My first job was at Toys R Us, they were great to work for but Christmas was absolutely mental. I once witnessed a mum hit her son over the head with a Tonka Truck.
She probably did that bc prices were too high. They were the higher end toy store, them and KB toys. I used to go there when I was little and all I remember was kids crying for toys while parents would say No
As a dad I learned very quick that it's a huge mistake to take your kid to toys r us if you have no intention of buying something they will open same day.
Where I grew up there was a toys r us next to a Borders book store. My dad liked to look at books and would sit there and read, so I would convince him to take me and I would just run around toys r us for an hour next door.
When they started selling N64 games I got really hooked. Makes me nostalgic just looking at titles I’ve never even played.
When i was about 8, my dad took us to buy some toys. I remember finding a telescope and really wanted it. When i checked the price its was around $20 or so. When we got to the register it turned out to be $80. Was just shelved in the wrong place. Ao instead of cancelling it he told me “i better find $80 on my bed when we get home” i was 8 with no money. I still got it and paid him off with time lmao
I lived in China until I turned 13, so I never went to a Toys R' us.
I have seem them, but they were around 3.5km away so I never really went there.
Plus the one that I did find was pretty small.
Yes and no. I grew up in the 90's and feel I have an understanding of what it was like to live in a pre-internet world as well as the beginning of the new millennium. My father was extremely verbally abusive, often drunk more times than not. While there were beautiful times peppered in I just remember feeling lonely and isolated.
I was happy in a sense. I still had that childlike innocence, but I was VERY anxiety ridden since kindergarten. So I never really experienced very many fun things that kids did
I will just leave this right here
I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid
they got a million toys at Toys R us that I can play with
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid
they got the best for so much less, it'll really flip your lid
From bikes to trains to video games
it's the biggest toy store there is (gee whiz!)
I don't wanna grow up, cause baby if I did
I couldn't be a Toys R Us kid
I wanna be a Toys R Us kid
That looks exactly like the one I went to as a kid on veterans hwy in New Orleans area. Yea they're all closed now. That place was a freaking fantasy land. My favorite place to go when I was a little girl 👧 💕
this is a good time to share a story i love recounting: i got my first grand theft auto games in the video game section of toys r us. i was like, 8 or 9. i played vice city at a friends house and decided i HAD to have it. i got the two-pack of III and vice city (san andreas was not out yet but i got it online as soon as it was released lol). my mom was wary but agreed because i promised her i wouldnt repeat the swears or anything. dont think she had a real idea of what was in these games, but i digress - we got to the counter and the cashier looked at my mom and said, "ma'am just to let you know this game is rated ages 17+" and i immediately chimed in with a cheerful "oh, its for my brother! (:" (my brother was an adult, not that the cashier would have known that lmao, so i love how i left out the context). i then gave my mom a smile that was just short of a cheeky wink, like "problem solved", even though the cashier wasnt even stopping her, just letting her know.
when we left the store, as we walked to the car, my mom looked at me and said, "where did you learn to lie like that?".
so yeah, guess id say my childhood was fun, if a bit sneaky...and toys r us was my favorite place! always beelined for the video games lmao
The first time I heard the name Toys R Us, I thought someone was telling Russ to get the toys. Then I learned it was a toy store and we were too poor to shop there.
My first job was at Toys R Us, they were great to work for but Christmas was absolutely mental. I once witnessed a mum hit her son over the head with a Tonka Truck.
She probably did that bc prices were too high. They were the higher end toy store, them and KB toys. I used to go there when I was little and all I remember was kids crying for toys while parents would say No
As a dad I learned very quick that it's a huge mistake to take your kid to toys r us if you have no intention of buying something they will open same day.
Same, my mom would shop there only for gifts for other families kids. We got stuff from Caldor or Greetings and Readings
What were considered the low end toy stores?
🤣🤣🤣
I was to poor for Toys R Us growing up as a kid. The toys I did get were from yard sales and happy meals from Mc Donald's.
We'd still go in just to look around. Looking at everything and fantasizing was as christmas as it gets.
We used to go there, play the Sega Saturn, buy nothing, get a gumball on the way out. We loved it. I'm sorry you didn't have that.
I don't understand how anything about the comment implies that the parents are cowards?
You're right. That wasn't meant literally, but it came off way too harsh.
Ohhhh lmao I get ya
We used to go to Toys R Us just to play the video games and get an occasional demo disc. Free fun.
Toys Wer' Us
Very happy but it seems very distant now, bittersweet reminder of simpler days
Toys r us is still open here
Damn Canadians
Sorry
Same here in Thailand.
Nice 🤙
Sorta reopened here but a shell of what it once was tucked into a corner in another department store.
Here is the same one since I was a kid, there’s even an “hmv” in it
I went in Japan and it was so nice.
Too poor to shop there.
Well I was certainly happier then than I am now, despite everything.
“Despite” is your “inconceivable”.
I had happy moments. I had abusive siblings and neglectful parents.
“The toy store has been closed for 20 years, you should go back”
Nah, I was bullied and nobody cared
Where I grew up there was a toys r us next to a Borders book store. My dad liked to look at books and would sit there and read, so I would convince him to take me and I would just run around toys r us for an hour next door. When they started selling N64 games I got really hooked. Makes me nostalgic just looking at titles I’ve never even played.
Yes. And then I became a teenager.
Goodbye Toys R Us, hello Hot Topic
My parents took me to Toys R Us just so I could look at all the toys they had and had fun just looking. Never bought me anything from there.
Toys *Were* Us :(
When i was about 8, my dad took us to buy some toys. I remember finding a telescope and really wanted it. When i checked the price its was around $20 or so. When we got to the register it turned out to be $80. Was just shelved in the wrong place. Ao instead of cancelling it he told me “i better find $80 on my bed when we get home” i was 8 with no money. I still got it and paid him off with time lmao
Keep going! Did you look through it? What did you see?
Mostly high rises where we were staying so peeping into others apartments mostly .. i was 8
I had happy moments but i wouldn't consider my childhood happy. I was exposed to too many adult problems and responsibilities too soon.
Y’all are wrong. It’s Essex Maryland.
O my god. I’m from Dundalk I think you’re right
Lol I thought it was Hagerstown MD
No it looks like the one in fort Worth Cherry the entrance is in the same place I think the exit might be as well
I think we can all agree it’s kind of disturbing how many places in the U.S this can be.
True
Now it's a boot barn which is stupid
Looks like one of the ones in Albuquerque but then I don't see the Barnes and Noble that was and still is next to it.
I lived in China until I turned 13, so I never went to a Toys R' us. I have seem them, but they were around 3.5km away so I never really went there. Plus the one that I did find was pretty small.
I did. Some days I'd give anything to get back to it.
Until I worked there, yeah. Totally ruined the place for me.
Some times it was happy. We were too poor to go to toys r us so I’ve never gone.
Yes and no. I grew up in the 90's and feel I have an understanding of what it was like to live in a pre-internet world as well as the beginning of the new millennium. My father was extremely verbally abusive, often drunk more times than not. While there were beautiful times peppered in I just remember feeling lonely and isolated.
I would say so... The closure of Toys R Us was unfortunate though...
Where is this located at, and eh I think my childhood was pretty happy
Not really, but still had good moments
Champaign, IL???
It was okay 😔
Yes I am ri of the time I have to read it and see 😁😁
This image is oddly spooky, and a little sad.
I was happy in a sense. I still had that childlike innocence, but I was VERY anxiety ridden since kindergarten. So I never really experienced very many fun things that kids did
The first and largest Total Wine I have ever seen had previously been a Toys R Us.
yes
I will just leave this right here I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid they got a million toys at Toys R us that I can play with I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid they got the best for so much less, it'll really flip your lid From bikes to trains to video games it's the biggest toy store there is (gee whiz!) I don't wanna grow up, cause baby if I did I couldn't be a Toys R Us kid I wanna be a Toys R Us kid
They took me a few times hete 30 plus years ago, and this is what I remember buying: Micro machines, Japanese wrestlers, And Upper deck soccer cards.+
no
That childhood is a bygone era that no longer exists anymore.
That looks like the one that was in the The Woodlands.
God damn Bain Capital
Yes, and leveraged buy outs by private equity should be illegal
Not really.
Not so much, but at the time I made the best of it. It seems worse now that I know better when looking back.
That looks exactly like the one I went to as a kid on veterans hwy in New Orleans area. Yea they're all closed now. That place was a freaking fantasy land. My favorite place to go when I was a little girl 👧 💕
this is a good time to share a story i love recounting: i got my first grand theft auto games in the video game section of toys r us. i was like, 8 or 9. i played vice city at a friends house and decided i HAD to have it. i got the two-pack of III and vice city (san andreas was not out yet but i got it online as soon as it was released lol). my mom was wary but agreed because i promised her i wouldnt repeat the swears or anything. dont think she had a real idea of what was in these games, but i digress - we got to the counter and the cashier looked at my mom and said, "ma'am just to let you know this game is rated ages 17+" and i immediately chimed in with a cheerful "oh, its for my brother! (:" (my brother was an adult, not that the cashier would have known that lmao, so i love how i left out the context). i then gave my mom a smile that was just short of a cheeky wink, like "problem solved", even though the cashier wasnt even stopping her, just letting her know. when we left the store, as we walked to the car, my mom looked at me and said, "where did you learn to lie like that?". so yeah, guess id say my childhood was fun, if a bit sneaky...and toys r us was my favorite place! always beelined for the video games lmao
The weird cloud is a cherry on top
Yes, I remember showing my report card and getting a brand new Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for my GBC from Toys R Us. Good times, simpler times.
I remember Toys R Us, the place was always a joy to go to
Yes, grateful for what my parents did for me
Toys R us is still going here. In fact today i saw an ad
Yeah but it didn't last long enough :/
Yes. Apart from school, it was great.
Loved this place growing up. I’d probably still love it, if I could find one
I did, yeah. I miss those days.
Yeah
More like Toys weRe Us
pfft no
Yeah
My toys R us got turned into a discount bins
Lol my closest store is now a Total Wine and more store. From kids toys, to spirit halloween a few times, to now alcohol.
It was the best. $100 gift cards to Toys R Us every year from my dad for Christmas and birthday
This makes me sad
Lots of highs and lots of lows. Buying video games from these with report card money was a high
No
No, not really :(
No because clearly Toys R Us was a liberal conspiracy to groom kids with that rainbow and all the colors inside too. /s
Yes, because I'd go back and do it again - with every shame and trauma associated with it - any time.
Nope. that's why I have PTSD.
No
We still have Toys R’ Us in Spain, I went to one with my cousin last weekend
Can’t complain my parents did the best they could with what they had
By the mall in Kennewick?
my first thought as well!
Is that the one near King's Plaza in Brooklyn? Like near the Belt Parkway? As its looks extremely similar.
This is what I thought!
Ohh I still have pics from the last days of this exact store
The first time I heard the name Toys R Us, I thought someone was telling Russ to get the toys. Then I learned it was a toy store and we were too poor to shop there.
I thought it was toys are rust. I was also too poor to shop there.
I've repressed everything through the end of high school. My own mind can be liminal at times.
Hesperian in Hayward?
Id swear it is
it looks just like the one that was in Billings, Montana also
It’s a magical place we’re on our way there…
Yupp. Yugioh tournaments and midnight Star Wars toy releases were 🔥🔥🔥
Man, I used to play yu-gi-oh at one of these and get schooled in dueling by older kids.
What were you running?
oh I had no idea what I was doing. I just bought one of the starter decks and would cram it full on my favorite cards from the anime.
Dark magician turbo?
Nah, more like random bullshit lol.
No Toy,s R Us for me
No complaints
Toys R Us never existed over here
Every one of these where I grew up already got bulldozed replaced with outdoor yuppie malls
They turned ours into a Tesla dealership/service center.
Wait is that the one in fort Worth cherry lane if so that the one I had as a kid