Im probably just old but I never wouldve mistaken this as an 80s trend because I remember it happening in the 90sThis. I'm a 90's kid, and I remember the Elmo craze.
Tickle me Elmo wasn't the first toy that parents went crazy trying to get. The movie Jingle All the Way is entirely about a dad trying to get an action figure that is sold out everywhere, and that came out the same year as Tickle me Elmo, before the Christmas craze even happened.That was apparently based on Power Ranger toys.
It seems more like an early 2000s thing to me. I just remember being too old to care about it. I was only 5 in 1996, though. Thought I was older, tbh.
You'd think they'd have learned after what happened with Buzz Lightyear toys
It felt like an 80s thingWut
That's not far off from late 90s, the 2 eras do kinda blend together tbhI disagree. 9/11 was a hard line between the 90's and the 2000's. It pretty much shaped U.S.--and probably global--culture, and for the worst.
Tickle me Elmo wasn't the first toy that parents went crazy trying to get. The movie Jingle All the Way is entirely about a dad trying to get an action figure that is sold out everywhere, and that came out the same year as Tickle me Elmo, before the Christmas craze even happened.It definitely came out in the best year possible at least as far as the '90s go.
is that what inspired Jingle All The Way?Jingle all the Way was made before most people knew what a Tickle Me Elmo was.
for some reason I thought that movie was early 90's but it came out in 96
It was really bad when the MMPR action figures first came out in 1993.
I don't remember people going crazy over Buzz. I do remember Elmo.Peeps went nuts for the burger king toy story dolls of woody buzz and rc at the time
Peeps went nuts for the burger king toy story dolls of woody buzz and rc at the time
Youre probably thinking of Cannage Patch Kids
When was furby
My sister got one after begging for it and proceeded to do 0 with it because it sucked
I remember being confused over there being no toys of Log from Ren & Stimpy. The parody of toys and advertisements went over my head.
98, they were for sure whack lolI just asked her about it and she said it actually scares her because Mom sat it in a shelf and the eyes were open "watching her sleep"
When was furby
My sister got one after begging for it and proceeded to do 0 with it because it sucked
Tickle me Elmo wasn't the first toy that parents went crazy trying to get. The movie Jingle All the Way is entirely about a dad trying to get an action figure that is sold out everywhere, and that came out the same year as Tickle me Elmo, before the Christmas craze even happened.Reality looked at fiction and said Hold my beer!
That is so weird. It felt like an 80s thing, the more referenced materialistic decade.I thought tickle me elmo was later, like 2000