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General Section => General Joe Talk => Topic started by: akpayne on February 05, 2026, 10:40:41 AM

Title: Maybe if TRU didn't charge so much for action figures
Post by: akpayne on February 05, 2026, 10:40:41 AM

https://toynewsi.com/1-61687 (https://toynewsi.com/1-61687)

Toysrus Canada has filed for protection from creditors.  This is sad, but based on the amount of physical stores they have closed, and the fact that they charged the most of any of the action figures they carried, this comes as no surprise.

Title: Re: Maybe if TRU didn't charge so much for action figures
Post by: B on April 10, 2026, 03:29:56 PM

I hear ya, but its quite a bit more complex then that. Not sure its worth going into though.

Title: Re: Maybe if TRU didn't charge so much for action figures
Post by: canprime on August 18, 2026, 12:55:34 PM

Well thanks to that putz Putman they are pretty much done now.

I think there are 10 stores left until January 2027 and I doubt they'll be any interest by then so that should be the end of them.

Title: Re: Maybe if TRU didn't charge so much for action figures
Post by: Pete The Greek on August 31, 2026, 08:11:29 PM

The one next my hometown, Whitby, closed on August 19.  Spirit Halloeen moved in.  Sigh.  At least my kids got to experience TRU a few times before it went tits up.  I still remember going there as a kid in 1986.  I got the HAVAC and my brother got the Thunder Machine that year.   

Thinking back, that TRU store was the last one tied to my childhood. The others that I can recall are Consumers Distributing, Zellers, K-Mart, Woolco, Sears, Eatons, The Bay, and Bi-Way.  All gone.         

Title: Re: Maybe if TRU didn't charge so much for action figures
Post by: martin-montreal on September 03, 2026, 08:55:00 AM

Zellers is making a come back