Horror Report

Day: January 30, 2021

  • TOYS R DEAD part 2

    TOYS R DEAD part 2

    Toys-R-us gave it the old college try..

    Some stores that were closed reopened in November 2019 as part of a small U.S. comeback attempt by the iconic toy chain..

    Today it being reported that the it’s over, Again.

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    The Toys R Us store at the Galleria mall in Houston shuttered on Jan. 15, while one at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, closed on Tuesday, according Tru Kids, a new entity formed when it acquired Toys R Us’ intellectual property during its liquidation in 2018.

    The Toys R Us website is still in operation.

    “As a result of COVID, we made the strategic decision to pivot our store strategy to new locations and platforms that have better traffic,” Tru Kids said in an emailed statement Friday. “Consumer demand in the toy category and for Toys R Us remains strong and we will continue to invest in the channels where the customer wants to experience our brand.”

    The two shuttered locations were about 6,500 square feet – about one-seventh of the size of the old Toys R U stores and emphasized hands-on experiences. Employees unwrapped toys, for instance, so that kids could try them out.

    While we can say here in NORTHEAST PA, we were fans of KB Toys because that is just what we had, there will always be a special place in our heart for any

    …Does Mitt ROMNEY agree!?

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    And just for some nostalgia, here is what it was like to shop at a toy store in the early 1990s… those were the days..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZilFWyB8zPA&feature=emb_title

  • All of the HE-MEN you cannot find

    All of the HE-MEN you cannot find

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    The newest wave of updated 2021 HE-MAN action figures inludes ROBOTO, SHE-RA, MER-MAN, and ZODAK..

    And sadly they are no where to be found on store shelves across America!

    Although some on Twitter have bragged they were in a Target in St. Louis Missouri..

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    And one other showed off a full collection of all of the newly released action figures so far in her collection;

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    In the mean time, my local WALMART continues to just carry over-stocked amounts of HE-MAN and SKELETOR.. with no new wave figures yet to be found.. 

    🙁

  • The lonely pandemic

    The lonely pandemic

    The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of FriendshipThere’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well.Amanda Mull

    This is a great piece in the ATLANTIC by Amanda Mull.. she explains the scientific reasons why you are missing people that you didn’t even know that well.. But one other point she makes also is worthy to think about:

    Some of the most obvious consequences of our extended social pause could indeed play out in the professional realm. I started hearing these concerns months ago, while writing a story on how working from home affects people’s careers. According to the experts I spoke with, losing the incidental, repeated social interactions that physical workplaces foster can make it especially difficult for young people and new hires to establish themselves within the complex social hierarchy of a workplace. Losing them can make it harder to progress in work as a whole, access development opportunities, and be recognized for your contributions. (After all, no one can see you or what you’re doing.) These kinds of setbacks early in professional life can be especially devastating, because the losses tend to compound—fall behind right out of the gate, and you’re more likely to stay there.

    Likely to stay there.

    Mull points out that Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Brigham Young University, has found that social isolation increases the risk of premature death from any cause by almost 30 percent.

    Apparently it also creates the death of a career much sooner..

    There are other really interesting points to consider in the full article..  The roaring 20s rescued the malaise of the 1918 pandemic. So she ends her story on optimism that the 2020s will roar the same way..

  • The 1986 possibilities of STRANGER THINGS 4!

    The 1986 possibilities of STRANGER THINGS 4!

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    Leaked photos online from the set of STRANGER THINGS 4 indicate that the show will take place in the spring of 1986.. recall at that time that America was recovering from the aftermath of the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster and the biggie, Saturday 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster..

    Anticipation for the show grows with those two amazing potential inclusions into the storyline..

    It seems likely at least for the nuclear accident as we know Hopper is in the old Soviet Union..

  • New security measure in DC will include permanent fencing around the Capitol

    New security measure in DC will include permanent fencing around the Capitol

    PERMANENT SECURITY FENCING coming to US Capitol.

    New statement from acting US Capitol Police chief: “Vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing”

    Welcome to the new new new new new new NEWEST world in the POST POST POST post post violence.

    Field trips will never be the same again!