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06-20-2018, 07:26 PM | #171 |
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TRU was set to have an auction for their brand names on Monday. It was delayed until August 6th because of very high interest. The former CEO of TRU from 2006-2013 is said to be raising money to try to buy the brand name and whatever stores they still own. It sounds like they've already sold hundreds of their locations. TRU's owners refused to accept package deal offers because they think they'll get more money selling the brand and the physical assets separately. So that makes it more difficult for someone to put the chain back together as they have to buy the pieces separately. But the brand name is the key piece. If that goes to someone not interested in running physical stores, that'll be the final end. August 6th will be a defining day in TRU history. This is from NY Post and other publications this week and earlier this month.
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06-20-2018, 07:32 PM | #172 |
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Went today and they had more than I thought they would. Got a "World's Smallest GI Joe" for $2. Fitting that the last thing I will probably ever buy at a TRU is a Joe.
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06-24-2018, 08:36 PM | #173 |
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Saw this posted in-store the other day.
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06-24-2018, 10:58 PM | #174 |
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We went to the one in Sanford this past Saturday. Nothing left, very depressing. I'm very glad I bought as much as I did a few weeks ago. I'm gonna try and focus on that day as my last TRU memory, and not the dark empty building I walked through yesterday. It's pretty F'd up that the final full weekend of Toysrus (more or less), is the same exact weekend of the last Joe convention. Sucks.
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06-25-2018, 07:00 PM | #175 |
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Saw that here as well...Today I stopped by what was the best stocked TRU in the Houston area a couple weeks ago and ouch! The entire store was empty and taped off except for the entrance area, which contained a random assortment of "junk" toys. I wish I hadn't decided to stop there, as the scene was quite depressing :(
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06-25-2018, 09:31 PM | #176 |
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Found a bunch of Rise of Cobra stuff at TRU this weekend — combat heroes, a sigma 6-ish looking electronic Duke with hardly any articulation, and a 6” Sigma-ish Neo-Viper with no articulation.
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06-25-2018, 10:22 PM | #177 |
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Saw that here as well...Today I stopped by what was the best stocked TRU in the Houston area a couple weeks ago and ouch! The entire store was empty and taped off except for the entrance area, which contained a random assortment of "junk" toys. I wish I hadn't decided to stop there, as the scene was quite depressing :(
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06-25-2018, 11:38 PM | #178 |
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I went yesterday. The store is dead. They only let you in the first quarter of the store. The rest is blocked off. A lot of remote control cars and girl stuff. Some weird board games.
I wish I would not have gone. It was sad to see.
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06-26-2018, 05:00 PM | #179 |
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Last month I found some of the last wave.
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06-26-2018, 05:21 PM | #180 |
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I might stop by the one here if they are still open...
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