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I’m honestly surprised they haven’t merged with Hot Topic.
They did buy out ThinkGeek, so... very close.
😭 🥀 God I wish I had gotten more of those novelty homewares while I still could. I'm an adult, I accept I need a laundry basket.... but nobody else would've sold me a collapsible radioactive waste barrel.
I enjoyed the 'bloody handprint' shower curtain, but by the time I had enough money to get such items as yhr matching bloody-footprint bathmat with intention, ThG was gone for good.
I miss thinkgeek too! 😑
ThinkGeek used to be so awesome man. I really wish I had held onto more of that stuff.
I still miss the ThinkGeek of old, back before they even had stores.
They have stores?
they did briefly in the late-2010's. They only sold the most kitschy mass-produced items.
GameStop beat out Hot Topic in bidding for ThinkGreek, with a winning bid of $20/share compared to Hot Topic’s bid of $17.50
Are they going to sell gyros now?
So that's where that went.
I never bought anything but it was fun seeing the items