For the children who grew up during the 1990s, the days and weeks before Christmas were dominated by thoughts of Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, and Super Nintendos. And their parents worried about ...

One promo on the Rosie O’Donnell show was all it took to spark Tickle Me Elmo mania. Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles. The hottest toy of 1996 was, ...

Check out the media player below for archival news coverage of the Tickle-Me-Elmo craze, the furor over Furbies and more. Every few years, lightning strikes and parents find themselves chasing after a ...

We typically think kids play with toys. In the 1990s, toys started playing back. There were already many toys that moved, lit up and made noise. In the 90s, companies increasingly made toys that were ...

Six months later, while Tickle Me Taz was still in development, Tyco got the rights to create Sesame Street plush toys, and they pitched Tickle Me Elmo as a toy they could create if they had the ...

There are certain toys in America that families and hobbyists may remember as cult classics — toys that flew right off the shelves during the holiday shopping season. Some of these high-demand toys ...

It is natural for every fad to eventually come to an end. I am reminded of the Tickle Me Elmo craze in the mid-'90s, in which upstanding, middle-aged people would rumble at Toys-R-Us in hopes of ...

Later this year, the National Toy Hall of Fame could induct snow — yes, the cold, white stuff that falls from the sky. But only if it ices out enough of the competition — a group that features hugely ...