ToysRUs is Back in Australia with new owners

[Dimi194]

https://www.toysrus.com.au/announcement-faq.html

Seems Hobby Warehouse have got the TRU IP in Australia and NZ, with a new online store opening next week... will be curious to see what happens, especially for TFs as the Hobby Warehouse main site has old TR stuff but little newer than that.
If they can nail down the specifics (none of those dumb random assortment things) and offer decent prices it'll be curious to see how it goes!

[Bladestorm]

More info here.

Be curious to see whether they'll offer the range of product and exclusives the stores did and what kind of pricing they'll have.

[XMan]

Pretty good news, and I apologise for being negative but I can't help but think of of all the employee's that were let go.

Especially in Canberra, I see a few now that have to do multiple jobs to get by, but a few have gained better employment, so that's cool.

Great to see it's not going to be Geoffreys or whatever The States were thinking of replacing TRU with.

[griffin]

(edited topic title a little)
Just noting that this is about an existing company in Australia who bought the rights to the name and logos from ToysRUs during the liquidation process (in which EVERYTHING was for sale, not just physical items), for use in Australia.
They do note on their site that they have nothing to do with the previous ToysRUs business, which also means that they are not related with any ToysRUs business in other countries (they are all separate entities now as well).
That being said, even though it is really early, and very little is so far known, I wouldn't be surprised if this new TRU business, or the multinational toy companies (like Hasbro & Mattel) try to get "global TRU exclusives" into this store just so that that stock gets released here (particularly if the Asian factories have been putting TRU exclusive stickers on the toys). In other words, we could see TRU exclusives at this business, but it doesn't mean TRU exclusives are guaranteed to appear here.
We certainly have precedent for it here though, like having US Target exclusive Movie toys appear here at our Target stores with the Target exclusive stickers on them - our Target isn't related to their Target, but it makes it easier for Hasbro to pitch them to our Target... just look at how difficult it has been for them to offload existing TRU exclusives that they are still stuck with from last year's collapse.

[griffin]

And yes, it should be good news if long-term, they open up a national chain of stores, to give us collectors more options and competition... as we have been running out of (price-competing) stores willing to take the larger Transformers toys.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I’ve been to a downsized TRU located in a shopping centre in Singapore so I wonder if they’ll consider going down that path.