Adios Amigos
where to buy gabapentin cream Today’s comic pays respect to TOYS R US, the store that we loved as kids, forgot as teenagers, and dreaded as adults. Toys R Us may be gone forever, but it will live on in our memories as a relic of the pop culture landscape. To those who remember, be it from family trips or even being employed. Love it or hate it, you’ll always be a Toys R Us kid.
Lobatse And now a sappy story from me, the artist and writer of this comic. Toys R Us meant a great deal to me as a child, but I didn’t know it until my final visit to my local shop. While waiting in the longest line in history with my girlfriend, we started talking about memories of the place. That’s essentially when it hit me.
As a child my elder brother James (co-creator and main writer) used to work there. To an 10 year old this was the coolest job in the world and my brother, the guy I looked up to, he was working there. The times in which my mother and I would wait for my brother to get out of work were always an event of excitement. She’d wait patiently for him to get off work and I would head into a store that I was already enamored with. The round child I was, I’d run past the Geoffrey quarter ride and right into the R Zone (this is what the video game section was called back then kids!) and as soon as I found him, I’d tell him we were here. He’d nod and say something like “20 mins” with some small conversation and after that was my signal to explore and think of all the cool things I’d wish I could have (if only Christmas or my birthday was here.) To a kid 20 mins is an hour and I spent every minute like it was. Of course it would wind down and then we’d head home. But hey, I was able to see my brother and gaze at walls of toys, games, and fun.
So, when I think of Toys R Us it’s not just about the “consumerism” and the constant want of things. Yes, it’s the place where I picked out my first Gameboy (Ice blue thank you kindly) or where they had the good Beast Wars toys. To me Toys R Us was that time when I got to be part of the place that all children loved, but in a way that few got to experience. Looking back, I probably came off as a bit annoying, what little kid brother isn’t? But those days where my brother was the king of the toy store, are days that I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Thank you Toys R Us.
– Aaron A. Alvarez
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It was a place of legend. The toy store of all toy stores. I got my Sega Nomad from there and played the heck out of it.