Should Disney have bought Toys R Us?

[ManaMinori 4,145]

"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that." — Walt Disney

"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway." — Walt Disney

 

With Walt Disney's beliefs at imagination and fantasy aimed at both children and the inner child in some adults, along with Toys R Us's concept of "never Growing up" and always being a TRU kid, I feel like an opportunity was lost, here, for these companies to come together to bring about a "Neverland Nirvana" of sorts. Could such a merger have worked out for the benefit of TRU and Disney?

[SharpWit 2,716]

TRU had been on the decline for years. They went down fighting but they went down without adjusting to the change in times. TRU was mostly a middle man of sorts. They sold Disney products among countless others. If Disney bought them out then they'd also be selling the toys of competing brands. This has he upside of possibly earning a little of your competitors earnings but it also has the downside of not all sales benefitting you and you alone so it's good or bad depending on how you look at it. And getting rid of your competitors product could upset the public and cause them to boycott your products. It's kind of a lose-lose situation for an already underperforming asset.

There's also the concern of a Disney Monopoly. They've already absorbed so much, let's not give them everything.

[ManaMinori 4,145]

21 hours ago, SharpWit said:

TRU had been on the decline for years. They went down fighting but they went down without adjusting to the change in times. TRU was mostly a middle man of sorts. They sold Disney products among countless others. If Disney bought them out then they'd also be selling the toys of competing brands. This has he upside of possibly earning a little of your competitors earnings but it also has the downside of not all sales benefitting you and you alone so it's good or bad depending on how you look at it. And getting rid of your competitors product could upset the public and cause them to boycott your products. It's kind of a lose-lose situation for an already underperforming asset.

There's also the concern of a Disney Monopoly. They've already absorbed so much, let's not give them everything.

Ok rather than  full on merger, could both have benefited from a collaborative event or something?

[SharpWit 2,716]

4 minutes ago, Nightmare Muffin said:

Ok rather than  full on merger, could both have benefited from a collaborative event or something?

Event's are good for sales promotions. Have to be an awfully good one to save TRU from going under. Slim to none it'd work out.

[ZiggWheelsManning 11,072]

Warner Bros. should have bought Toys R Us.  The fact that they didn't proves a missed opportunity to make Bugs Bunny a giant goliath  

[Megas 27,780]

Absolutely not. I'd rather not have Toy'R Us become "The Disney Store: Big Version"

2 hours ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

Warner Bros. should have bought Toys R Us.  The fact that they didn't proves a missed opportunity to make Bugs Bunny a giant goliath  

If WB bought them they'd probably become a Tax Write Off