Your Toys R Us Memories

[Daikun]

Some Toys R Us stores are reopening.
Toys ‘R’ Us Lenders Planning to Revive Brand and Reopen Stores

 

[superkeegan9100]

Some Toys R Us stores are reopening.
Toys ‘R’ Us Lenders Planning to Revive Brand and Reopen Stores

And I thought it would be closed forever...

 

[twilicorn]

Some Toys R Us stores are reopening.
Toys ‘R’ Us Lenders Planning to Revive Brand and Reopen Stores

That's pretty good to hear!

 

[SourSweetGone]

ARISE HYPER MEGA-CHICKEN! ARISE!!

But yes, very glad to see it might not be completely dead.

 

[Fone Bone]

I'm not going to get my hopes TOO high. My heart has been stomped on in this topic before.

 

[Gatordragon]

While Toys R Us possibly coming back sounds promising, I still feel bad about those thousands of employees who were laid off.

 

[Dsneybuf]

The building that used to house our local Toys 'R' Us just recently finished taking down its signs. Last time I checked, the people removing the letters from the roof left them inside the store, near the exit, but I don't know if they've moved since then.

 

[superkeegan9100]

Toys R Us posted this on their Twitter:

 

[Fone Bone]

Thank God. (3 words).

 

[Gatordragon]

Nice, the atmosphere of a toy store is something you can't get from other stores. I hope history doesn't repeat itself and Toys R Us goes bankrupt again. Getting laid off sucks. I should now...

I also hope that the former Toys R Us employees finally get their severance pay after all of this.

 

[Spideyzilla]

So here are the details, it's not a full revival per se, but it is something. It'll be called Geoffrey's Toy Box, so it looks like the Toys R Us brand is indeed gone in the US, at least for now.

 

[Fone Bone]

I hope you don't mind that I posted that link you found on Action Figure Insider. People there will be ecstatic.

 

[superkeegan9100]

Kroger jumps onto Geoffrey’s Toy Box line

 

[Daikun]

Toys R Us has set aside $20 million as a severance fund for its laid off workers. (Source)

 

[TenPoundHammer]

I never went to Toys R Us because it was 2 hours away and mom's opinion on literally everything fun was "you don't need it".

 

[mimitchi33]

I'm shocked they turned around and just decided to bring it back in just a short time. Anyway, my Toys R Us became a Big Lots.

 

[Daikun]

Toys R Us is being renamed to Tru Kids.

 

[Daikun]

Two stores are opening in November.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Two stores are opening in November.

Glad the name of the store won't actually be "Tru Kids."

 

[Daikun]