Free Free Thomas the Train @ToysRUs - Aug 28 only

[Junerose]

I was there at opening as well this morning. Tons of people in line. But there was still lots left after the rush. We got 4. My 3 kids and me. We got 2 Rhenaus and 2 Smudger. And of course the kids all opened theirs right away. It was an amazing deal. $14.99 each for free!!!
Thanks to SC for being here. I never would have know about this otherwise.

The train I got with the coupon I will give to some little one sometime for a just because. Or I might save it and put it in an Operation Christmas Child box. There were lots left after the rush was done. So its not as if i was taking it out of some little boys hand. I resent that some people on here give their opinions on what is right and wrong when it comes to freebies. I believe if we all just use our common sense(whatever that might be) we will all make generous and thoughtful choices. Now there is my 2 cents. LOL

You can go right ahead and keep resenting.
This is a public forum, and I stated my opinion-just like you have stated yours.
And no, not everyone on SC uses common sense when it comes to free stuff.

[awongtse]

We got trains from the last (small) box left on the cashier's desk - all smudgers. Luckily, I ran into a family of two that got 2 thomas', so we traded. Both families walked away happily with 1 smudger and 1 thomas each.

[amanda55]

My and my boyfriend and my son had coupons so we got three We were there right at opening and there were tons of people lined up and the trains were in this tiny bin which made it funny to watch everyone panicing to get one and i was one of them or course lol. People were getting multiples the cahsiers had coupons at the till and were ringing them in seperately so families could get all 4. I only got three (one for each of us) and they will make great stocking stuffers for my child at xmas since he is way to young to remember them from yesterday

[kellib]

I am jealous Thomas Trains are very pricey so good job

[lisafrans]

i agree, some people are greedy. Some poor kids didn't get theres because the cashiers were letting one person get more than 1. Coupon stated 1 per guest

[fi54]

Thank you very much for this post.
my little guy loves thomas. i went and my husband & I picked up one train each.
We are going to put them in his christmas stocking.

[MrsSunshine]

man i had to google these names.. been years since my kids watched TTT.

[Trinigal]

I got one for my nephew yesterday. We were first in line at 9:20am. Lots of people behind us just a few minutes later. Hope it entertains him for more than 5 seconds.

[Starbaby55]

Ya I wasn't overly impressed how this was run at the Argentia/Winston Churchill Mississauga, ON location. My boyfriend and I were in line hoping to get ONE train (just ONE) to give to our friends son who lives in Cuba. When we arrived there were about 30 people in line ahead of us. We thought we'd stick it out. But then families with like 5 kids each would pull up in their mini van and just go to the front of the line? The employees would come outside and grab several people at a time to go into the store while the rest waited outside. You'd then see families with 3 or 4 trains in their hands coming out. I didnt end up getting one because they ran out. But I felt more badly for the actual KIDS that were waiting in line with their parents.

We ended up going into the store to look around and found a few of the trains they were giving away sitting on a table. I asked the cashier if they were the "free" ones and she said yes it was the same train as they were giving out, but these for the ones "for sale" as they were given specific ones from head office to give out for free. I went over to look at the display and it looks like they even took the demo trains off the display to give away.

Everything could have been avoided if there was better line management and also the store wasn't giving out multiples to families. Im still pretty VEX at all the families that thought they could show up last minute and go to the front of the line, but what are you going to do? - get into a big fight with these people over a free train?