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re: Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales

Posted on 9/21/26 at 1:26 pm to
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
62025 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 1:26 pm to
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Where else can you physically show off your debt limit by buying things for kids they don't need?


Buying a $70k truck you don’t need and bragging to your baws at the Turner smoke shack at the plant?
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
21113 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 1:28 pm to
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The worst ones to me are the ones that resell Pokemon cards as their “jobs”.

They have discord channels to coordinate and follow the shipping trucks to wipe stores out as soon as they stock. Absolute bitchless behavior.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77404 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 1:57 pm to
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Saw what looked to be a 30 year old man at the airport coddling a stuffed animal a couple weeks ago. The younger generation is very weird


I sat next to a guy who appeared to be late 20’s on a flight recently. He was cradling a stuffed support animal which appeared to be a Koala Bear. The generation 35 and under exists in a state of perpetual childhood.
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
21113 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:00 pm to
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I sat next to a guy who appeared to be late 20’s on a flight recently. He was cradling a stuffed support animal which appeared to be a Koala Bear. The generation 35 and under exists in a state of perpetual childhood.

I'd withhold judgment before getting their story. Some people lose kids very young and hold on to their stuffed animals to cope.
Posted by St Augustine
The Pauper of the Surf
Member since Mar 2006
72872 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:03 pm to
Kinda cool. Hope they have success. My oldest used to love going when he was little but it shut down before my next two could experience going “to the toy store.”

Feel like going to the toy store as a reward for ____ was a pretty big part of a lot of childhoods that isn’t really recreated with ordering some shite online.
This post was edited on 9/21/26 at 2:08 pm
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
172166 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:05 pm to
I should own this store buying for a lot of kids and video games.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
172166 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:10 pm to
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
12645 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:12 pm to
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I'd withhold judgment before getting their story. Some people lose kids very young and hold on to their stuffed animals to cope.


Must there be an excuse for every oddball behavior in society? This is why we are where we’re at. Every freak behavior is tolerated rather than ridiculed and made fun of. The freaks make a lot of trouble because normal people give them deference to be this way.
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
21113 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:13 pm to
Giving grace doesn't cost a dime
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
12645 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:15 pm to
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Giving grace doesn't cost a dime


Maybe the guy is a child molester. But you go ahead and give him grace.
Posted by BregmansWheelbarrow
Member since Mar 2020
3461 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:17 pm to
Nee-dohs, hot wheels and sports cards....it's basically going to be a scalper outlet
Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
21113 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:17 pm to
Maybe you're a child molester, using that logic.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
198572 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:20 pm to
All that disposable income from not having children of their own. They get to remain children and indulge themselves with senseless, account-draining consumerism.

Such a great generation
Posted by UFFan
Planet earth, Milky Way Galaxy
Member since Aug 2016
4186 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:24 pm to
Unless you're one of those talented guys who can built a 500,000 lego sculpture of George Washington, you need to stop playing with Legos before age 8.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
12645 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:25 pm to
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Maybe you're a child molester, using that logic.


Doesn’t make sense.

Maybe you are since you’re trying to normalize grown men coddling stuffed animals, ya freak.
Posted by CP3forMVP
Member since Nov 2010
16104 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 2:53 pm to
I'll never understand shitting on people for buying stuff they want.

It's their money, and life kind of sucks. If there's something that they enjoy, let them enjoy it.
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
8173 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 3:14 pm to


I had one of these when I was a kid. I think my Dad paid $2 for it new.

Now they sell for $20 and up if you can find one. Its' crazy.
Posted by Xignals
Pits of Hell
Member since Nov 2013
1701 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 3:20 pm to
I would buy one of these in a heart beat! I had one as a kid and wish i would have not let my dad get rid of it.

Posted by LSUZombie
A Cemetery Near You
Member since Apr 2008
29906 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 3:22 pm to
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I was too embarrassed all on my own to get anything from that store by age 7, maybe age 8 at the oldest.


Yeah, okay
Posted by Defenseiskey
Houston, TX
Member since Nov 2010
2413 posts
Posted on 9/21/26 at 6:52 pm to
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had one of these when I was a kid. I think my Dad paid $2 for it new.

Now they sell for $20 and up if you can find one. Its' crazy.


I went through a model building phase from 9 to 13. Mostly cars and Gundams. I enjoyed it, lost interest once I started getting into team sports seriously and had less freebie.

Looking back, it was a constructive hobby compared to other kids who were obsessed with video games. Built a lot spatial skills and got me interested in fixing and tinkering with things.

I'll probably encourage my future son to get into it because of that.
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