I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.
Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.
Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.
2980s RadioShack for sure. I miss that place so much.
29I’d like to bring back the market environment that made Radio Shack profitable - when the “right to repair” was a given, and not something that needed to be fought for in court.
23Jesus. Imagine how much of the world would react if
1: jesus literally proved he existed to faiths that say he's a hoax (im agnostic btw)
2: He reforms the groups that use his name as a pretext to exclude & marginalize others.
3: Dude turned out to have been gaming like a boss in heaven, like dude comes down & faces the pope in Dungeons & Dragons or Pokemon lmfaooo
21As a non-American I'm not familiar with any of these things. That dude looks kinda familiar though, wasn't he one of the Beatles? The one that got shot? Bring him back please!
16I miss having knowing there's a Radio Shack around the corner if I need an obscure component or an exotic battery for a project.
Yeah, you can find anything online now, but you have to wait for it to ship, hope it doesn't get lost or stolen, and hope they actually sent the right part.
Edit to add: Basically 80-90s RS, not the husk that it was more recently that sold mostly phones and crap toys around the holidays.
16RadioShack. Without a doubt.
12As someone who worked at RadioShack, I would only want to bring it back if we could have owners who care about electronics and technology more and making profits less. I got to live the decline as they tried to become a cell phone store, and then got destroyed by big box stores and provider stores in that market. RadioShack would need to stay in its lane. Electronics, home theater, computers.
If you have a MicroCenter in your area, it will have all this for you, tho, so I honestly would pick ToysRUs. There just isn't a real "fun focused" retailer anymore. Even adults could feel like kids at ToysRUs.
12Jesus but only if He's vibing with His roommate the Buddha in some small apartment like in that one manga
11Surprisingly, I might pick Blockbuster. Having even just one streaming service costs the same as like 8 rentals per month. Idk about the rest of you, but I think I watch more movies than most and it's still not 8 per month. And remember video game rentals?! Game Pass and PS+ Extra are amazing, but the selection is far from endless.
And it's kinda win-win. I'd bet anything that revenue for these media companies would rise since it would be cheap enough and convenient enough to curb some amount of piracy. It's just not worth the effort and risk for lots of people if they can just pop in for a rental while they're already out for groceries. Redbox should be more successful, but there's something about browsing in person through aisle after aisle and seeing what jumps out, and it saddens me that my generation may be the last to have had that experience.
11I live in a crazy ancient backwards land where Toys R’ Us still exists.
So the obvious choice is RadioShack.
11Y'all really need to step up the meme game. What does this even mean. "I'm old ha ha ha?"
Also, Jesus. I don't need more cheap crap, I need to get drunk on a friday without spending my whole paycheck and Josh can hook that up.
10...are there other choices?
9I mean I kinda gotta go with Jesus so we can end the world already
9None, I'm fine, thank you
7I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.
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Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.
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None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.
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RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah.
And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.
No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan. Being Conan back.
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Blockbuster, physically seeing the movies that I'm gonna pirate is priceless.
7Toys R Us. With proper management they could still be successful, unlike Blockbuster which was a victim of changing technology.
6What good is Blockbuster when streaming exists?
What good is Toys R Us when kids don’t play with toys anymore and I definitely can’t afford to obsessively collect toys like those who came before me?
Jesus - no
RadioShack was a niche tech store with niche tech stuff. No need to wait an absurd amount of time for random stuff online.
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6We never had blockbusters here, but our local equivalent is actually still doing quite well. I think streaming movies is more popular, but a lot of people go there to rent music CDs. Actually buying physical music albums is really expensive.
We still have Toys R Us too actually, I think it does pretty well here for the most part.
So I guess my answer defaults to Radioshack.
6As an almost 40yr old now father, this is such a hard choice. Except Jesus. I'll never get to see that magic of the face of my child (4yr) the first time we would walk in. Or, the magic of my own face every time I went into a RadioShack. Blockbuster was just a cool place overall.
5I was at toys'r'us last weekend. Well I walked through it to get to babies'r'us, but I was technically there.
5Growing up near Chicago, every Saturday morning (I think?) they had the lucky kid who got to run through a Toys R Us grabbing everything they could for a few minutes. Man, it was the kids version of the lottery dream. I knew exactly which aisles I would hit and all the stuff I'd grab. RIP Geoffrey.
5i would probably bring back jesus as i have no brand loyalty, and i think it'd be funniest
4Toys R Us only went under in the US thanks to Vulture Captialists like Mitt Romney.
So old school Radio Shack with the hobbyist electronics in the back.
4I would bring back bottom right square because I love prog rock
4Toys'R'Us with Jesus as CEO.
4Radio Shack alllllll day
4Jesus then ask him to bring ther others back.
4It'd be Jesus for me. I love a highly principled man telling me what to do.
3RadioShack
3Blockbuster definitely. Then I can just rip and upload to jellyfin as many videos as I want. Plus as a kid my parents never let me get the popcorn buckets at the counter and I need to have that experience because I remember them looking so great
3It's hard to decide between the three...hmmm
3Toys r Us is still in business... in Canada. Went there yesterday, in fact.
3Nah lol I’m good
3Question: which Era of Radio Shack? 2000's radio shack was terrible and it's no shock they are gone.
3Toys to us for sure
2Toys r us except where I'm from it was called toy world. Either way I'm a child at heart
2Toy r us because its were a kid can be a kid and I want to be a toys r us kid
2Toys r us is back, after avoiding legal obligations to their former employees.
2ToysRUs had all the Commodore hardware back in the day. Only one choice.
2Blockbuster Video. It would probably die right away though. I miss browsing the walls of videos.
2Jesus doesn't sell SMA to MXC adapters. I'll go radioshack
1With this Caucasian Jesus like a DaVinci paint is much better Blockbuster.
1the only one i actually remember is toys are us and honestly it wasn't that great? i don't see the appeal, but maybe its just that my family could never really afford much in there
1blockbuster still exist so RadioShack
1Blockbuster, well I'd rather have the indie video rental stores in my city vack
1No need to bring any of them back. The world is a better place without them
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was a comrade and would be a comrade again.