box at their front door.

[@danielflanard8274]

Trust me, that brown box is magical

[@Mattyp24]

From when I was a kid to an adult it was never not exciting walking into that place. I had a daughter very young in life and I'm glad I had her at a time when she could experience Toys r Us.

[@SKCodesForFun]

I will never forget Toys 'R' Us . I am from India. I never saw a Toys'R'Us in India. But my grandma visited my aunt who lived in the USA in the late 90s and I was 6 or something. When she returned to India she bought me a battery operated gorilla (weird but I was really into King Kong). I loved that gorilla to death. I even remember the bright bag it was in with the Toys“R”Us logo on it. That toy was so high quality too! It still works I think. It's on my bedroom shelf back home. So many memories.. I really really really wanted to be able to visit Toys“R”Us myself when I visited the USA. Alas I will never be able to now (besides a 20 something in a toys store would probably be creepy). I even took that gorilla with me too the zoo and a big gorilla saw us and started beating it's chest. I was convinced then that it was because of my gorilla (probably the real gorilla was just annoyed by the tourists).

[@12SPASTIC12]

I remember getting toys from Toys R Us too when I lived in India. Then I moved to Singapore and made a pilgrimage to toy Mecca.

[@operator_ace8502]

srinivas kumar just bring a young child, a sibling if you can and you’re good

[@Eberso32]

They got some in Canada

[@porschematt991]

Benchode

[@SatvikReddy123]

Funny enough toys r us opened in India roughly at the same time when they were closing down everywhere else and is still open today

[@itzfinnlee1286]

At our patrol outing we passed by a toys r us store so me and 6 other kids had a moment of silence as we watched as the closing sign got farther and farther away D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: The girls in the back of the bus were screaming Hamilton songs

[@HelloMeighan]

Dat weird kid in the corner I wanna be on that bus,I FRICKIN LOOOOVE HAMILTON

[@brittvlogs5]

Dat weird kid in the corner THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAMEEEEEE WOOOOOOOOOAH-

[@itzfinnlee1286]

You wouldn't want to be on that bus. The girls were screaming Hamilton I'm not even THEY NEW EVERY SINGLE WORD FROM EVERY SINGLE SONG AND WERE SINGING THEM and the boys THEY WERE SINGING THE WHEELS ON THE BUS. and you know what I was doing I WAS SINGING SONGS FROM FROZEN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@theoperaghost6112]

When my dad saw the closed sign he sang see you again

[@whenitsrooftime8792]

There are moments that the words don’t reach...

[@ReallyRASYT]

I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING!

[@FernandoMartinez-23]

deepledopps I feel ur pain.

[@Martian_Manhunter_01]

Let's be honest, we're all crying

[@parzivalthewanderer9687]

Yeah, I litterally am right now, had so many major and happy memories in those stores.

[@davidhix2913]

What do you mean im not crying I’m just cutting onions

[@Boat910]

We're both crying.😭

[@dylanm1063]

When I was a kid, my parents would take me to audition for commercials. Being the goofy kid I was, during the audition I said "I want to be a Toys R Us man!" They ended up hiring me on the spot, but due to scheduling stuff I wasn't able to actually film any commercials.

[@nicoleonyx9186]

I’m glad I will still get to take my kid to Toys r us! I live in Japan where they still do quite well. The American TRU had much more variety of stock, and it’s sad to see yet another bit of my childhood gone forever, but at least I can still see Geoffrey here and my son can have those memories of going to TRU as a kid too.

[@sugarconfetti9222]

NicoNicoleinTokyo I was going to write a similar comment to yours! lol Although they’re doing fine for now, more and more people are buying toys online these days... We need to keep shopping at the actual store to keep those toy stores from bankruptcy. I hate seeing toy stores going out of business.

[@caralhoguy]

NicoNicoleinTokyo Make more videos

[@briansergeant]

NicoNicoleinTokyo bit like tower records then.

[@AcidAnnie7]

L U C K Y

[@yunh9055]

Why would you want these stores to keep operating? Online shopping is far superior in every single way, there's really no reason to go to physical stores lol

[@jewishjellydonut]

*amazon what have you done*

[@blazeblaze2198]

jewishjellydonut you know walmart and target were also big competitors not just Amazon right?

[@zerros1719]

Ikr Walmart’s cheap and amazon you can buy anything

[@kennyroberts8422]

😠 Amazon!

[@sunnypotato6310]

jewishjellydonut yeah you rouid my child hood

[@asbestos7819]

Amazon, target, and walmart can all go heck themselves

[@marisam9803]

Yes there are fewer kids today, and many of them have other distractions (like games), but kids still like the tactile experience of playing with a physical toy! So that isnt the reason TRU went under. They went under due to greedy corporate buyouts who intended to kill the company in order to bleed out the last few $$$ it had.