OAFE – Blog

You remember Will West, right? He's the one who told you about TRU's "Bump Up Program" and what a "Roto Hold" was. He's definitely a friend of the site.

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Will discusses nerdy things on his own site every Friday, so you should go check that out.

He's also a Toys Я Us veteran, so with the news of the chain's imminent demise, we asked him if he had any strong memories of it. We were originally going to make it part of Shocka's POA, but the story was too good for that, and deserved to stand alone. So without further ado:

I've been through two Toys "R" Us liquidations at this point, so I basically feel like an X-Man witnessing a Jean Grey death. It's like, "Oh, it's this again?" While I'm an outsider during this liquidation, I was a full participant when my Toys "R" Us in Wheaton, MD closed back around 2006. That place was my very first job, which I started about two weeks after my high school graduation in '99. I would come home from college to work "holiday" and summers until it closed. I've got a ton of TRU memories, which I'll probably get into at some point, somewhere, but what I'm thinking of lately is how it all ended at that store.

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