What’s in your old Toys R Us shop?

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1. Its in the process of being turned into a massive go outdoors.

2. A Primark.

3. “Luxury” apartments – Huntley Wharf? Someone sprayed-paint the word Ian onto the front of it at one point, made me chuckle.

4. Mine has become a stranger things experience place lol

5. Aldi. Which feels quite symbolic.

6. Swindon is now Go outdoors, Gloucester is still empty

7. Aldi down with me

8. Two nearest me are both just empty shells, although one is half destroyed due to fire and I think they’re tearing it down.

9. Currys

10. Ours was a discount furniture warehouse. Going to be turned into a big tk maxx now. It had only opened about a year before they closed down, before that it was across the retail park. That one became a really fancy Debenhams, which has obviously gone. It’s now a really good m&s

11. Signs that say Toys R Us, now open!”

    The Reading branch was newly built and opened a week before they went bust. It’s still empty.

12. Ours is just empty I believe

13. Big Home Bargains

14. We have one of those massive smyths toy shops near the old toys r us shop and recently discovering it wasn’t full of all the toys I wanted in the 1980s was a huge disappointment.

15. Car showroom i think? Dunno the brand its one of those second hand dealerships.

16. Smyths Toys and Lidl.

17. Stockport is now The Range. I think the Manchester one is still sat empty.

18. Still empty

19. The not quite comedy pairing of Flannels and Sports Direct

20. The MetroCentre one in the NE is empty too.

    Part of me wonders what they’re like inside – did the staff just down tools and leave – is it a dusty time capsule, or did they auction off whatever they could

21. Mahusive Iceland Warehouse in our old one.

22. An empty former Toys Я Us

23. It was being used as a covid vaccination site last time I went by it.

24. Matalan I think

25. Empty. Bloody huuuuuuge building too (norwich)

26. Ours is a mass Covid vaccination site nowadays, or ‘Jabs-R-Us’ as it’s affectionately known locally

27. It was a Covid Vaccine Centre for 16 months, but it closed in July. I presume its just empty now.

28. Aldi of all things.

29. B&M in one, Aldi in another

30. Empty for a few years, had a fire test gutted the front of the unit, rebuilt and is now a iceland food warehouse and a bnm

31. Weve a massive, local charity shop that sells furniture as well as the usual books/clothes/toys

32. Rochester Toys R Us is now a Home Bargains, with an Aldi and KFC drive through in the carpark.

33. Still empty. There was talk of the M & S in town moving into it so the council bought it to stop them.

34. Smyths.

35. Sheffield is now home to a Ninja warrior course and a Smyths toy superstore

36. Home Bargains

37. Its now ‘The Range’

38. Broken dreams

39. Dunelm

40. B&M bargains

41. The one in Birmingham City centre is now a big HMV and the one in Oldbury, Sandwell is now a B&M.

42. Iceland and a Home Bargains, it had a mysterious and convenient fire just before it was refurbished.

43. The Range

44. The one in York is a Home Bargains. It’s weird because I swear it felt much bigger as a Toys R Us.

45. Mostly dead pigeons if the local newspapers are anything to go by.

46. Arnold Clark.

47. A Home Bargains.