Toys Were Us

6 comics.

Toys Were Us Part 1

by on September 5, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Occasionally, I offer a peek into my life through the comic (usually with Schwartz along for the ride). The closing of Toys “R” Us was a big enough deal to me that I documented my final trip to my childhood store and created a six-part tribute. It might just have been a big box store pumping out plastic junk (both the landfill-clogging and addictive kinds), but Toys “R” Us always held a magic for me. I hope you’ll join me on this final stroll through its now ghostly aisles…

— This is not an official LEGO comic. This is a tribute.
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Toys Were Us Part 3

by on September 12, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Peeps. Gotta eat ‘em stale!!

Transformers were truly my childhood drug (more than sugar)! An offer to stop by Toys “R” Us and and pick out a new Robot in Disguise was a pure dopamine rush. I loved the original Transformers cartoon and comics, but the toys were what truly grabbed me. The airbrushed character art, the space battle mural on the back of the box, the extensive character bio and the trans-red plastic strip needed to “decode” it were all marketing genius that sold me and many other kids on these toys. The toys themselves were amazing, too, but it was Hasbro’s investment in the details that created a fictional universe that lasts to this day.

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Toys Were Us Part 4

by on September 16, 2018 at 12:01 am
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If you collect toys, you quickly learn that if you hesitate the one time you see that figure you want in a store, you’re most likely not going to buy it “next time” because you’ll never find it on the shelves again.

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Toys Were Us Part 5

by on September 19, 2018 at 12:01 am
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Back in the day, you strolled down the video game aisle at Toys ‘R’ Us and perused the hanging, plastic cards for each game. All you really had to go on was the replicated box art and description, unless it was a game you had played or read about in Nintendo Power. You pulled out a paper ticket, paid, and retrieved your purchase from the video game cage worker. Looking back, it was kind of like solitaire Hell in the Cell.

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