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 ...

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.

Tickle Me Elmo, an Elmo toy that was originally created ... as apparently malfunctioning versions of the dolls have threatened children. The internet responded with viral videos of Elmo being ...