The Huff
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Post by The Huff on Sept 28, 2013 11:05:48 GMT
Still lots of them in my local TRU - so many infact that I managed to get a replacement finger for my missing one!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 8, 2015 11:04:14 GMT
Interesting Toys R Us find today: a downsized Town Center store in the basement of the Bentalls Center, Kingston. None of the larger stuff or video games but a solid toy selection. LOADS of the last BH Commander and Legion waves (Bludgeon and Magnus) and a mountain of £12.50 Roadbusters! Will be back tomorrow armed with vouchers to get the Movie Op 2 pack for £24.99   EDIT: went back today. Op set mispriced. Not happy. |
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Apr 8, 2015 16:32:07 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 8, 2015 16:32:07 GMT
I noticed that when I found Sky-Byte in mine. All of those smaller BH figures that had only appeared in home bargains. The Legions were only £3. I nabbed a random Soundwave.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 26, 2016 14:05:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 16:44:44 GMT
Oh dear!
-Ralph
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Dec 26, 2016 23:37:13 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 26, 2016 23:37:13 GMT
Whoops!
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Dec 27, 2016 14:12:08 GMT
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 27, 2016 14:12:08 GMT
Toys R Us in honesty shocker!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 7, 2017 6:48:59 GMT
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primenova
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Post by primenova on Sept 7, 2017 11:20:37 GMT
Maybe people have been sueing them for when they try to do you for reusing bags. You have to reuse bags but if you go in a store with a bag to reuse they try doing you for shop lifting. Also it's better to go into a toy shop that sells toys like Entertainer, Toy World or Smyths
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Jim
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Post by Jim on Sept 19, 2017 9:44:41 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 19, 2017 14:28:54 GMT
Its only restructuring at this point, but without a very good Christmas I'd say they are screwed.
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Post by legios on Sept 19, 2017 20:28:46 GMT
Yep, one of two things will happen - they will do well enough at Christmas to persuade some entity to provide them with a new line of credit, or they won't. In the latter case it would pretty much mean either the complete or almost complete dismemberment of the company.
On the other hand, at least one US airline went into bankruptcy protection a hopeless case in the last couple of decades and emerged whole and viable as
I recall, so more precarious enterprises have managed to negotiate the process.
Karl
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Jim
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Post by Jim on Sept 19, 2017 21:06:18 GMT
Well, Marvel did it and look where they are now. We could be just a couple of decades from the Geoffrey Cinematic Universe.
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Post by legios on Sept 19, 2017 21:10:05 GMT
Heh! Indeed. I'd forgotten that example.
Karl
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Post by primenova on Sept 20, 2017 11:20:33 GMT
They need to move all the DC toys out of the section labelled Transformers first. It ok having Marvel in there because Hasbro make them but not DC
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2017 18:45:08 GMT
Does this mean now that spending money in TRU can be regarded as a charitable action? That could be useful.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 1, 2017 22:22:33 GMT
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Post by KnightBeat on Dec 1, 2017 23:03:33 GMT
I can't see any solution to TRU's woes in the article. Its unique market position is based upon the big box out-of-town model; if you abandon this, TRU risks becoming another small toy shop franchise. Sure, this makes it better able to compete with The Entertainer, but how do you compete with Smyths when they take over the department store market?
That said, the suggestion that TRU could learn a few things from Hamleys, Disney store, and the Lego shop sounds interesting - these stores take a fairly novel approach to embedding products into activities being held in the shop. The potential downside is that TRU may feel compelled to raise toy prices to cover these 'free' events and then find that parents leave the store and order online because their products are too expensive.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 1, 2017 23:23:10 GMT
I note Burns recently saw TR deluxes in a TRU. Reality unravels. |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2017 9:21:23 GMT
I didn't. You were there. They had wave 1 Titanmasters and Broadside. There were no TR deluxes!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 2, 2017 10:43:04 GMT
I POINTED THEM OUT TO YOU!
WAVE 3 WAS ON THE PEGS!!!
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Dec 2, 2017 11:32:27 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2017 11:32:27 GMT
No that was Cosmos. The deluxes were in another shop.
-Ralph
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Dec 2, 2017 18:16:14 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 2, 2017 18:16:14 GMT
We didn't go to other shops! The deluxes were on the pegs around Cosmos. How could you not see them??
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Dec 2, 2017 18:43:40 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2017 18:43:40 GMT
I only remember Cosmos, Broadside, the amazing £150 Primus and those TLK toys.
Anyway: TRU. Sadly their decline has been a long time coming.
-Ralph
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Dec 2, 2017 18:46:25 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 2, 2017 18:46:25 GMT
Burns selective memory again. We saw TR deluxe in my Asda - briefly.
Andy
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Dec 2, 2017 18:48:05 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2017 18:48:05 GMT
We did?
-Ralph
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Dec 2, 2017 19:00:28 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 2, 2017 19:00:28 GMT
Yes! They had Hot Rod and Getaway. |
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Dec 2, 2017 19:28:02 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 2, 2017 19:28:02 GMT
Burns and I also fought over wave 1 deluxes in Asda when they came out.
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Dec 2, 2017 19:28:34 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 2, 2017 19:28:34 GMT
Burns selective memory again. We saw TR deluxe in my Asda - briefly. Andy MIND GAP NANOBOTS. |
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Dec 2, 2017 19:37:58 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2017 19:37:58 GMT
I remember seeing a Getaway in Toys Galore.
-Ralph
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