...are there other choices?
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Blockbuster for sure. You can get similar experiences from other stores for RadioShack and toys r us.
I'm going Blockbuster, just because I'd love to be able to rent new release video games again. Redbox used to scratch that itch, until they stopped carrying them.
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I'm too young to have experienced RadioShack and Blockbuster Video. Also Toys R Us still exists in my country (Still exists in Canada.) To make a close equivalent I'd say maybe Sears or Target, both whom no longer have a presence in Canada.
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I would prefer Microcenter make smaller versions of their stores. Like Micro-Microcenters.
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None, I'm fine, thank you
Blockbuster, physically seeing the movies that I'm gonna pirate is priceless.
I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.
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Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.
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None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.
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RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah.
And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.
No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan. Being Conan back.
We never had blockbusters here, but our local equivalent is actually still doing quite well. I think streaming movies is more popular, but a lot of people go there to rent music CDs. Actually buying physical music albums is really expensive.
We still have Toys R Us too actually, I think it does pretty well here for the most part.
So I guess my answer defaults to Radioshack.
There’s still a running RadioShack out in Dickson TN that I visited once. It’s actually a fantastic store to have nearby for electronic hobbyists who need weird adapters on a whim without waiting a few days to a few weeks for online shipments. I understand why it went mostly under, but as someone who was born in 2000, it was a little sad to realize that those stores mostly only exist for niche markets now.
Move to Canada. We still have Toys R Us and "the Source" (which is what RadioShack became here).
Yeah but the source sucks, it's not the same.
Even toys r us isn't the same they don't have game consoles set up to demo (at least not near me). But at least it's kinda close.
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What good is Blockbuster when streaming exists?
What good is Toys R Us when kids don’t play with toys anymore and I definitely can’t afford to obsessively collect toys like those who came before me?
Jesus - no
RadioShack was a niche tech store with niche tech stuff. No need to wait an absurd amount of time for random stuff online.
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Toys R Us. With proper management they could still be successful, unlike Blockbuster which was a victim of changing technology.
Growing up near Chicago, every Saturday morning (I think?) they had the lucky kid who got to run through a Toys R Us grabbing everything they could for a few minutes. Man, it was the kids version of the lottery dream. I knew exactly which aisles I would hit and all the stuff I'd grab. RIP Geoffrey.
I was at toys'r'us last weekend. Well I walked through it to get to babies'r'us, but I was technically there.
As an almost 40yr old now father, this is such a hard choice. Except Jesus. I'll never get to see that magic of the face of my child (4yr) the first time we would walk in. Or, the magic of my own face every time I went into a RadioShack. Blockbuster was just a cool place overall.