According to a Tickle Me Elmo oral history from Mental Floss, a Walmart worker in New Brunswick, Canada, ended up in the ER ...
"In the 1990s, hysteria over Ty Inc's $5 plush toys fed a wave of theft, fraud and market manipulation. Values soared - then ...
A slasher film set at Camp David where a young George W. Bush is hunted by a masked killer. A group of friends stuck ...
Television hits drove interest in popular dolls in the 1976 holiday season ... Previous holiday hype around toys paled in comparison to the Tickle Me Elmo phenomenon of 1996.
Aaron Karo’s “Tickle-Me-Elmo” is a script about the toy that saved Sesame Street, shocked Wall Street and delighted the nation. Alyson Weaver Nicholas’ “Little Black Dress” imagines ...