T M X - Tickle Me Elmo X

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Here's something else that my store is trying to turn into a craze...last night we got these singing, dancing toys.

They are basically a toy jeep with two guys in it, with a deer tied to the front hood like it has just been shot (or maybe more appropriately, run over). You push a button somewhere on the jeep. and it starts singing, and the deer moves its head around, and the two guys in the jeep move around too.

We got three cases of these in last night, and the managers were watching for them all night, and when they came in they grabbed them and put them out on an endstand right away.

So screw Tickle Me Elmo X. This singing dancing deer is obviously THE hot new craze for the holidays this year.

[friendofjimmyk]

It's always some "latest greatest new thing" that people are going nuts over. Back in the 80's, it was those fugly Cabbage Patch dolls.

Ahh, the Cabbage Patch dolls. My family, we were not poor, but my parents didn't believe in spending ass loads of money on toys that we didn't take care of so therefore, I was unable to have a Cabbage Patch doll.

I was ridiculed by the other girls who had one. I'm scarred for life!

To touch on a comment in the OP:

"X" is the Roman numeral for 10.



GK awash in a wave of geeky information.

Yeah, the article said it was "X" for ten but also for eXtreme.

I still want a Chicken Dance Elmo.

I am sooooooooooo weird.

THEY HAVE THOSE??!?!??!? REALLY??!?!?!!? WHERE!?!?!?! I WANT ONE! I WANT ONE!!!!!!! ME, ME, ME!

Wrestle you for it?

Ah, the rock. Those were the good ol days!

Anyone else here a fan of VH1's "I love the 70s" and "80s" shows?

They are basically a toy jeep with two guys in it, with a deer tied to the front hood like it has just been shot (or maybe more appropriately, run over). You push a button somewhere on the jeep. and it starts singing, and the deer moves its head around, and the two guys in the jeep move around too..

OH MY GOD! You've got to be freakin' kidding me! Every Christmas they come out with things that dance and sing. Last year it was a Santa that sang and shook his butt. One year, it was the singing fish on a plaque.

This year, hunters & their kill singing away.

I'm going to go crawl under a rock now. Please come get me when we have come back to our senses.

[skeptic53]

*EDIT- Quote with picture only has been removed. It has already been posted. We didn't need to have it posted twice. *

Thanks for the pic, trunks2k! I had heard they were in wooden crates, the cardboard container explains why they disappeared so fast.

[Rapscallion]

X only means 'extreme' in the minds of the illiterati that populate the alleged think tanks relied upon by executives.

Blech.

Rapscallion

[gundam40]

You've got it all wrong, Raps!

The Tickle Me Elmo is so extreme, the 'X' kicked the 'E''s butt, and it now number 1 instead of number 2 :P That's how extreme the new TMX is!

[Worker-Intellectual]

What about the Jump to Conclusions Mat?

Damn, I love that movie

[Gurndigarn]

K'know, this is why I never once pretended to my kids that Santa, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy ever existed. I never went out of my way to stop others from indoctrinating them, but santa doesn't stop at our house... they just get presents from loving family and (in some cases) thoughtful strangers.

[XCashier]

I'm going to go crawl under a rock now. Please come get me when we have come back to our senses.

Better find a nice, comfortable rock; you've got a very long wait.

K'know, this is why I never once pretended to my kids that Santa, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy ever existed.

That's what I'm trying to do with my son. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to do the Santa Claus schtick. Fine, let them fight tooth and nail for Latest Stupid Trick Elmo; I'll dodge the crowds and buy him cars and trains.

[trunks2k]

You've got it all wrong, Raps!

The Tickle Me Elmo is so extreme, the 'X' kicked the 'E''s butt, and it now number 1 instead of number 2 :P That's how extreme the new TMX is!

Elmo isn't the only xtreme one.



It's XTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!1111111

[morgana]

Oh come on, Furbies were FUN! If you had a palm pilot and the program that let you use it as an infrared learning remote you could beam commands at the display of Furbies and have them start up in a massive, collective epileptic fit...especially if a display had at least 10 furbies to demonstrate the interactive relationships the programming had.

Store clerks hated me.

Mongo

You are twisted, sick and evil.

I love you.

[dispatch]

this is why I like my method of christmas shopping, I buy stuff that reminds my family and freinds of ME; game boy pocket, brass knu*ehem* "belt buckels" and "paper weights", knives, flasks, movies of nostalgic value (i.e; nightmare before christmas instead of the latest edition of star wars with trivial changes) this saves time and money so I can kick back on a bench at the malls and watch the crowds go nuts

[Broomjockey]

the latest edition of star wars with trivial changes)

HEY!!! Don't dis Star Wars when I'm around. What's next, you gonna kick my dog?

Get me one of those Big Mouth Billy Bass and I'll forgive you. Or if anyone else wants to get me one I wouldn't say no!

[rdp78]

Yeah, I was a senior in high school when that whole TME craze started and thank god I wasn't in that mess. Anyway I did remember my business teacher was talking about procedures (something like it, I really don't remember) and she used them as an example (she didn't have one). Now it was very last days of school before winter break so it would be very hard to fine on and I said (me being the smartass) something first you got to find one. Anyway another girl told us how she frought tooth and nail to get one of them for a young relative.

No one has mention the Care Bears when they first came out in the early eighties because my mom took me and brother to buy a couple when they came out. Boy was that a big mistake because when we went to our local Hills store (long been gone) there was a huge crowd of people and almost everyone of them want to buy a Care Bear. When the doors were open everyone who was buying started to go crazy and we did our best to find two we like.

Anyway I have a couple plastic containers of Beanie Babies and my brother has tons of them. It's really him and my mom who went nuts for them during their popularity ('98-'99). I also have a Cabbage Patch doll somewhere that I did get for Christmas and I think I got it after the year it was a popular. My brother was into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I think he still have some of the orginal toys. Oh, I even remember him begging for the orginal Nintendo and he did get one the year after it was out. I also remember the orginal Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite that I have somewhere well, maybe not. I also have the orginal Gerber Baby Doll and I still have it (I've even made some cute outfits for her).

Now about the Pet Rock I don't know why would something you can find in your yard would sell as a product (I think it was five bucks from what I heard but still) and people would go nuts for it. I mean the person who thought of that must have been pretty high (hey, it was the seventies) on something and I guess maybe everyone else who brought or wanted to buy it. I know it probably wouldn't happne well, let's hope not but if that ever comes back again I would have go *headdesk*.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

OH MY GOD! You've got to be freakin' kidding me! Every Christmas they come out with things that dance and sing. Last year it was a Santa that sang and shook his butt. One year, it was the singing fish on a plaque.

This year, hunters & their kill singing away.

I'm going to go crawl under a rock now. Please come get me when we have come back to our senses.

Oh, how I wish I was kidding.

Sad thing is, corporate probably sent out a memo describing this item in glowing terms, saying how it was going to be THE hot new item this year, everybody is going to want one, the stores in Sweatsock Springs and Post-Nasal Drip Park have already sold out their entire stocks, so get it out on a prominent endstand NOW and make sure it works, because our goal is to sell out our entire stock of them before Wal-Mart and Target start to carry it.

That's what they did with our giant singing, dancing deer head trophy from last year. We didn't come anywhere close to selling them out before Wal-Mart and Target got theirs. In fact, we sold only one or two tops before they went on clearance, and even then we couldn't get rid of the damn things.

Sooner or later, it has to dawn on the buyers that this singing, dancing crap is fun for the customers to play with, but that doesn't translate into sales because the customers understand that the novelty will wear off very fast.

[Phone Jockey]

It's always some "latest greatest new thing" that people are going nuts over. Back in the 80's, it was those fugly Cabbage Patch dolls.

I had TWO of them! Thx Mom!