(RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA!
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 12:01PM CDT
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According to dak at Cybertron.CA:
"As of today, "Toys r' Us USA" has made a deal with "Toys r' Us Canada" to become one corporation, known as "Toys r' Us North America". Will this result in Canada getting exclusives that you can now only find in the USA?"
See the original thread here
Good news for all involved you would think! As of now this is our only source for the rumor, but when and if there is an official press release, we'll be sure to let you know here in the Seibertron.com Toy News!!
"As of today, "Toys r' Us USA" has made a deal with "Toys r' Us Canada" to become one corporation, known as "Toys r' Us North America". Will this result in Canada getting exclusives that you can now only find in the USA?"
See the original thread here
Good news for all involved you would think! As of now this is our only source for the rumor, but when and if there is an official press release, we'll be sure to let you know here in the Seibertron.com Toy News!!
Credit(s): dak @ Cybertron.CA
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Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337305)
Posted by kirbenvost on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:05pm CDT
Posted by kirbenvost on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:05pm CDT
Now wouldn't that be nice. But we still don't have Target up here, so if this came about, would they make those exclusives available at another store here?
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337308)
Posted by Sledge on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:06pm CDT
Posted by Sledge on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:06pm CDT
Always good to see a new gestalt, but I wonder if they'll maintain tradition and have the new personality be stupider than it's components?
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337315)
Posted by kirbenvost on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:10pm CDT
Posted by kirbenvost on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:10pm CDT
LOL, good question!
I wonder, if this happened, perhaps it would result in prices which more closely match the current US/CDN exchange rate? Figures here are disgustingly overpriced if you actually go and figure out the conversion.
I wonder, if this happened, perhaps it would result in prices which more closely match the current US/CDN exchange rate? Figures here are disgustingly overpriced if you actually go and figure out the conversion.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337329)
Posted by City Commander on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:16pm CDT
Posted by City Commander on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:16pm CDT
Doubt it.
Watch Canada still get shafted. Only now their stock will get shifted to fill US stores too.
Watch Canada still get shafted. Only now their stock will get shifted to fill US stores too.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337330)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:16pm CDT
Posted by Liege Evilmus on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:16pm CDT
This is only a good thing!
I've been saying we should take over Canada for years. Let the infiltration begin!
I've been saying we should take over Canada for years. Let the infiltration begin!
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337393)
Posted by Galaxy_Convoy on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:59pm CDT
Posted by Galaxy_Convoy on September 11th, 2007 @ 12:59pm CDT
About time. Hopefully this will mean quicker updates in stocks and waves at the stores, not to mention any exclusives that US TRUs have been hording.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337427)
Posted by Silver Galvatron on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:16pm CDT
Posted by Silver Galvatron on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:16pm CDT
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337441)
Posted by Gutter Bunny on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:23pm CDT
Posted by Gutter Bunny on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:23pm CDT
wait doesn't tru canada also get some japanese stock items(i.e mp's)? was that just a dream? Is this one big ball of suck for everybody?
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337521)
Posted by Starscream on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:51pm CDT
Posted by Starscream on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:51pm CDT
Get your AMEROS ready!!!
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337524)
Posted by Tigertrack on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:53pm CDT
Posted by Tigertrack on September 11th, 2007 @ 1:53pm CDT
Slegde, I'm glad to see/hear that someone recognized my topic title as being worded very similarly to a G1 cartoon command from Megatron...
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337550)
Posted by UltraPrimal on September 11th, 2007 @ 2:02pm CDT
Posted by UltraPrimal on September 11th, 2007 @ 2:02pm CDT
Why? We already get the TRU exclusives. They're just in very limited stock.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337575)
Posted by Sledge on September 11th, 2007 @ 2:12pm CDT
"Our stores have a secret, Optimus Chairman Of Walmart! A secret that will rip your puny stores from the ground! Toys R Us USA, Toys R Us Canada, unite into... TOYS R US NORTH AMERICA!!!"
Posted by Sledge on September 11th, 2007 @ 2:12pm CDT
I couldn't think of anything else. It was just such a G1 thing for someone to yell. I'd like to think the chairman of TRU actually shouted something similar. Possibly whilst incorporating a threat to a rival corporation.tigertracks 24 wrote:Slegde, I'm glad to see/hear that someone recognized my topic title as being worded very similarly to a G1 cartoon command from Megatron...
"Our stores have a secret, Optimus Chairman Of Walmart! A secret that will rip your puny stores from the ground! Toys R Us USA, Toys R Us Canada, unite into... TOYS R US NORTH AMERICA!!!"
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337644)
Posted by kirbenvost on September 11th, 2007 @ 2:35pm CDT
TRU Canada gets nothing available in Japan, we just get most of the US stuff.
Posted by kirbenvost on September 11th, 2007 @ 2:35pm CDT
Gutter Bunny wrote:wait doesn't tru canada also get some japanese stock items(i.e mp's)? was that just a dream? Is this one big ball of suck for everybody?
TRU Canada gets nothing available in Japan, we just get most of the US stuff.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337773)
Posted by Gutter Bunny on September 11th, 2007 @ 3:33pm CDT
ahhhh so the desolate U.S. store and the even more baren Canadian store merge to form...an empty warehouse a.k.a. one big ball of suck.
gotcha, thx for clearin that up.
Posted by Gutter Bunny on September 11th, 2007 @ 3:33pm CDT
kirbenvost wrote:Gutter Bunny wrote:wait doesn't tru canada also get some japanese stock items(i.e mp's)? was that just a dream? Is this one big ball of suck for everybody?
TRU Canada gets nothing available in Japan, we just get most of the US stuff.
ahhhh so the desolate U.S. store and the even more baren Canadian store merge to form...an empty warehouse a.k.a. one big ball of suck.
gotcha, thx for clearin that up.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337786)
Posted by Arcadius-Prime on September 11th, 2007 @ 3:39pm CDT
Posted by Arcadius-Prime on September 11th, 2007 @ 3:39pm CDT
That's good news! Our selection of Transformers here is pretty good but I'd like to see more G.I. Joe stuff, it's almost nil.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337798)
Posted by tom brokaw on September 11th, 2007 @ 3:42pm CDT
Posted by tom brokaw on September 11th, 2007 @ 3:42pm CDT
so what exactly does this mean now?
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337847)
Posted by Autobot032 on September 11th, 2007 @ 4:06pm CDT
Posted by Autobot032 on September 11th, 2007 @ 4:06pm CDT
I hope the merger goes through.
On the one hand, Canadians might get better treatment.
On the other hand, if it's all one conglomerate, the Canadians and Americans will get new figures first. (Canada sometimes gets new figures before America sees them)
Plus special exclusives, etc.
On the one hand, Canadians might get better treatment.
On the other hand, if it's all one conglomerate, the Canadians and Americans will get new figures first. (Canada sometimes gets new figures before America sees them)
Plus special exclusives, etc.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337861)
Posted by Ballistic90 on September 11th, 2007 @ 4:16pm CDT
Posted by Ballistic90 on September 11th, 2007 @ 4:16pm CDT
Where is the source? They have no mention of where the original poster got it from.I was pretty certain that both TRU's ARE part of the same conglomeration, but simply different branches.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (337916)
Posted by 1337W422102 on September 11th, 2007 @ 4:42pm CDT
Posted by 1337W422102 on September 11th, 2007 @ 4:42pm CDT
Canada won't get anything out of this. Or, at the very least, Quebec won't. Either way, I still get screwed.
Whatever.
Whatever.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338140)
Posted by Tigertrack on September 11th, 2007 @ 6:31pm CDT
Hence, the R-U-M-O-R tag. The source must be reputable enough for them to count it as news at Cybertron.CA. But as I said, rumor until we know more information, or see an official announcement.
Posted by Tigertrack on September 11th, 2007 @ 6:31pm CDT
Ballistic90 wrote:Where is the source? They have no mention of where the original poster got it from.I was pretty certain that both TRU's ARE part of the same conglomeration, but simply different branches.
Hence, the R-U-M-O-R tag. The source must be reputable enough for them to count it as news at Cybertron.CA. But as I said, rumor until we know more information, or see an official announcement.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338149)
Posted by Foallen on September 11th, 2007 @ 6:37pm CDT
Posted by Foallen on September 11th, 2007 @ 6:37pm CDT
We generally get the TRU exclusives in Canada. The only one I can think of that I never seen at a local store was the recent 10th anniversary Primal vs Megatron box set. We got all the commemeratives (sometimes before the US), and I think most others.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338424)
Posted by Ultra Markus on September 11th, 2007 @ 8:39pm CDT
Posted by Ultra Markus on September 11th, 2007 @ 8:39pm CDT
Canada? they also should include Japan, call it the TRU Trans-Pacific
That way we all will get Japans exclusives
That way we all will get Japans exclusives
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338465)
Posted by Judge Deliberata on September 11th, 2007 @ 8:55pm CDT
QFT. The megamerger will do nothing to stop the powers that be: Bill 101.
Posted by Judge Deliberata on September 11th, 2007 @ 8:55pm CDT
1337W422102 wrote:Canada won't get anything out of this. Or, at the very least, Quebec won't. Either way, I still get screwed.
Whatever.
QFT. The megamerger will do nothing to stop the powers that be: Bill 101.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338732)
Posted by steve2275 on September 11th, 2007 @ 11:58pm CDT
Posted by steve2275 on September 11th, 2007 @ 11:58pm CDT
sounds cool
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338776)
Posted by shortround on September 12th, 2007 @ 12:48am CDT
Posted by shortround on September 12th, 2007 @ 12:48am CDT
Just watch this idea will fall apart and things will go back the way they were before.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (338853)
Posted by Burn on September 12th, 2007 @ 1:52am CDT
Store closures as they consolidate resources. Not to mention job losses higher up as two companies become one, certain jobs will be absorbed etc etc.
Posted by Burn on September 12th, 2007 @ 1:52am CDT
tom brokaw wrote:so what exactly does this mean now?
Store closures as they consolidate resources. Not to mention job losses higher up as two companies become one, certain jobs will be absorbed etc etc.
Re: (RUMOR) TRU Canada And TRU U.S. Combine To Form...TRU NORTH AMERICA! (339353)
Posted by kirbenvost on September 12th, 2007 @ 11:30am CDT
Posted by kirbenvost on September 12th, 2007 @ 11:30am CDT
We're doomed. 
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