Nate, bravo! I have watched your videos for years (on all your channels), and I enjoy your work. But, this? You nailed it perfectly (in my opinion) in all regards (camera angles, nothing being too lengthy, or too brief a shot), the different music really was spot on. And I believe what you have done with this (I'll generalize it) "exploration" video really raises the bar for what a really great "exploration" video should/can be. I am now rather spoiled for anything less. Everything was so well put together and edited. To view it, it was like watching a sort of video tapestry. How you were able to create a video that was so vivid, "real" (as in very moving), and gave the impression of experiencing this closed and silent business like we/the viewer was right in there with you (as well as the interspersed sort of before and after footage). Don't want to sound overly corny, but I did clap when the shot of the cart faded and the video ended. In a landscape of videos where words usually must be used to fill the gap(s), or explain the "whats" and "wheres", you pretty much flawlessly created a truly wonderful creation with so few words. For the most part it felt like being there alone walking through this hulking shell that sadly is Toys R Us no more. Thank you, you are a truly talented artist.

no...this was my favorite place to go when I was a kid now its all gone 😢 I miss this place...I still love it even if I grow up I still love it...

That "I'll always be a toys r us kid" jeffrey sign would have been a fantastic momento. Toys R us proves to us that almost no giants will stand forever.

I will never forget TOYsRUS

I don’t think any store closure has been as emotional or hurt as badly as this one. RIP, Toys R Us. Thanks for the memories 😭

It's so sad to see a toy store like this the children of the future shop on line not able to know the joy of being in a toy store

It's so tragic that all of the Toys "R" Us are closing down and going out of business. Sears,Kmart and JCPenny are shutting their doors too because Amazon,Walmart and Target have destroyed them. I felt sorry for the employees who works at Toys "R" Us They needed to find a new job and the founder Charles Lazarus has passed away. RIP Toys "R" US 1948-2018.

Heartbreaking doesn't even say enough. To think of all the kids who walked through those doors to pick out their first bike or to find a beloved toy...and to know that TRU will no longer be a childhood experience. Not gonna lie, this video had me a lil teary. Amazing editing my friend, and the music choices were perfect. Thank you for preserving the memories of one of the most fun stores to ever have existed!

Good-Bye Toys R Us We Will Miss You Too.

So sad to see this store go, I did a lot of shopping there. You did a great job on this video!

I'm not gonna lie - seeing the store almost completely empty really, really hurts. I was gonna try to make it there today... but after seeing this, it wouldn't be worth it now.

Where I live there is no Toys R Us (I live in Turkey) but seeing these videos, people who commented made me tear soo badly, I knew Toys R Us but I have never been to one. Those old things really make me upset Imagine how old it should be to have that much trash and stain on the floor. My grandma is American and when she learned they closed she cried badly and gave me a old doll she got from there I was soo emotional. I cant think how much memories she had there ... R.I.P Toys "R" Us you will never be forgetten

I didn’t even get time to say goodbye to it

It is videos like this that remind us how fleeting time is and how quickly things in our world change. Thanks for sharing this. The production and editing were great.

Goodbye we will miss you I had great memories there and now it’s gone sadly 😖😭😭😭😭😭😖😖😖😖😖😖😔😔😔😔😔😔😭😭😭😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭

What a nightmare seeing Toys R Us going out like this. My kids thankfully got to enjoy TRU and are old enough to remember these awesome stores.

This Video was Sad to watch Most of my childhood is now down the toilet😢😔

Sad I used to enjoy the toy store I’m not gonna discuss this anymore bc I’ve left it in other comments to your Toys R Us stuff but I’ve gotten great toys from them.

I remember every time I walked into a Toys R Us store, and how great it felt to spend those few dollars that I had saved up. Online shopping could never replace this store. I wasn’t even this sad when my parent’s store that I grew up around shut down. The memories that were made here will never be forgotten. PEOPLE ARE SO UPSET ABOUT THIS STORE SHUTTING DOWN AND THEY DONT EVEN RELIZE THAT WE WERE THE ONES THAT DID THIS, TOYS R US SHUT DOWN BECAUSE WE WERE TO LAZY TO GET OFF OF OUR BUTTS AND SHOP AT A REAL STORE. Think about what the future will bring if we don’t ignore this fact. SOS Save Our Stores.

*This is such a DRASTIC change from when I was there last week! I gotta get there Monday! Hope you got that cart! So sad to see this actually go. It's become real really fast.*

This actually does hurt a lot because toys r us was my favorite place to get all my toys and seeing that toys r us is closed where do I get my toys from now that was my childhood everyone remember in toys r us

You did a great job with this footage, so glad you got to save it! The colors and the music, wow!!

Man, one of your best videos ever!

That Nate Guy On You Tube+ You have shown us a very candid harsh reality. Although deeply sad, you expressed it very well through your camera lens. It is so profoundly depressing that Toys R Us is now no more:(. When I was a Child there were 3 Toy Stores in the U.S.: Toys R Us, Kay Bee Toy Shop, and Kiddie City. If you were to tell me when I was a Child of the 70s into the 80s that in 2018 in The United States of America there will be no more Toy Stores, I would have NEVER BELIEVED IT. As an Adult I collect Toys as a hobby. I recently over the last 3 months did get 4 Toys at Toys R Us, 3 of them for 50% off, including Geoffrey the Toys R Us Plush Mascot. I will treasure them all and I treasure my Ms. Pacman Mini Arcade that my Late Grandfather bought at Toys R Us for me as a Child that still works today with batteries. It is so sad to see all those empty shelves and it feels like America is just not the same.

I saw the red in the thumbnail and I thought this was a Circuit City! Wierd! :(

You did a good job of capturing this video... we saw some similar-looking stores like this over the weekend, and I just couldn't bring myself to film. Too sad, I suppose. But it's good for people to see. Thanks for the video.

My childhood is ruined goodbye ToysRUs😢

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Makes me so sad inside

I can't this is so sad I love Toys R us now it's gone 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔

You just made me cry

Be careful, Anthony of Ace's Advetures got caught sneaking around a closed off section of the Toys R Us in NY. The employee kicked him out. It is sad to see our childhood store go out of business

THIS is your Citzen Kane, Your Godfather of dead retail videos. And what makes it's powerful is that you like the images tell the store with the powerful music. My only issue I HAD watch this again and am bawling again. 52 year old single man with Cats bawling at a ToysrUS being gutted. You have to get a KZfaq award for this.

Hi Nate That is sad nice video man my local Toys R Us Last Day Is 27 of June in Peoria Illinois

Come to Canada. All of our TRU stores are still open and will remain open thanks to a buyer.

It’s just so sad to see a childhood store for kids back in the 70s 80s and 90s go away. I rember walking in late last year thinking nothing was wrong but now it’s really sad to pass by a empty store that I knew was once full of laughter, joy, and happiness 😢

This is really sad to see the toy's r us closed forever was the one of the stores from my childhood days and for the longer time was around thank you for sharing with everyone i subscribe to your channel and see more amazing videos.

And the baby that cryed made me even sadder

Damn, such a memorable place shattering into pieces. We’ll all remember you, Toys ‘R Us.

Good video. Sad. Thanks for filming.

Im a kid and watching this.. I might cry..the music really does it.. I remember going there younger then I am now.. and.. Playing with the thomas the train set... OHHH THE MEMORIES.... THAT PLACE IS WHERE I GOT MY MANGLE PLUSH FROM FNAF 2! ;-;

Oh my I love this store I’m still a kid I remember coming here and getting my very first LOL doll and my brother got a new dinosaur set we’d always get our backpacks and lunchboxes here it was so fun but I won’t be able to experience that anymore 😔

I'm 18 and this made me tear!! 99% of my old toys were from there, RIP Toys R Us, we will always remember you 😢

Sad video, I grew up in the early 70's and 80's.. I remember Toy Chest, Children's Palace, and now, Toys R Us.. just one more place of my childhood memories being erased.. kids today will never understand, they just wont get it.... great video, it really captures the emotion and sadness...

Great vids,I subscribed

Thanks for the video makes me think good things come to a end but new things come along also😣😢😃

This was such a good childhood with toys ur us 😭 my brother and sisters where upset about this RIP Toys ur us U were a great store

That was 2 days before my 10th birthday, I had not gone before but it sill makes me sad.😭

Goodbye Toy r us I’m going to miss you You are a good store I’m literally crying 😭 😭😭 who Else loved…..😭😭 toy r us?

Toys R Us is Closing Down and Rebuilding to Target

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seeing the store empty really hurts my heart because I'm 10 and I have been going to toys r us since 2009 I will always be a toys r us kid

while you was filming this old toys r us store that word of tru kids represent the future of a comeback with a new company in 2019 or 2021 to own toys r us after closure of june 2018

Great filming 👍

Thank you for making this nice video its really sad

Hi love your channel

I will never forget and regret my first toys "R" us visit when I was 7 and my last visit was by the time i was 16. Again I will never forget going to toys "R" us. #iwillalwaysbeatoysRuskid #goodbye4ever #childhoodmememoriesCRUSHED

In October 2018 I went into our former TOYS "R" US when it was a temporary Halloween store, was interesting, btw the signage outside on store & pole is still up as the BABIES "R" US sign on building. Only time was covered up was when used for Halloween store then was uncovered.

Another awesome video! Gee thanks!

Nice video! Thanks Wallie for send me here

Great video, I feel like it really captured how I felt walking through on their last day. I left this comment on another video but feel that it fits better on yours... As a kid who was born in the early eighties Toys R Us was a big part of my childhood. I remember going when I was really young to pick out a new toy as a treat or a Christmas or birthday present and it was like the best day ever. A whole store with only toys. Toys R Us ended up being my first job in high school, I got it to buy Backstreet Boys tickets in 2001. It was my favorite job to this day, we had so much fun, we got to play with toys all day! My location was great with customer service so management didn't care that we played all day, we got the job done, guests were happy and at the end of the day we are making the company money. I hated leaving it for a "grown-up job". I sit here watching this in the middle of the night as a 34 year old woman with those memories, thinking how my kids won't have those same memories that I had. That sucks. Period. So rest in peace Toys R Us and Geoffrey Giraffe, thanks for the Memories. I still don't wanna grow up, I'll always be a Toys R Us kid.

I experienced a TRU liquidation. It cut to the core. We, as employees, still worked there as our jobs were being torn down around us. Everything was sold. If it could be removed, it was.

I love toys are us and miss toys are us a lot I love it so much

Great video man 😥👌🏽

Despite this video making me so sad to see the end of Toys R Us, the setting of the music nails it!

Nate this video made me so sad to see the emptiness where there use to be so much joy

RIP toy r us I can’t live without toy r us :(

I miss it..

I was in our local one (Lynnwood, WA) a couple of days ago, and unlike your store where it looked like you could go pretty much anywhere, in the Lynnwood store, shelving and fixtures had been moved around to basically block off access to 90% of the store. I was able to score a carrying basket with the TRU logo for $5 and it was funny because at first, they weren't going to let me take it home because the store was still open. But then the manager realized, all but exactly 2 had probably been stolen, so she let me take it.

At the age of six I heard about toys r us in 2016 so now when I see this I never knew what is looked like in the first place

Aaaw! It's so sad,but it was fun back in 2002. And I never been there before.

:( rip toys r us 70 years we will never see them ever again un less they come back with Cash but its gone they had a good 70 years really sad will miss you toys r us . toys r us good bye make good more money go to walmart we will miss YOUUU always makes me happy buying toy cars every time i come there and i dont come there a lot this place was my favorite place to go and get toy cars now i have to go to cvs to get a toy cars. Rip toys r us. :(

The toys r us in my city left most of the lights off and left all the fixtures in place including the registers. But all the merchandise and anything else is gone. And they never armed the alarm when they locked it up.

Why do they do this to my life?! I love that store i will never forget abote geoffry and toys r us rip toys r us i love you♥♥♥

Love this store my mom worked there doing night stocking she would bring me I would run around and just get lost in toy land ..

heck of a video,

Noooooooo I'll miss TOYS R US

Toys R Us had a chance at survival. The top 200 stores went up for sale, but no one took them. They were profitable too! The thing is, in the retail landscape right now very few if any want to invest in brick-and-mortar locations with their huge overheads, especially with the internet shopping now surpassing physical locations. It was only inevitable their demise once they went private. Once you don't have to answer to public shareholders, you can do anything you want, and thus the world's largest toy store went belly up, but really shouldn't have. They could have modernized, put in birthday/party areas, not to mention have places where kids would be able to play with the toys before they buy them. That was part of the reorganization they planned during Chapter 11, but since they had an abysmal holiday they decided to file Chapter 7, and leave the business entirely. Canada's CEO fought like a mad woman, and got a buyer, and that's why the Canadian division lives on today.

I heard reports of aldi, big lots and petco will be replacing some of the toys r us stores

Love the quality videos

I will miss you toys r us You were my favorite place to go when I wanted toys... I'm really gonna miss you

Sad I really loved that store ...😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😡😡😡Really hurts to see Toys R Us closed

I miss you R us so much I'm all ready crying😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😿😿😿😿😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭I'm so sad.

This really ruins the perfect, happy image I wanted it to go out on

Thanks for this vid i will be there will it will be gone its so sad but u are really nice showing us : (]

It's so sad to see a beloved toy store filed for bankruptcy! The toy store replacing it is called way bee toy store! "I don't wanna grow up because I'm a Toys R Us kid" They were only going to close 200 of its locations then they decided to Close all of them! I'm pretty sure if the founder Charles Lazarus hadn't died Toys R Us would still be open.

Me : This is sad.. My heart : Sigh..... *Knocking door sound* My heart : ?? Depression : Hi there. I was called.

This hurts me and made me sad I will always be a toys r us kid

GOOD NEWS: Toys R Us is coming back for business. They will reopen late 2019.

So sad I wish they were still open seeing this video makes me shed in tears

This reminds me a a fnaf game, just the vibe feeling of it, gonna miss this store

If you travel around the country for these Kmart stores and Toys R Us stores, there is an abandoned Big Kmart in Billings, Montana that you should check out. I hope it's not bought, so you can show it in your next vid (that is, if you go around the country for these videos).

I'll never forget you Toys R Us😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😞

I don't know if you'll see this in time but I saw a Toys R Us location here in east Cincinnati has the doors open and a dumpster off to the left with someone throwing stuff out. I don't know if you'd want to come down to Cincinnati to check it out. I really REALLY wanted to ask if I could go in there but my husband refused to let me out of the car.

This is just sad...... R. I. P toys r us..... You'll always be remembered....

Im still a child and now i miss this store looking at vidio games

The music with this vid is sad right when i see this i start to cry ill always be a toys r us kid 😢

1:11 they sold kites as well now their completely gone everything is going away shelves being taken down no toys and carts almost nowhere to be found everything is gone all the toys video games and the Legos and many more R.I.P toys r us the great loss of the toy Titan and that big R just kinda makes you wanna cry

This was how toys r us was expecting to grow to toy heaven for kids, until they fell and hit har in the ground. Everything is gone. Not a single prank item now in the USA toys r us places,no legos, baby dolls, hatchimals, no num noms, or shopkins, no roller skates. NOTHING! ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH!

Rip toy r us I remember toy r us was stalk with toys but not anymore I love this place when I was little its kinda sad if you think about it rip toy r us 😞 the music tho