[K Dubious]

I agree that the negative posts and berating of TRU is so foolish at this point. Regardless of your opinion of your local stores, the model worked and most stores were profitable. The problems lies at the top where so much debt was added to the successful name that the company could no longer sustain the payments.

There were over 600 stores across the nation plus combined with their online presence had huge buying potential. Pulling that "guaranteed sale" rug out from under the toy producers means that they now need to think about production quantities and how to be profitable with much lower production runs. All markets are a percentage game and take away the last retail toy giant means a huge percentage of retail space just vanished.

I personally hate that this is happening, and feel everyone is entitled to their opinions, but this is going to have huge ramifications on our hobby regardless of how frequently you shopped at TRU.