The Death of Toys R Us and what it will mean.

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pbj:
First thing they teach you in marketing class is “your kids are weird.”

I spent a lot of money learning that.

Howard_Casto:
Well something interesting has come about. Apparently Toys R Us still had the rights to the K B Toys brand, which it bought after their closure in the late 90's. Since the last year has been a bit of a fire sale for the company, they sold the rights to one of those dead brand acquisition companies last year. Long story short, KB Toys, a vastly superior toy store imho, might be coming back! The announced plan is they intend to open some temporary stores this fall for the holiday season, similar to how Spirit Halloween does now. If it goes well KB will come back with smaller stores in malls and shopping centers next year. So I guess somebody is stepping up to fill the void.

I frikkin loved KB back in the day.... most of my games and nearly all of my toys came from that place. I liked it because it was a combination toy store and hobby store, so it grew with you. Of course atm they are KB in name only, so only time will tell if they will be as good as they were in the past.

Robbbert:
Toys R Us only opened its first store here in 1993, which I visited around then. In my opinion, I thought the stuff was way overpriced... and never went back.

They later opened some Babies R Us stores, but I've never seen one.

We don't have any other stores or chains that exclusively sell toys, that all died decades ago.

I don't think they'll be missed.... at least as far as I can tell.

wp34:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 20, 2018, 09:35:28 pm ---Well something interesting has come about. Apparently Toys R Us still had the rights to the K B Toys brand, which it bought after their closure in the late 90's. Since the last year has been a bit of a fire sale for the company, they sold the rights to one of those dead brand acquisition companies last year. Long story short, KB Toys, a vastly superior toy store imho, might be coming back! The announced plan is they intend to open some temporary stores this fall for the holiday season, similar to how Spirit Halloween does now. If it goes well KB will come back with smaller stores in malls and shopping centers next year. So I guess somebody is stepping up to fill the void.

I frikkin loved KB back in the day.... most of my games and nearly all of my toys came from that place. I liked it because it was a combination toy store and hobby store, so it grew with you. Of course atm they are KB in name only, so only time will tell if they will be as good as they were in the past.

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Were your KB stores in a mall or stand-alone? Ours were in the mall and their prices were very high. Having said that we did enjoy shopping there when the kids were little. We didn't buy much but they were great stores to browse.

dkersten:
Amazon is looking to buy several of the Toys R Us locations.

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