Poll of the Day > will toy companies take the demise of toys r us as a sign to evolve?

(+) Yeah! (+)

companies like Mattel And Hasbro cannot simply continue existing with the mindset of "nothing but toys matter!"

when tablets cellphones and video games probably interest kids far more in the modern age
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Haven't you heard? Hasbro has My Little Pony, and with it, the cartoons, movies, and video games. Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

They already have. It's all about pushing the mobile games these days.
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What the fuck are you even talking about
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Haven't you heard? Hasbro has My Little Pony, and with it, the cartoons, movies, and video games. Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

This. FFS do some research TC.
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Besides, toys are selling, the problem was that TRU wasn't the one selling them.

Hasbro also makes canned chili
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funkyfritter posted...

They already have. It's all about pushing the mobile games these days.

and yet the only my little pony game is a town simulator game

yes because kids love nothing more than to have the game play itself....kinda defeats the purpose of being a game then doesn't it?

pick several tasks and go to sleep....wake up several hours later the game's finished playing itself set up more tasks grab a sandwich watch some movies browse youtube for hours and then come back to find the game's done again

even if you do speed up the process it's just to set up more tasks that require you watching the game play itself
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InfernalFive posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Haven't you heard? Hasbro has My Little Pony, and with it, the cartoons, movies, and video games. Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

This. FFS do some research TC.

Mattel has cartoons? only ones I've seen from them are the crappy monster high reboot ones that sometimes pop up randomly on nickelodeon

haven't seen an ad in ages for any direct to dvd barbie princess movies
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NightMareBunny posted...

funkyfritter posted...

They already have. It's all about pushing the mobile games these days.

and yet the only my little pony game is a town simulator game

The amount of pain expressed in this post
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Mead posted...

Hasbro also makes canned chili

And Magic: The Gathering which makes a crazy amount of money.
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NightMareBunny posted...

InfernalFive posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Haven't you heard? Hasbro has My Little Pony, and with it, the cartoons, movies, and video games. Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

This. FFS do some research TC.

Mattel has cartoons? only ones I've seen from them are the crappy monster high reboot ones that sometimes pop up randomly on nickelodeon

haven't seen an ad in ages for any direct to dvd barbie princess movies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel

Literally. All you had to do was Google "Mattel". But it's so much easier to throw our baseless claims to try and edgelord your way to a response.

shadowsword87 posted...

Mead posted...

Hasbro also makes canned chili

And Magic: The Gathering which makes a crazy amount of money.

I totally forgot about this. And Wizards of the Coast.

shadowsword87 posted...

Mead posted...

Hasbro also makes canned chili

And Magic: The Gathering which makes a crazy amount of money.

i don't believe the whole canned chili thing....I believe that about as much as i do that Mattel secretly endorses donald trump or that nintendo makes cookies
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Hasbro=manufacturer =|= distributor=Toys 'R Us
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NightMareBunny posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

Mead posted...

Hasbro also makes canned chili

And Magic: The Gathering which makes a crazy amount of money.

i don't believe the whole canned chili thing....I believe that about as much as i do that Mattel secretly endorses donald trump or that nintendo makes cookies

https://play.nintendo.com/activities/downloads/bake-your-own-mario-super-star-cookies/

lmao this fucking topic
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WastelandCowboy posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

InfernalFive posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Haven't you heard? Hasbro has My Little Pony, and with it, the cartoons, movies, and video games. Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

This. FFS do some research TC.

Mattel has cartoons? only ones I've seen from them are the crappy monster high reboot ones that sometimes pop up randomly on nickelodeon

haven't seen an ad in ages for any direct to dvd barbie princess movies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel

Literally. All you had to do was Google "Mattel". But it's so much easier to throw our baseless claims to try and edgelord your way to a response.

shadowsword87 posted...

Mead posted...

Hasbro also makes canned chili

And Magic: The Gathering which makes a crazy amount of money.

I totally forgot about this. And Wizards of the Coast.

how does that link prove to me that currently they have more than just monster high cartoons? cause all of th crap i read in that link is from years ago sprinkled with a 2020 barbie movie a hotwheels movie beastiles movie and a monster high movie that may never happen

when you bring up them having a plethora of cartoons i expect you to mean currently since even mattel's social media page has not really sprung up any animated stuff in recent history outside what i mentioned
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DevilSummoner1 posted...

lmao this fucking topic

I'm glad you had time out of your busy schedule to give such a well thought out post bravo bravo it must have taken eons to string together something so brilliant only Einstein himself could comprehend it

a multitude of writers struggle on how to put their words into art and yet you do it so effortlessly that it's like you were born to do it

great job and keep up the good work
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NightMareBunny posted...

DevilSummoner1 posted...

lmao this fucking topic

I'm glad you had time out of your busy schedule to give such a well thought out post bravo bravo it must have taken eons to work together something so brilliant only Einstein himself could comprehend it

Why is he the Einstein? I posted the fucking equation!
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NightMareBunny posted...

how does that link prove to me that currently they have more than just monster high cartoons? cause all of th crap i read in that link is from years ago sprinkled with a 2020 barbie movie a hotwheels movie beastiles movie and a monster high movie that may never happen

when you bring up them having a plethora of cartoons i expect you to mean currently since even mattel's social media page has not really sprung up any animated stuff in recent history outside what i mentioned

I literally said

WastelandCowboy posted...

Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

Nowhere did I say that they do "a plethora of cartoons". You jumped to conclusions because you couldn't be assed to do your own research before pulling baseless claims out of your ass.

WastelandCowboy posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

Mead posted...

Hasbro also makes canned chili

And Magic: The Gathering which makes a crazy amount of money.

i don't believe the whole canned chili thing....I believe that about as much as i do that Mattel secretly endorses donald trump or that nintendo makes cookies

https://play.nintendo.com/activities/downloads/bake-your-own-mario-super-star-cookies/

you can make Gabe Newell cookies but does that mean they are steam approved?
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WastelandCowboy posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

how does that link prove to me that currently they have more than just monster high cartoons? cause all of th crap i read in that link is from years ago sprinkled with a 2020 barbie movie a hotwheels movie beastiles movie and a monster high movie that may never happen

when you bring up them having a plethora of cartoons i expect you to mean currently since even mattel's social media page has not really sprung up any animated stuff in recent history outside what i mentioned

I literally said

WastelandCowboy posted...

Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

Nowhere did I say that they do "a plethora of cartoons". You jumped to conclusions because you couldn't be assed to do your own research before pulling baseless claims out of your ass.

and i said aside from monster high they haven't really done caca with anything else so mentioning all of that when they basically sit on their butts twiddling their thumbs in the modern age doesn't make them sound impressive
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NightMareBunny posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

https://play.nintendo.com/activities/downloads/bake-your-own-mario-super-star-cookies/

you can make Gabe Newell cookies but does that mean they are steam approved?

What the hell does Gabe Newell or Steam have to do with this? I posted a recipe that was posted on one of Nintendo's web pages. It's a recipe posted and created by Nintendo.

Are you drunk?

NightMareBunny posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

I literally said

WastelandCowboy posted...

Mattel also does cartoons, movies, and video games.

Nowhere did I say that they do "a plethora of cartoons". You jumped to conclusions because you couldn't be assed to do your own research before pulling baseless claims out of your ass.

and i said aside from monster high they haven't really done caca with anything else so mentioning all of that when they basically sit on their butts twiddling their thumbs in the modern age doesn't make them sound impressive

Just because their page isn't a hive of activity doesn't mean they're "sitting on their butts". I'm sure that two large and wealthy companies like Hasbro and Matell are doing just fine in the digital age, and even if they're not, they're still doing better than you.

pretty sure @WastelandCowboy you aren't rich either....

chances are most of gamefaqs is either unemployed or works at some dead end job they don't wanna talk about

nobody here is a successful anything if they were they wouldn't be wasting their time in this crap hole

so don't bring up the whole even if they aren't doing great they are still better than you bullcrap...

this whole board is filled with outcasts and losers who aren't doing better than anyone and You are one of them

we're all them because we're here nobody is living the high life while posting on gamefaqs
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This isnt even NMBs final form
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NightMareBunny posted...

pretty sure @WastelandCowboy you aren't rich either....

chances are most of gamefaqs is either unemployed or works at some dead end job they don't wanna talk about

nobody here is a successful anything if they were they wouldn't be wasting their time in this crap hole

so don't bring up the whole even if they aren't doing great they are still better than you bullcrap...

this whole board is filled with outcasts and losers who aren't doing better than anyone and You are one of them

we're all them because we're here nobody is living the high life while posting on gamefaqs

LOL. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Wow. That was a lot of generalizing.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Wow. That was a lot of generalizing.

His life is bad so everyones life is bad. No ones life is good, that kinda thing only happens in cartoons and comics.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

pretty sure @WastelandCowboy you aren't rich either....

chances are most of gamefaqs is either unemployed or works at some dead end job they don't wanna talk about

nobody here is a successful anything if they were they wouldn't be wasting their time in this crap hole

so don't bring up the whole even if they aren't doing great they are still better than you bullcrap...

this whole board is filled with outcasts and losers who aren't doing better than anyone and You are one of them

we're all them because we're here nobody is living the high life while posting on gamefaqs

LOL. You have no idea what you're talking about.

yeah i do this whole board is a cesspool and the only reason anyone comes here is because they don't have anywhere else to go

it's also why this place is filled with so many people turning this board into their personal blog about their garbage lives

try and prove me wrong but gamefaqs is the toilet bowl and we're all the poop
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Everything is something's poop at some point.
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NightMareBunny posted...

pretty sure WastelandCowboy you aren't rich either....

chances are most of gamefaqs is either unemployed or works at some dead end job they don't wanna talk about

nobody here is a successful anything if they were they wouldn't be wasting their time in this crap hole

so don't bring up the whole even if they aren't doing great they are still better than you bullcrap...

this whole board is filled with outcasts and losers who aren't doing better than anyone and You are one of them

we're all them because we're here nobody is living the high life while posting on gamefaqs

what

how

what
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NightMareBunny posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

NightMareBunny posted...

pretty sure @WastelandCowboy you aren't rich either....

chances are most of gamefaqs is either unemployed or works at some dead end job they don't wanna talk about

nobody here is a successful anything if they were they wouldn't be wasting their time in this crap hole

so don't bring up the whole even if they aren't doing great they are still better than you bullcrap...

this whole board is filled with outcasts and losers who aren't doing better than anyone and You are one of them

we're all them because we're here nobody is living the high life while posting on gamefaqs

LOL. You have no idea what you're talking about.

yeah i do this whole board is a cesspool and the only reason anyone comes here is because they don't have anywhere else to go

it's also why this place is filled with so many people turning this board into their personal blog about their garbage lives

try and prove me wrong but gamefaqs is the toilet bowl and we're all the poop

Lol. Random dude on the internet thinks he knows me and what my financial situation is like.

This whole board isn't a cesspool, but it's definitely shit-posts like this topic that murky-up the waters.

Lol "garbage lives". Again, way to generalize and attack people you don't know.

I swear, it's like NightMareBunny is ICOYAR's true form.

don't act like you tried to be nice
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Lol it thinks everyone else spends every moment of their waking day here like it does and for the same exact reason it has.
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Hasbro has Wizards of the Coast... They'll be fine.
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JediMutant posted...

Hasbro has Wizards of the Coast... They'll be fine.

They had net earnings around $5 billion for 2017.

Hasbro also has a rental car business
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NightMareBunny posted...

chances are most of gamefaqs is either unemployed or works at some dead end job they don't wanna talk about

nobody here is a successful anything if they were they wouldn't be wasting their time in this crap hole

LMAO. The shit youll say to make yourself feel better. We should link to your other topic huh
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What if people just admitted they were wrong when evidence was presented? What a world that would be.
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We still need toys because phones are incredibly unhealthy and so is being indoors most of the time. I had to start taking vitamin D supplements when I was off work.
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Toys R Us going out of business doesn't mean that toy companies aren't making money. What is happening here is that Amazon and other online retailers are slowly pushing brick and mortar stores out of the market. They can sell that same toy for a cheaper price and so you see people shopping at Toys R Us less and less.

Kids still want toys I mean just because they have phones and tablets now doesn't mean that they are forgoing all toys. Over the next decade I would not be surprised to see multiple stores go out of business due to Amazon and other online retailers. Stores like Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Office Max, etc... The stores like Target, Wal-Mart, and Grocery stores will survive the longest probably but most of these other stores are on their last legs already since it's easier and more convenient to order this stuff online.

Also companies like Hasbro are already ridiculously diversified, you are kidding yourself if you view Hasbro as "just a toy company".
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Less SKUs is basically it. I assume it's not toys getting way worse but kids just not wanting any. Eventually it'll just be stuff for anyone under 4 and manchildren.
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No, toy companies will take the demise of TRU as a sign to not let a private equity firm buy them in a leveraged buyout and saddle them with over 5 billion god damn dollars of debt.
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