When they first opened years ago I went in to Toys R Us, thinking they might have a big selection of model airplanes. I’m a girl that liked models and trains, and those realistic true-to-breed plastic horses and farm animals that feed stores carry.
But they had very few models, and nothing else of interest - not much in the way of building sets. I looked at stuff for girls hoping the horses would be there but virtually all the toys for girls were stupidly colored simplistic plastic ponies with goofy fake hair and hair brushes. Figured that stupidity went well with the insulting backwards letters in the company’s name. Everything they had for girls was dumb and almost all of it revolved around hair, and that was insulting, too. So I never went back.
K Mart had better models and at least a few decently realistic horses and local hobby shops had even better models and supplies for making dioramas, so that’s where I went if I had a little money. Other than that I never spent much on toys and decided that tools were more fun, since Dad let us use every tool he had after showing us how to use them safely.
My folks got us interested in gardening early so if I had money to spend and no one had anything unusual in the way of models, there were always interesting plants to buy instead and unlike toys, plants would grow and produce divisions which could be sold from the front yard lemonade-and-tomato stand [back before local governments started killing off kid’s lemonade stands with licensing requirements]
I don’t think Toys R Us will be missed.
I don’t know why, plenty of people out there getting screwed 24/7.
The problem was VERY cheap toys at fairly high prices. At least at Amazon when we order a cheap toy from China it’s doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.