Toys R Us USA filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and eventually all stores in US, UK and Australia were closed and liquidated in 2018. The Toys R Us Canada portfolio was profitable though and Fairfax Financial Holdings bought it from Toys R Us in 2018. In 2021, Toys R Us Canada was sold again to Putman Investments.
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There’s no official press release from Toys R Us Canada regarding stores closing down in 2025. Though, there are reports that quite a few Toys R Us Canada locations are closing down quietly. Back in 2024, there were about 80 physical brick & mortar locations across Canada.
Earlier a few months ago, there were reports that several Toys R Us Canada stores located in the province of Ontario were shutting down.
Shown below is the ToysRUs Exclusive LEGO 40228 Geoffrey & Friends set that was released back in the year 2016. It has the Toys R Us Mascot – Geoffrey.
BC Metro Vancouver Toys R Us Canada Store Closures 2025
Now, those living in the province of British Columbia will have several of their stores closing down as well. Shoppers are seeing the closing signs at the stores. In Greater Metro Vancouver, the following stores will be closing/shutting down in the next few months.
- Vancouver Broadway – Toys R Us Canada Store Closing
- Station Square Metrotown Burnaby – Toys R Us Canada Store Closing
- Lansdowne Mall Richmond – Toys R Us Canada Store Closing
The Vancouver Broadway is pretty much the biggest Toys R Us store that’s in Metro Vancouver. The Richmond location was also decent and busy as it was located in a mall. Same goes for the Metrotown location where it was very busy as well. However, they did relocate from Metrotown mall to Station Square a year or so ago. Ever since they relocated to Station Square in Burnaby, that store is like a ghost town.
Shown below is the Toys R Us Canada logo.
A few years ago, they shut down the suburb Coquitlam, BC location as well as the suburb Surrey Central, BC locations. They never relocated or reopened a store for these suburb cities. About 10 years ago, Toys R Us Canada had a single store in pretty much every single suburb city of Metro Vancouver (Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam, Surrey, Langley).
With the Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond city stores shutting now, that leaves pretty much no more Toys R Us Canada store locations in the urban Greater Metro Vancouver area. The only remaining store will be in Willowbrook, Langley Township which is near the outskirts of Metro Vancouver (about 60 minutes drive from Downtown Vancouver).
Shown below is the LEGO City 7848 ToysRUs Delivery Truck set that was released back in the year 2010.
Toys R Us Canada: More Store Closures or The End of an Era?
It’s very sad to see what’s happening to Toys R Us Canada. But the last few years, they don’t seem to be doing as well. A lot of their LEGO toys (and possibility other toy products they sell as well) are marked up quite a bit. Sales were not as good as before too.
In the past, they didn’t mark up the regular price of LEGO toys that much. With the markups, the savings discounts are not even that great anymore nowadays. Some of the 2024 Black Friday and Boxing Day Holiday LEGO sales weren’t even that great.
Toys R Us Canda LEGO Bricktober which happens in every year in October was not that good either ever since Toys R Us USA went bankrupt.
Hopefully, Toys R Us Canada can go through the tough times and not shut down all of its stores and operations. Though, it is pretty significant that they are closing multiple stores across the country. We’re assuming that they are closing stores where leases have either expired or the stores are underperforming/not profitable.
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Shown below is the Toys R Us logo.
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