Word: toye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat' is symbolic for the album in that it conveys an unexplained innocence a child has when he's growing up," the announcement matter-of-factly explains. "Everything is new to a child, all uncharted waters...
Conspicuous consumption, that signature vice of the 1980s, was rarely more evident than at the 17 toy stores of Manhattan-based F.A.O. Schwarz, where toddlers of the rich and famous could acquire an 8-ft. stuffed giraffe ($4,500) or a child-size Jaguar sedan ($6,000). Now the 128-year-old retailer has joined still another trend: foreign ownership. A Dutch department-store conglomerate, Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer (KBB), has agreed to buy the toy retailer from the Morse-Harris Group, owners since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers...
America's most fashionable doll appeared on grocery shelves last year. Breakfast With Barbie offers a bowl of itty-bitty hearts, bows and stars in lollipop colors. Ghostbusters contains marshmallow specters, and Nintendo Cereal Systems boasts fruity-flavored video-game characters. Hot Wheels, for fans of Mattell's little toy cars, blends marshmallow vehicles with frosted oat "mag wheels." Batman comes in an ominous black box, but the little bats inside are gold. Not even a nine-year-old caped-crusader freak will eat black food. The market for children's cereals is toothsome. Almost one-third...
...weapons in the hands of the populace are an estimated 30,000 hunting rifles and shotguns. In the days after the order from Moscow, no more than a handful were turned in, though a group of students made a show of surrendering a cache of toy pistols. When General Ginutis Taurinskas, head of the local military-training program, told parliament he had obeyed orders and relinquished weapons and motor vehicles to the Soviets, jeers filled the hall...
They're a smash on TV, a top-selling toy; there's even a breakfast cereal named for them. Now watch out, dude, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in a major motion picture...