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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 14:20:30 GMT -5
That’s it.
What are your favourite or least favourite memories? Was anyone in their first UK stores in 1985?
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Post by Alittlefloki on Apr 25, 2018 0:44:04 GMT -5
My least favourite memory was the last time I went there after an hour drive and finding absolutely nothing in the wrestling section. There was a Smyths 10 minutes down the road which made up for it but still. Liability init
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Apr 25, 2018 5:49:31 GMT -5
Rarely went in there in recent years given I don’t collect figures anymore but still a bit of sadness that they’ve gone, not quite Woolworths sadness though. Just basic memories as a kid going into the Brighton/Hove store after school or on a weekend and picking up Jakks figures.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 11:57:45 GMT -5
I feel bad for our American friends - they don’t have Smyths, andI think Toys R Us is the only toy chain in the US?
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Post by hellojoeivers on Apr 25, 2018 12:11:35 GMT -5
I guess so, but I know their supermarkets (Walmart, Target etc) all stock a lot more toywise than places like Asda and Tesco do
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Post by Escape The Rules on Apr 25, 2018 14:05:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 16:00:47 GMT -5
I wasn’t around in the 90’s - did they sell WCW and ECW? They sold BG James & Konnan TNA figures in 2006 and Series 6 in 2008. Was sad they never picked up the Jakks line.
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Post by reznortv on Apr 25, 2018 16:26:45 GMT -5
Gonna miss toys r us. Not the lazy ass workers that look like they hate their job and that don't ask if you need help. I went to New York and jersey toys r us locations and they seem like they hate their jobs too. they're always on their phones. We have an express toys r us in my area. Workers seem ok. My best memory their is that an elite wave fell in the back of their shelves. I asked them if they can help me get the certain figure I needed because it fell. Their shelves look like cages. The worker said if I can get it out they'd give it to me for free. Since the packages won't fit through the small holes on the cage I managed to rip the boxes and get the figures. Lucky for me I'm an out of the box collector and their were a lot of elites that fell so I ripped away and got 9 elites for free. also, our express toys r us gets things super late, so by the time it gets here I know which ones to buy first and which ones will stay shelf warmers and I can wait till it goes on sale. Rip toys r us. I would rather lose game Stop than toys r us. Another great experience non wrestling related is that someone priced a huge ninja turtles playset wrong. Regular price was $130 but someone priced it $13.00. So they sold it to me for $13. I spent the rest of the money on wrestling figs, rich flair DM, macho man DM, that ugly bailey figure with her mouth open, big boss man, Vince macmahon and ringmaster. I remember cause I felt like I hit the lotto.
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Post by Ben - #6 Munchie on Apr 26, 2018 10:01:26 GMT -5
My TRU died when it got taken over by a Primark and moved to a smaller location a short walk away. That being said, I have so many memories of TRU as a child. Genuinely gutted they're gone.
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Post by RedDevil on Apr 30, 2018 16:34:03 GMT -5
Easily my best ever Hasbro memory was in a TRU - it was in late ‘93, we went in and I went immediately to the WWF aisle, and as I came around the corner I saw a big crowd of parents and kids gathered around masses of pegs carrying the yellow card series 7 figures. I hadn’t heard that they were out yet, and I had no idea that they were changing the cards to yellow - it looked so bright and beautiful; stunning sight I had been drooling over the Hasbro ad in the April ‘93 WWF Magazine since early March, so to finally see them in person at 9 years old was amazing. My worst TRU memories came not long after that - the last couple of years of the line I can’t remember finding many (if any) new figures there, just the same LOD figures that were on the pegs for years (I probably bought my LOD there when the stock first came in). Remember that at this time there was no internet so at age 11 or whatever I had no idea what was going on with the line after series 10, which appeared in another store. I was forever going in there hoping to see new series of figures but every time there was just the same LOD figures hanging there and nothing new. It wasn’t until the Jakks figures appeared in the Index catalogue that I realised for sure that the line really was done, around the same time as I got the internet and found-out about series 11 existing and being the end. A year or so later I started collecting MOC Hasbros, so I returned to TRU to buy the LOD MOC, and of course they were gone Cost me a lot more money to get them MOC from eBay years later I visited the other day out of respect, and bought an Elite Sid as my last ever WWE figure bought at TRU. I hadn’t been in there much since the Hasbros ended, but I’m still sad they’re gone. I’ve read opinions about why they have ultimately gone tits-up which don’t surprise me, but the market is still weaker without TRU.
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