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The Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products
FloggingMollyrox writes "UGO looks at the recent 2004 Toy Fair's Top 10 Strangest Products. Forget about Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man, the real stuff was an art farm that grows vegetables, a pogo stick that shoots you over the moon, 'real' shrunken heads, and an educational plush toy based on an alien invasion."
This sure reminds me of my favortie Christmas present of 1979, this, although the modern one is so big it must include an expansion set.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
Flat Eric. Not that the Baboochi isn't a good start, it seems that toys that grown-ups can laugh at through one marketing channel and kids can appreciate on their own level will always endear themselves more effectively than simple flat blue animals.
Not unlike the Buddy Lee campaign... which succeeded both as doll-based jingle silliness for TV people and as more mature viral webmercials for the internet set...
I have a plan. Using mainly spoons, we'll tunnel our way out of the city...
No mention of Giant Microbes? They now include such cute cuddly toys as the Black Death and Ebola!
You catch this from the summary in the article too? Just from the awkward names and the space refugees I was thinking it sounded a lot like an L. Ron story. That and the way they had a booth guy willing to pump out a 10 minute spiel about blue aliens to everybody who walks by. Only Scientologists command that kind of attention span.