A Dying Toys R Us Can't Sell Star Wars Toys
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Toys R Us is going out of business and Star Wars is (partially) to blame.
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"...your father's Han Solo action figure. This was the plaything of a Star Wars fan. Not as clumsy or random as a blade builder set. An elegant toy, for a more civilised age. For over two generations, the Star Wars toys were the guardians of fun and profit in the western world. Before the dark times...before the SJWs..."
"How did Star Wars die?"
"..."
"A young secretary named Kathleen Kennedy, who was a protege of Lucas before she turned to evil, helped Disney hunt down and destroy the Star Wars brand. She betrayed and murdered the franchise. Now the fanbase is all but extinct. Kathleen was seduced by the dark side of the merch..."
"The merch?"
"The merch is what gives a fanboy his geek cred. It's an energy field of inspirational awesomeness created by all branded toys. It surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the Star Wars fandom together..."
casbyness ,
Weeping with laughter... stone cold dead.
if this doesn't get pinned, there is no justice.
"...Since you are reluctant to provide us with the location of the cool kids, I have chosen to test Disney's destructive power on your favourite franchise of Star Wars!"
"No! Star Wars is awesome, we have no politics! You can't possibly-"
"-You would prefer another target? A mysogynistic target? Then name the fandom! I grow tired of asking this, so it will be the last time. Where are the cool kids?"
"........Deadpool. They like Deadpool..."
"You see, Kathleen? They can be reasonable. Proceed with The Last Jedi, you may release it when ready."
"WHAT?!"
"You're far too trusting. Twentieth Century Fox is too small a company to make an effective SJW example of, but don't worry...we will deal with your sexist friends soon enough..."
Sheer gold, please pin this!
Awesome recap sir....!
You're awesome. Normally I would try to emulate comments like these in the reply section, but there's nothing I could come up with at the time that would do justice to this.
I have two young kids and decided to take them to the toys I went to as a kid.
It was absolutely depressing. And this was before the closures were announced. My son wanted a hotwheels car and my daughter a new barbie. Well guess what? All the toys they wanted were sold out and the shelves were stocked with star wars crap. My kids are too little to understand and began crying when the lady told them they weren't going to be restocked any time soon. Then she tried to force star wars crap on me, which my kids had zero interest in. We left empty handed.
You have better luck finding Barbie and Hotwheels at the local dollar store than at Toys R Us. I know the dollar store brand of Barbie and Hotwheels are bootlegged, but your kids would still love those toys better than the overpriced Star wars at Toys R Us. Best thing about dollar stores though. You can tell your kids they can each have any ten toys they want. I bet you they would feel like it was Christmas. My mom did that with me and my sister. It was 1990s and the dollar stores back then didn't include any taxes, so my mom told us $20 for each one. We were like "Christmas is here!" LOL Fun times.
you can't really blame the ones working at the store. They're doing their job and probably are told to try to sell the garbage no one wants. I really think you should blame the coroporations for like making things useless.
"Rey, the face of a dying franchise." LMFAO!
Those "reduced prices" are still insanely high...
How many falcons to buy an actual Harley?
Faust-- 3
Exactly when my local tru started their closing sale it started at 10% no one is going to buy $150 toys for wow $138 lol. This dude hates star wars and thats fine its whatever but at least give the full details. My local target had star wars black figures on sale for 6.99 and got cleaned out. Yet all the 9.99 marvel legends guardians of the galaxy toys are still shelf warming hard at half price. $9.99 including iron man. He can blame sjw all he wants but what it all comes down to is oversaturation of bad toys. Kids dont play with toys they play Minecraft and roblox and fortnite. Toys are mainly bought by collelctors now. Most toys that sell are cheap toys for younger kids who dont give a shit about much other than is it fun is it bright but oh yeah its the sjws lol
BrainFr33z3lasers it is though, sjw isn't completely responsible for poor sales of SW toys but it is maybe like 95% at fault. All the characters in ep7 and 8 are lame as fuck, I'm laughing at the fact that they made a rose figure xD
yet he never goes to the transformers figures which are never sold out completely or the nerf guns which shelf warm harder than rose ever did. he hates star wars which is fine but dont act like tru sales being poor and toys shelf warming super hard are anything new or because "sjws ruined muh star wars"
Former TRU manager - you're right but you miss the biggest part. Kids don't buy toys, parents do; the same 40ish parents that grew up on SW and hated TLJ. I didn't even take my daughters to see it and I won't, seeing Luke as a wanna be child killing hermit with PTSD hiding in his safe-space isn't something I want my them to see.
My son agrees with me that the Empire was actually a better choice than the rebels. Does Disney realize they are hurting their social agenda by displaying the Rebel and Jedi incompetence?
Faust why do you have a hentai profile pic and a child
This pic is a sexed up version of a normal anime not a hentai. Not even that dirty of a show to tell the truth. As far as the son goes just because his mother became a stripper when he was two and has spent the last decade partying while I raised him alone doesn't mean I should abandon him does it ? Or do you perhaps think that I should conform like a good little drone and drink the Hollywood cool aid? My life is mine to lead and my son is mine to raise unless you have given up on your dreams for the sake of another you have no right to judge me.
if you saw the movie you see why and kylo wasent a child your a moron.
Bwahahaha, well sum D's a nasty shade of maroon, not sure who, even less sure who it belongs to. Don't point the "typo" (and that's being optimistic) out. #OxyClassic
Not just kids. Toys R Us was exciting for collectors and just adult fans of things. It's freaking depressing.
Jordan Hendrix I can relate man I'm 20 and I collect stuff for my wall.
Jordan Hendrix "What the hell happened here?!"
George Lucas is laughing his A$$ off at Disney.
Maybe he can buy the franchise back for $10 when Disney is done with it.
Lucas don't care....he is Scrooge McDucking through his billions of dollars.
If Disney could sell Power Rangers back and there’s no sign of George wanting to buy Lucasfilm back, let’s hope there’s someone else in the Lucas family who will buy Lucasfilm off Disney!
i hope so. :)
Lassi Kinnunen Disney underpaid. Then fucked up their golden goose.
Nice tour of a graveyard
it is
Renz And Star Wars merchandise are the headstones.
Looks like we'll have another E.T. landfill filled of Star Wars toys!
And then there will be hologram videos in the future, with people talking about how bad the toys were, plus a documentary where people dig up the landfill to discover if the story was true.
I bought two Rose's because I know they're going to be this generations ET for Atari.
Argh! They officially announced that toys r us will be closing ALL of its stores. The end of an era, Disney is part to blame for the lackluster star wars toys sales. Thanks Kathleen kennedy, you killed two of me childhood memories.
ReviewPirateUSARGH! Yup, KK strikes again!
In other words Disney killed ToysRUs... Disney and political correctness. This is very sad.
Miss Quark You are correct!
In an interview in one of the newspapers the head of toysrus uk openly said one of the factors on them closing was no one was buying the Star Wars toys.
gimzod76 Source please, thanks in advance
"Rose Potato Sack" - classic!
'Rey - a face of a dying franchise' Oh yeah, that's a hell of a headline. Thank you WCB for such neat verbal treats.
The toys themselves aren’t even good like they used to be, back in my childhood hasbro sold fully articulated,fun and interesting stuff. But when Disney bought the license I started to notice when buying my kids toys how much of a downgrade in quality they were, 5 points of articulation instead of the usual 14 back in the day, weaker more brittle plastic and thinner, shittier paint. I have an old Boba fett from ‘95 and that things been through war that was my child hood and paint and articulation are still pretty decent! Oh and here’s a funny story about these toys and my daughter, so I took her to a target and told her she could have any any action figure she wants, and of course she goes to the star wars section starts looking for something. She stops, turns to me and says “Where’s Luke and Han and Leia?” So I tell her that those ones are sold out and she can have Rey or Finn. She stops, looks at me and says “They’re boring!” And walks off to look for LEGO Star Wars instead. I nearly died laughing at my 7 yr old in a Target!
Ps. Ended up buying her a lego millennium falcon from TFA. When she built it she looked at the Rey minifigure and sang “Rey, Rey go away.” And threw across the room, picked up a lego Han Solo put him in the cockpit with cheeks looked at me and said “Now it’s better!” 🤣
Auto correct said cheeks. I meant Chewbacca.
This was great, kids are inherently honest , and don't put up with candy coated bullshit. She knew who should be the falcon, Disney thinks they are brilliant but they aren't even foolin 7 yr olds lol
Seems like those old times of fun are slowing fading away.
skabcat242 society is being sapped of creativity in America due to greed social justice warrior bs and corruption in politics it looks like greed kills everything it touches it destroys artistic integrity. I do feel things are a lot less fun than they use to be.
It was good while it lasted, eh? We sure had a good run.
what you are saying doesnt make any sense. Reorganise your words so they mean something and then people will listen. You're an idiot. it isnt liberals vs conservative. everyone is individual and everyone has their own ideas. my ideas dont align with a lot of others but i staunchly believe in them till death.
RUclips and video games are the new action figures.
skabcat242 you're so right
Anyone remember when Nickelodeon would do those 90 or so seconds take-home-anything-you-can-put-in-your-cart free for all grand prizes?
It's going to be interesting trying to explain that to my kids when they are older
i loved that show. i remember the one where they put you in this Velcro suit and youd have to attach as many things as you can to yourself within a time limit and you got to keep it all.
Oh my God, I remember that, I got excited picturing myself there and what I'd get "NO, DON'T TAKE FESTERS QUEST, IT SUCKS YOU LOSER!" Ah the good old days :)
TheOrangeRoad man that show needs to come back
TheOrangeRoad What show are you talking about?
TheOrangeRoad wooooow you took me back. yea that was the shit.
A bygone anthem from my childhood, one last time...
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid,
They got a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with!
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid,
They got the best for so much less, you'll really flip your lid!
From bikes, to trains, to video games,
It's the biggest toy store there is! Gee whiz!
I don't wanna grow up, cause baby if I did,
I couldn't be a Toys R Us kid!
More games! More toys! Oh boy!
I wanna be a Toys R Us kid!
:'(
Tonberry Queen
As usual SJWs ruin everything at there is a lot of comic stores going out of business due to SJW Marvel
Niagara falls *Jynx...* Niagara falls.
This hurts my soul...
im about to go back to orginal toyrus i went bought my first bionicle set just walk around mention to people how good toyrus was back in 2000's
mrkicker11181 - Bionicle was the shit back in the day! Damn I miss the early 2000's.
I hope for the best for all the employees who are losing their jobs. That's a lot of people needing work soon.
A couple years ago the catch phrase was "Thanks Obama!" Now it's "Thanks Disney!" 😂
Your welcome 😉
The catchphrase amongst morons, for sure.
Michael Hall don't talk about yourself like that man, you need to have some self respect. Don't just disrespect yourself undeservingly, it's unhealthy.
Michael Hall sounds like a sad Hillary supporter 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😁😁😁
people supported hilary or trump. i choose a assasin who would murder both :D
Rey is “definitely” the last Jedi (at toysrus)
Don't worry, folks. You can still get yourself a Porg toy from the nearest landfill.
along a Free copy of the 80's ET game ;)
Remember NOT to feed your porg after midnight!
Disney has killed Star Wars quicker than anyone else could have. They have thus also helped to kill Toys R Us even faster. Which kid in their right mind would want to dress up like Rey or Kylo Ren (especially after removing his mask!) for Halloween etc? Very sad when "adults" think they know what's best for other adults and their children. Well done Rian, JJ and Kathleen. Top job.
argh! during Halloween of 2017, I saw a fair amount of kids, mostly boys, dressed as jedi or sith characters. I saw more girls dressed as leia than rey. and judging by the star wars magic dying out, I doubt ill see more children dressed as any star wars characters from the sequel trilogy.
You know what is sad really? There was a time when it was hard to keep Star Wars toys on shelves. Hell, even in the late 1970s, they had to sell certificates in order to guarantee kids would get those toys due to the over-demand of those products. Now sadly it is as we have seen in these videos all because of political nonsense.
I remember back in the nineties, ToysRus had huge aisles one side had Star Trek, the other Star Wars. It was really sad to see the sections shrink. Then remodeled the stores, added clothes and it went down from there.
In those days it was fun to collect those toys, finding something unusual out of such a huge selection was a real joy. Going from store to store trying to find that one thing your looking for, only to find a whole lot of stuff you never saw before. The internet just doesn't offer that kind of adventure.
Max Mills technology has only made things worse.
Not worse, just too easy.
I remember going there in the 90's, long after Transformers had peaked, but they were still big at my school, and they had a ton of them, including ones I'd never seen anywhere else.
Me sob-singing: I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid...
AnnPeek 😭
AnnPeek ah, dude... the feels..
Ikr...just sucks.
Star Wars died with the Last Jedi.
#FUCKSTARWARS
SNC2319 Whoa slow down, there's still 1-6. We're still flying half a ship (or 2/3).
"Let the toy store die. Kill it, if you have to." - Lucasfilm, 2017
You should go back after the store closes. The dumpsters will probably be full of those toys.
Cliff Hanger - Mostly Rose Tico toys.
A regular Plumbus
Worth it. Gonna build myself a creepy shrine and rp as an unhinged Last Jedi fan.
Adrian Wyatt - *_Do it!_* - Palpatine
They're going to Africa! LOL
@BallNuts. More like a landfill in China...oh wait, China's stopped taking all of our rubbish now. A landfill in African, it is then.
My friend nextdoor is a massive LEGO Star Wars fan. I've seen his collection, it is something to be admired.
And yet he has no sets from the new trilogy. He refuses to give Disney coin for mediocre films. Sure, he's bought a few sets from Rogue One but that has commonly been known as the exception among many fans. He is still willing to pay top dollar for rare hard to find sets from the prequels and who can blame him? I'm glad folks are starting to appreciate that trilogy at least and I guess that's the only thing I'm thankful for now. Thanks Disney for making Lucas look good again.
Aikurisu The prequel trilogy was really impressive in terms of what you could turn into a toy and sell. Of couese that haters turned that into a negative saying that he only made the prequels to sell toys...lol
Disney didn’t make Lucas look good, it’s just that now all the 90’s-2000’s kids who grew up with the Star Wars prequels are now adults or teens at the youngest, so their voices are heard a lot more, whereas back in the day when the prequels came out most fans were kids who watched the originals in theaters or on vhs. Those old adults are now in their 40’s (or as old as 60’s if they saw in theaters.) You don’t see as many older fans online as you see younger fans from their 20’s.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone who likes the prequels now who didn’t already before or anyone who used to fervently hate the prequels suddenly doesn’t hate them anymore. I think it’s just a coincidence that the Disney films popped up around the same time that the prequel kids became young adults or old teens, so that opinion gets voiced a lot more than it used to.
Gallifreyan Buccaneer I think the prequels still blew but not as bad as these new movies. I grew up with the OT.
I love hearing stories like that. It restores my faith in a portion of the SW fandom that not all will just give Disney SW their hard earned money just b/c the new stuff says SW on it!
No-one's learning to appreciate the prequels apart from simpletons who take youtube vids as gospel and allow seemingly popular opinion to sway them., disney funded a load of videos trying to change common perception of them in the run-up to the new films. Hipsters and scene kids and wannabe nerds jumped on the bandwagon.
The last 3 films were horrendous. the 3 before that were too. so were the special editions back in the 90s.
The end of an era ending with the last jedi. How poetic.
Star Wars bankrupted Toys R Us... wonder if all this crap will just end up in the landfill?
Rob Jackson No,they will back to the factory,there are chemicals to erase the colours,change some some parts to become different figures or melt them to fill in a different moe,dada reborn.
With all those ET cartridges.
Probably.
I hope, so they have to get rid of all that overpriced garbage somehow
Oh yea it was Star Wars. Not the ridiculous prices, online purchasing, etc. Star Wars did it...wait what?
RIP Toys R Us, you were a huge part of my childhood.
No surprise that Toys R Us is dying out. The prices they charge are outrageous.
I went into Toys R Us the other day and the prices were insane. Toys were double what Amazon are, packaging is all damaged and video games were grossly overpriced. They had Halo 5 a pretty old game at this point at £55! You can buy that for about £15 brand new at my local supermarket. Oh and there were tons of Star Wars toys all knocked down in price but no kids (or adults) looking at them.
Arrow Valley it's a smegging rimmer
pretty sure Toys R Us was banking on Star Wars to save their hides. Conversely, I'm pretty sure that Star Wars' failure to their fans is what killed Toys R Us
Mom took me to Toys R Us to buy me a Super Nintendo, folks didn't have much money back then when I was growing up but they did what they could for me. Fond memories that Toys R Us gave me, made me grateful as an adult now for my parents and Toys R Us helped that happen. Shame I'll never be able to take my own kids or my nephews/nieces to experience what could had been great memories.
Newtype first Playstation console with final fantasy 7 demo was dream come true
Thanks toys r us
Toys R Us should have focused on gamers and sold toys based on video games. This has nothing to do with SJWs as the conspiracy theorists wearing tin-foil wants us to believe. Kids today are more into technology. They want to learn about video games, coding, learning to build robots... Toys R Us was too focused on fucking Shitty Warts... oh sorry Star Wars. That is why stores like HotTopic and Game Stop are doing well. They have lower prices and sell what kids actually want and at a reasonable price. The guy in the video has a personal agenda of his own. >_>
All the Angry Birds plush toys, all the Mario games, all the DVD of Mario Cartoons, and TONS of toys that I got in my life from there. Is literally sad that my childhood got erased from history. 😟😢
If toys r us wasn't so damn expensive maybe people would by it
This ^ I always thought the point was to be cheaper than everywhere else. It wasnt ever cheaper.
Luca Peyrefitte they didn't even bother price matching like most retails
When the original trilogy was out (and the SW toys were in shops in the UK) the most expensive toy was £30/£35 (the AT-AT), the millenium falcon was £25, and the figures were £1. This was when the crazy sales were happening ..and notice there was no 'over pricing' of the toys.
The pricing today (for what you get) is terrible compared to the old prices (even taking into account inflation etc). If all the unsold toys were repriced $100 or less stuff would sell better (the basic figures should be $1 :)
However, the market for the new film franchise just doesn't seem strong enough at the moment to sell well anyways (children didn't take to the movies, imo).
They frankly took all the magic away and replaced it with 'senate politics', just what kids enjoy watching ..perish the thought they enjoy escapism, fantasy and strong definitions of right and wrong in their films.
They want to see heroes doing heroic things, character growing and learning from their mistakes.
For real. A $40 leader class Transformer anywhere else is like $52 at Toys R Us.
Disney really hurt companies like Toys R Us by putting out such a crappy movie. There are people who are going to lose their jobs. Kathleen Kennedy should lose hers too.
Disney not only killed Star Wars but they also killed Toys R US .
argh! what's funny is that EA and DICE portrayed luke skywalker in SW battlefront 2 a millions time better than Disney and ryan Johnson did in TLJ
ReviewPirateUSARGH!
Lmao,big fan of Rich from RTUSA i see.
argh! not really, I be a richbeard troll, part of the big cheese crusaders, whos goal was to troll rich all the time, we still operate, but more covertly.
Then i wish you good sailing,i hate that fucker.
After seeing this video,I agree! There's no reason Disney shoved all this merchandise down ToysRus' throat! I've seen a whole isle full of the exact same Disney Pixars Cars at my local Walmart for 3 years! WTF!?
They've been overpriced on much of their stock lines for a few years now. When you're teaching your children about value for money, buying online is cheaper. Lego are partly to blame given the expense of their toys. Toys R Us won't be the only toy stores that go out of business. We have 'the entertainer' toy stores in the UK and they're just as expensive.
The sad case is the job losses across the world. A lot of these companies don't have a second thought for the employees.
I've never hated a movie as much as the last Jedi. I left the movies gutted
Me too.
Wait, an I allowed to say that?
James Zbierski I left the cinema after the movie Christmas weekend last year and it gave me diarhea.
I Still haven't seen it,it's really that bad??...
OTT2OWN Yeah, it's horrible
Jesus my childhood
Say what you want about the prequels... At least Lucas gave us good toys
TheMightyBeorn just the amount of all the different clone troopers. Man I grew up with the clone wars cartoon from 2008 loved all the toys from it, didn't get any of them. Man if they were to release a entire wave of just clone troopers they would sell like hot cakes.
The Benjaman I remember the ROTS clone troopers too, plus a bunch from Legends
TheMightyBeorn ayyy
Ayy
TheMightyBeorn legends? oh you mean the real star wars
Jeffrey the Giraffe was my homie and he's gone? Sad day
Foam lightsabers????!!!! Do they have no shame?!!!
Darken De la Espada that's the dumbest idea for a lightsaber I've ever seen
Given the fact that their movies suck as much as their toys I’d say they don’t or maybr they are just a bunch of idiots... who knows
Jynx97
I have suffered many injuries because of those rock-hard plastic light sabers. Loved them.
I work at a very nice school in northern California...they aren't even allowed to use their fingers as guns. Foam lightsabers would be an expulsion
@TheOrangeRoad
Nearly got suspended for bringing a toy soldier. Then nearly got expelled for bringing a laser pointer pistol to wear during a Western themed play. Cowboys without guns aren't cowboys dammit!!! This all happened long long ago though.
The toys for the new Star Wars films were crap. The original trilogy and the prequels produced a lot of Star Wars action figures of droids and aliens. Very few action figures were released for force awakens and last Jedi, and the only action figures were of Rey, Finn, Poe - boring. But then the new films have been visually boring with no good aliens, droids, ships, etc. I mean come on, try comparing maz kanata with the old greedo or hammerhead.
Never thought I see the day when I'd hear Toys 'R Us is dying. Childhood sure does die hard, doesn't it?
Kids are not going to know what it's like to look up at that those high white scaffolds that seemed gigantic in height when you're small, and smell all that plastic. Running around grabbing every GI JOE and Star Wars playset I could find.
Clint Weathers Yeah, those were definitely the days! Sigh!!!
It’s sad that Star Wars has to be the franchise this is happening to. Freaking Kathleen Kennedy. Guess no one told her boys like toys more than girls and boys won’t want toys just for having the Star Wars title. The movies and characters have to be good.
TheHaziest As a kid I would want Darth Vader because it’s Darth Vader, rather then because the packaging told me so.
Because star wars is making everyone bankrupt
The Last Jedi had been the last nail in the Coffin.
R.I.P. Toys R Us.
TRU was my first job as a teen.I was 16 when I worked for them. I loved working there as a kid. I had access to every single toy imaginable that kids wanted. When Power Rangers came out, the original Megazord, Dragonzord, people literally would fist fight brawl for them, another hot item was the Sesame Street Tickle Me Elmo, back then sold for $49.99, people would resell them for over $400 in price because it was so hard to get, plus was another toy that caused riots in stores....ah the good old days.
Luis Ramos 😭
I have three young daughters. When we're near the toy dept at any store, they split between dolls, princesses, and other girly stuff. Never once have they paused in the Star Wars section or WWF WRESTLING... LOL! Who are the idiots making these decisions and why haven't they been fired? No wonder they're all going out of business!
I don't blame them. Those My Little Pony toys are the shit.
Dying Franchise: A Star Wars™ Story.
2:52 "The face of a dying franchise"
Sad, but true. It's depressing seeing Star Wars' downfall like this. But honestly it is deserved because of all the fuck ups made at Lucasfilm. Rest in peace Toys R Us, Star Wars practically killed you.
The last 6 fims have been complete dogshit. Hipster fodder, they've now got bored of it.
So fuck it. It's a dead franchise. Let it fucking stay that way.
Glad I jumped ship when I did... which coincidentally was around the same I discovered warhammer 40k.
Angry Pigeon Merchandise is what a franchise is striving for, if the toys sell well you know your franchise is in good hands like Marvel. But if the merchandise, comics, graphic novels, video games rots in shelves you know your franchise is dying like Star Wars!
Merling Stoss Ooooh. Edgy. Let me out edge you. All Star Wars films are bad. The only good things to come out of Star Wars were made irrelevant by Disney.
Angry Pigeon I'm assuming you're new to this channel and haven't been paying attention to anything
"Let the past die, kill it if you have to", except the toys, go out and buy all the toys! or not....
This is really sad. I thought I was the only one noticing that no one really seemed to buy anything, but I never knew Toys R Us was going out of business entirely. I remember that feeling when I was a kid where I'd walk into a Toys R Us and get all excited and jumpy and sprint to the Star Wars or Lego section.
I thought I would never feel this feeling again until my dad showed me a little store around 50 minutes away from my house called A to Z Toys, and when I went in I got that feeling again, except I couldn't run and jump because the store is packed to the brim and the shelves go up to the ceiling with merchandise. Its a little store packed full of old second hand toys from all brands (Especially Star Wars!!! Good Star Wars!!!) I found numerous toys I could never find or afford in stores when I was a kid there, and every time I go in there I go nuts buying stuff. Only problem is is far away, and I only am able to go 1-2 times a year, and the store owners are rarely there. I never thought I would live to see the Star Wars merchandise fall.
Thank you Lucas Film and Kathleen for killing Star Wars, and Toys R Us and for for filling a section of the Best Buy Clearance.
On another note, I would not be surprised if there was a "1983 Atari" -style landfill burial, but with Star Wars toys.
Then, in another 20-30 years, someone will make an investigative documentary about it. Instead of ET cartridges, they'll find crushed, dirt-encrusted Rey and Rose figures.
These days the liberal hordes would kill them if they didn't recycle.
I so want this to happen!
Melnorme Chaannel That documentary sounds WAY better than Episode IX now!
Someone should model a Toys R Us into a VR set. Now you too can experience life as a child from before the Disneypocolyse; return to a time where childhood still existed and where people wouldn't be kept in stasis for decades on end.
A VR game based around the heyday of Kenner Star Wars would honestly be incredible
Hell, can even have random objectives
#1 - Get Darth Vader
#2 - Buy Han and Chewie for the Falcon
etc, etc
Same situation at my Toys R' Us here in NYC.
Star Wars has become the Call of Duty of the film industry. What a joke.
I actually miss Disney Infinity. It was a great concept and had a growing community of creators. The figures were fun to collect (although the normal $15 price tag was a bit much) and they were well made (no paint blotches or bent arms). Disney canceled all support of the game a few years ago because they didn't want to make games in-house anymore. A really, really bad decision as the game was taking off!
I played the first Disney infinity and loved it on the PS3. However they changed the controls how you build stuff in the second infinity and I couldn't get used to it so I stopped buying the figures and playing the game.
@@rubberstack That is INSANE that they were STILL making PS3 games in 2015. That console was ANCIENT by then. Even crazier, there were STILL PS3 games on the shelves in the video, specifically the Infinity ones. Insane. I'm 18 years old now, and that console came out when I was 4 years old.
@@scottkrafft6830 DO you want to know something more insane. Cars 3 video game was released on 360, wii and ps3 (along with one and ps4) in 2017. They were still making games for 10+ year old hardware in 2017.
My mother took me to the grand opening of our Toys R Us in 1977 because Darth Vader was going to be there. The store was packed with people and children lined the aisles. Everyone went nuts when Darth Vader came walking through the store. The costume looked just like the one from the movie. That is one of my favorite memories of both Star Wars and Toys R Us.
I just heard my aunt died. She was a nice aunt, always let me play the Nintendo when I came over, as well as borrow the games, as well as movies. She even gave me her Atari 2600 in the late 90's, which still have to this day.)
Looks like everything good is dying.
silverwings21 I'm sorry to hear about your loss. At least you have wonderful memories of her.
+Charmayne7
Thanks.
silverwings21 you were fortunate to have had someone liked that
+mightycirus
Thanks.
silverwings21 I’m sorry for your loss. She sounded like a cool Aunt.
Star Wars especially HASBRO is to blame, Before my local Toys R Us closed, half the place was baby shit, as there just is not enough toy lines being made by the major companies to fill their stores. Back in my day you had entire sections for HE MAN, GI JOE, LEGO, BARBIE. I saw just two aisles for action figures, the video game section and the only toy line that had any major display was LEGO.
Gary Burnaska but Hasbro might be brainwashed by Ms female nazi over at lucasfilm
Gundam had some amazing and affordable toy lines in early 2000s. I used to be all over those "Battle Scarred" figures. lol
Gary Burnaska Both Hasbro and Mattel are to blame as they bought almost every competitor.
Perhaps online/tablet/phone apps and gaming is to blame as well. I wonder how many kids play with tangible toys, in the same way/quantity we did many years ago, before the hyper digital age.
Logos Truth Well, the fact that most tangible toys today are bland and awful quality doesn't help either, not to mention how Mattel and Hasbro rather make little easy cash ny pandering to foolish adult collectors.
This makes me sad. I loved Toys R' Us and I even worked at one for a summer.
Toys R Us aren't the only ones dying. We all are dying - financially speaking. I would buy toys but I have no money. besides Star Wars is more than toys. It's a spiritual way to live. You are distracted from the real meaning of Star Wars and probably more than that. [sigh]
so sad.
I don't blame Rey as a character, or Daisy Ridley either, for the failure of "Star Wars". The real core of the problem is SJW ideas being forced (pun fully intended) into a franchise that previously had none of it. Lucas sold his creation to Disney, under the belief they would be good stewards of it. And like most fans, I thought it was a match made in Heaven at the time. I actually enjoyed "The Force Awakens" a great deal, but "Rogue One" was almost completely pointless...and "The Last Jedi" is by far the wort film in the whole series. I would rather watch the Ewok movies on repeat, than sit through "The Last Jedi" again.
Moviefan2k4 Hopefully, they will not make the same mistake when CPT Marvel comes out next year! Are they intelligent rnough to see this? Will they heed the warnings and ample evidence? If not, then this will be the last best year, the Golden Age of Super Heroes comics. Pray that Disney doesn't f*ck it up!
I'm surprised they don't have any of those stupid Star Wars fidget spinners we have here in the Philippines that no one is buying. 😂
Kamen Rider 1 i saw a load of them at target the other day
RC -1138 Ha! That's quite amusing.
Oh, and nice profile picture. Republic Commando is my favourite Star Wars game of all time. 😉
Kamen Rider 1 There are Star Wars fidget spinners? Why the hell would Disney invest money to be part of a FAD!?
My grandkids don't want Star Wars girl dolls. My Grandaughter likes American girl dolls..not Star Wars. My Grandsons did not like the new star wars...at all. They liked the Rebels stuff when it was out...not the new stuff. We lost are Toys R Us a year ago.
Feels like they were focused more on toys than a movie.
The prequels focued on being a film first and EVERYTHING got a toy
Here a FEW things became a toy, and they aren't that good (limited options)
LAST film that did this was BATMAN AND ROBIN
At least they admitted it on the behind the scenes
John Doe The Prequels know how to make great designs both for the movies and the toys! The new sequels on the other hand aren't, their designs are boring and bland (Rey in toilet paper outfit, everything is grey and brown, yay!). I wish there was a vintage classic toy series for the prequels, but even if they did, Haabro today would make them shitty and overpriced like all their toys.
In 2018, Tommy Wiseau has more filmmaking credibility and brand value than freaking STAR WARS. Furthermore, Wiseau has quite possibly earned more wealth in his lifetime through toy sales than has Disney with its merchandise from The Last Jedi. What a great story.
TokyoXtreme what a story Mark
Now I want to see an ad for the Tommy Wiseau doll with kung fu grip and 20 action phrases.
Of course he as more money, he is a legend. He created a masterpiece of entertainment, he deserves it. Unlike someone with a name that starts with K and her friend whose name starts with R and seem to think they deserve
The problem isn't the female characters, it's the poor quality, overpricing and oversaturation of a franchise. It's sad to see Toys R Us in this state, I remember there used to be one near where I lived and as a kid I remember going there hunting for new toys, it looks like those days are now done.
Anakin Skywalker they had ToysRUs on Tantooine?
Lin Kuei Avenger Yes.
Jucy Shockwave I'd just ignore the clickbait agenda focused bullshit, those channels are a dime a dozen.
Juci Shockwave but the thing is that TRU does not really have control on making it's own toy lines. I mean I'm pretty sure if doesn't. It would have needed to have Toy companies getting those rights and then getting toys made. And that stuff take really long for some reason.
Right now Lego just got the rights to make some Overwatch stuff.
I was thinking why Mega blocks does not jump and try to make some Fortnite sets.
It isn't like there is Fortnite figures and TRU decided to pick Starwars.
The toys just don't exist
But this things are out of TRU control. As far as I know.
Damn I know I'm late but remember the days of going to Walmart and just about all the cool Clone troopers and Jedis were always sold out... seesh those were the days
The Rogue One Stormtrooper figure was a good figure. That was about it. There's too many figure lines. 3.75 inch basic & black series, 6 inch black series, 12 inch. The vehicles are crammed with Nerf junk. The classic characters sell out but Hasbro insists on pushing boring side characters from the new movies.
Christopher Perez The SW toys honestly suck now. Its like 5 figures from each movie, and no decent vehicles. Not the every vehicle and every character like George sold. Under Disney Its just shelf after shelf of stupid weird SW crap that has been sitting for years. No one wants this stupid weird junk they put out!
That Disney Infinity Star Wars stuff is STILL in stories? The 3.0 series was released in August 2015 and the line was retired in May 2016. That stuff should have been reduced to cost and cleared out of there a long time ago.
Walmart did, they priced all of the figures at $4 and game itself at $20.
They still aren't gone at one of my Wal Marts. Rey is but not the others
Listening to your memories of going to Toys-R-Us is putting a BIG smile on my face. I'm going on 48, and I'm going to miss the living hell out of that franchise. For all the bad stuff, there must be the belief that there will be better (I know we're all shitted out on Star Wars, but there's always, always a ray of hope -- I know, Polyannish). Dude, it can only go up from here.
Disney is creating themed hotels and "worlds" for their parks and were afraid too many people would show up, thus making the Star Wars experience less enjoyable. Their solution is to turn off a portion of the fans, thoroughly disappointing them, in hopes that the crowds will be more manageable. It's the only explanation for why they would run the franchise into the ground - short-term. They would also like younger families with kids to go to their parks, and not older folks in their 40's and 50's. Hence, Star Wars Rebels was/is a resounding success, and anything that caters to the older saga has been sabotaged to fail. Either that, or, The Least Jedi just sucked. :)
I'll never forget the pure joy that I used to get as a kid walking into TRU, running to the Jurassic Park section and seeing an entire aisle of toys stacked up as far as I could see. It was such a magical place and it's sad that my future sons or daughters won't get to experience that kid in a candy shop feeling that I had with TRU.
19:10 29?? Jesus Christ, dude, I was a freshman in high school when you were born... :-P For me, at the ripe old age of 45, I remember when Toys R Us came into existence. There was one location in Rockford, and it was like a 45 minute drive from where I lived. That was built right after Target had come into the area, and where I bought a few of my Transformers. The amount of different toys and figures was ridiculous, because, up to that point, we had to go to small hobby stores, and their main interest were model cars, planes, and ships, and the big diorama stuff. Tanks in blown out building, soldiers, that kinda thing. My dad didn't like Toys R Us, because, he was big into toy trains, and they only carried cheap, plastic crap. :-P Anyway, thanks for making this video, and showing the bigger impact of what horseshit political agendas can do to real brick and mortar businesses.
it was great back then. I remember one of the first specials ever when I went there. buy 2 he man action figures and get a can of free slime.. good times
I'm 37. I was basically a Fred Savage-like 80s boy like in the movie "The Wizard". My life was Toys'R'Us and epic NES games like Super Mario 3. It breaks my heart to see how it is now. Yes, I own a Power Glove ;)
Another victim of SJW propaganda.
BaronVonEvilstein Not just one, Hasbro toys is paying Disney a 1/4 Billion for toy rights they can't sell !
Khyron Kravshera No self-respecting human being uses the term 'SJW' in this day and age.
Ur Mom Gey Unoriginal SJW's are Nothing but Facsist Scum !
Khyron Kravshera, wait, what? A quarter billion dollars? For Star Wars Toys?
Will be interesting to see how they will recover from that loss of money.
Jacques d'Orleans Yes Hasbro has to pay Disney 240+ Million for the rights to make Star wars toys until through 2020.
I was listen to Mozart's Requiem and then I got a notification for your video.
Fitting music to a dead brand and chain store
But I won't cry for Toy'sR'us I was a KB Toys kid so eh.
swan bylander Damn I remember KB Toys. 😌😏
You know, I gave this video a thumbs up because I think you do a good job making these videos, but I think I’m depressed after seeing this one! 😞🇨🇦
The worst thing about it is that all these plastics will have to end up in a landfill, damaging the environment even more.
You missed the heyday of the 70s ToysRUs..... if you been there then you would be even more crushed.. Used to have an isle of GiJoe, isle of Star Wars, Isle of Tonka trucks, etc. The board game isles honestly stacked the games straight to the ceiling and were on the outside edge of the store.. Then the Japanese model of in time inventory changed all that.
Those damn VC leveraged buyout destroyed ToysRUs but SW finished it off.
i thought the land of unwanted toys was a myth
I know that wcbs doesn’t like the prequals but my god who remembers the awesome action figures from like the mid 2000’s that had a stormtrooper shaped box they were in? Those were made really well and i still have tons of them especially the clone troopers.
The basic blade builders sabers are crap compared to the basic sabers from a few years back. The blade builders don’t have a switch/button to keep the blade extended or retracted, the tips of the blades had a hole in it that makes a whistling noise. Disney Infinity was actually a very fun game, the story modes were a little lackluster, but the main attraction was the toy box mode. You could make any world you wanted and have any character in it. Want to have Iron Man and Darth Vader have a fight on a pirate ship, you can do it. Sad to see Toys R Us going away.
I agree the old Star Wars was way better. I cant get into the new ones.
I work with kids. Star Wars is not in their consciousness at all. Very few kids have even watched the movie, and the kids that have watched it, don't talk about it with their friends. Black Panther is HOT, though.
Barry Soetorro Yet people are watching it and liking it, since it is actually a GOOD MOVIE.
Barry Soetorro 🤔 Most of the people that I know who went to see the 🎥🎞 don’t give a damn about critics.
Barry Soetorro Your letting the negative backlash of the movie cloud your judgement. I am saying this as a person who also HATES the witch hunt which has followed preceding the movie. That being said, In my opinion I should say, the movie was actually pretty good, and at the same level as Civil war or Ragnarok in termd of entertainment and quality.
Also, I dont thinm the movie had many SJW moments within the movie, yes saying colonisers was rude and bizare considering Wakanda has never been conquored, but except from these handful of moments, the rest was perfectly fine.
Barry Soetorro Yep, we shall agree to disagree. have fun :)
Only over the Ashes of Star Wars could such an ending to an argument occur
The Last Jedi was absolutely terrible, it has killed the Star Wars for me. I don't even care about any other movie that Disney will produce from now on. Feminist leading the movie production annihilated my childhood's favourite movies... fuck.
The Last Jedi wasn't a movie, it was a political manifest.
Your video is trending 3 in the UK and I’m so glad I found ur video. I love ur sarcasm . Even though im a Star Wars fan this is ridiculous. Why make the Star Wars toys expensive if they want to shift it? And also these toys are so terrible it’s uncreative and not innovative.
The thing about it is simple; They thought people would buy Star Wars for High Prices becuse its Star Wars.
Stfu
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SK Wills op
SK Wills plp
I worked for Toys R Us (UK) for two months over the Christmas period, and it's by far the worst place I've worked. The interview process was extremely rushed and not once was it mentioned my placement was temporary - so I assumed it was a permenant position. It was my saving grace that it was temporary tbh. They never told me my role either, so I was dumped on the tills with a 'supervisor' with me for like 45 mins, barely training me since I'd never worked on a proper till beforehand. After that they left, and told me if I needed them to tannoy since they had more important things to do - other than train me or even show me how to use the fuckin tannoy. I was also on £5 per hour and never had constant hours, told the day before that they wanted me in tomorrow, like I didn't have a life outside work lmao. It was the most miserable thing I've ever done in my life, since they left me at the till with no information, I could never help customers and they never showed me any of the sectors of the store, so they were disgusted when I asked for help or when I asked where something belonged. Whatcha do?
It's blockbusters all over again
Thankfully here in Australia, Toys R Us isn't affected by what's happening in the USA. Kids can still enjoy going into a Toys R Us store here.
I can tell you that all the Toys R Us stores I've been to across my city are over stocked with out dated Star Wars products. Old Black series, blade builders, interactive toys, everything you're showing in your videos, all over stocked and not selling, even when discounted.
R3LiC77 well it's also closed in the uk
It may close every store here or it may simply sell its assets here in Australia. Maybe it'll end up being re-branded or maybe it'll stay with the same name, time will tell. I can honestly say at least my local store does pretty good business, despite the Star Wars failings, so even if it goes for re-branding it will likely stay a toy store as it's in a great location with very few competitors.
Hey your video is trending in UK 🇬🇧 at 6.
It's now trending at 3 in the UK 🇬🇧.
Bayonarad num 3 noe
fallenangel2100 the UK is slowly coming round a bit. I doubt it'll make full recovery from the SJW stuff but Brexit was a huge vote against it, so there are many who get it.
What about the SW Legos? I have seen a few Original Trilogy sets I wouldn't mind buying, but I won't give Disney any money until Leadership changes at Lucasfilm.
I read Lego's profit is down for the first time in 14 years.
MrBlue3rd They don't make ships anymore and when they do they are low quality.
They marked many of the older sw Legos with a yellow beside the price on the shelf to indicate that there is no markdown in our store. I assume like others have mentioned that they will liquidate the ones that don't sell.
guys its not legos. the plural for it is just lego. Seriously I kill myself whenever an ad comes up on screen or its mentioned somewhere on tv
Sexual Chocolate Robbie I expect LEGO to keep losing profit now that Toys "R" Us is dead.
Ah power rangers. Back then we kids didn't care about what race they were, they were all colorful and badass to us. I loved them all and only owned one vhs tape and that was the episode happy birthday zach. Which probably made him my favorite considering i watched over and over again. It's also funny how we're now celebrating a super hero called black panther who's played by a black guy.
I had the same tape. Wore it out
Kids never cared about ethnicity, nationality, gender or sex. Kids were just kids. I recall boys playing all of the Power Ranger characters. There wasn't a question about being gay or transgender bs or the like. Kids were just acting out. It was the adults that made a huge deal of it. Shoot I recall play acting with my sister Beauty and the Beast. It was our favorite movie and we took turns acting out either as Belle or the Beast. My guy friends play acted TMNT and they let me play as Rocksteady, because he is a favorite, occasionally they also let me play as my favorite turtle Donatello. For my friends and I there wasn't a gender/sex agenda or whatever like poor kids have today. It was just us having fun. Again, it was the parents fear that ruin everything. Remember when video games had no ratings. It wasn't till Mortal Kombat came out for SNES and Sega that parents freaked out and started to banned games thinking it would encourage kids to be violent. For kids it was just a game. For adults it was a political agenda to force their conservative bullshit beliefs onto everyone else. Kids today aren't allowed to discover their own identity for themselves... it is either the Far Right or Far Left forcing their own personal agenda onto these poor kids that is causing the confusing. Let them kids alone!
Even at clearance is not much of a savings. Toys R Us is going under because of their prices and at clearance its about the same price as everybody else
RIP Toys R Us. You'll be missed.
Reminds me of the Atari crash in the early 80's. They had to dump all the unsold cartridges in landfills.
So a Toys R Us is going out of business. Not really surprised, but still. That store has been around since I was a kid. I think the one close to where I live is on its way out too, but it feels a bit odd. All that stuff aside, I’m not surprised to see that there’s a lot of Star Wars toys still fully stocked. Ever since the buyout, the figures look bad as well as the figures being way overpriced. Star Wars as a brand has been dying ever since Disney has gotten their hands on the franchise.
SJW feminist toys and gender swapping, non-binary, racial minority forced products, was the FINAL nail in the coffin.
It's so funny and weird because according to IMDb the demographic that loves TFA and TLJ the most is
Kids are broke. The parents usually make purchasing decisions. Not even GenZ kids want that crap. Remember this, family movies in general are starting to sound disgusting to your average moviegoer because of the #metoo kerfuffle and the "Casting Chair". Keep that in mind.
Jared Wignall true
No 18 year old guy wants a Rey action figure.
Toys r us used to be the gold standard for toys. But then they lost their exclusives, so you could get everything in other stores, usually for cheaper. When they lost that, they tried doubling down on what they did have. Baby shit. Transformers (the crappy ones) star wars and knockoffs of gijoes. Because they stopped making gijoe apparently. I loved toys r us. I was a poor kid, so it was something to aspire for. Now they are gone because of bad buisness. Taking a loan to change owners and going all in on two toy companies that have been doing worse and worse.
I bought a Star Wars toy last weekend.
But to my defense, it was a Empire Lando toy, at a convention, where Billy Dee Williams himself would sign autographs, so my Lando toy is signed by the man himself.