<story><title>Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/14/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-u-s-stores</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Does ToysRUs sell bad quality toys? My mom always bought us name brand toys and they were all excellent, we got Ghost Busters, Jurassic Park, Power Rangers, Action Man. All got years and years of play from both me and my little brother. Don&amp;#x27;t they also sell Lego, Playmobil and Barbie? I hardly think toy quality has to do with their problems. I think the answer is just &amp;#x27;Amazon&amp;#x27;, as it is to most of the world&amp;#x27;s retail industry.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think wood is a very suitable material to make children&amp;#x27;s toys with, but to each his own.</text></item><item><author>wjnc</author><text>By far the best toy store in our hometown is a 30-yr old store that sells mainly wooden toys, board games, kites and nice dolls. They&amp;#x27;ve survived and even improved in recent years, while the big toy stores merge and get less numerous. That&amp;#x27;s awesome and I happily applaud being part of that as a customer.&lt;p&gt;Every play toy should last multiple children as a rule. We don&amp;#x27;t take that to the extreme as parents, but the basic rule is sound. Even children like it that their cousins play with the same toys they&amp;#x27;ve played with when younger. Buy good stuff. Share. Bye bye Toys R Us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wjnc</author><text>My rant was more against the whole cheap plastic toy industry. The big chains definitively sell more cheap stuff (daresay shit) than my eco-self would like. But you&amp;#x27;re right: Legos, Playmobil and indeed Barbies (my girl is a few weeks old, so yet to start on that avenue) are all very durable plastic toys and a large staple of what Toys R Us and other big toy stores sell. I agree with the other commenters that Amazon and Alibaba online and local discounters locally only serve to enhance the get-plastics-for-nearly-free market in toys.&lt;p&gt;An example: The metal miniature cars of the 80s still survive to this day. The plastic miniature cars, even those with metal tops, of the 10s get ruined by my boys in 24-48 hours. I don&amp;#x27;t even think they play like little monsters. A few good falls and it&amp;#x27;s gone. Then I get to toss it away and I really cringe. I blame toy stores for that, but that&amp;#x27;s totally naive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/14/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-u-s-stores</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Does ToysRUs sell bad quality toys? My mom always bought us name brand toys and they were all excellent, we got Ghost Busters, Jurassic Park, Power Rangers, Action Man. All got years and years of play from both me and my little brother. Don&amp;#x27;t they also sell Lego, Playmobil and Barbie? I hardly think toy quality has to do with their problems. I think the answer is just &amp;#x27;Amazon&amp;#x27;, as it is to most of the world&amp;#x27;s retail industry.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think wood is a very suitable material to make children&amp;#x27;s toys with, but to each his own.</text></item><item><author>wjnc</author><text>By far the best toy store in our hometown is a 30-yr old store that sells mainly wooden toys, board games, kites and nice dolls. They&amp;#x27;ve survived and even improved in recent years, while the big toy stores merge and get less numerous. That&amp;#x27;s awesome and I happily applaud being part of that as a customer.&lt;p&gt;Every play toy should last multiple children as a rule. We don&amp;#x27;t take that to the extreme as parents, but the basic rule is sound. Even children like it that their cousins play with the same toys they&amp;#x27;ve played with when younger. Buy good stuff. Share. Bye bye Toys R Us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virtualritz</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t think wood is a very suitable material to make children&amp;#x27;s toys with, but to each his own.&lt;p&gt;I grew up with Brio railway[1]. I still remember the vast networks my brother and I built. 40 years later these same toys are used by our own children.
These wooden toys have stood the test of time much better than any plastic ones we had at the time.
In every regard.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brio.us&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;all-products&amp;#x2F;railway&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.brio.us&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;all-products&amp;#x2F;railway&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>