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It's Tuesday, February 12th, and we're talking about Toys R Us's second act.

I'm your host, Dylan Lewis, and I've got Fool.com's Dan. talking about Toys R Us's second act.

I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I've got Fool.com's Dan Klein on Skype.

Dan what's going on?

I am a surprise to be talking about Toys R Us yet again.

Did you play us in with like a slowed down version

of the Toys R.S theme song?

Like what a sitcom would do that in the 80s

to show that something sad has happened?

We won't know until after Dan Boyd has had his hands on this audio.

Will he? Who could say?

He likes to surprise us though.

Yeah, Dan, Toys R Us is one of those stories, kind of like Sears.

It just keeps coming back. It doesn't seem to go away.

Well, here's the problem. So Toys R Us is a lost example. The company declared bankruptcy and when it declared bankruptcy it had every

intention of coming back under a restructuring and it wasn't able to work that out with its with

its debt holders and that put it in a position where

I had to close all its stores give up its retail portfolio, miss an entire

holiday season for the most part it had kiosks and some Kroger stores and now in the US at least it's starting from scratch

And that is a very difficult position to be in even if the company no longer has that sort of looming debt that was sort of

crushing everything it was trying to do. Before we get into some of the more

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