The National Toy Hall of Fame announced its finalists for the class of 2025 Wednesday, and it is going to be a battle of the ages. Among the dozen toys nominated are two ‘90s titans, Furby and Tickle ...

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, ...

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 ...

Time Magazine, known for its Man of the Year selection, also has another annual selection— the All-TIME 100 greatest toys. Take a break from perusing online stores because you're still nursing your ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2025 nominees for the National Toy Hall of Fame are full of playful matchups: Slime versus snow. Furby's chirps against Tickle-Me-Elmo's laugh. Seaside battles or sunny lawn games.

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 ...