Toys R Us’s death has been well known for the past few months, with its retail stores closing and liquidating its stock. It’s now come time to liquidate the toy retail giant’s headquarters, and everything must go!
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Previously exclusive to Toys R Us stores, Studio Series Voyager Class Thundercracker has escaped to the online retailer Entertainment Earth! Studio Series Thundercracker is a repaint and remold of the The Last Knight Voyager Class figure “Decepticon Nitro”, better known as Nitro Zeus in his film appearance! He was originally a Toys’r’us exclusive, but the death of the toy retailer […]
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With the death of Toys ‘R’ Us its varied exclusives have been left adrift, with the exclusive Titans Return Grotusque (plus Fengul and Scorponok) among them. Thanks to a sighting in Columbus, Ohio from the Facebook group Cybertron Cafe, it has been confirmed that Grotusque is showing up at U.S. brick and mortar retail after previously only being available online.
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Toys R Us has found a buyer for its Canadian arm, per BWTF.com’s report on a release by Bloomberg. After MGA Entertainment’s failed bid to purchase the 80-plus Canadian stores along with 200 of the better-performing US locations, Toys R Us seems to have found a better deal with Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.
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Thought I’d record my tour of one of the earliest stores to get the closing notification. Sign said “5 days” left — but hard to say when it was put up. If it’s still here by tomorrow I’ll be surprised.
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Action Figure Junkies interviewed Ellia Kassoff, CEO of Strategic Marks, which had picked up the dead KB Toys brand for an online presence, only to see Toys R Us collapse. He sees KB Toys as a chance to step into that vacuum and “save the toy industry” by keeping a social, tactile, show room presence alive for toys.
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Via YouTubers Spicy Build and DIATRON, we have in-hand video reviews of the Studio Series 09 Thundercracker figure, currently being found at Toys R Us stores in the United States. Studio Series Thundercracker is a redeco and retool of The Last Knight Nitro with a new removable head.
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Per Business Insider, Toys R Us has indicated that all locations are scheduled for closure, while hoping to sell 200 of its top locations before their closure dates. Full liquidation sales are expected to roll out, possibly beginning this week. Meanwhile, zombie brand KB Toys may jump to roll out a brick and mortar presence for next year’s holiday season.
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The Washington Post reports that Toys R Us will close or sell its remaining US stores. While the last universal toy store, holding on against a changing retail landscape, had only announced the closure of 182 locations in the wake of last year’s bankruptcy announcement, the remaining 800 stores are now set to close.
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Bloomberg reports that Toys R Us may indeed be preparing to shut down its entire US operation and close all remaining stores.
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