Which Elmo toy is best? Elmo from “Sesame Street” has been well-known by kids in hundreds of countries for many years. Perhaps reaching peak popularity as a toy during the 1996 Christmas season, Elmo ...

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, ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER — In the 1996 holiday movie "Jingle All the Way," rival fathers Howard Langston and Myron Larabee — played by action star Arnold Schwarzenegger and comedian Sinbad, respectively — fight over ...

The quirky owlish Furby toy isn't fooling anyone at the Pentagon or at NASA. *** new Air Force memo forbids anyone to bring *** Furby into areas like this at the Cape. It's here that engineers track ...

Tickle Me Elmo Surprise not only giggles like a maniac, but as of Wednesday, he sings. As part of a promotion for the toy, Fisher-Price programmed all Elmo Surprise dolls to change their behavior ...

The first batch of one of this season’s hot toys “sold out” before kids even had a chance to write Santa a letter. Whether generated by manufacturer’s hype — the toy is packaged in a windowless box ...

Mattel Inc.'s (NASDAQ:MAT) third-quarter results, announced on Monday morning, contained a pleasant surprise, with the company's earnings of 62 cents a share ahead of the consensus estimate of 61 ...

Which Elmo toy is best? Elmo from “Sesame Street” has been well-known by kids in hundreds of countries for many years. Perhaps reaching peak popularity as a toy during the 1996 Christmas season, Elmo ...