Comments on: 5 Dangerously Popular Holiday Toys

By: Farah

Farah — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:58:00 +0000

I don’t celebrate Christmas so I have never understood the mad lengths people will go to to get a freakin’ TOY for their kid that they’ll get over in about a month anyway. To my knowledge, it’s not about toys, it’s about family and blah blah blah… don’t these idiots realise that their precious little brats don’t give a crap about what they went through? And what is this must-have bullshit, kids should appreciate they get anything at all and stfu. When did getting presents become a *right* and not a privelege?! No, I’m not some bitter old woman, I’m 20 and when I got a present for my birthday, there’s no bloody complaining about it even if it was just a book and not the super amazing Power Rangers DragonZord that I wanted.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:20:00 +0000

My husband is a huge Star Wars fan and the original movies were being re-released back when we were first dating. He had been collecting the new figures, but he couldn’t manage to find a Leia. I went to a Toys R Us right before Christmas and managed to find one of those “holiday employees.” He was so impressed by my vast Star Wars knowledge that he not only sold me figures that he’d hidden in a box in the back and weren’t supposed to be on the floor for another week, he also sold me the coveted Leia for $10 out of the trunk of his car.

I think that’s when my husband knew I was the one.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:15:00 +0000

i went nuts for a tamagotchi back in ‘97! i wanted one so badly. my mum ordered it for my birthday but i wasn’t able to get one until about a month after. a month after that i was over it.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:57:00 +0000

my older brother and sister were old enough for cabbage patch kids. me and my twin brother got furby’s ,beanie babies and elmos when we were younger.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:35:00 +0000

My sister just got a Wii about a month ago, online somewhere. She brought it down when her and my nephew came to visit this past weekend, and I’m hooked now. That is the most fun I’ve ever had playing a video game. I’m determined to get one now… but my arms are still sore!!

And I’m 23, but I have no shame in revealing that I hardcore want that Crayola Glow thing. It looks like so much fun!

By: Kev in GA

Kev in GA — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:15:00 +0000

The Cabbage patch dolls are made here in a small town in GA (Cleveland). You can still go to the Cabbage Patch Hospital and when the doll is born (you get to watch in a waiting area to see the new borns) call out a name for them to name it. If you have the money you can then buy the doll you named. Kinda cool for the kids.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:05:00 +0000

Is no one else horrified by the violence and overall greed around TOYS? So unbelievable the lengths people will go to for the most inane things.

By: Cardinal_Fang

Cardinal_Fang — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:15:00 +0000

I worked for a large toy store chain (not Toys R Us) back when I was a teen. The “must have” toy for one Christmas that I was there was The Real Ghostbusters, whenever we’d get a shipment of them in, we’d just load them all onto a cart and then push the cart out of the stockroom onto the showroom floor and let all the shoppers just go at it. It was like watching a school of piranhas feasting on some unfortunate animal.
My personal must have toy of all time was Snaggletooth from Star Wars, you couldn’t find him anywhere in Canada and I was looking for months. It wasn’t until I went down to see an older sister who was married and living in Longview, WA that I finally found one in a ginormous bin at a Newberry’s department store.

By: EV

EV — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:29:00 +0000

Cellania,

Oh wow — Stompers. Haven’t thought of them in years. They were awesome.

My sister had strawberry shortcake stuff. Her room smelled awful.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Before Cabbage Patch dolls were the big deal, I had a friend who hand-made them, face and all. I wonder what happened to all the ones she made? Anyway, our toy store made appointments for customers to come in one at a time to buy Cabbage Patch dolls. The day my appointment came up, I was in bed with fever of 103º. I got out of bed, drove the 15 miles into town, went in the mall, picked two Cabbage Patch dolls, paid with a bad check, and went back home to bed. Never regretted a minute of it. Those were well-loved dolls.