Word: toyland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nightmare on Elm Street horror movies, no one has ever succeeded in killing off the fiendish Freddy Krueger, who mutilates and murders teenagers in their sleep. But in toyland, Freddy has been given the ax. Last week Matchbox Toys acknowledged that it had halted production of its 17-in. talking Freddy doll. The company was bowing to pressure from the archconservative Rev. Donald Wildmon, who called for a boycott of stores selling...
...thousands more are injured. Many of the toys are cheap imports that do not meet U.S. safety standards. In an unusual effort to keep hazardous playthings out of stores, the U.S. Customs Service has joined forces with the Consumer Product Safety Commission in what they are calling Operation Toyland. Inspectors have seized more than 157,630 toys worth some $550,000 in California during the past two weeks. As the Christmas season approaches, Operation Toyland will be expanded to other U.S. ports...
...their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California with an Indian maiden for a heroine, if such a thing...
During the Christmas season Teddy Ruxpin became the most talked-about talking bear in toyland. Children were overjoyed by the way Teddy's mouth moved when he told them stories. About 1 million of the bears have been sold at a price of $60 or more. But Teddy has been suffering some breakdowns. Many customers and retailers have complained, and about 35,000 Ruxpins have been returned to stores or the manufacturer, Worlds of Wonder of Fremont, Calif. The company, though, maintains that the percentage of defective Teddys is below the industry norm and that the newest bears have been...
...toyland's aisles throughout America last week, it was lurch and grab. Retailers were selling out fast of popular items as soon as they restocked shelves. Tonka has told some storekeepers that they can expect no more shipments until January of its hot-selling GoBots, innocent trucks and vans that turn into ferocious robots. Transformers, clones of GoBots that are made by Hasbro Bradley, are also in short supply and are now outselling their rival...