My most memorable suck

[persephone]

I had one of those dolls. Got it for Christmas that year (wow....she's 20 years old). (Both me and sister did -- I got a redhead (like me), she got a brunette). I actually called Momma to see if she remembered anything with it. She says Daddy went to Toys R Us at four in the morning to wait for them when someone he worked with's husband (who worked at the Toys R Us) said they were getting some in. He was the first one in the store and the first one through the line too. Momma says he witnessed women fighting over the dolls but that he, being big like he was, apparently didn't have any problems. Maybe the women were scared of him?

I still have that doll. Well, actually, Daughter does. She calls it her "Mommy" doll, since it was mine and looks like me. My grandma made all kinds of wonderful clothes for it.

[crazylegs]

Anyway, this guy goes and gets his doll, then proceeds out to his car in the parking lot and stands on top of it and yells to get everyone's attention, then proceeds to RIP THE DOLL TO SHREDS, causing a riot.

There are groups that do that with games consoles as well, I seem to remember it happening last with the xbox 360...

[PepperElf]

all i can say is ... Kudos to the ASM and Security for figuring out ahead of time that some extra protection might be required.

[Akasa]

My aunt gave me and my sister the original CP Dolls for xmas the first year they came out. She told stories of the fighting over them while her friend who worked at the toy store and had these held had put them in paper bags so tehy would safely make it to the register w/o a fight or being stolen.
Sadly one of mylittle sisters in the draw all over everything phase scribbled all over it w/ permanent marker.

[mharbourgirl]

Oh man, I worked in a toy store in Salt Lake the year before those came out. The regular dolls were bad enough, but I'm forever grateful that I quit before those "special" dolls came out.
Great storytelling btw.

Thank you. It was insane, but it kind of funny now, 20 years on. I mean, women who were the age I am now losing their shit over a doll I thought was pretty creepy myself... woah.

Now I've got this image in my head of me perched on top of the shelves, cackling like mad and yelling "Dance, dance for your pretty toys!!!"

Squeegee please. You owe me a monitor cleaning for that.

[MadMike]

The title of this thread reminds me of...

...um...

...never mind. I'll go find a nice gutter to occupy.

Plenty of room in this one.

Back on topic, I remember back in the mid or late 80s hearing about people going apeshit over those ugly things (sorry, those things just creep me out), and I couldn't believe that so-called adults were actually getting into fights.

Sadly, this same situation has repeated itself several times over the years since then.

[ArcticChicken]

Squeegee please. You owe me a monitor cleaning for that.

Here you go.

I've since added a pair of Nerf Vulcans to the image, yes I know it's anachronistic, but it amuses me.