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    It is sad... I've bought a lot of toys from TRU in America, and would feel worse if botcon was still happening. TRU was always a priority, with Walmart And Target when I was in America, and it would be a factor in deciding hotels when not at the convention. There is even one near the LA Airport that I had checked out several times before or after a flight, and once between two connecting flights (taxi there and back, with the driver waiting for me).
    I think we'll miss the exclusives most though. There might not have been a lot, or cheap, but it was the store with the most despite Walmart and Amazon being bigger.

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    I wonder if future kids will ever experience that feeling of walking into a huge store filled with toys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralph Wiggum View Post
    I wonder if future kids will ever experience that feeling of walking into a huge store filled with toys.
    That is true... with the loss of Kaybee Toys 10-ish years ago, and now ToysRUs, American kids don't have a chain of stores that are exclusively toys anymore.
    As bad as we might say ToysRUs and Toyworld are with their prices or product range, we still love to go to those stores because it is mostly just toys. A feeling you don't get with Target, BigW, Kmart or Walmart, no matter how big the store is.

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    One thing we need to be mindful of is in the liquidation of any company you have done business with, so TRU US and potentially AU for me in this case, there is the possibility of your customer data ending up in someone else's hands at which point they can use it however they want.

    Fortunately TRU doesn't have any of our personal devices in its possession. In the recent bankruptcy auction of NCIX you can see people's personal computers that are being auctioned off. In a video that's behind a paywall we find out that the Nvidia Shield that Linus buys in the second video has the owners personal accounts still logged in and he could have charged the users credit card for content on the device or even stolen the owners accounts entirely.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29LL3blOxds

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZfh5IjGv8

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    It seems that Toys R Us Australia aren't going anywhere soon, at least according to [their FB response.](https://www.facebook.com/toysrusau/p...type=3&theater)
    I'll update this when I'm needing help finding particular figures

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    It's terrible those people will lose jobs, but, frankly, from a consumer perspective? Good riddance to bad over prices rubbish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Handsprime View Post
    It seems that Toys R Us Australia aren't going anywhere soon, at least according to [their FB response.](https://www.facebook.com/toysrusau/p...type=3&theater)
    Doesn't fill me with confidence.

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    Default Toys 'R' Us Australia's future

    It showed up in the media today. Two views

    Business as usual
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-1...-usual/9552844


    And good for Westfarmers
    http://www.afr.com/business/retail/w...0180315-h0xid5


    The big one I took from the AFR page.

    "US chief executive, David Brandon, was quoted overnight saying the Australian operations and those in France, Spain and Poland were likely to go into liquidation."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galvatran View Post
    Doesn't fill me with confidence.
    Yeah, “working through a range of options” is not inspiring. Wouldn’t be buying any gift vouchers anytime soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by M-bot View Post
    Yeah, “working through a range of options” is not inspiring. Wouldn’t be buying any gift vouchers anytime soon.
    What about those people that preordered the MP Cheetor repaint, they will likely never get the product they paid for.

    Also read the update on Seibertron, Australia is specifically called out as being liquidated.

    https://www.seibertron.com/transform...-update/40888/

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