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Originally Posted by Talisman

You're not wrong, considering TRU tended to have a store only in more sizeable cities (the town I grew up in took five years from the time I moved there to the time TRU put in a store to have one in driving distance; the others were an hour away in either direction), but there's something to be said for brand name power. Going to TRU was an event for me when I was younger- I didn't go in without getting to come out with *something*.

I guess that isn't as extreme as we had a number of very strong names when it came to toy stores.
I actually associate TRU mostly with a game show called "Super Toy Club", where the winner team would get the chance to put all the items they wanted in a cart while running through TRU within a certain time limit. They were allowed to keep those items, of course. They actually picked that show up again after it ended its original airing in the early 2000s, so I wonder how that will go regarding TRUs bankruptcy?