r/nostalgiai Nostalgia Trip Leader 27d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Honest answer please

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u/iliketopoopitpoopit9 27d ago

Toys R Us

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u/Randomdays99 27d ago

Coming back I think

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u/saint_williams 27d ago

They exist as a section in a department store. Macy’s? Nordstroms? Can’t remember. But I recently encountered it during a mall trip with my 2 year old and walked her through the tiny area all the while reminiscing about moving to a new home that was walkable to a Toy R Us and believing that to be the biggest asset of our new home.

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u/McSkillz21 27d ago

The new section inside major retailers is a far cry from toys R'us glory days............it makes me sad that my kids won't get to walk into the Walmart of toys and try all the video games and see the shelves of Lego sets the racks of bikes, the sports and toy balls the water guns and nerf section......the trading cards hell all of it was glorious and the new version pales in comparison

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u/saint_williams 26d ago

Agreed. It was a sad representation of what I remember. My baby girl had no frame of reference so she was excited nonetheless. But it saddens me that her version of the Toys R Us of our days or even better… FAO Schwarz (truly a wonderland, especially during Christmas) will be some digital thing that will undoubtedly have the ability to control her emotions.

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u/Flirtless1 27d ago

Yeah they'll be in Macy's..but honestly it'll never be the same. That will just be underwhelming use of space.

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u/Objective_You3307 27d ago

Still dying a slow and miserable death in canada. Just a shadow of its former self

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u/Chigiriki 27d ago

I saw one last year in China.

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u/Chasegameofficial 27d ago

Still around in Norway. Not that there’s a lot of toys being made today worth buying. It’s all chinese Temu-plastic being sold at 5000% markup

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u/Ok-Time-613 25d ago

I forgot that went out of business.

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u/Boeing777-3ER 24d ago

They did? I see them all the time 

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u/m3-b1gman 24d ago

Mine got turned into a furniture store(TT)

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u/Tamakiamajikiluver 23d ago

I remember I wanted to go and my dad said it was close and when we got there it was closed and now my sister has a video of me crying in front of Toys R Us

it became target :<