Gone years, the furby in 1998, paying three times the retail price for furbies for more than 100 . People have barely recovered from the tickle me elmo in 1996, in one case, 300 people jostling for a stores last remaining tickle me elmo left a store clerk with a broke on rib and a concussion. Cartier used the toy to market a Million Dollar diamond necklace. That came with a tickle me elmo doll included. But before all those hot toys, it was the Cabbage Patch in 1983. You would think money was being given away. But the mad rush was for a doll. The Cabbage Patch kid doll, shoppers went wild, there were no rules, they pushed this woman won, she got the doll without the wrapping. And while the recession of 2008 and the sluggish Consumer Practices of recent years seem to have tempered toy madness, there are still pockets of Christmas Morning yearning driving parental retail choices. Undoubtedly there its a dad somewhere searching for the perfect elsa doll and accessories. The holiday season
so our toys are not just play things, they can also be a measure of our naughtiness or niceness. they can be a status symbol for kids? did you get the cabbage catch kid with the birth documents and everything? or it could have just been a doll. and just how in an economy of stagnant wages and financial insecurity do we get to a place of toy joy without breaking our household budgets and giving in to the madness of the latest fad. joining me now is elise elliott, and author of pink brain blue brain. byron hurt who is an anti-sexism author and filmmaker. and marissa debartolo which is senior editor of the toy inside