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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

ah..thanks...

SIDE NOTE: BM..did you hear they are closing the Times Square Toys R Us..i couldn't believe it..that store is EPIC..i was there at its grand opening..and in the store BEFORE it opened for the original XBOX launch..even bill gates himself was there.
I've been in there so many damn times...i stop through frequently because i pass it on my walk to work....Rent in Times Square is a mofo tho'....
first the NBA Store..then the ESPN Zone..now Toys R US...all amazing spots...all gone for the same reason...

Funny you should mention it, I'd been meaning to ask you whether you knew in a PM, but it slipped mind. Yeah, I heard the news last week.

In the immortal words of former NYC mayoral candidate, Jimmy McMillan, "the rent (in NYC) is too damn high!" McMillan warned us years ago.

On a side-note to your side-note...In case you didn't know, Jimmy McMillan was sort of NYC's Jim Kelly in the 70's. My friend and I ran into him in the village one Sunday and I yelled to him that the rent was too damn high....he smiled and gave us the solidarity/pride fist lol At the ripe old age of 70, dude is still diesel! The meeting, prompted me to read up on him to a deeper degree than I had when he had his colorful run for mayor. To my surprise, he was a pretty big deal back in the day...

About what will end up in TRU's former Times Square locale, without a doubt, some tourist garbage. TRU was the only non-tourist haven left in Times Square...that's over now and I can officially have no reason to visit that part of the city. Additionally, while seeing SW at Union Square, I learned that Forbidden Planet had also moved...but they relocated just a few storefronts down the block.