Toys 'R' US Heading for Closure

[DoctorQuest]

Is Kay Bee still around? I think all the local stores here closed up a while ago.

[Gusington]

I was just going to ask that. I personally haven't been in one for at least 20 years.

[mirth]

It went bankrupt and what was left (basically the name) was bought by Toys R Us.

[Centurion40]

Which JH punched me in my 8 year old balls for.

I loved GI Joe in the 80s!!! Had a great collection that Mom eventually threw away :/

That and Lego. I can never forgive her.

80s GI Joe pales in comparison to 60s & 70s GI Joe!

[Gusington]

I wasn't alive in the 60s!

Just looked it up...KB out of business in 2009 :/

[Sir Slash]

Punching someone in the balls to get G.I. Joe was exceptable behavior in my day, before or after purchase.  ::)  I remember buying many of my Amiga games at Toys-R-Us--- Red Storm Rising and Pool of Radiance to be sure.

[Gusington]

Wow. The Toys R Us stores near me did not carry Amiga games. I had to go all the way in to Manhattan to J&R Music World to buy my Amiga games. What an awesome store that was. I would make a day out of it. They closed too 😥

Added note: sort of on topic, the guy who founded Tower Records died at age 92 this past week. They are also out of business 😥😥

[Sir Slash]

Nearest Toys-R-Us to me was 45 miles away. Then we got a mall about 30 miles away. That was in the early 90's.

[GDS_Starfury]

Kay Bee Toys stocked a few AH games back in the late 80s/early 90s.

working there was my first real job at 15.  a lot of stock went "missing".   ::)

[besilarius]

As a kid, I bought my Avalon Hill games at a hobby store.  Recall that when Guadalcanal came out, a friend and I went over and they had only ordered one copy.  We flipped a coin and he got the copy.   A week later, they got in another copy.
Whenever Squad Leader came out, in that purplish box, we heard Toy R Us carried it.
There was literally two stacks of the game against one wall.  My jaw dropped.  Were there enough folks interested in wargames to carry that many copies?
Also, unlike the hobby shop, they were all discounted from $7.00 down to $4.95.  What a deal!

[bbmike]

Toys R Us, KB, Electronics Boutique, Babbages, B.Dalton, Waldenbooks...all of the weekend mall stops in the 80s. 

[Gusington]

^Man I loved all those places. I guess I love Amazon the same way. Bu it doesn't have that new game smell.

[bbmike]

^Ha!
I also forgot to add Camelot Music to that list. That's where I would buy those newfangled CDs.  ^-^

[Staggerwing]

Once upon a time the malls had shops that sold all kinds of stuff I liked, electronics, music, games, neat science-y chochkas like those living ecosystem paperweights, toys, fine art posters, furniture, and even artwork by local artists. I really looked forward to a mall trip and would drive a hour to brows the larger ones.

Now all they sell is trendy, crappy, overpriced clothes made by sweat shop slaves in military junta 'republics'.

I don't think I've set foot in a mall in the last 5 years.

[mirth]

I don't think I've set foot in a mall in the last 5 years.

Probably been  closer to 10 years for me. Hard to think it was a regular weekend trip at one time in my life.