Toys R Us kid
Posted by FixEfficient2144@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 22 comments
So I was just walking around Meijer buying groceries, then suddenly I hear the song. I glance over to see a man, who based on his look I would assume is/was a hippy, on a motorized scooter loudly singing the Toys R Us theme song. I’m sure there are other places I could post this, but I’m not sure how many of the younger crowd would know the song even. This happened shortly after seeing a \~60ish year old fat guy just leaning over his cart, strolling through the freezer section with his entire buttcrack exposed. That being said, the song really did bring me back to good times—except for that one time I lost my $10 from my 8th bday while looking at toys.
Allcitychamp99@reddit
The old Toy’s R Us in my town is a liquor store now. Geoffrey is holding a margarita.
FUWS@reddit
I worked at Toys R Us starting at my junior high school all the way to my early 20s. I finally got the coveted Bike Assembly guy job which was awesome. I enjoyed building bikes and things behind the store front and managed the video game area ( whilest working at Game Stop). Toys R Us workers were either moms or young college/teen jobs…. The dynamics were wild.
Man those jobs were great back in those days. It was like living in a sitcom.
UptownJunk802@reddit
I'm usually grumpy when I have to grocery shop so this would have made my day.
PickledPixie83@reddit
My son is 17, turning 18 this year. Once a year before Christmas we took him to Toys R Us and let him tell us everything he wanted . We made a list based off that for the family and he absolutely loved it. God. I have been feeling my age lately but I do miss when he was that small.
Epicardiectomist@reddit
we had a fucking weapon aisle. Guns separated by style. In my head, it was like the scene in The Matrix when they're getting weapons to break Morpheus out.
Ianthin1@reddit
I was sad when I came across the Toys R Us section in our local Macys a while back. Basically 8 small aisles of stuff. My 9yo didn’t really believe me that the original was the size of a grocery store. I sure wish she had the opportunity to experience something like that the way we did.
Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit
My kids are 19-23, and we still had a massive Toys R Us when they were little that even had party rooms and a huge candy dispenser section (like for filling piñatas). We spent so much time in there. I would take them over before every birthday or Christmas and take photos of everything they wanted to disperse to the rest of the family for gift ideas. It was right next to a huge Jo-Ann's craft store (which also sold tons of toys and home decor), so we could kill a whole day in that plaza when they were little and the weather was bad.
Ianthin1@reddit
We had Toys R Us on one side of the road and Children's Palace on the other, With a Kay B Toys in the Mall next door. Now I don't think dedicated toy stores even exist.
EnlightenedDragon@reddit
They do! Just not at nationally as they used to. If anyone is in Northeast Ohio I highly recommend Sir Troy's Toy Kingdom for the closest experience to classic Toys R Us.
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
Same. My son is 19. I'm extremely happy that when he was younger he got to experience the joys of Toys R Us. I think the last one around us closed when he was like 12ish maybe?
He also got to experience going to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
Great memories with my little family at both of those places.
Dismal-Dare-2507@reddit
I was thinking about this the other day while looking at the toys at Target (for fun)- what the hell was it filled with? Like how did they fill a place that large?
Outrageous_Picture39@reddit
Bikes. Trains. Video games.
Not_a_werecat@reddit
Gee whiz!
Ianthin1@reddit
They had everything. And a lot of it. A level of variety that can't be matched today.
Crowley-Barns@reddit
That Toys R Us Kid slogan was made by the author James Patterson in his previous career as an ad guy.
piscian19@reddit
I miss wandering around a toyrus and just seeing fucking everything your imagination could come up. Fucking cyborg dinosaurs at wars, those armor dudes that you clip stuff on to, transformers that just turn into fucking rocks. 1000 different varieties of goo science shit that is almost toxic and makes your parents visibly groan.
You walk into a toy section now its like "You like Disney shit? You like WWF? Pokemon? A single lego brick for $499? No..well thats all we got."
FixEfficient2144@reddit (OP)
Seriously. It just has to be cheap, fun crap. It would probably just be used as an in person Amazon catalog nowadays though.
therealpopkiller@reddit
We’re gonna be that buttcrack guy in 15-20 years
FixEfficient2144@reddit (OP)
I hope not. I seriously thought about saying “Hey buddy, I think you lost your belt, take mine.” I almost feel like he was enjoying himself though, so I decided to not waste a good belt.
ShortBrownAndUgly@reddit
My oldest is almost 18. We took her to TRU a few times when she was really small but we were pretty broke back then. Now that I have a steady job all we have is the sad watered down version in Macy’s that we visited once on a trip to Chicago
emptybeetoo@reddit
My town didn’t even have a Toys R Us until I was in high school. I missed so many missed opportunities to look at toys. I still knew the song
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
When my kids get mesmerized by Target or Walmart, they have no idea.