Word: toye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toy-store aisles now look like mini-arsenals. Do you want to control that...
...dusk fell on Tulsa's bustling Memorial Drive, Mike Hall, 14, was playing cop -- but the blue-and-white Gran Fury police car he was sitting in was no toy. The driver, patrolman Rick Coleman, had just hauled over a truck for driving without lights. As Coleman climbed out to question the trucker, his passenger couldn't resist temptation. He flicked on the car's red spotlight and played the beam up and down the side of a darkened warehouse...
...hear that. And now I'm going to the toy store, to buy you a beanie with a propeller...
When Larami, a Philadelphia toy company, introduced its Super-Soaker water gun this past spring, it was a success. But sales over the past few weeks have been so overwhelming that the item is completely sold out in stores. "We've sold millions," says company spokesman Bob Lieberman. "We have three factories in China working 24 hours a day, and we still can't keep up with the demand." They're also becoming hot in Europe and Japan...
...popping neon colors, Super Grip sells briskly in toy stores and at the 75-store Sharper Image chain, whose typical customer is described as a man in his early 40s. What's the allure? "When the economy gets tough, you need a diversion," says Stephen Sandberg, owner of Sanco Toy Co., in Foxboro, Mass., who has shipped 100,000 Scatch games. "You look for something simple to do. You use your imagination, and make up your own rules...