Toys People Fought Over!

Sometimes the hottest toys of the year can make people act insane. Parents try their best to get their children what they want. Unfortunately, it can go a little too far at times. In this video we will have a look back some of the toys people fought over!
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[@cj57]

I went to half a dozen stores looking for a Tickle Me Elmo for my niece. Couldn't wait to see the joy on her face when he giggled. She cried and never played with him🤦‍♀️

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I was working in retail that year and I worked in the layaway department. Lots of people had Tickle Me Elmo on layaway. In the back, the layaway items were wrapped in brown paper, labeled, and on movable shelves that would move with the touch of a button. This way we could easily get to the shelves of layaway items as customers picked them up, and to put layaway items on the shelves. There were several aisles of moveable shelves in the back. Anyway, whenever we would move the shelves with the touch of the button we would hear a bunch of giggling, because the Elmo's were on "demo mode." 😂😂

[@pamelas1002]

😂

[@cj57]

@jenniferhansen3622 oh my gosh, too funny!😆😆

[@royalblue4721]

😂😂😂

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@cj57 Your story made me laugh too. I was going to ask you if she played with the box that he came in? Sometimes little kids would rather play with the box than the actual toy!! 😆

[@abrakahocus]

Good Lord, I remember seeing the Cabbage Patch doll riots on TV in the news🤦🏻

[@RhettyforHistory]

They were absolutely insane. Thank you for watching and sharing what you remember abrakahocus!

[@Engineersoldiers_Spiritof76_21]

In the 1970's my favorite toys to receive were Peanuts Gang toys. My sister & I would get so excited when we got the Snoopy Snowcone Machine, The Snoopy & Woodstock Stuffed Animals, Peanuts Colorforms Playsets and Snoopy's Flying Doghouse. We loved everything Snoopy and The Peanuts.

[@rogertemple7193]

I used to work at Walmart and I've seen many people fighting over toys and getting violent it was really wild thanks Rhetty. ☕👋🇺🇲

[@TheComicRelief9001]

I still have a big tub full of Beanie Babies in my closet, you can't pay the garbage man to throw those worthless things away for you

[@Keepskatin]

if they are worthless, why do you hoard them

[@Katzenjammerz67]

We stood in line at 4am for a Furby. Didn’t get one, so that was my last Black Friday stakeout.

[@kinsley7777]

I still have the bruises from securing a Cabbage Patch doll in ‘83 🙄

[@RhettyforHistory]

Looked like it was rough getting those that year! Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!

[@pamelas1002]

😂

[@melisaeslinger6247]

My Barbie Star Traveler Motorhome. I was so happy when I opened it. I loved pretending my dolls were on road trips with it. 😊

[@dbutterscottish]

I loved the motorhome too!

[@Lucy-gu8uk]

In the fall of 1983, I happened to Cabbage Patch dolls in a store. I thought my daughter, who was six at the time, would like it for Christmas and I bought it for her. Imagine my delight when the Christmas shopping season started and people were fighting over them. My daughter really liked the doll, too.

[@juliemudd2985]

Wow! So smart of you and you didn’t even know it lol

[@MrMegaFredZeppelin]

Mr. Potato Head🥔👀Cabbage Patch Kids fights were crazy, I remember seeing it on the newsI remember all the rest of the toys but never had them as I was a teenager by thenWhen I was a child watching Sesame Street Elmo wasn't even thought of yet😁Thank you Rhetty for History for this great video👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻

[@leesashriber5097]

I will never understand why people sleep outside waiting for a toy or specific item. It's idiotic. People are rude, pushing people down and fighting others for a toy. Nope. Ridiculous. How does that say Christmas spirit? Thank you my friend. I always appreciate you and your uploads. 😊

[@mcorleonep]

Sinbad says it all in the movie ‘Jingle All the Way’.

[@lainiwakura1776]

I stood in line for a Wii on release day, the store had a line going with the consoles and games on tables inside and everyone was civil with each other.

[@Noname-v2w5w]

I gave all my kids’ Furbys to Goodwill.😢

[@leesashriber5097]

You paid it forward and that says a lot about you. You're a good soul. 😊

[@danielcain-og5gs]

A woman swinging her purse at another shopper hit me instead. The look on her face when I took her purse and launched it down the aisle was priceless.

[@paulstan9828]

Ha!!! Kind of funny and brought back a lot of memories. Every year there was usually a new must have toy. Consumers are fickle and the craze usually didn’t last long. Hi Jodie!! 👋😁🇦🇺

[@swansfan6944]

Hi Paul 👋🇺🇸

[@casteel765]

I remember the craze for tickle me elmo

[@RhettyforHistory]

It really was pretty crazy. Thank you for watching casteel765!

[@casteel765]

@RhettyforHistory you still sporting that beautiful beard?

[@darquequeen]

Even as a kid, I thought those toy frenzies were ridiculous.

[@hanzo52281]

I worked at K-Mart during the Furby craze. Was pretty much the only time I saw grown adults going wild over toys snatching them off the pallet and out of each others hands.

[@topofthepalm]

I was easy....hotwheels and matchbox cars and I was happy

[@RhettyforHistory]

Those are classics that have been popular for a long time! Thank you for watching!

[@lynnsenger9950]

I could never understand the Cabbage Kids craze. I still have a Tickle Me Elmo in the box sitting in the basement.

[@kojikicklighter371]

I worked at a retail store in the fall of 1984. Cabbage Patch mania necessitated a police presence one Saturday.

[@pdkrace]

You forgot that hatching egg toy from a few years back. I waited at 3:am in a Target line for one.

[@Yamaha38XCRacer]

Haha, I remember those!!!

[@Slane583]

I had a cabbage patch doll when I was a baby. My mother must have had someone she knew get it for her, she isn't the type of person to wade through a crowd of hostile shoppers just to get a doll. She told me how she gave Black Friday a try once and only once. Getting beat up and trampled over garbage doesn't make any sense. My grandmother also had a Furby but she got hers' from a yard sale after they lost their popularity. My older brother's oldest daughter also had a few of the ZhuZhu pets when she was younger, those were neat. Him and his wife worked at the local Target at the time so they knew about things that were going to be popular for the holiday season. So they were able to buy a few in advance before the holidays to avoid the rush of crazy shoppers.

[@LISA.R.2112]

I vaguely remember the "My Buddy" phase but me & my brother's wanted evil knievel toys 😅 thanks Rhett !! Another great 👍✌️

[@WinterInTheForest]

Nothing that's marketed to collect will hold value in the future. If an item is hot that's its peak value.

[@jons.6216]

It's funny that you started out with Mr Potato Head and mentioned "fighting" because when my brother and I were little he got a Potato Head for Christmas and I got a Katie Carrot - one of the other vegetable friends! I guess my mom knew what the outcome would have been if we got the same version and was insightful in more ways than one! Haha!

[@stanford-nf4jk]

The same year Tickle Me Elmo came out (1996), the Nintendo 64 was also released and was well sought after as well. I was already 19, but I had a 6 year old brother. I got one at the mall for him and had no less than three different people offering me more than I paid for it on the way out!

[@pinksparkle258]

You forgot the Talkboy tape recorder from Home Alone 2...around 1993...people went nuts over those things!! 😮 How those Cabbage Patch dolls were ever a thing I'll never understand...they were so creepy 😂

[@BrianMcKnight68]

None of these fisticuffs for my Mom. #1: I loved Star Wars. #2: She worked at Kenner. Easy Peasy! She had Christmas “wrapped up” for many years! Miss you, Mom❤

[@Mama4d8]

I loved my rocking horse and Silly Putty. My brother had a plastic cowboy and indian fort I took over. Also way back I had a popper with plastic cups on a pole that when you pushed a lever they popped off. I try searching for these 2 things every once in a while but no luck.

[@mikesilva3868]

Great ❤

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Mike!

[@swansfan6944]

Fancy putting your hands on somebody else all over a toy. Then again I’d kill to get my hands on a old Bozo the clown 🤡 doll with the pull string at the back. It’s my favourite childhood toy, I wish I had kept. 😢 Thanks Rhett. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺…….Hi Paul 👋🇺🇸

[@JDoe001]

They [most times] forget the spirit of Christmas 364 days of the year… why not Christmas Day, too?

[@Lkydog8165]

I remember my little granny getting a Cabbage Patch doll for my youngest cousin back in '83 I think she got it from TG&Y in Norman I couldn't believe the craze of all these different toys and people fighting over them insane I never did that for my boys when they were little...

[@davidjones535]

The full sized G.I.JOE the 12 inch tall ones from the 70s I even had the jeep and my brother had the six million dollar man .

[@porkchopproductions0314]

I was born in January of 1996 so when the Buzz Lightyear and Tickle Me Elmo craze happened. I usually had to wait a year or so until there was enough for me to get one. I still have both my Buzz Lightyear and Tickle Me Elmo

[@yourfriendjosh6316]

Power Rangers were my obsession. I still have my entire collection!

[@leslamarch]

Stompers anyone ? LOL

[@mcorleonep]

Every generation has it’s Turbo Man hype item. Lately it was Sony game consoles.

[@philip2010]

I remember people or women brawling in stores over cabbage dolls I don't know why they were butt ugly

[@BrianMcKnight68]

This crazy behavior inspired the movie Jingle All The Way. Absolute insanity. What’s wrong with you people? 🤣🤣🤣

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

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