The laughing, vibrating toy became a sensation, and caused a serious uproar -- and fights -- just in time for the hottest shopping season of the year. The Tickle Me Elmo craze during the 1996 holiday ...

ROCHESTER — In the 1996 holiday movie "Jingle All the Way," rival fathers Howard Langston and Myron Larabee — played by action star Arnold Schwarzenegger and comedian Sinbad, respectively — fight over ...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The latest Elmo incarnation was unveiled yesterday - a new version of last year's hit TMX Elmo that allows kids to induce a case of the hiccups or a laughing fit to the ...

One promo on the Rosie O’Donnell show was all it took to spark Tickle Me Elmo mania. Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles. The hottest toy of 1996 was, ...

ONTARIO, Canada -- The furless Tickle Me Elmo is pretty much freaking out the entire internet. It's the disturbing work of the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ontario, which shared the ...

U.S. toy makers may have trotted out a laughing Elmo, a life-sized miniature pony and a digital camera for 3-year-olds this year, but the new products may not be enough to pull the industry out of a ...

Counterfeit Elmo dolls have some worried and not laughing. Dec. 2, 2007 — -- The latest Tickle Me Elmo version is slated to be one of this season's most popular holiday toy requests and one of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Did you hold on to that Tiny Tears doll from the 1950s? What about the Tickle Me Elmo released 40 years later? If so, the N.C. Museum of History is interested in using your loaned ...